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1940s:
WWII Rubber Drive, USA
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War
Era:
1940s
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
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1945:
Cruising Detroit teenagers celebrate the end of WWII
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Vitamin Donuts, WWII
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1945:
Opening the Mona Lisa at the end of WWII
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1939-1945:
U.S. Air Force personalised bomber jackets
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1945:
Soviet troops examining the fallen eagle, Berlin
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1944:
Victory, United States Marine Corps
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1939-1945:
War-time Street Posters
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1945:
Redundant Warplanes
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1939:
Painting a Cow
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1945:
“Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp
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1939-1945:
“Fool the Axis. Use prophylaxis”
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1942:
The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask
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1940s:
Colour photographs of occupied Paris
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1939-1945:
Dogfights
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1944:
Lifting a Tank
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1941:
Listening Post and Air Raid Lights in Pershing Square Los Angeles
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November 1943:
Ice on the HMS Belfast
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1942:
The Dambuster Marbles
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29th August 1945:
Singing to GIs
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C. 1940s:
Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15
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1944:
“Theatre de la Mode”
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c.1900s-1920s:
Lucky Swastikas
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c.1939-1945:
Batman’s Victory Garden
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c. 1940s:
GIs fooling around with a bazooka
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c. 1947-1949:
“The Flying Banana”
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1940:
Nurse and baby in gas-masks
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1940:
Messerschmitt in a wind tunnel
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1945:
Marilyn Monroe Doing War Work
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Christmas 1941:
Beauty in the Blitz
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10th May, 1945:
Prisoner of War camp seen from the air, Germany
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1940-1945:
Searchlights
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1948-1950:
Soldiers kissing goodbye
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1945:
Winston Churchill’s Life Pod
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9th June 1943:
Paratroopers and folding motorcycles
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1940s:
Colour hi-res photographs of New York