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Boys.

Left: Winston Churchill, age 17, a student at the Harrow School, 1892.

Right: Franklin Roosevelt, age 10, in Germany with his family, 1892.

On this date in 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter, setting out postwar goals [nati...


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Men.

The US Army sent two engineering regiments comprised of professional lumbermen to France during WWI to cut timber in French forests for military use.

Women.

Performers at the “girlie show.”

Vermont State Fair, Rutland, 1941.

The USS Arizona.

Left: the ship’s gall...


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Men.

Billy Mitchell commanded all American air combat units in France during World War I.

Mitchell advocated for an independent Air Force military branch separate from the Army, and warned of an attack on Pearl Harbor a decade before it occurred.

Women.

A woman of the Klamath


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Men.

President Theodore Roosevelt greets former “Rough Riders,” whom he commanded in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, at a San Antonio reunion,1905.

Women.

US Army nurses in Normandy, June 1944.

The first group of nurses arrived four days after


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Good eats, cheap.

Marines roast hot dogs on Laguna Beach, 1945.

The first...

… aerial photograph of New York City was taken from a balloon by John A. Hart in 1906.

Time lapse.

Left: Several hundred men stand at the water line on Dunkirk’s beach awaiting evacuation, May 26-29, 1940.


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