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A US Marine hurls a hand grenade towards a Japanese position on Saipan as a buddy prepares to do the same - June 1944. (LIFE Magazine photo)
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Children smile out a window as donated Christmas presents are delivered to their home. Detroit, Michigan, 1932.
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The "Highway Of Death" located between Kuwait and Iraq. The remains of up to 2000 Iraqi vehicles were left here after American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on February 26–27, 1991.
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Withdrawal of the Soviet Navy from the important Pasha Liman base in Vlora. In March 1961, the Albanians tried to seize Soviet Navy ships stationed in their country, but the sailors resisted and escaped with significant losses.
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A daguerreotype of John Brown taken by African-American photographer Augustus Washington in Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1846–1847. Brown is holding the hand-colored flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad.
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Grave of a US Airborne Soldier somewhere in Normandy, June, 1944. The name on the grave marker was censored. LIFE Magazine Archives, Bob Landry Photographer.
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U.S. Marine standing in a destroyed building - looking at the ruins of the city of Naha, Okinawa - Battle of Okinawa, on June 13th, 1945.
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Transport of Poles expelled from Stanisławów (now Ukraine) during a stopover in Ligota near Katowice. Over 1.1 million Poles and Polish Jews were expelled from the former Polish territory annexed by USSR after WW2. Ligota, July 1945.
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Temporary NYPD headquarters at a Burger King in Downtown, Manhattan - September 11, 2001
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