Title
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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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A street in Compiegne, France, shelled by Germans in the advance on Paris, is cleared of wreckage
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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September 23, 1944
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For three hours, the 53rd Regiment Royal Artillery shelled enemy positions across the Elbe. Distant shots and some men of the Eighth Battery on the guns.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 1945
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A British gun crew under heavy enemy shell fire calmly load their gun for action on the Egyptian front, just outside of Matruh
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 30, 1942
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Stripped to the waist under a tropical sun, an American mortar crew of the Mars Task Force pounds enemy troops, cutting off Japanese escape routes to Lashio, Burma
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Unknown Photographer
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Gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1945
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There was no military objective in this Burmese village, which was bombed unmercifully by the Japanese
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 1942
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Indians from a front-line village take shelter during a battle in the Buthidaung-Maungdaw area as Japanese troops send mortar fire overhead, Arakan Front, Burma
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Unknown Photographer
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Gelatin silver print on paper
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March 1944
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The Battle of El Alamein: the greatest artillery barrage of the Western Desert war signaled the opening of the battle
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1943
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U.S. Marine Corps amtracs and medium tanks, blasted by Japanese artillery after bogging down in soft volcanic ash on Iwo Jima
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1945
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Attack on the outskirts of Berbera, seat of the British colonial government in Somaliland. The Italians attacked from Italian Somaliland, north of Berbera.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
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September 1940
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Dancing in the streets of Dover, England, as civilians celebrate the end of shelling by German cross-Channel batteries. Residents stand on Military Hill, overlooking Dover Harbor.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment and airbrushing on paper
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September 30, 1944
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Heavy shellfire near the Buna Mission in New Guinea demolished the trees in the cocoanut grove
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1943
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Finnish Army Ambulance Corps taking their wounded to field dressing stations on the Karelian Front after a Soviet attack
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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December 1939
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Under heavy enemy shelling, Russian engineers repair and re-lay railway track in territory recaptured from the Nazis
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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c. 1941-1942
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Four-year-old Genya Mikulinas, wounded in the head and arms by splinters from Nazi shells during battle for Leningrad Children’s Hospital
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1943
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German artillery shells let the weather into the office of U.S. Consul General John Ker Davis’ office in Warsaw, Poland
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Bryan, Julien
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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September 14, 1939
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With Japanese artillery fire bursting on shore, this landing craft prepares to unload trucks and supplies on the Luzon beachhead
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Mydans, Carl
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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January 19, 1945
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At a corner of the road leading to Cassino from the north, a jeep and an ambulance, both riddled with shrapnel, are “piled up"
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Rodger, George
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 1, 1944
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Exterior view of the remains of the ancient Benedictine Monastery atop Monte Cassino, which is now in Allied hands
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 1944
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American infantrymen running across the wrecked town square of Itri in pursuit of retreating Germans during the big Allied offensive underway in Italy
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1944
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A shell from a German gun 72 miles away made this great hole in a Paris street. After the shell exploded, an automobile came along and dropped into the crater.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 23, 1918
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A giant British gun drops shells on the Germans and smashes the Hindenburg Line
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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September 29, 1918
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Sixty pounders in action smashing German defenses. The gunners to the left are fusing the shells.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1917-1918
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Canadian machine gunners placing wounded Germans in one of their cars (within 500 yards of the enemy) while enemy shells explode all around them
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1914-1918
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German ammunition wagons were passing over this spot when British gunners received their range by wireless. Every wagon and all the supplies were destroyed.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1914-1918
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American soldiers clear the streets of Chateau-Thierry of debris from ruined buildings, destroyed by artillery fire
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 31, 1918 - July 22, 1918
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