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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.
Little girl gives a big smile while posing for her shot, her little ankle boots are visible in the photo, 1890s. glass negative.
Hitler’s Corpse Digs Its Way to Hell
Musical Sisters in Schulenburg, Texas of 1903.
Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl pretended to be illiterate to fool his captors, who believed him to be so stupid that they gave him almost free rein of the camp. He secretly memorized the details of about 256 POWs that he passed on after his release 1967.

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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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  • Airmen of the 100th Bombardment Group (H) of the US Eighth Air Force – The ‘Mighty Eighth’ – relaxing between missions with coffee and doughnuts in the UK. 1943.
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  • HMS Exeter sinking south of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, 1 Mar 1942
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  • Soviet machine-gunner setting up position somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1945.
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  • “The Visit of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill To Caen, Normandy, 22 July 1944.” Original color photograph.
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  • Colorized photo of an Indian despatch rider on a Norton Model 16H, donning his gas mask during a 50-mile motorcycle trial in Cyprus, 3 March 1942.
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  • May 5, 1955. New York, NY by Vivian Maier
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  • Soviet POWs in a German truck. Operation Barbarossa, June 1941
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  • Aftermath of the Black Hawk Down Incident 1993
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  • Men of US 2nd Marine Division fighting on Tarawa, Gilbert islands, Nov 1943
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  • German Reihenwerfer (barrage mortar) near Riva-Bella (Sword Beach), Atlantic coast, Northern France on 30 May 1944.
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  • China’s Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua (L) and UN representative Huang Hua (R) laugh as they take their seats at the UN General Assembly for the first time. On 25 Oct 1971, the motion to recognize the PRC as the sole legal China was passed as GA Resolution 2758 (New York City, NY 1971)
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  • My great grandparents farm in Central IL from 1938.
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  • A hot air ballon lift off of the ground of the Bremen gasworks; Sometime between 1918 and 1945.
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  • Francisco Franco few hours before his death, 1975
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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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  • Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the controls of a BOAC Boeing 314A flying boat, 16 January 1942
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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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  • Crowds in Algiers celebrating Algeria’s Independence Day in the city center, July 1962.
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  • A rare photo of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung showing a tumor on his neck. Photographers were forbidden to photograph the right side of his face 1980s.
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