Iron Workers pose for a photo atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, 1973
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The consequences of landing on the wrong Aircraft Carrier, 1952 1024x731
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A crew-member inspects the flak damage to his B29 after a raid on Tokyo, April 1945
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Battleship row after the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941
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Lt Franz Von Werra playing with "Simba" a lion cub, the mascot of JG3. France Circa July 1940
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The USS St Lo takes a direct hit from a kamikaze, igniting fuel and bombs below deck and sinking 30 minutes later... 143 of its 900 crew are dead. Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 25th 1944
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USS Missouri firing her 16 inch guns at Iraqi targets in Northern Kuwait, Desert Storm February 6th 1991
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Sicilian children hitch a ride on an M4 Sherman of the 2nd Armoured Division in Catania, Sicily, August 1943
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Pathfinders of the 6th Airbourne Division synchronising their watches shortly before they departed for Normandy, June 5th 1944
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the Dolomites, 1916
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The 1974 April Fools Hoax, when a man started a fire on Mt Edgecombe, Alaska causing locals to fear there was an eruption
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Robert "Smokey" Noody , F Company, 2nd Btn, 506PIR, 101st Airborne with his M1 Bazooka on the eve of the Normandy landings, June 5th 1944
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Russian soldiers joke around in the destroyed city of Grozny, Chechnya... January 2000
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Master Sergeant Albert Blithe with his wife Kay, judging by both the 101st and 82nd Airborne patches he is wearing the picture was taken around 1960
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The first prototype of the Airbus a320 at the Farnborough Airshow, what is now the most successful airliner of all time September 7th 1988
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Sea Harriers departing on a sortie, May 1982
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Yokosuka Harbou, taken from a Doolittle Raider B25, Doolittle Raid, April 18th 1942
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USS Missouri punching through stormy seas, circa 1951
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PFC Raymond Bowman (R) and Lehmann Riggs (L) with their 30. Cal machine gun on a balcony in Leipzig, Germany... Just minutes later Bowman was killed by a sniper on that balcony, just 16 days after his 21st birthday 18th April 1945
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USS New Jersey firing her 16" guns at targets near Beirut, Lebanon... 9th January 1984
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The Statue of Liberty being constructed in France prior to transportation to the United States, circa 1880
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Medics tend to the wounded, both physical and mental. Battle of Flers-Courcelette, September 1916
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Mount St Helens, Washington, the day before the deadly eruption that would kill 57, 17th May 1980 Not one tree in this image stands today
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People who'd lost their houses in bombing raids take shelter in caves near Hastings, East Sussex, December 12th 1940
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Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-7, 22nd June 1983
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Sailors and pilots of the USS Constellation sunbathing off the sides of the flight deck, 1966, Gulf of Tonkin
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Commander Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division, c1939/40
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Finnish troops use a homemade slingshot to lob grenades at invading Soviet forces. Winter war, 1939-1940
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A paratrooper from the 5th Scots Parachute battalion in Athens, 18th December 1944
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Tank crews training for Operation Sealion near The Hague, Netherlands, 1940
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The USS Franklin returning to New York after receiving 2 bombs from a Japanese aircraft 50mi off the coast of Japan... The bombing would leave 800 of her 2600 crew dead. 28th April 1945
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USS Wisconsin firing her 16 inch forward guns at an Iraqi artillery position near the Kuwait-Saudi border and would be some of the first shots of the ground war, Desert Storm, 24th February 1991
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USS Finback SS-230 picking up George H.W Bush after he had been shot down on September 2nd 1944 near Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands
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The crew of HMS Hermes relax on the flight deck during the voyage to the South Atlantic, April 1982... Falklands War
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A bazooka team during the Battle of Osan, 5th July 1950. The man on the right is PFC Kenneth Shadrick, who was killed moments after the image was taken by a North Korean fire. He is regarded as the first American killed in Korea, aged 18
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An RAF officer examines the damage of a 22,000lbs Grand Slam bomb to a Submarine Pen near Bremen, Germany April 1945
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Americans from the 1st Cavalry Division drag a wounded soldier to a Huey, LZ X-ray, Chu Prong, South Vietnam, November 1965
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Specialist Lawrence Joel with his family on the White House Lawn after being awarded the Medal of Honor by President Johnson for actions on November 8th 1965 in Đồng Nai Province, South Vietnam... Taken on March 9th 1967
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A view of Battleship Row an hour after the attack started, Pearl Harbor... December 7th 1941
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A bridge over a stream with the Matterhorn in the background, Canton of Valais, Switzerland Circa 1895
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Westminster silhouetted against the burning backdrop of London, Circa September 1940
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A burn victim of HMS Sheffield, 4th May 1982 Falklands War
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A Mujahideen fighter aims a Stinger Missile at a passing Soviet Aircraft, Nangarhār Province, Afghanistan... February 10th 1988....
