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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | General Hood ordered a train full of gunpowder set on fire so that the Union Army couldn't use it, resulting in a series of explosions Plate 44 |
| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | An explosion set by trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama in a rural area, with trees and shrubs in the forground. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Smoking rubble in the village of Vin Quoi, Vietnam. Destruction caused by Viet Cong. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on the back of the print, "Buna, immediately after capture by Yanks and Aussies." Two men stand in the center amid the destruction of the jungl... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | An explosive is detonated by an instructor between rows of crawling Vietnamese Sea Swallow trainees at Binh Hung. The training was intended to teach them t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Impact of an Austrian 305mm mortar shell in a Russian position. Taken with a telephoto lens. |
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| Description: | Austrian heavy artillery piece or mortar at the moment of firing. |
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