U.S. Marine Colonel Francis Fenton conducting the funeral of his son Private First Class Mike Fenton near Shuri, Okinawa, in May, 1945.

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A member of the Royal Air Force is interred with full military honors by German forces. Channel Islands (1943)

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[Colorized] “American soldiers kneel during a Christmas Mass offered by a chaplain on the Italian front” (1943)

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The Last Jew In Vinnitsa, 1941

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Happy Flag Day. Remember that America and her flag stand for liberty, even if some Americans don’t

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Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.

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Marine approaches a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima, March 16, 1945. The soldier had been buried for 36 hours in a shell hole, pretending to be dead, with a live grenade just inches from his hand.

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Dwight Eisenhower giving orders to D-Day troops: “Full victory— nothing else.” (June 6th, 1944)

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The Founders of Antifa cleverly scheming against Fascists

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A US soldier guards a group of German prisoners of war captured on Omaha Beach: teenagers and old men. June 6, 1944.

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Babe Ruth at Lou Gehrig's funeral in the Bronx. June 4, 1941.

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A Marine smiles while reading mail in a foxhole on Iwo Jima, 1945

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On this day, 111 years ago, during World War I, enemy soldiers laid down their weapons, shared food and songs, and reminded the world of our shared humanity - the Christmas Truce of 1914.