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The mugshot of Sergei Korolev, Soviet Ukrainian rocket engineer, the man responsible for the first human spaceflight, soon after his arrest by Stalin's secret police in 1938. While in custody he was severely beaten by the NKVD henchmen. He remained incarcerated until 1944 [1408 x 990]
A hippie girl selling roadside flowers in Oklahoma, 1973. [538x799]
Canadian Soldiers (possibly from the 3rd Canadian Division) catch up on their sleep during a lull in the fighting. Normandy, June-August, 1944. [Colorization] [1080x688]
Photo of American Soldier’s lying motionless after the battle of Tarawa Island (1944). This photo would later win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. (3,259 x 2,312)
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Russian infantry positioned on a hill in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, 1905 [3819x2148]
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400 Toyota Pickups Defeated One of Africa’s Best Equip Militaries. Dubbed The Toyota War or Great Toyota War this conflict took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Libyan-Chadian border. [762 x 507]
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November 24, 1942: Rohwer War Relocation Center was a WW II Japanese American concentration camp located in McGehee, Arkansas, holding as many as 8,475 Japanese Americans forcibly evacuated from California. The closing roster listed 7-year old George Takei. [Colorized] [2789x2216]
Titanic's identical sister, Olympic, arriving in New York on her maiden voyage in June 1911 [1920x1080] Colorized
Three starved 'Kulaks' or Ukrainian peasants on a street in Kharkiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during 'the Holdomor' in the erstwhile USSR, 1933. [1,600 × 1,191]
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Yugoslavia wins the FIFA World Youth Championship held in Chile, October 26, 1987 [1200x875]
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Police officer inspecting the debris of the crashed airplane in which Jim Croce and his band were travelling. Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1973. [1888 x 1516]
Riot of Ukrainian nationalists, Ukrainian man, dressed in traditional attire (vyshyvanka), tries to force Jewish man to kiss Lenin's bust. The photo was taken during Lviv (Lwów) Pogrom, organized by Germans and Ukrainian nationalists in late June 1941. Few thousand Jews were killed. [669x739]
Women after the Iranian 1979 revolution. [926 × 553]
Srbosjek ("Serb cutter") used in Croatia for efficient murder of Serbs & other ethnic groups - 1941–1945 [1,392 × 1,050]
US and Soviet sailors celebrating in Alaska following the defeat of Japan in WW2, 1945 [1800x1401]
Carloads of fruit and vegetables at terminal, Pittsburgh, PA, Jun 1941, by John Vachon [2400x1810]
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Dieppe beach after the failed raid by Canadian and British troops, the raid resulted in 3367 Canadians killed, wounded or captured and the death of 275 British commandos. 19th August 1942 [1920x1400]
Escort carrier USS Gambier Bay is straddled by Japanese shellfire as she falls out of formation during the Battle Off Samar. October 25, 1944. [2800x2295]
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Adolf Eichmann, a mastermind behind the holocaust on trial in Israel, 1961 [1962 x 2954]
Apollo 7 commander Walter M. Schirra Jr, 1968, Space. [3000x3000]
Freedom activist Levko Lukianenko speaks in support of Ukraine's independence at the Square of the October Revolution (present-day Independence Square) in Kyiv. The banner reads: "Down with the Fascist Union!" Kyiv, August 1991 [1920 x 1284]
A Marine, his sweetheart, and some Mk 2 grenades. Guadalcanal. 1942.[2653x2135]
Roland Pièce at the console of the aircraft radio station ‘Champ-de-l’Air’ in Lausanne, from where Switzerland's first ever radio show was broadcast on October 26, 1922. [1600x1237]
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French soldier showing off a captured MG42 in the Alpine mountains, January 1945. [1024x1118]