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Execution by Firing Squad
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Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Algerian villages to aid the French.
1957
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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W012D9Q
WHi 12156
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Algerian National Liberation Front members doing push-ups in the desert near boulders.
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An Algerian National Liberation Front member standing on large boulders near a tree while posing for a photograph.
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August 1957
An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front loading up a pack mule in the Algerian desert.
