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A B-24 flying over a burning oil refinery at Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. 81 years ago today.
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80 years ago today, on August 4, 1944, Anne Frank and her family are arrested by a group of German uniformed police led by SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst. Anne would die in Bergen-Belsen less than a year later at the age of 15.
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Japanese reinforcements arriving on Guadalcanal, circa early September 1942; note that Savo Island in background.
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A Soviet T-34-85 tank rolls past a column of German prisoners of war near the city of Berlin, May, 1945
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Australians of C Company, 2/48 Infantry Battalion, move forward by a Matilda tank of C Squadron, 2/9 Armoured Regiment, in the interior of Tarakan. May 6, 1945.
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A Hawker Hurricane Mark IV of No. 42 Squadron RAF based at Kangla, Manipur, India, piloted by Flying Officer "Chowringhee" Campbell, diving to attack a bridge near a small Burmese settlement on the Tiddim Road. The bombs of the previous aircraft can be seen exploding on the target.
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