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Throughout the night of August 15th 1943, the Church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in …
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Chinese soldiers on Futuyu Great Wall, 1938
Eighth Route Army soldiers manning a machine gun nest on Futuyu Great Wall, as Japanese forces were …
September 4, 2025
Irish sign alerting the Luftwaffe in WW2
Hillside sign on the Slieve Liag Cliffs, County Donegal, on the Atlantic coast. The mark was mainly …
September 3, 2025
The 1945 Radio Broadcast That Changed Japan’s History
Japanese civilians listening to Emperor Hirohito’s radio broadcast announcing Japan’s su…
September 3, 2025
USS Idaho firing on Okinawa, 1945
USS Idaho battleship shelling Okinawa sometime in late March 1945. The USS Idaho joined Task Force 5…
August 31, 2025
B-29 bombers fly over Mount Fuji in 1945
Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers fly over Japan’s Mount Fuji en route to blitzing Tokyo somet…
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Camouflaged Tiger I tank on the Eastern Front
Camouflaged Tiger I tank number 222 of German Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502, pictured while soldiers …
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Adolf Hitler and the Compiegne Wagon, 1940
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Stuka squadron flying over Poland
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24th Panzer division advancing towards Stalingrad
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German tanks in Kasserine, Tunisia, 1943
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USS Idaho firing on Okinawa, 1945
USS Idaho battleship shelling Okinawa sometime in late March 1945. The USS Idaho joined Task …
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B-29 bombers fly over Mount Fuji in 1945
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USS Pennsylvania entering Lingayen Gulf, 1945
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Lt. Robert L. Hite carried by Japanese captors
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US and Soviet troops meet for the first time, 1945
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RAF Lancaster bomber during Operation Gomorrah
A British RAF Lancaster bomber over the German city of Hamburg in the Summer of …
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Aircraft spotter in London, 1940
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Albert Einstein at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 1933
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Boy reading in bombed London library, 1940
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Panzer E-100 prototype captured by British forces
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Soviet soldiers attack Jelgava during Operation Bagration
Soviet soldiers of the 1st Baltic Front during an attack in the Latvian city of …
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US and Soviet troops meet for the first time, 1945
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Germans set up pontoon bridge near Kiev, 1941
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The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941-1943
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Soviet operated Matilda II tanks on the Western Front, 1942
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The 1945 Radio Broadcast That Changed Japan’s History
Japanese civilians listening to Emperor Hirohito’s radio broadcast announcing Japan’s surrender on August 15th, 1945. …
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B-29 bombers fly over Mount Fuji in 1945
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Lt. Robert L. Hite carried by Japanese captors
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US Marine and a Japanese boy, 1944, Battle of Tinian
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Sikh POWs used as target practice by Japanese soldiers, 1942
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Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero in flight
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 “Sparviero” (Sparrowhawk) was an Italian medium-bomber with three engines, developed in 1934 …
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Italian troops pictured in Addis Ababa, 1936
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How Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” survived Milan bombings in WWII
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Ponte Santa Trinita temporary restoration, 1944
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Panzer IV tank in front of the Milan Cathedral, 1943
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Battle of Castle Itter, 1945, one of the strangest WW2 battles
The Battle of Castle Itter is one of those “hidden gem” stories from World War …
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US troops enter the razed French town of Saint-Lo, July 1944
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Marina Ginesta, communist reporter, overseeing Barcelona in 1936
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Love during World War Two #2
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German policemen smoking with a French prisoner, 1940
