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A photograph of captured French colonial troops from Africa during the Fall of France to Nazi Germany in June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Musuems

Denmark Vesey Monument in Hampton Park, Charleston, South Carolina. National Park Service / Sobol.

Front view of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Fifi', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying.

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. This B-29, called 'Doc', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying...

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress flying over Japan on its way to bomb Osaka in Japan during the Second World War (1939-45). Photograph taken on 1 June 1945. United States Air Force Historical Research Agency.

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Bockscar' with a replica of the atomic bomb 'Fat Boy' it dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45). (National Museum of the United States...

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.

The Enola Gay on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in the final stages of the Second World War...

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...

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).