16 Fascinating Historical Photos With Stories to Tell

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President George W. Bush aboard Air Force One after the 9/11 attacks, September 11, 2001 \

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914

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Bagpipers were usually the first ones out of the trenches when it was time to fight; playing as they lead the soldiers into each battle 1910s

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The head of the Statue of Liberty was displayed at the 1878 Paris world fair

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French soldiers chatting around a fire lit inside a damaged Church near Saint-Mihiel, France, 1916

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Over 7,000 bags of gold and silver the Nazis stole from citizens in an underground vault 1945

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Over 100,000 German Prisoners in a Makeshift POW Camp on the Western Front, LIFE Magazine May 1945

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Photo of mountaineers posing with the dead bodies of three fellow climbers they had retrieved on Mont Blanc, August 18, 1895

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Adolf Hitler & staff inspect the Schwerer Gustav, The Largest Artillery Gun Ever Made, 1943

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U.S. helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese troops ca. 1965

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Windshield thickness of a Messerschmitt Bf-109

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The radio operator/gunner’s view in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 cockpit, flying over France – November ’40

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A group of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers stand trial for massacring an entire village. The victims were taken in groups of five to ten to nearby wells, blindfolded, and bayoneted. Their bodies were dumped in the wells. An upwards of 1000 people were murdered, Burma, 1946

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P.T. Barnum & Bailey’s combined circus performers, New York 1924

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Jewish youths rescued from Auschwitz show their camp tattoos while aboard a refugee ship, July 15th, 1945

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Chest x-ray of Theodore Roosevelt taken on 14 October 1912 after he was shot during an assassination attempt. Doctors deemed the bullet too dangerous to remove and Roosevelt carried it for the rest of his life