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MANCHESTER: The canal in action a year after opening. INCREDIBLE antique images show the Victorian workers who HAND BUILT a canal which became a wond...

MANCHESTER: A steam machine helps the workers dig out the 'big ditch'. Photo taken in 1893. INCREDIBLE antique images show the Victorian workers who H...

MANCHESTER: A team of Navvies surveying a dredger in 1892. INCREDIBLE antique images show the Victorian workers who HAND BUILT a canal which became a...

USA: Book Cover. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have been released in an enthralling new book. The c...

USA: A marine gets to grips with the engine of a MArine Corps truck. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines...

USA: Female Marines prepping a plane for war. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have been released in a...

USA: Aviation Mechanics eensuring the US planes were in prime condition. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female mari...

USA: Female Marines during aerial gunnery training. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have been release...

USA: Some of the very first female Marines of the Second World War stand proudly. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? fe...

USA: Put through their paces: The women's training was no different to the mens hence their commanding officer so no need for a 'special nickname' for...

USA: Some of the 20,000 women whho answered the call to 'free a man to fight'. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? femal...

USA: Marine Lillian Marie Sandy dons mens dunagrees as the female equivalent were too lightweight for her work as an automobile mechanic. RARE PHOTOS...

USA: MArines in Summer service dress. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have been released in an enthra...

USA: A Boxing Match takes place as the MArines are transported to Hawaii. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female mar...

USA: A Marine relaxes in full uniform. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have been released in an enthr...

USA: Two Marines, Lillian Marie Sandy and Joe Mittelsdorf, who fell in love after meeting during their war duties. They married in 1947. RARE PHOTOS...

USA: Marines landing in Hawaii to relieve men for combat duty. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the United States??? female marines have b...

USA: The Women???s Reserve Band. They were renowned as the outstanding female band in the country. RARE PHOTOS uncovering the hidden history of the Un...

ARDENNES: Nazis are seen here looting dead GIs at the crossroads in Honsfeld, Belgium. The man in the foreground has had his boot stolen by the German...

ARDENNES: Locals peer down on an upturned Panther Tank which has been rammed off the road. THE FULL horror facing allied soldiers in one of the bloodi...

ARDENNES: A staged photo shows Kampfgruppe Hansen panzergrenadiers running past burning American vehicles caught on the open road. THE FULL horror fac...

ARDENNES: Frozen-looking members of the 9th Infantry Regiment, US 2nd Infantry Division, taking cover from the German barrage during the Battle of the...

ARDENNES: Ice and snow start to gather on this dead German soldier. THE FULL horror facing allied soldiers in one of the bloodiest, iciest and mental...

ARDENNES: Frozen-looking GIs queue for field rations. Keeping the troops fed and warm during the winter battle was no easy task. THE FULL horror facin...

ARDENNES: Paratroopers of the 101st pass comrades killed during the Christmas Eve bombing of Bastogne. THE FULL horror facing allied soldiers in one o...

ARDENNES: Youngsters of the 12th SS Panzer Division captured by the Americans. Such recruits showed Hitler was running out of manpower. THE FULL horro...

ARDENNES: An American machine gun nest. Men often had to sleep outside with little or no shelter for days on end. THE FULL horror facing allied soldi...

ARDENNES: Book cover. THE FULL horror facing allied soldiers in one of the bloodiest, iciest and mentally demanding battles of World War Two have been...

ARDENNES: A dead German soldier photographed on the streets of Stavelot in January 1945. Hitler's last throw of the dice was ultimately unsuccessful a...

ARDENNES: After the Nazis were driven back over the Christmas period, it was discovered that it was responsible for the massacre of 362 American priso...

ARDENNES: American soldiers taken prisoner by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper in Stoumont, Belgium, on 19 December 1944. Their fate in unknown. THE FUL...

ARDENNES: The last great conflict of the Second World War on European soil saw widespread devastation. THE FULL horror facing allied soldiers in one...

ARDENNES: This M10 tank destroyer and its crew from the US 30th Infantry Division claimed four panzers during a fierce battle in Stavelot, Belgium. TH...

ARDENNES: A Tiger II tank full of Nazies passing a column of American prisoners from the US 99th Infantry Division. They have a mixture of uniforms. M...

ARDENNES: Men of the 504th Parachute Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, supported by a tank. The division fought hard to hold the Germans in the area u...

FILE-- Bill Cunningham, at right, at a Gustave Tassell show in New York, June, 1979. Cunningham had an unerring eye for catching every fashion wave we...

FILE - England's soccer team captain Bobby Moore, is carried shoulder high by his teammates holding World Cup at the Wembley Stadium in London, July 3...

FILE-- The gutted remnants of the Pennsylvania Station building in New York, June 22, 1964. Demolished more than half a century ago, the former statio...

FILE-- One of Penn Station's 22 famous eagles being removed from Pennsylvania Station's one remaining facade in New York, July 12, 1966. The statues e...

FILE-- The 8th Avenue entrance to the current Penn Station, after the old Pennsylvania Station was torn down, in New York, Feb. 26, 1968. Demolished m...

FILE-- A view into Pennsylvania Station's main waiting room, which was still in use as the building was torn down, in New York, July 6, 1965. Demolish...

FILE-- A view into Pennsylvania Station's main waiting room, which was still in use as the building was torn down, in New York, July 6, 1965. Demolish...

FILE-- The Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional, with service to Washington, awaiting the "All Aboard" at Pennsylvania Station New York, March 17, 19...

FILE-- Sunny advertising touting the arrival of Madison Square Garden outside Pennsylvania Station in New York, Oct. 27, 1964. Demolished more than h...

In a handout photo, looking east from Ninth Avenue, the razed blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood that would become the site of Pennsylvania Station...

A photo provided by McKim, Mead & White shows the vast train shed and main waiting room of the old Pennsylvania Station, in New York, circa 1910. Demo...

NORTH AFRICA: A cup of tea before being evacuated from Kufra to Cairo by the LRDG ??sair force???. A photo from September 1942. REMARKABLE photos capt...

NORTH AFRICA: LRDG patrolmen discussing or planning a raid with Frenchmen. REMARKABLE photos capture the UK???s first Special Forces unit who operated...

The monument of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Primate of Poland placed in front of the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitants Warsaw (Poland), May 30th,...

FILE - In this 1910 file photo temperance leader Carrie Nation wields her hatchet and bible in 1910. Nation has destroyed more than a few saloons with...