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US Marines drinking coffee aboard USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after experiencing 2 days of heavy fighting on Eniewetok Atoll. Marshall Islands, February 19, 1944.

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Two Kashmiri guards along with American photographer James Ricalton at the Imperial Delhi Durbar in British India, 1903

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Martin Scorsese gives direction to Michael Jackson on the set of the short film "Bad". 1986

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A British soldier, taken prisoner during the Third Battle of Ypres, talking to his German captor , 1917 (1290 x 941)

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Karl Glöckner, the last living veteran of The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) celebrates his 107th birthday in December 1952

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Pernkopf addressing the faculty at the University of Vienna Medical school. Vienna, Germany. April 6, 1938.

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A US Army medic administering first aid to a GI in the woods near Tittingen, Germany during the Battle of the Ardennes, 1944.

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1946: Margret Zimmermann balancing on a tightrope over the ruins of Cologne in which was then in the British occupation zone in Germany

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Sergeant Dawson of the Grenadier Guards, wounded in the Crimean War (1856)

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Croatian husband giving his wife homemade pistol for selfdefence during Serbian assault on their village in Slavonia in 1991.

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Mugshot of a girl who shows signs of being tortured. One of the 20,000 inmates of S21. Tagged, photographed and documented at the prison, they were never seen again, likely forced to sign false confessions and then executed by the Khmer Rouge regime. Cambodia, 1976-1979 Exact date unknown

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Australian soldiers flying Nazi flag in Afghan mountains, August 2007

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