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1917 US anti-metric system poster
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6-year-old Teddy Roosevelt watching Lincoln’s funeral procession going through Union Square, NYC, April 24 1865.
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A Harvest of Death. Photograph of the dead taken in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863).
Posted 16 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) .
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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.
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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 17 days ago
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US Marines use a flamethrower to clear a tunnel of Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima Island, 1945.
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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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