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Army nurses soak up the sun next to a twin Bofors 40 mm gun aboard a US Coast Guard troop ship returning from Europe, 1945. Said nurse Clara Hensley, “After years of chaos, the sun felt like a victory hug — all I recalled thinking is 'we're going home!'"
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80 years ago today, General Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles - June 9, 1945
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1st Lt. Thomas Meehan of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on his wedding day in 1942. Meehan was KIA on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Suspected serial killer Robert Garrow is carried from jail for his murder trial. The case drew national attention after Garrow's lawyers found the missing bodies of two of his victims with his help, but did not tell the police, citing their oath of client confidentiality, New York, 1973 .
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A picture taken in the 1940s teaching young ladies how to have good posture which was a part of the school curriculum.
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“Americans give us something to eat or we won’t forget Hitler” German graffiti during winter food shortages in Munich (1946)(1400x933)
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Cartoon published in the "San Diego Union," October 25, 1942. warning kids not to be destructive on Halloween
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