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An older couple is watching a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux.10th July 1944. The church towers in the background have survived the Allied bombing intact. Caen, Normandy, France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
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Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927
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Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War
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Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)
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In pictures: Zeppelin raids on First World War Britain

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British reenforcement land on 'Gold Beach' for the big push into the Normandy town of Caen
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An eyewitness account of the Normandy landings, France, 1944

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level
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In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband’s 1903 invasion of Tibet

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Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)
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The USS Arizona burning in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. To the left of her are USS Tennessee and the sunken USS West Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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