War

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  The Terror of War, also known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.

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  American soldiers paying tribute to the 8 million horses, mules and donkeys that died transporting supplies in WW1, 1918.

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  A WW2 era Mercedes-Benz propaganda poster showcasing their contributions to the German war machine.

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  A Japanese soldier beheads a Chinese man after the capture of Nanking in 1937.

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  Recently liberated American prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama, Japan, circa 29 Aug 1945

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  Tactical trick of soldiers during the Mexican Revolution, 1913.

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  SS troops loot winter boots from killed American soldiers during the Ardennes Offensive, December 1944

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  German soldier returns home from war only to find his house in ruin and his family perished. Frankfurt, 1946.

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  Magda Goebbels, wife of Reichminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and her 6 children, 1942. All 6 would be murdered by their parents on 1 May 1945 as Soviet troops closed in on the Führerbunker in Berlin.

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  Photo of postwar deportations of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. They wear an “N” on their clothes that stands for “Němec,” which means German. (January 1946)(1280×1206)

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  US soldiers of the 87th Infantry Division trample on a portrait of Hitler in Koblenz, Germany, March 1945.

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  Finnish soldiers relax in a sauna during the Winter War, 1939 (910×891)

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  German Shepherd in uniform posed by German soldier, early 1940s

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  Photo of the charred corpse of a prisoner who attempted to escape a burning barn, which had been set on fire by the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, Germany, April 1945 (1101×1391)

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  Photograph entitled ‘Wait for Me, Daddy’. It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.

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  This is how a man and wife slept in 1947. Simmons Beautyrest with prewar quality!

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  A dying man in Buchenwald was given a cigarette by an American soldier during liberation, Germany 1945.

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  Beginning in 1932, Oskar Speck kayaked 50,000km over seven years from Germany to Australia. Just three weeks before his arrival in Australia, Germany invaded Poland. Upon his arrival, he was congratulated, then arrested by Australian police and spent the duration of the war in a POW camp

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  British troops pose with a captured soldier of the 12th SS Panzer Division, 1944.

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  A USCG member explores tunnels on Iwo Jima in 1983, nearly 40 years after the devastating battle against Japan. Live artillery shells untouched since the war are at right. The tunnel itself still had live munitions and Japanese remains from where they fell in battle.

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