AS YOU WERE . . .
WAR YEARS ECLECTICA
March 2014 Edition
WARTIME and MISC. ECLECTICA
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trench system in France. British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917 |
donates a sizable amount of fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created, strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection |
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Hitler could have disguised himself |
during Aryan race determination tests, 1940 |
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Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945 |
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atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery 1945 |
Moscow’s Red Square. May 9, 1945 |
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who fought in WWII, moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943 |
awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came 40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965 |
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he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896 |
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King George V's coach. England, c. 1920 |
sitting down with some of his cats, ~1870s |
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a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square metre shoe store, 1900 |
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the four Lincoln assassination conspirators |
giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892 |
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during game 7 of the 1960 World Series. The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski. Photo was taken moments after the home run. |
before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960 |
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