The USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), flagship of Task Force 58, is hit by two kamikazes off of Okinawa, killing 396 sailors and airmen and wounding 264. May 11, 1945
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On this day in Texas History, May 12, 1942: Construction begins on a German prisoner of war camp twelve miles northeast of Huntsville in northeastern Walker County. The camp would hold roughly 4,800 POW's, many of whom came from the German Afrika Korps.
A US Army C-47 Chinook helicopter delivering stores to 102 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, at Fire Support Base Coral. The purple smoke indicates the delivery point. May 12, 1968
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The men of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps next to their Bristol F.2 fighters in Majdal, just east of Jaffa. February 1918. The officer with the walking stick is Colonel (future Air Marshal) Richard Williams. The modern city of Rosh HaAyin, Israel now occupies the site.
Original color photos of soldiers from the Soviet Zaporozhye Guards Tank Brigade saluting American GI's near Linz, Austria. These photos were taken 80 years ago today, on May 11, 1945
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French soldiers at a water station. Crêtes des Eparges, France. Les Eparges Ridge is the most north-western point of the St. Mihiel Salient. The ridge overlooks the plain of Woëvre. February 15, 1916
Men of the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch in a trench on Brown Ridge after the action at Arsuf, part of the Battle of Megiddo. June 8, 1918 Tel Megiddo is better known by it's Greek name, Armageddon.
Marine Private First Class Jerry W. Garner, 19 (Guntown, Mississippi), a machine gunner attached to F Company, 2d Battalion, 1st Marines wears the helmet that saved his life on July 15, 1969 when his gun team assaulted an enemy position 10 miles south of Da Nang.
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Three Life Magazine photos of a Soviet tank crew and their American-made M4A2 76(W) Sherman on the East side of the River Elbe near Tangermünde Germany. May 1945
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Soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division on listening to the news of Germany's surrender a few yards behind the front lines on Okinawa. This photo was taken 80 years ago today, on May 8, 1945 [3752x3000]
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