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Water Street Bridge Reconstruction

Date: 06 02 1943
Description: Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background.
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Napalm Testing Camp Pendleton

Date: 1955
Description: Marine and bayonet silhouetted in a fiery blast of napalm. Taken during a napalm testing maneuver at Camp Pendleton.
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Blown-Up Gas Reservoir

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Description: Blown-up gas reservoir in Skiernewize.
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Sea Swallow Training

Date: 10 1961
Description: An explosive is detonated by an instructor between rows of crawling Vietnamese Sea Swallow trainees at Binh Hung. The training was intended to teach them t...
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Chinese National Marines Training

Date: 1959
Description: Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in...
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Military Pilot Preparing for Flight

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Air Guard Lt. Dan Torphy preparing for a training flight from Truax Field by putting on a Mae West life preserver over his flight suit. He is being helped ...
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Austrian Heavy Artillery

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Description: Austrian heavy artillery piece or mortar at the moment of firing.
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Destroyed Bridge Near Merxen in Belgium

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers repairing a bridge near Merxen, Belgium.
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FLN Member with Burning Stick

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member showing other members a burning stick. He is wearing a cap and a shirt with the FLN insignia on it. He is poin...
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Flood Victims

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Description: A group of flood victims stand in the rain after (Hurricane) Betsy at Algers Naval Base, where conditions were inadequate for them.
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Explosion at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School

Date: 12 1942
Description: An explosion set by trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama in a rural area, with trees and shrubs in the forground.
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Results of Direct Hit from 180mm Shell

Date: 1914
Description: Results of a direct hit from a German 180mm artillery shell in Antwerp.
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Flag Burning Ceremony

Date: 11 1995
Description: Gordon Allison, Gary Erdmann, and other members of American Legion Post 270 take part in a flag burning ceremony to commemorate Veteran's Day.
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Destroyed Post Office in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t...
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Damaged Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Building damaged by Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The pink building seems to have lost its roof and there is debris strewn about the yard. There are men...
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Russian Firemen Extinguishing Flames

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch...
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Blown-Up Gas Reservoir

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Description: Blown-up gas reservoir in Novo Radomsk.
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East Prussia

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Description: Scene of burned buildings after the Russian occupation.
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Ortelsburg

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Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings.

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