This is Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant. On December 15th, 1941, on her day off, she went to the beach in Miami to sunbathe as usual. This time, however, she brought with her a Chinese flag so that she would not be mistaken for being Japanese.

This is Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company, the morning after celebrating V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) in 1945.

Soviet soldiers celebrate returning home alive, 1945. 80% of soviet males born in 1923 died in the war (those aged 18 when barbarrosa began).

The moment when Bush learned about 9/11 at an elementary school

German spies being prepared for execution after being caught wearing allied uniforms behind enemy lines, Bastogne, Belgium, 1944

SS guard moments before he’s beaten to death by Jewish prisoners after the liberation of Dachau

Led by their bagpiper, men of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, 46th (Highland) Brigade, advance during the First Battle of the Odon; June 26, 1944. The Odon river is in Normandy, France and the battle was part of the British offensive to take the city of Caen, which was captured on July 9, 1944.

Germany invades the Soviet Union June 22, 1941

US medic gives first aid to a wounded German SS soldier, France 1944

Miners on an aerial tram used to descend into the Kimberley Diamond mines in South Africa, ca 1885.

This is a group photo of the Night Witches, a Russian, all female bomber squad during World War 2.⁣ They consisted of 80 women who flew a total of 30,000 sorties and dropped 23 tons of bombs on German invaders in a span of four years.⁣

A Scottish piper wearing a kilt enters the battlefield during World War 1.⁣

The control room of a World War 1 German submarine (UB-110) in 1918.⁣

A tunnel rat about to enter a Việt Cộng tunnel with a suppressed revolver, Vietnam, 1960s.⁣

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst who were all part of the non-violent student resistance group called “white rose” during Nazi occupied Germany in 1942. All three were convicted of treason and executed by the Gestapo.