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Algerian Bedouin Boy

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue...
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Paratrooper Training

Date: 07 1963
Description: A view of special forces training taken by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle inside a C-47 transport plane. The photograph shows the preparations for ...
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Execution by Firing Squad

Date: 1957
Description: Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg...
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Chapelle with Algerians

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria drinking tea.
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Red Crescent Doctor and Injured Man

Date: 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor examining an injured man who is wrapped in bandages. They are in Algeria.
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U.S. Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba.
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Soldiers with Wreckage

Date: 1958
Description: Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns.
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Cuban Revolution Infirmary

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Description: Cuban Revolution infirmary. A soldier holding a rifle sits on the floor next to a man in bed.
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Fidel Castro and Others Conversing on Porch

Date: 1958
Description: Five men, including Fidel Castro, and Celia Sanchez stand together in discussion on a shaded porch in the country during the Cuban Revolution.
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Men in Jeep, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers during the Cuban Revolution. Three men are around a jeep listening to the driver speak. There is a stack of firearms in the...
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Limousine on Havana Street

Date: 1959
Description: Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve...
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Salon Cristal, Havana Cuba

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Description: View down a covered Havana sidewalk at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Small groups of civilians are standing around and walking. A large sign for the Sa...
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Soldiers with Crowd, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1959
Description: Two of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement soldiers wielding guns are standing in front of a crowd next to a building under a covered Havana sidewalk. Tak...
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Crouching Soldiers, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro led 26th of July Movement soldiers during the Cuban Revolution. Low angle view of several soldiers crouching behind a stone barricade with gu...
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Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin and Others

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement command headquarters in the Sierra Maestra mountains during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro sits in a hammock and speaks with Vil...
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Raul and Fidel Castro

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro sits in a hammock smoking a cigarette and speaking with his brother Raul, who is crouching on the ground.
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a captured Sher...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a military vehic...

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