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B-29 Superfortress in Flight
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944.
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Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress
A photograph of the 'Enola Gay' on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 in the final stages of the...
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Map of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Expedition, 1947
The Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947) was an experimental voyage led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002), designed to test the feasibility of long-distance ocean travel using ancient technologies...
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Japanese Aircraft Carrier Akagi
A 1942 photograph of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi. Aichi D3A Type 99 dive bombers are preparing for takeoff. Taken during the Indian Ocean Raid (March 1942) which attacked Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon).
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British Gliders, Operation Market Garden
A photograph of British glider planes landed near Arnhem in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in the Second World War (1939-45). The operation, carried out in September 1944, aimed to take several...
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Battle of the Atlantic, 1943
A May 1943 showing a Dutch tugboat, the Zwarte Zee, towing a US freighter which is on fire after an attack by a German U-boat. The freighter was part of a convoy taking supplies from Marshall, Liberia to Freetown, Sierra...
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North Atlantic Convoy, 1941
A 1941 photograph taken from the battleship HMS King George V and showing ships of a North Atlantic convoy during the Second World War (1939-45). Convoys were essential to get vital supplies and weaponry from North America...
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US Troops in Snow, Battle of the Bulge
A January 1945 photograph showing US troops in snow near Herresbach, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. The battle, fought from 16 Decemebr 1944 to 16 January 1945, was Adolf Hitler's last major offensive...
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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
A photograph known as "Raising the Flag over the Reichstag" shows troops of the USSR's Red Army raising the Soviet flag over Berlin on 30 April 1945 near the end of the Second World War (1939-45). The photo was actually...
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Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb Attack
A photograph of the Japanese city of Hiroshima after being hit by an atomic bomb dropped from a US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress on 6 August 1945. The bomb was dropped in order to end the Second World War...
