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“Goryachkina village On Fire”

Crimes of German Nazism in the East: Soldiers of the 21st Wehrmacht battalion pose against the backdrop of burning houses in the village of Goryachkina, Vyazma region. Nazi punks fuck off.

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US Marine, Killed on Omaha Beach

D-Day, Normandy, France, 1944. The crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade’s tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe.

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Destroyed Armored Vehicles of the 1st SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”

The column of the 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, destroyed by direct fire from  the 57mm anti-tank gun of Sergeant Miller Rhyne of the 120th Regiment of the US 30th Division at the French town of Nefubr Station. In the foreground is an armored personnel carrier, SD KFZ 251/8. Nazi punks fuck off.

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Soviet Army M-72 Heavy Motorcycles

A column of Soviet M-72 heavy motorcycles with armed foot soldiers in a military parade on Red Square. Moscow Garden Ring, November 1941.

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These German soldiers are inspecting a destroyed Soviet KV-1 heavy tank, 1941. Notice there is a shell for the tanks 76mm cannon in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph, propped against the tracks. Nazi punks fuck off.

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Infantry attack of the Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad. The unknown infantry commander in the center holds a PPSh-41.

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Soviet Mortar Team Killed in Battle

In a defensive battle against the Wehrmacht, this Red Army mortar team lost their lives during Operation Barbarossa, 1942.

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Wehrmacht soldiers pose in front of two destroyed Soviet KV-1s heavy tanks, 1914. Nazi punks fuck off.

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Soviet assault group with the Red Banner in Berlin moves to the destroyed building in the Battle for the Reichstag. May 1945.

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Russian infantry WWII attack on German invading forces. Photographed by Mark Markov-Grinberg in 1943. As a symbol for courage and valour to Soviet soldiers, this photograph is among the most famous photos of the WWII time period.

“For the Motherland!”

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Reporters never know whether to refer to Tsutomu Yamaguchi as the luckiest or unluckiest man in the world; Yamaguchi is the only officially recognised survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts at the end of the Second World War.

Yamaguchi was an engineer with the shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and on the 6th of August, 1945, he was in Hiroshima at the end of a short-term secondment with two of his colleagues. He would later recall that he heard a loud engine noise coming from the sky above him but initially thought nothing of it as Hiroshima was an industrial city and military base. However, what he had heard was the engines of Enola Gay, the US B-29 bomber that would moments later drop the first atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi then saw a flash of light before being knocked to the ground unconscious by the force of the bomb. Around 140,000 of Hiroshima’s 350,000 population died instantly. Thousands more suffered burns, Yamaguchi included.

Yamaguchi spent that night in an air-raid shelter which was filled with dying people. The next day, he caught a train 180 miles back home to Nagasaki, which was another industrial city and military base. On the 9th of August, Yamaguchi returned to work and told his colleagues about the horrors he had experienced. They were aghast to discover that one single bomb razed the entire city. Unbeknownst to them, another atomic bomb was heading towards Nagasaki. At around 11:02AM, there was another flash of light as the US Airforce stopped “Fat Man,” a 25-kiloton plutonium bomb which killed nearly 74,000 people and injured a similar number. Miraculously, Yamaguchi survived this second atomic bomb.

Yamaguchi was deafened in one ear and his wounds were bandaged for 12 years. His wife was poisoned from the radioactive fallout and died age 88. The couple’s son - also exposed to the radioactive fallout - died at 59. Yamaguchi’s hellish experience turned him into an anti-nuclear weapons campaigner. He later went on to give talks about his experience in which he expressed his wish for such weapons to be abolished. In 2010, Yamaguchi died at his home in Nagasaki.

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The American Yorktown aircraft carrier (USS Yorktown, CV-10) shortly after commissioning. April 27, 1943.

The Yorktown aircraft carrier is named after the Yorktown CV-5 aircraft carrier that sank on June 7, 1942 after the Battle of Midway.

Yorktown aircraft carrier entered service on April 15, 1943, participated in many battles in the Pacific theater of operations, received 11 combat stars.

After the war, Yorktown aircraft carrier repeatedly modernized, participated in the war in Vietnam. June 27, 1970 removed from combat fleet, decommissioned June 1, 1973. From November 13, 1975 – a floating museum in the city of Charleston (South Carolina, USA).

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A British POW, released after five years, 1945.

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Burned crew from the Soviet light tank BT-2 (machine gun version). Village Romanishchi, Belarus, 21 July 1941

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Six million men lie in graves, and four old men sit in Paris partitioning the earth.

NEW YORK NATION, JUNE 1919

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England, 1940-41. Battle of Britain. Children in an English bomb shelter.

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Color photo of the Second World War: MG.34 light machine gun on German defensive positions near the Soviet village in the Belgorod region, 1934. Nazi punks fuck off.