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Connecticut native, historian, baseball lover, outdoorsman, and 420 friendly whiskey enthusiast

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US pilots with a captured and repainted Russian M72 motorbike at a airbase in Korea.

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A young Gandhi during the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, as part of the Indian Ambulance Corps - fifth from the left, middle row. ~1900

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Marine First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegal of Topeka, Kansas, uses sign language as he tries to strike up a conversation with two tiny Japanese soldiers captured on Okinawa. The boy on the left claims he is “18” while his companion boasts “20” years. 1945

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US Soldiers loading a wounded soldier on a stretcher into a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, Korea, 1952.

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“You have gallantly given your life on foreign soil in order that others might live. Now we commit your body to the ground,” said Chaplain Hotaling, photographed at a committal service for a fallen Marine on Iwo Jima.

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Filipino women are rescued from the Santa Clara Monastery in Manila by U.S. soldiers. The women had taken shelter in the monastery during heavy fighting of the Battle of Manila. March, 1945.

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US Marine Henry M. Rector outside entrance to Chinese Bunker on hillside, unidentified location, Korea, September 1951.

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Marine War Dog and Handler, Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomons, Friday, 14 January 1944

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An American soldier comforted another whose buddy had been killed in action in the Haktong-ni area, Korea. In the background the corpsman methodically filled out casualty tags.

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The marine and the kitten. Korean War, 1952. Credit: Marine Corps Archives.

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Voytek the Soldier Bear as a pup with Polish officers in Syria, 1942

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“But worst of all, I let you down, you delicate little Krabby Patty. With your tasty, juicy, scrumptious, warm, steamy goodness. I’ll never forget your 100% all-secret patty, secretly assembled with undersea cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato, onion, all secretly steamed between two fluffy seaweed-sea buns.”

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Merrill’s Marauders. South East Asia. 1944.

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Jan 5 1919 “A German MG 08/15 machine gun nest at the Talma Hill near Grandpre” https://t.co/IeYkElaNiA https://t.co/oGKF9axEu4 http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1081581636414713856

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Australian and British prisoners of war photographed together with Soviet soldiers after being liberated from a Nazi POW camp in Klein-Wittenberg, April 1945

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“Happy New Year Stalin” - Italian Artillery in Russia, 1941/1942

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