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Helmets of the surrendered Argentine forces after the Battle of Goose Green, May 1982, Falklands War
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An F4 Phantom intercepts a Soviet Tu-95 "Bear" over the North Atlantic during the Cold War, taken in 1980
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Taken moments after United 175 struck the South Tower, English Doctor Sam Allen, took this picture of the World Trade Center burning from onboard an aircraft at JFK, September 11th 2001
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Paratroopers of the 1st Airbourne Division smile after Operation Pegasus, October 23rd 1944
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American pilots of No.71 "Eagle" Squadron rush to their Hurricanes at RAF Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 17th March 1941
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Paratroopers of 1st Btn, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during Exercise Northern Edge near Fairbanks, Alaska.. February 18th 1998
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Gentzruppen hauling away a wounded Peter Fetcher after they had gunned him down whilst crossing Checkpoint Charlie to West Berlin, he would pass away a few hours later aged just 18, 17th August 1962
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A Messerschmitt Me262 captured by the 5th Infantry Division at Frankfurt/Rhein-Main airport, the aircraft was flown by test pilot Hans Fey on the 31st March 1945 with the intention to defect to the Americans.
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1st Lt Louis Zamperini inspecting damage to "Superman" after a bombing mission on Japanese Controlled Nauru, April 1943... "Superman" was the B24 he was the bombardier of prior to crashing in May 1943 and spending 47 days at sea before becoming a POW
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Men of the 89th Infantry Division hunker down in a landing craft whilst taking enemy fire from German positions on the banks of the Rhine near Sankt Goar, Germany. 26th March 1945.
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Flak damage to a B17G of the 91st Bomb Group after a raid on Hamburg, 6th November 1944
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A Royal Navy Chaplain performs Mass for Argentine Prisoners aboard HMS Invincible, May 1982
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B17F Flying Fortresses radar bombing through the clouds on the Port of Bremen, 13th November 1943
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Ahmad Shah Massoud "Lion of Panjshir" at the EU parliament in Strasbourg, France in early 2001, several months before his assassination by the Taliban... It was here too he warned the world about the September 11th attacks...
