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(5th May 1945) American and German soldiers after the defence of Castle Itter, Austria, against an attacking SS Division. It is one of only two known occasions where Americans and Germans fought together during the war.
 
Baghdad ablaze after raids

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Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Rock Hudson, Fred MacMurray, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Caine and Laurence Harvey celebrating John Wayne’s 40th Anniversary in the film industry. Cake reads "Happy Anniversary John Wayne", "The Big Trail" (1929) and "True Grit" (1969). 1969
 
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2nd Lt. William Robertson, US Army and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Red Army, shown in front of sign East Meets West symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, listed as April 25, 1945, likely April 27, 1945
 
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On Nov 13, 1942, the Sullivan brothers-George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert, died aboard the USS Juneau when the ship was torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal. It remains the greatest combat-related loss of life by a single family at one time in American military history
 
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An accordionist leads a sing-along for SS officers at their retreat outside Auschwitz. The men in the front row, which include Rudolf Höss and Josef Mengele, were responsible for killing millions. Another, Otto Moll, burned infants alive and is suspected of over 20,000 murders, 1944
 
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The Thing aka the Great Seal Bug. On 4th August, 1945, a group of Soviet school children presented to W. Averell Harriman (The US Ambassador to the USSR) with a carved US Seal as gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.

The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
 
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In this photo Fidel Castro smokes a Cuban cigar and is wearing 2 Rolex watches. The meeting between the revolutionist and Khrushchev was held at the Kremlin, and Karl Marx’s photo on the wall was the silent witness of the meeting.
The revolutionist did not wear the watches by chance: he checked the data of 3 time zones – Havana, Washington and Moscow.
 
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Sikhs being welcomed as they arrive in France in 1914 during WW1

About 130,000 Sikh men took part in the war, making up 20% of the British Indian Army.

From the blood-soaked trenches of the Somme and Gallipoli, to the deserts and heat of Africa and the Middle East, Sikhs fought and died alongside their British, Indian and Commonwealth counterparts to serve the greater good, gaining commendations and a reputation as fearsome and fearless soldiers.
 
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