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Laurence “Scrappy” Blumer and his Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Scrapiron IV” - On August 25, 1944 he earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down 5 German fighters in 15 minutes, which also made him an Ace in a single mission.
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Actors Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin in a publicity still for CBS Radio's Fort Laramie, 1956. This excellent show ran one season. The next year, Burr was cast as Perry Mason for television (more info below)
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1915. Mugshot of Helen Oliver, Manicurist and Suspicious Person. (1622 × 1272)
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7 Oct 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid
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September 13, 2001 - Rescue workers sift through the wreckage on ground zero two days after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York.
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1980's photo of Mexican drug lord Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who founded what would become the gulf cartel, one of the most powerful & dangerous cartels in Mexico to this day, almost a century ago in 1930. Throughout his entire career he spent only a few hours in jail & died at 85 a free man. (640x465)
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Young iranian soldier is preparing for battle against Iraqi invaders. Khuzestan, November 1981. Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh
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The Dassler brothers photographed with their first customers in 1928. Adolf Dassler, the founder of Adidas, is sitting in the back. His older brother Rudolf wears a tailcoat, in 1948 he couldn't stand running the company with his brother and founded the Puma brand.
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