“Wenn bier wir haben und Tabak Dann schierl uns nicht der feinde Pack“, roughly translated to: “If we have beer and tobacco then we will withstand the enemy”, 1916. [564X880]

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Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Nicholas Pinchuk returns to his native farm on holiday after the war, July-August 1945 [3000 x 1970]

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Willard State Psychiatric Hospital in Willard, NY, where 5,800 patients were buried under numbered markers to shield their names, circa 1885 (more info in comments) {1500 x 878}

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Photo of Lt. Byron G. Cook, 1918 from World War I, Issoudun, France [120×120]

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Douglas A-20J-10-DO, 43-10129, of the 416th Bomb Group destroyed by flak over Beauvoir, France on 12 May 1944. [2048 x 1588]

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113 years ago today, April 18 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake leaves the city in shambles. The spire of the destroyed city hall is seen at a distance[1420 X 995]

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