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B-17 Flying Fortress “Queen of Hearts / Li'l Satan” of the 379th Bomb Group sustained serious damage over German targets on June 28, 1944. Despite extensive structural damage, pilot Lt. Karl Becker (shown here examining the wreckage) managed to bring her back to base in England.

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Errol Flynn's only son, photojournalist Sean Flynn (far right) was credited with saving an Australian platoon and fought alongside Green Berets before going missing in Cambodia while reporting for TIME in 1970 (750x447)

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Sophia Loren at the Cannes film festival, April 26 to May 10, 1955

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A young prisoner trussed up in a Seminole County, Georgia chain gang stockade, punished because he "talked back" to a guard and left under the hot sun until he fainted. 1932.

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This picture of WTC Bank of America employee, Marcy Borders, shows her seeking refuge in a nearby office building after the South Tower collapsed on September 11, 2001.

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A photo from the Walt Disney Animation Studios during the production of "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", end of the 1950's.

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Weightlifter and actor Steve Revees in a stop of his US tour to promote health and fitness in the youth with Abbye Stockton in Hawaii, 1947

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South African 'parabats' preparing for a Cuban/PLAN counterattack during their raid on Cassinga. Angola, 4th May 1978.

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Ruins of Bezuidenhout, The Hague, 1945, after mistakenly being bombed by British planes targeting V2 rocket launch sites

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English swimming olympic team: (left to right) Bella More, Jennie Fletcher, Annie Speirs, Irene Steer, win gold at the 400 m, 15 of July of 1912.

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Hooded detainee Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh standing on a box with wires attached to his left and right hand; he was told by U.S. Army prison guards that he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box. Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq 4 November 2003

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Australian soldiers disembarking in Singapore, 15th of August 1941

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