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Christa McAuliffe in the back of a T-38 Trainer jet near Houston, Texas during training for theChallenger launch on January 28th 1986... Taken sometime in late 1985, early '86
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Repair workers fixing the damage to the north side of the Empire State building after the B25 crash in 1945
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George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during the General Secretary's visit to the United States for the Governors Island Summit, New York December 7th 1988
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Lieutenant George Russell (107) and Ensign Neil Armstrong (116) in their F9F Panthers of VF-51 "Scraming Eagles" of USS Essex during a sortie over Korea, 1951
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Firefighting boats attend to the Singapore Flagged Norman Atlantic after being attacked by Iranian warships near the Strait of Hormuz, December 6th 1987
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John F Kennedy Jr at the controls of Marine One, March 1963
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Ronald Reagan addressing the United States on the Challenger Disaster January 28th 1986
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An American Dirty Bomb, November 1965, Vietnam
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A medic treats a wounded soldier, France, June 1940
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Vietnamese troops wave after withdrawing from Cambodia as the Cambodian-Vietnamese War comes to an end, 21st September 1989
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General George Patton awards Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe the Distinguished Service Cross for his role in the Defense of Bastonge, 14th January 1945
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A Brazilian pilot with his P47 Thunderbolt, 1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron, Italy circa 1945
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Paratroopers of an unknown company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne marching towards Carentan, June 9th 1944
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Marines of C Company, 2nd battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division after the battle for hill 660, Cape Gloucester... 15th January 1944. New Britain Campaign
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Sergeant Daniel Inouye with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in the Vosges Mountains, Alsace, France November 1944
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A train on the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn with the Zugspitze in the background, Weimar Republic, May 1931
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"Dads Army" A member of the Local Defence Volunteers undergoing rifle training at Bisley, Surrey... 22nd June 1940
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Off-Duty sailors watch a film whilst ordinance men prepare bombs aboard USS Yorktown. c1944
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An elderly couple looks at some wreckage of "Clipper Maid of the Seas," the Pan Am 747-100 that came down on Lockerbie, Scotland after a bomb detonated killing all 259 onboard and 11 on the ground. Lockerbie Bombing December 1988
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Photochrom of the Elbe river passing through Dresden, German Empire... c1890
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B24L Liberator "Stevonovitch II" is hit by flak during a mission over Lugo, Italy killing 9 of its 10 crew, A waste gunner managed to bail out and survived. 10th April 1945
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Pilot Officers Jan Zumbach and Mirosław Ferić of (Polish) 303 squadron play with a puppy on the rear stabiliser of a Hawker Hurricane, October 1940
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US Marines silhouetted against a burning oil well, Desert Storm 1991
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Pilots of the 332d Fighter Group "Tuskegee Airmen" pose in front of a P51C Mustang "Skipper's Darlin' III" Ramitelli, Italy, August 1st 1944
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Pfc. Harvey White gives Pvt Roy Humphreys, 7th infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division plasma after taking shrapnel wounds near San Fratello, Sicily... August 9th 1943... Humphreys would pass away the next day, aged 21
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A fallen paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne near St Mere Eglise, June 1944, Normandy
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Lt Gen Alexander Patch awarding 1st Lt Audie Murphy the Medal of Honor for his last stand at the Colmar Pocket in January 1945, aged just 19. Award was given on August 9th 1945
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Captain Lloyd Hally with the 351st Fighter Squadron with his P47D Thunderbolt "Angel of Mercy" at RAF Raydon in Suffolk, June 1944. Hally would be shot down and killed on September 21st 1944 near Arnhem after a ground attack mission near Nijmegen.
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B17s of the 398th Bombardment Group encountering Flak over Germany, 1944
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F105 Thunderchief gun camera shows a direct hit on a Vietnamese MiG17's drop tank, 3rd June 1967
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Concorde at Mach 1.5, April 1985, Taken by Adrian Meredith, an RAF Tornado pilot.
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B24 Liberators of the 853rd Bomb Squadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force on route to Germany, 1944
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Construction workers building the first McDonalds behind the Iron Curtain in Moscow, 1990
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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division preparing to jump on Sicily, 9th July 1943
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1st Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, A Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division climbs the seawall at Incheon... Minutes later he would be killed after rolling onto a grenade to protect his men. September 15th 1950
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On the 2nd May 1982, on the edge of the exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands HMS Conqueror fired upon and sank the Argentine Cruiser General Belgrano killing 323 sailors. Conqueror remains the only nuclear submarine in history to have sank an enemy warship in combat.
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Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, c1906
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Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106, 8th September 2000
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P51B Mustang 'Woody's Maytag' flown by Flight Officer Henry Davis of the 354th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group undergoing maintenance at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, May 1944
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A construction worker stands atop the spire on One World Trade Center more than 400m above Lower Manhattan during repairs to the spire in 1979
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The charred wreckage of an EA-6B Prowler on the deck of the USS Nimitz after crashing during a night landing killing 14, 26th May 1981
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3 Marines playing a game of homemade Chess, October 11th 1990, Saudi Arabia... Operation Desert Shield
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The Forrestal burns in the distance, taken from the flight deck of the USS Oriskany, 29th July 1967, Gulf of Tonkin. The fire would leave 134 sailors dead and very nearly killed future senator John McCain
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