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Steve Greenberg (2010)
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A bride who received a gift from her U.S. Marine fiancé containing the skull of a Japanese soldier he had killed writes him a letter of gratitude in response. The photo was published in Life magazine on May 22, 1944.
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Japanese high school students playing mahjong and injecting methamphetamine (Hiropon, ヒロポン) (ca. 1950)
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My grandmother (on the left) and a friend after her release from a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1953
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A French boy meets Indian soldiers who have just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British troops, Marseille, September 30, 1914.
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A U.S. Army lieutenant fires a flaming arrow at a bamboo hut. Vietnam, 1967.
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As her public defender looks on, Tammy Middlebrooks, 19, pleads guilty for her role in the lynching of Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old black boy, in Nashville. Tammy and two other white drifters tortured and murdered Majors after he accidentally broke a $2 vase (Tennessee, 1989) .
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A Harlem Hellfighter who rescued a puppy during WWI poses for the camera, 1918
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