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Photo of Janet Johnson preparing to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, in 1973.
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Blindfolded Australian commando Sergeant Leonard Siffleet with Private (Pte) Pattiwahl and Pte Reharin, Ambonese members of the Dutch East Indies Forces, before they were executed by Japanese forces after they were captured behind enemy lines. Aitape, New Guinea. 24 October 1943
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U.S. soldiers dig anti-aircraft machine gun posts in the ruins of Dulag, Leyte Island, the Philippines. 22 October 1944
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Members of the Kings African Rifles posing with a captured Japanese flag, Burma, 1945
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A SR-71B Blackbird, flown by the Dryden Flight Research Center as NASA 831, flies over the Sierra Nevada, California. December 1994
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1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography winner, dead soldiers at a destroyed pillbox following the Battle of Tarawa (Gilbert Islands). 11-Nov-1943. Photo: Frank Filan
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Mexican revolution soldadera (Female soldier) before being ship to battle in train, stares down the camera, Mexico, 1914
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Rohingya refugees in a camp in southern Bangladesh in 1992. Shortly earlier, the Burmese army carried out operation "Clean and Beautiful Nation", which displaced over 200 000 Muslims, but failed to stop the Rohingya guerrillas.
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Photograph taken from the RCA building in Manhattan, NY, 1952. (Photo by Ed Roseberry)
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