Mercy dogs were trained during World War 1 to comfort mortally wounded soldiers

De Beer mine workers are X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines. Kimberly, South Africa. 1954

American deserters being publicly humiliated in Florient, France on November 5, 1918. During WWI, 2,657 U.S. servicemen were convicted of desertion, with 24 being sentenced to death; all of the condemned were instead commuted to prison terms by President Woodrow Wilson

Elizabeth being crowned and enthroned at her coronation, 1953

Statues of Menkaure being excavated in Giza, Egypt 1908

Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961

A Mother Shows A Picture Of Her Son To A Returning Prisoner Of War, 1947

Titanic Survivors Boarding The Carpathia In 1912

About 100 People Participate In A Lottery To Divide A 12 Acre Plot Of Sand Dunes, That Would Later Become The City Of Tel Aviv, 1909

Soviet Troops Scrawled Graffiti In The Reichstag After They Took Berlin In 1945

The Gadget, The First Atomic Bomb, 1945

Finalizing The Fat Man Atomic Bomb, Which Was Dropped On Nagasaki On August 9, 1945. On Its Nose It Had Stenciled The Acronym “Jancfu”- Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up

Crew Of The Japanese Carrier Zuikaku Give One Final Banzai Cheer Before The Ship Sinks, 1944

An American Evacuee Punches A South Vietnamese Man For A Place On The Last Chopper Out Of The US Embassy During The Evacuation Of Saigon In 1975

Children of the Belgian Congo circa 1900. If they did not come back with enough rubber for the day, their hands would be chopped off.

A race education class at a school for German girls, 1943