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Son of sharecropper washing hands, 1938

The inner city of the destroyed Würzburg, Germany. Autumn 1945

‘Now you’re safe from terrorist attacks’ (Chappate, 2006)

HMS Barham, Malaya and Argus as seen from HMS Rodney

An Afghan communist revolutionary wearing traditional clothing and holding an AK-47 in Kabul, 1984.

War

Three German soldiers who froze to death in -40° temperatures, Stalingrad
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M18 Hellcat of US 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion in support of 2nd Battalion of US 397th Infantry Regiment at Wiesloch, Germany, 1 Apr 1945
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A Jewish family killed by German soldiers and Ukrainian militia. 1941, Miropol
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He doesn’t look a day over 16- From the shelter of a wrecked building in Garapan on Saipan, a Marine communicator Informs his headquarters of the progress made by front line troops as they enter the town. (NARA photo, 1944)
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New Guinea Campaign. 1 September 1942. Australian troops grab a quick bite at a forward area of the Kokoda Track. (640 x 494)
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Royal Navy battleship HMS Anson quadruple turret with BL 14-inch Mk VII naval guns (355,6 mm) circa 1943
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Battle of Crete. 20 May – 1 June 1941. Members of the New Zealand 5th Field Ambulance attend to German Fallschirmjäger casualties. (1200 x 1782)
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Type VIID minelaying sub U-218 leaving Kiel for her 1st patrol in August 1942. She would survive the war and surrender to the Allies in Bergen, Norway, in 1945.
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IJN aircraft carrier Zuiho seen under attack from a USN TBM Avenger during the Battle of Cape Engaño, 26-Oct-1944. A total of 55 Avengers, 65 Helldivers and 60 Hellcats from Task Force 38 attacked the IJN carrier sinking it that day.
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German battleship Schleswig-Holstein off Korsør, Denmark, 9 Apr 1940.
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Soviet soldiers using a captured German PaK 43. 1943
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Identification of the corpse , 2-6 May 1945. Photo by Morozov
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Miss Patrocinio Abad, a.k.a. Corazon Noble, a pre-war movie star with a sling talks to Major Herr during the trial of General Yamashita in Manila, 30 Oct 1945. She was a victim of the Manila Massacre. A Japanese Marine stabbed her 10-month-old baby to death and stabbed her nine times with a bayonet
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A column of German soldiers and equipment stretches beyond the horizon as it marches through the vast Russian landscape. 1941.
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HMS Exeter sinking south of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 1 Mar 1942
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Sgt. Rinaldo J. Martini of the C Company, 27th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division takes aim with an M1 rifle while seated on Japanese mortar crates. This photograph was taken after he earned the Silver Star on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945.
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A U.S. Marine dog handler and his war dog pose for a photo in what used to be a Japanese fighting position on the island of Peleliu in September 1944.
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Ferdinand heavy tank destroyer assembly line at the Nibelungenwerk Factory in St. Valentin, Austria, 1943
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Motorcycle patrol by occupying German troops on Jersey, 1941.
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“The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Isherwood (DD-520) steams off Ie Shima, during the fighting there in mid-April 1945.” Original color WWII photo of artillery shells hitting Japanese positions on the island of Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.
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