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Filthy Thirteen member Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plauda, June 5, 1944. The idea was McNiece's, to honor his Native American heritage and to energize the men for the danger ahead.

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The Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield was a military operation carried out the night of 26 July 1942. A British Special Air Service unit commanded by Major David Stirling attacked a German-held airfield in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of Second World War.

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Surrender of General Bor Komorowski , Head of the Warsaw Uprising, to German forces on 4th October 1944

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Princess Elizabeth working as a mechanic in 1945 (318 x 282)

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Jack Pinches worked as a beer carrier at Round Oak Steel works in the 1950s. His job was to fetch beer to keep the workers rehydrated. Dudley, England. (459x475)

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An employee of Netherland Indies Gas Company welcoming a customer. 1932. (1080 x 1350).

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'After party, soiree aux salon de Paris.' Photographed in 1860. (500×514)

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Women selling Irish Lace aboard the Titanic, April 11, 1912.

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Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina Jan. 24 1961 144x144

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PFC Knappenberger a "one-man army." 1st Feb 1944

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Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl and his raft 'Kon-Tiki' crossing the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl built the boat and sailed it from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days, thus demonstrating that trips of that magnitude were within the realm of possibility for prehistoric peoples (1947)

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Members of the Ukrainian Army’s 19th NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) Battalion practice decontamination skills at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 3 August 2003

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