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Byron Darnton's Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: War correspondents carry the flag-draped casket containing the body of Byron Darnton, the first casualty of their group; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Mor...
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Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Byron Darnston coffin being borne to the grave by war correspondent pallbearers; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
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Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Darnton-Fahuestock funeral with a rifle squad at attention and two coffins draped with American flags, Bomana Military Cemetery in Port Moresby, New Guinea...
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Darnton and Fahuestock Coffins

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Military Chaplain Fred Bartrop performs an Episcopal burial ceremony for Byron Darnton over the coffins; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea...
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Taps at Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: "Taps" is played at the Darnton-Fahuestock funeral; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
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Aftermath of the Battle of Antietam

Date: 1890
Description: Site of the Battle of Antietam. The bloody lane.
Print

"The Battle of Gettysburg"

Date: 1863
Description: An engraving of the Battle of Gettysburg, after the painting by P.F. Rothermel.
Photograph

Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S...
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Carrying Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats.
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn...
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Nazi Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu...
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German Bodies

Date: 1939
Description: Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi...
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Dead Rebel Tank Crewman

Date: 06 15 1965
Description: body of a rebel tank crew member lying in the street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Dead Viet Cong Soldier

Date: 1965
Description: U.S. soldiers drag the body of a dead Viet Cong soldier on a beach.
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Vietnamese Funeral

Date: 05 1962
Description: Funeral at Binh Hung, Vietnam for several members of the Vietnamese Sea Swallows battallion who were killed in combat against Viet Cong forces on May 29. U...
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Bronze Star Award Ceremony

Date: 09 28 1967
Description: The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti...
Poster

What are Your Taxes Buying in El Salvador?

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl...

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