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Lindbergh baby kidnapping

Lindbergh baby kidnapping

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial

Survivors of Dachau

Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., and the Enola Gay

Atomic bomb at Nagasaki, Japan

Breaking the color barrier

Two Indian soldiers walk through rubble and debris of destroyed buildings in the Chowk Bijli Wala area of Amritsar during unrest after the Partition of India in August 1947.

Israeli Defense Forces tank unit with soldiers atop several tanks lined up on a dirt road, preparing to advance during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

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