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A Native American Couple, c1900-1915.
Posted 11 days ago
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A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).
Posted 12 days ago
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Charles Fields, 30, is taken into custody after his recapture. While serving a life term for rape, he was allowed to carry a pistol as a prison trusty. Fields used it to escape, steal 3 trucks, murder a farmer, and rape another woman, all in the span of just 90 minutes (Arkansas, 1962) .
Posted 12 days ago
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The youngest US Serviceman to serve and fight during WWII, Calvin Graham, who was serving in the United States Navy in 1942 at 12 years old as a gunner on the USS South Dakota.
Posted 12 days ago
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"Aw, take the day off, pal, what have you got to lose? - Lay-Offs cost lives! - KEEP'EM FIRING!" WWII Poster - 1942
Posted 12 days ago
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US Marines use a flamethrower to clear a tunnel of Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima Island, 1945.
Posted 13 days ago
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A French woman has her head shaved by civilians as a penalty for having consorted with German troops, 1944
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Miner father gives a warm smile to his little baby, Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September of 1938
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Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944
Posted 14 days ago
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