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Victims of the Zoot Suit Riots, where groups of U.S. servicemen scoured the streets in Los Angeles looking for, attacking and stripping Mexican-American teenagers wearing zoot suits. June, 1943
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Photo taken the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit a Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans. Rennes, France. November 21, 1944.
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Canadian soldiers in a Landing Craft Assault (LCA) going ashore from HMCS Prince Henry off the Normandy beachhead. France, June 6, 1944.
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Jonathan (tortoise on the left) eating on a grass field in Plantation House, St. Helena (c. 1882 - 1886). Jonathan is still alive to this day.
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Nelson Mandela sparring with professional boxer Jerry Moloi, Soweto, 1957.
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Soldiers of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment storm Juno Beach during the Allied landing. Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France, June 6, 1944.
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Polish woman and her grandchildren shown in an American Red Cross evacuation camp as they await evacuation to new homes, Teheran, Iran 1943
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Boy Scouts during a morning flag raising cermony at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. 5 June 1943
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