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USA: Burying Confederacy dead at Fredericksburg, Virginia - a key battleground during the Civil War. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War...

USA: Surgeons of Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction of the USA???s...

USA: A tightly packed hospital struggles to cope with the amount of injured soldiers they've received. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War...

USA: A wounded soldier is tended to. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction of the USA???s bloodiest confl...

USA: Two mourners reflect whilst standing beside a soldier's grave. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction...

USA: The brutal conflict pitted countryman against countryman with over 620,000 live slost. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture th...

USA: A picture of a young boy wounded during the conflict. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction of the US...

USA: The National Cemetery. The US had never seen bloodshed on this scale before. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death an...

USA: A dead soldier pictued in June 1864, the war would end the following April. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and...

USA: Row upon row of fresh graves. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction of the USA???s bloodiest conflic...

USA: More death and decay. Two percent of the United States population was wiped out because of the war. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil W...

USA: A military camp hospital shows the standard of living that many American soldiers experienced. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War c...

USA: Surgeons await their next crop of injured soldiers. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War capture the death and destruction of the USA?...

USA: Horse and carriages are used to remove the dead and injured from the USU Civil war battlefields. GRAPHIC photographs from the American Civil War...

USA: Proud families and friends of the Harlem Hellfighters line the streets awaited them to parade past. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War s...

USA: Decorated with French medals for their courage and fighting skill, the HArlem Hellfighters return home. INCREDIBLE images from the First World Wa...

USA: A parade welcoming home soldiers from the battlefields of World War One. African American troops hoped the war would give them a platform to show...

USA: A black soldier in his segreated sleeping quarters. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War show the brave African-American men who fought for...

USA: The Famous 369th Infantry, the Harlem Hellfighters, in Parade in New York City. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War show the brave African...

USA: The Harlem Hellfighters return home from the trenches of France where they excelled themselves and struck fear into German soldier's hearts. INC...

USA: Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, had eleven sons in the service, each depeicted by a star. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War...

USA: Optimistic for the future. Black troops had been treated with respect by the French Army. The same courtesy was not to be extended by their fello...

USA: Parading on Fifth Avenue. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War show the brave African-American men who fought for a country which actively...

USA: The American Red Cross Home Service gives comfort and reassurance to American soldiers who are anxious about the welfare of their families at hom...

USA: Keeping up spirits: A trooper entertaining his comrades in the American Red Cross Recreation Hut at Orleans in France. INCREDIBLE images from the...

USA: A group of American prisoners in a German prison camp listening attentively while a jovial African American fighter relates an episode of war lif...

USA: American soldiers getting their bowls of chocolate and rolls in the American Red Cross canteen at Toulouse. INCREDIBLE images from the First Worl...

USA: Salvation Army 'lassies' giving sweets to returned African American soldiers. INCREDIBLE images from the First World War show the brave African-A...

In a handout photo, the Apollo 10 lunar module dubbed Snoopy, left, viewed from the command service module Charlie Brown in May 1969. Many pathfinders...

In a handout photo, an Earthrise photo taken by the crew of Apollo 10 in May 1969. Many pathfinders made the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon po...

In a handout photo, the Apollo 10 lunar module dubbed Snoopy flew within 47,000 feet of the moon's surface, but the astronauts had orders not to land,...

In a handout photo, the Apollo 10 lunar module dubbed Snoopy, left, viewed from the command service module Charlie Brown in May 1969. Many pathfinders...

In a handout photo, the Apollo 10 command service module dubbed Charlie Brown viewed from the lunar module Snoopy in May 1969. Many pathfinders made t...

James D. Briley is pictured in an undated photo. (AP Photo)

UK: Lucky Escape: The windscreen of Sub-Lieutenant Blake???s Spitfire P9431, damaged by return fire from a German bomber over the Thames Estuary, 9 Se...

UK: 19 Squadron officer pilots enjoying a pint at Fowlmere ??" Squadron Leader Lane at right, Flight Lieutenant Lawson, left. RARE PHOTOS show what li...

UK: 19 Squadron's Czech Pilot Officer Hradil ??" who would be shot down and killed over Southend on 5 November 1940. RARE PHOTOS show what life was re...

UK: Briefing, Fowlmere style; from left: 19 Squadron's Flying Officer Brinsden, Sergeant Charnock, Flying Officer Haines, Squadron Leader Lane, Pilot...

UK: 19 Squadron's Pilot Officer Eric Burgoyne and the badly damaged tail of Spitfire P9391, safely back at Fowlmere after taking a hit from an Me 109?...

UK: A remarkable Fowlmere photograph, of 19 Squadron's Sergeant Jimmy Jennings in the office and an anonymous armourer rearming a Spitfire. RARE PHOT...

UK: A work in progress: after repeated requests, 19 Squadron???s 'useless' cannon Spitfires were replaced by standard machinegun- armed Mk IAs, one of...

UK: Not a modern digitally coloured photograph but a genuine wartime snapshot from the album of Air Vice-Marshal Michael Lyne ??" who took the picture...

UK: Having lost both legs in a flying accident before the war, the indomitable Douglas Bader returned to the service when war broke out, joining 19 Sq...

UK: 19 Squadron armourers and assistants whilst deployed to Hornchurch for Operation DYNAMO. From left: Bailey, Roberts, Stanley and Marshall. RARE PH...

UK: A remarkable aerial photograph of those first Spitfires. RARE PHOTOS show what life was really like for the heroic Spitfire Pilots who fought in t...

UK: The ???office??? of an early Spitfire Mk I. From here, the Uk's fate would be decided. RARE PHOTOS show what life was really like for the heroic S...

UK: On 3 November 1938, Pilot Officer Gordon Sinclair made his first Spitfire flight ??" but crashed on landing owing to a faulty axle stub. Although...

UK: A most atmospheric snapshot of 19 Squadron???s first Spitfires. RARE PHOTOS show what life was really like for the heroic Spitfire Pilots who foug...

UK: Taken at Fowlmere after a patrol during the Battle of Britain, the strain on the face of twenty-three-year old Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, th...

UK: A 19 Squadron pilot flying in a Spitfire. RARE PHOTOS show what life was really like for the heroic Spitfire Pilots who fought in the Battle for B...