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Johnathon “Jack” Idema wears sunglasses to his trial in Afghanistan. Johnathon claimed he was hunting down Osama Bin Laden when in reality he was torturing Afghan civilians into false confessions of terrorist ties, September 2004.
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An ethnic German girl in a transit camp before being deported from Czechoslovakia during postwar expulsions, August 1946 (2457x2013)
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Photo of Total Solar Eclipse on July 11th, 1991 - Chiapas, Mexico (1179 x 799)
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"Poland - first to fight" - Polish Government in exile WWII Poster - 1940
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The dead bodies of Leipzig Deputy Mayor Ernst Lisso, his wife Renate & their daughter Regina after committing suicide by cyanide in his office to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945 (2813x1875)
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Known as the "Naked Gunner", this U.S. Navy crewman rescued an injured pilot from the water while under enemy fire and returned to man his gun blister during a mission to save U.S. airmen downed over Japanese waters. Papua New Guinea, 1944
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A young boy named Denton Crocker, nicknamed Mogie, plays with a toy pistol in his parents' front yard in Saratoga Springs, NY, circa 1951. Crocker would be killed in Vietnam on June 4, 1966, one day after his 19th birthday.
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