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“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

We are the fortunate people of the earth. The future is ours. We are strong in the midst of our unharmed land... ...
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A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

A German Soldier’s Photographs of Jews Forced Into A Ghetto in Poland

In 1940 a German soldier took these photographs of Jews being sent to the ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland ...
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Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

"Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first used in a radio broadcast delivered on 29 December 1940. ...
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Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

London's party that ended all parties - one week after Hitler's suicide. ...
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The Life and Death of ‘Our Aeroplane Girl’ – English Aviatrix Amy Johnson

The Life and Death of ‘Our Aeroplane Girl’ – English Aviatrix Amy Johnson

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . ...
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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
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The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator ...
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Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

In February 1944 Guy Gibson VC appeared on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley, just seven months later he died. ...
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Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

It must have all seemed a bit incongruous watching the great society photographer walking around the Tyneside Dockyards taking pictures... ...
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The Making Of A GI: One Man’s Journey From Working Stiff To Man Of War (1942)

The Making Of A GI: One Man’s Journey From Working Stiff To Man Of War (1942)

In 1942, George Camblair of Washington, D.C. was moulded from a man about town into a man in the military. ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942

Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942

The US Farm Security Administration took these color photographs of women working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. ...
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