Marine Corps Lance Corporal Ernst Woodruff, a German national serving as a machine gunner in H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines Regiment, holds his Zippo lighter after it had been hit by a piece of shrapnel while in his pocket, Quang Nam, 1969
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SSG Lester R. Hudson, a platoon sergeant in A Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, purchases a Vietnamese wooden doll, a gift for his wife, at a sidewalk vending stall in Saigon prior to his departure for R & R in Hawaii. April 7, 1969
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An LST brings Marines of the 9th Defense Battalion to Rendova Island in the Solomon Islands, where they would set up artillery and antiaircraft guns to support the assault. June 30, 1943
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A Senegales soldier who has lost both arms practices writing with his new artificial limbs with the help of a nurse from the American Red Cross. Paris, 1918
The Wednesday Night Folk Singers at the University of Texas. The student holding both a cigarette and a guitar is Janis Joplin. Although dated 1963 Janis left Texas in January of that year, and the photo is most likely from 1962.
1st Lt. Stanley Drozdowski, operations officer, checks names of members of the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, as they board an R-152-1 Romeo boat which will carry them to a personnel carrier ship, and leave Vietnam behind. Dong Tam, July 2, 1969
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An M10 of the 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion moves through Bovigny, Belgium in support of the 1st Battalion, 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. The column next to the M10 is a WWI memorial. January 20, 1945
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Finnish gunners near Ihantala on the Karelian Isthmus with a 75mm Pak 97/38 anti-tank gun during the Continuation War. This photo was taken 81 years ago today on June 30, 1944
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PFC Floyd Rogers, from Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas, seen here with his BAR in Normandy. This photo was taken 81 years ago today on June 29, 1944. Rogers would receive the Silver Star on July 11th, but was sadly killed the very next day outside of Saint-Lô.
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PFC Floyd Rogers, from Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas, seen here with his BAR in Normandy. This photo was taken 81 years ago today on June 29, 1944. Rogers would receive the Silver Star on July 11th, but was sadly killed the very next day outside of Saint-Lô.
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Members of D Company, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate), move through the outskirts of a small village during Operation Toan Thang II. October 2, 1968
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A massive fire at West Texas State Normal College (now called West Texas A&M University) on March 25, 1914. The fire completely burned the school to the ground. Classes were moved to local churches. In 1916 a new Administration Building was opened.
The arrest of a suspect in Sarajevo taken immediately after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This photo was taken 111 years ago today on June 28, 1914.
Man O' War, a B-17F-5-BO of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group. Sadly this aircraft was shot down by a Fw 190A-6 of JG 26 on July 30, 1943. 2 of her crew were captured, the rest were killed.
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