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Nose art of B-25H Mitchell bomber "Eatin' Kitty" of the 12th Bomb Group, 82nd Bomb Squadron, ca 1944. The original version of this plane's name was considered to be inappropriate by the higher command and was ordered to be painted out and replaced with "Kitty"
Posted 10 days ago
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"What's so funny, monsieur? I'm only trying to find my way." A 1964 cartoon predicting that American soldiers would suffer the same fate as their predecessors, the French colonial army in Indochina.
Posted 11 days ago
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Exhausted U.S. Army nurse Amy Stuart, 5th MASH unit in Saudi Arabia naps on a cot while hugging a teddy bear sent by her family during Operation Desert Storm (Feb. 22, 1991)
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SS physician Eduard Krebsbach, 52, looks at a camera moments before his execution by hanging. Described as a "sadist of the worst sort", Krebsbach had a leading role in several thousand murders, including of 900 prisoners via injections of gasoline and phenol (Landsberg Prison, 1947) .
Posted 11 days ago
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Soviet and US athletes at the opening ceremony of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with Yugoslav athletes in between them (February 13, 1980)
Posted 12 days ago
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