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Historical photographs and pictures taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event.

US Navy SNJ Texan training aircraft making a low level pass near a three-masted sailing ship Joseph Conrad, built in 1880, photo taken in 1942

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Sabiha Gökçen, a Turkish aviator, knowns for being the world’s first female fighter pilot. Circa 1930s

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Soviet Squadron commanders of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army – Soviet Air Forces, are photographed in a briefing during the Battle of the Caucasus. Germans gave the women of the regiment the nickname “Night Witches”

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WW1 German demonstration method of bombing from a plane, forward airfield Kolomea, Galicia 1916

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Fire and fury: B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies

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Lt. Custer & Union Troops (1862)

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