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Gold Miners, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1950 by Margaret Bourke-White

 

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Cowboys in Montana, c. 1904

 

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Exhausted French Resistance fighter, Paris, 1944

 

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Original caption: Some of the colored men of the 369th (15th, NY) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action. Front row, left-to-right: Private Eagle Eye, Ed Williams; Lamp Light, Herbert Taylor; Private Leon Fraitor; Private Kid Hawk, Ralph Hawkins. Back row, left-to-right: Sgt. H.D. Prinas; Sgt. Dan Storms, Private Kid Woney, Joe Williams; Private “Kid Buck”, Alfred Hanley; and Corporal T.W. Taylor. WWI

 

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US Rangers on a troop ship in an English port waiting for the signal to sail to the coast of Normandy. Clockwise, starting from far left, is First Sergeant Sandy Martin, who was killed during the landing, Technician Fifth Grade Joseph Markovich, Corporal John Loshiavo, and at bottom, Private First Class Frank E. Lockwood.

 

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Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945. Today officially marked the surrender of Germany during World War II.

American Soldiers in the victory parade in Paris

 

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Members of the 369th African-American Infantry, formerly the 15th New York Guard Regiment, comes home to New York City. The 369th Infantry is the first African-American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. The regiment has been known as the Famous 369th, the Harlem Hellfighters and the Black Rattlers.

 

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B-26 Marauder and its crew, 1944 (colorized)

 

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Man in vintage bear costume, c. 1909

 

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A critically wounded Marine is given an on-the-spot transfusion by a Navy Corpman on Cape Gloucester, 1944.

 

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Rescuers remove a wounded buddy from a tank disabled by Japanese fire, Okinawa, 1945

 

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Brazilian soldiers pose for photographs before shipping to war, World War II

 

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Navajo Indian stringing a bow, 1913, Ronald Reed

 

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Different styles of men from the 19th to early 20th century