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  • Britain’s Beaufighters shoot down Rommel’s fleeing soldiers in North Africa Iranian “The Downfall of the Dictators is Assured” posters, WWII
  • 01 US Comic Book Propaganda, WWII
  • 1942 Life on the Canadian Home Front, 1941-1945
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  • 1 Anti-Prostitution Posters, WWII
  • 13 Colour photographs of Paris after Liberation, August 1944
  • 2 Marie-Antoinette’s Android, 1784
  • Honolulu Colour film of VJ Day 1945, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • 1 Ghosts of Paris
  • 2 ‘Suffering under a Great Injustice’, 1943, by Ansel Adams
  • 2 The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask, 1942
  • 3 Le Petit Journal, 1891-1893
  • 1 Miniature Hell in 3D, 1860s
  • 1 The Destruction of Epinal, 1940 / 1944
  • 1 General Motors Insurgency Pistol, 1942
  • American troops in an English park Colour photographs of before and after D-Day
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  • 11 ‘Careless Talk’ posters, WWII
  • Watching a dogfight between American and Luftwaffe planes Dogfights, WWII
  • door detail The Cafe From Hell
  • 3 Maunsell Forts
  • Robert Piguet, Raphaël, Pierre Balmain, 1990 Miniature Fashion, 1944
  • Pittsburgh’s VE Day, 1945, in colour Colour film of VE Day, Pittsburgh, 1945
  • Eiffel Tower (Summer Storm), 1927, Andre Kertesz Paris at night, 1920s / 1930s
  • M. Mauban, 8th Dragoon Regiment, 1815 Last Napoleonic Veterans, 1858
  • Bubble 5 Sokolsky’s Bubble, 1963
  • Waves 64 Colour photographs of WWII W.A.V.E.S.
  • Spotting the Enemy with Ray-Bans Spotting the enemy with RAY-BANS
  • Lockheed 1 The Lockheed Lightning that time forgot
  • Aylsham Road, Norwich, April 1942 Ghosts of the Norwich “Baedeker Blitz”
  • H&S Company 1 ‘My father’s WWII booklet’
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  • Paris, WWII 9 Colour photographs of Occupied Paris, WWII
  • Auschwitz 1 Ghosts of Auschwitz
  • Dzerzhinsky Square Colour photographs of Nazi–occupied Kharkiv, WWII
  • Arctic ice-bound ship from the front, guns and anchor chains ice-laden Neptune’s Certificate
  • De Florian 1 The Paris flat that time forgot
  • Method of wrapping carrier pigeons Method of wrapping carrier pigeons for dropping from air-craft
  • Tyneham 15 The Village that TIme Forgot
  • The Ghosts of Cherbourg 1 Ghosts of Cherbourg
  • Vienna 2 Ghosts of WWII
  • Northern Ghost Map Abandoned Tube Station Maps
  • 4835350276_f2fd346f18_z Albert Memorial allotments, 1941
  • Dazzle-ship colour schemes Dazzle-Ships, WWI
  • Eiffel Tower 6 Construction of the Eiffel Tower
  • “Cloud of Unknowing” – Gorillaz “Cloud of Unknowing” – Gorillaz
  • British Dart WWII paper planes
  • High Command 11 High Command, 1944
  • Couple embracing outside the stage door of Prince of Wales Theare in Lower Wardour Street London Blackout, February 1944
  • Cousin Bichonnade in flight (c. 1903) Jacques Henri Lartigue
  • A medic rescues the wounded Major from his destroyed jeep after an ambush by the SS. This photo won me $40 in a photo contest online. I used the money to buy my wife Anna Miniature WWII
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  • GI and girlfriend, Hyde Park, London, May 1944 Hyde Park, London, May 1944
  • Duke of Windsor 1 Colour photographs of the Duke of Windsor, gardening
  • London’s VE & VJ Day, 1945, in colour Colour footage of London, VE & VJ Day, 1945
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  • Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre First photograph of a human, c.1838
  • "The Collapsing Wall" (Leonard Rosomer)  (c) Imperial War Museum “The Collapsing Wall”, 1940s / 2010
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