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"Three dead Americans on the beach at Buna." history

The Photo That Won World War II: ‘Dead Americans at Buna Beach,’ 1943

Burlesque star June St. Clair and Professor Connie Fonzlau demonstrate the right and wrong ways to disrobe at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing in New York, 1937. history

‘How a Wife Should Undress’: Dubious Advice From 1930s Strippers

Captured Polish soldiers, 1939. history

World War II Erupts: Color Photos From the Invasion of Poland, 1939

Vietnam 1963 history

America in Vietnam, 1963: Deeper Into War

Grand Guignol 1947 history

Madness, Torture and Murder on a Paris Stage: That’s Entertainment!

American soldiers of Patton's Third Army roll up a Nazi flag they have taken as a trophy after the capture of Bitburg, February 1945. history

Scenes of ‘Fury’: The Brutal Reality of Tank Warfare in World War II

Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep." history

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938

1937 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany. history

A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color

The gantry retracts while Saturn V boosters lift the Apollo 11 astronauts toward the moon, July 16, 1969. history

Apollo 11: What Liftoff Looked Like

Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 history

‘To the Moon and Back.’ See LIFE’s Complete Special Issue on Apollo 11

A French woman collaborator and her baby, whose father is German, returns to her home after having her head shaven following the capture of Chartres by the Allies, August 1944. history

Robert Capa Reveals an Ugly Side of Liberation in WWII France

Show for the Troops After D-Day, 1944 history

After D-Day: Rare Photos From the First Show for US Troops in Normandy

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