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Carrying full equipment on Omaha Beach.
What can we make of the men who made up the parachute infantry regiments? Take a company of that or any of the airborne units and you have not just a group of volunteers, but a collection of men who had to train, test, and earn the right to jump out of airplanes in the dark of night, land behind enemy lines, and begin their part of the war in battle and surrounded. These men seemed to have been campaigning for the label of “hero”.
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Crew of the Soviet submarine М-200 Месть standing on the conning tower of the ship in Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast.
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Un piloto japonés posa ante su Zero, modelo 21, 1941.
Japanese pilot posing with his A6M2 Model 21 Zero, 1941.
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A Marine gives some food to a Japanese child on Saipan, 1944.
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The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid), painting by Francisco Goya ca. 1814
This painting was commissioned by the provisional government of Spain, upon Goya’s suggestion, to commemorate the invasion of Spain by Napoleon’s troops in 1808. At the time it was painted, the painting was considered groundbreaking and revolutionary, as it presents the horrors of war that had heretofore not been openly illustrated. The painting focuses on one man, illuminated in white light in the middle of the painting, arms held out to the sides, facing a French firing squad. His slain companions litter the ground. It is thus considered one of the first pieces of modern art.
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