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Ultraviolet bath given to Soviet kids, USSR, 1980s (860x579)
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Flettner F1 282 Hummingbird produced in the Third Reich. It was the first helicopter in the world produced in series and the first helicopter used in combat operations. The man in the back is designer Anton Flettner. probably 1944
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Nanjing road, downtown Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, December 1967. The giant neon banner on the right reads "wishing a long life for Chairman Mao"
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Captain Edwin "Bill" Fisher, 377th Fighter Squadron stands on the noseof his P47D Thunderbolt "Shirley Jane III" in Normandy, 1944. He would be credited with 7 kills and 3 V-1 flying bombs. He was killed in a training accident at Andrews Field, Maryland on the 28th March 1947
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On this day in 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.
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USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Serbia, 1944
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Turkish and German soldiers posing at a cannoner drilling, in Galipoli 1914-1915
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A delegation of military attaches from Finland, Romania, Italy and Germany during a visit to Japanese occupied Dutch East Indies - March 25, 1942
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The last Mughal emperor – King of Delhi Bahadur Shah Zafar. Only two photographs of him are known, this one was taken around 1860, shortly before his death in 1862, when he was in exile in Rangoon after the Indian Uprising (1857-1859). Most of his sons were executed by the British.
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