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John L. Burns who despite being 69 years old at the time and a civilian fought for the Union Army in the battle of Battle of Gettysburg. Photograph taken in July 15, 1863
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Future Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin after shooting down an enemy MiG-15 in the Korean War (1953)
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Soldiers of the 1st Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the front line on Hill Žuč near Sarajevo. The Battle for Žuč Hill was held on June 8,1992, and it was one of the decisive battles for the defense of Sarajevo. (08.06.1992) (550x348)
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Flotilla of ships and boats sails into New York for the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations (1976)
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Nose art of North American B-25 Mitchell “The Ink Squirts” from the 41st Bombardment Group. The “Ink Squirts” was a cartoon in the base newspaper of the Sea Bees of the 94th Battalion, on Tarawa, 1944.
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U.S. Army soldier stands on the wreck of former Vichy French battleship Strasbourg, with its cut-up (330 mm) main turret, the ship suffered heavy damage from bombing by USAAF aircraft, and struck by shells from battleship USS Nevada (BB-36), Toulon, c. August 1944.
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“The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” When a Confederate colonel called John Clem a “damned little Yankee devil” and demanded his surrender at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, John shot him dead— and became the youngest noncommissioned officer in U.S. Army history.
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Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, their bodies burned by troops of the Imperial Japanese Army. The Yangtze shoreline near Xiaguan, Nanjing, December, 1937. .
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The shape of the Statue of Liberty is formed by 18,000 soldiers standing in formation. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Ca. 1918.
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Polish sail training ship Dar Młodzieży (Gift of the Youth) sailing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 26 January 1988.
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Alabama police officers approaching civil rights marchers after crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. John Lewis and Hosea Williams lead the group of marchers. March 7, 1965. .
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