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US Soldiers of C Company, 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion pose with a 3 year old Russian child as other Russians crowd into the photo. These Russians, used as slave labor by the Nazis, have just been freed by the US Ninth Army near Herten, Germany. April 15, 1945.

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A “donkey puncher” on the job in a gyppo logging operation in Tillamook County, Oregon, USA, October 1941

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Australian soldiers pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush. Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 1916

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Photo of Janet Johnson preparing to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, in 1973.

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Blindfolded Australian commando Sergeant Leonard Siffleet with Private (Pte) Pattiwahl and Pte Reharin, Ambonese members of the Dutch East Indies Forces, before they were executed by Japanese forces after they were captured behind enemy lines. Aitape, New Guinea. 24 October 1943

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The dome and mausoleum of Sultan Az-Zahir Qansuh Al-Ashrafi, 1858 Cairo

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German Gebirgsjäger training in the mountains, late 1930's

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U.S. soldiers dig anti-aircraft machine gun posts in the ruins of Dulag, Leyte Island, the Philippines. 22 October 1944

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Members of the Kings African Rifles posing with a captured Japanese flag, Burma, 1945

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A SR-71B Blackbird, flown by the Dryden Flight Research Center as NASA 831, flies over the Sierra Nevada, California. December 1994

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1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography winner, dead soldiers at a destroyed pillbox following the Battle of Tarawa (Gilbert Islands). 11-Nov-1943. Photo: Frank Filan

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