Survivors of the USS Indianapolis’ sinking in Guam, August 1945. Of the 1,100 crew who departed from the Philippines on route to Guam, over 800 perished: those who survived in the open sea contended for three days with malnutrition, hypothermia, and numerous shark attacks [740×584]

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Panoramic photograph of part of De Soto, Illinois, USA, shortly after the ‘Tristate Tornado’ of 1925-March-18th; [2027×600].

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A Moose and Buggy Team from Edmonton, Alberta in 1910 [625×409]

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Children playing with stacks of hyper inflated money during the Weimar Republic 1922 [1000×813]

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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger: the airline pilot, who in 2009, successfully landed a U.S. Airways Airbus A320 on the Hudson River. Here he is pictured with an F-4 Phantom fighter jet while serving as a pilot in the Air Force (c. 1975-1980) [960 x 640]

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German prisoners, captured by the U.S. in 1945, are forced to watch footage of the concentration camps. (650×548)

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