Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.
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The Great Human Statue of Liberty
The Human Statue of Liberty. 18000 men were used for this photo! Iowa, 1918. The day on which the photograph was taken was extremely hot and the heat was intensified by the mass formation of men. The dimensions of the platting for the picture seem astonishing. The camera was placed on a high tower. From …
American Troops 1944
American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Peninsula, 1944
Japanese Immigrants 1942
Photo Legend History, Interment Camps 1942 – The US government came to the conclusion that interning Japanese-American citizens was the best of a number of bad options. Roughly a hundred thousand Japanese-Americans ended up in camps. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19, uprooting Japanese Americans on the west coast …
U.S. Military on Iwo Jima 1945
U.S. military raising the American flag on Iwo Jima in February, 1945.