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A shirtless Marine relaxes with a book on the wing of an F4U-1 plane. Bougainville, 1944.

A menorah stands in silent defiance before the Nazi flag. 1931.

An injured survivor of the Hindenburg disaster has a smoke as he is carried from the crash site at Lakehurst, New Jersey. May 6, 1937.

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A German soldier smokes a cigarette whilst nestled comfortably inside one of the Paris Siege Guns captured during the Spring Offensive. 1918.

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French Field Marshall Horatio Herbert Kitchener meets the mounted General Albert Baratier. 1915.

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Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan at their first official meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The men behind them are their interpreters. November 21, 1985.

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10,000 German prisoners of war captured after the D-Day landings. June 1944.

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Expended shell cases piled up after the Battle of the Somme. 1916.

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Six days before he was assassinated, John F. Kennedy visited Cape Canaveral to be briefed on the Saturn rocket. Accompanying him is Senator George Smathers of Florida. November 16th, 1963.

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Directional sound finders used to detect incoming enemy planes. 1917.

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The Fascist headquarters of Benito Mussolini in Rome. 1934.

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Female archers competing at the London Olympics. 1908.

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These two men wear directional sound finders, to detect approaching planes. 1917.

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A German Communist crosses his arms and stares at his firing squad, moments before he is executed. 1919.

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The first bananas to reach Norway are unloaded. 1905.

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The production of the star spangled banner: women in a Brooklyn factory toil at their sewing machines. July 1940. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White.

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President Kennedy dons a blue suit and pair of sunglasses as he watches a military pageant alongside the Shah of Iran at Camp Lejeune. 1962.

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