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An African American soldier, wielding a Thompson machine gun, brings a captured German Soldier to the rear / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World...

Black Soldiers from a Headquarters Company of the 761st Tank Battalion display their unit flag / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing...

African-Americans in a Chaffee tank await orders to move out during the Battle of the Bulge / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing an...

Captain Ivan Harrison, Captain Irvin McHenry, and Second Lieutenant James Lightfoot, members of the 761st Tank Battalion, tolerate the mud in France /...

Members of the 761st heading into battle / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing an African American tank squadron nicknamed ???The Bla...

FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing an African American tank squadron nicknamed ???The Black Panthers??? fighting their way across we...

Corporal Carlton Chapman, a machine gunner, peers out of a Sherman tank hatch in Nancy, France / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing...

General Patton, also known as Old Blood and Guts, decorates Private Ernest A. Jenkins of New York City with the Silver Star in France / FASCINATING IM...

Black and white assembly line men work together in this homefront war poster / FASCINATING IMAGES from the Second World War showing an African America...

Private First Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, who received the Medal of Honor for jumping on a Japanese grenade to save his fellow Marines during the Battle o...

Private Wilson D. Watson (Known by his comrades as the "One Man Regiment), who received the Medal of Honor for eliminating 90 Japanese soldiers with h...

Private First Class Douglas T. Jacobson, who received the Medal of Honor for destroying 16 Japanese positions (Ultimately killing 75 Japanese Soldiers...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

INCREDIBLE SCENES from the mid-1940s showing entire neighbourhoods of men, women and children being covered in the dangerous pesticide dichlorodipheny...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

A PRPAGANDA film showing the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans who forced to relocate during the Second World War shows both the smiling faces of evacue...

Robert Burns. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour of Vict...

Queen Victoria. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour of Vi...

Prince Albert. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour of Vic...

Hans Christian Andersen. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year t...

John Brown. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour of Victor...

Mary Estlin and Eliza and Jane Wigham. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after...

Weston Chapman 1846, a Boston abolitionist that Douglass had a fractious relationship with. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave...

Richard D Webb, the Irish Quaker and anti-slavery activist, who hosted Douglass in Dublin. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave...

Henry Clarke Wright. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour...

Frederick Douglass in a daguerrotype from c. 1855. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transf...

Slave Ship Brookes. THE INCREDIBLE journey of America???s famous runaway slave Frederick Douglass whose life was transformed after his two-year tour o...

FILE-- William Borders, right, on the job in Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in December 1977. Borders, who rose from co...

FILE -- Richard Weinstein presents plans for a Manhattan development project at City Hall in 1972. Weinstein, an architect who helped redefine urban p...