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🇦🇹 People stand in the square of the medieval town of Innsbruck, Austria, 1932

🇫🇷 The streets of Paris, France, 1925

Young native girl of the Blackfoot tribe in a stream near hear tipi, Montana, c. 1900 (colourised)

Obersteurmann Helmut Klotzch yells for help after his submarine, U-175, is sunk in the Atlantic by U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, April 1943. The sub was just about to attack an Allied convoy. Klotzch was rescued by Spencer.

Officers on the bridge of a destroyer, escorting a large convoy of ships keep a sharp look out for attacking enemy submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic, WWII, October 1941

🇲🇽 Women in Tehuantepec, Mexico, 1929

🇺🇸 Boys raking and burning piles of leaves, Chicago, 1950s 🍂

🇬🇧 Airplanes over London, with the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in the background, 1930s-1940s

A man in a deep sea diving suit, c. 1900-1910s

US General Douglas MacArthur and staff, accompanied by Philippine president Sergio Osmeña (left), land at Red Beach, Leyte, the Philippines, 20 October 1944.
This operation launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.

🇳🇱 A girl and her dog by a canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1950s

A defaced and severed head of a statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin which was torn down in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, October 1956

A US sailor, WWI

The ruins of Warsaw, Poland, c. 1940s, as a result of German bombing in WWII

Planting sweet potatoes on a plantation in South Carolina, 1862

A young woman worker painting the fuselage roundel on a Mosquito aircraft at de Havilland's factory at Hatfield in Hertfordshire, 1943 (original colour photo)

Jewish Polish soldiers celebrating Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles) under a large sukkah, 1930s.

Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, North Africa, WWII, October 1941.

The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of Nations was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813, at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Emperor Alexander I and Karl von Schwarzenberg, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops, as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine. The battle involved 500,000 soldiers, 2,200 artillery pieces, the expenditure of 200,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 127,000 casualties, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I.