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Peggy Seale Harris never learned what happened to her husband Billie, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France in 1944. 60 years later she was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice.
Posted 19 days ago
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U.S. cavalry soldiers pose in front of a sequoia in Yosemite known as "Grizzly Giant," in 1900.
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A teenage boy giving flowers to princess diana with the help of his friends, 1989
Posted 20 days ago
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Captain Herbert Sobel, of Band of Brothers infamy, with his infant son, ca 1946
Posted 21 days ago
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A court clerk examines the cabin where Raymond Ellison, 37, and his 12-year-old wife, Imogene Sims, lived. Ellison, who married the girl to avoid statutory rape charges, had just been arrested for murdering her. The photo was publicized by the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky, 1948 .
Posted 21 days ago
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