Albert Einstein loved sailing but didn’t even know how to swim, 1939. [441×523]

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US Marines drag a casualty down a street to an ambulance in Hue, Vietnam. February 4, 1968. [1200×900]

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A man rides a bus in Durban, meant for white passengers only, in resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986. [500 x 333]

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Peace-time Cavalry, “Passing the Time” in the 1930s. (941×640)

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1 April, 1945: In the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theater, US Army, Marines and 5th Fleet invade the island of Okinawa. The fierce 82-day battle lasted until June 22, 1945. (732×584)

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Sergeant William Harvey Carney of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an all-Black Union army regiment, prevented the regimental flag from falling into Confederate hands at the Battle of Fort Wagner in July 1863. Carney received the Medal of Honor for his bravery. [482 x 719]

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