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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"

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Lady smiles for her estudio portrait, circa mid 1960s.

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Mixed couple share a kiss inside a bar in Pittsburgh, Pa, circa 1950s

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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.

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"Banquet of the Mutilated Faces" Paris, 1925.

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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) .

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Teenage girls fashion in 1907

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A soldier's return to his homeland. Vienna, Austria, 1946.

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"Why...Why didn't we listen?" (USA, 1950s)

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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)

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My first day of college, 1971

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