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Ghosts of the World Wars

Thursday 22 May 2014 13:03 BST

Landing Day: Special engineer brigade landing on Omaha beach D-Day afternoon 1944 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Landing Day: Special engineer brigade landing on Omaha beach D-Day afternoon 1944 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Aussie Troops march over Westminster Bridge ,London, date unknown

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Rest Up: A British Soldier catches a few ZZZs in a trench in Thiepval Woods 1916 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Verdun Trench: French troops digging a trench Verdun 1916 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Caught: Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne, 501st PIR gather prisoners at the city hall in Veghel. 1944 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Ruins: A Canadian mortar team fire on Ortona. Italy 1943 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Admiral Graf Spee at Portsmouth 1937 (note the huge flag on the stern for propaganda purposes)

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Deja Vu: Former Marine Corps Combat Correspondent SSgt Federico Claveria looks at photograph of himself giving an interned Tinian child candy 25 years earlier 1969 - 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Rangers loading for D-Day at Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, June 1944 – 2013

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Troops of the Royal Norfolk’s in Pastoratstrasse facing the Schloßstrasse in Kervenheim. 1945 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

White City :Public Schools Battalion at White City, Beaumont Hamel 1916 -2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Iwo Jima

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Arromanches: Unidentified troops march onto French soil 1944 -2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

A Canadian medic tends to a German prisoner ,Trun Hospice, Trun, France 1944 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Raiders: 4 members of Doolittle’s Raiders after meeting with friendly Chinese forces are escorted through a village on the way back to being re-patriated. 1942 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Battle of Vimy Ridge: Canadians in the trenches, Vimy Ridge 1917 – 2014

In pictures: Ghosts of the World Wars

Ghosts of the World Wars

Hermanville:a British paratrooper observes 2 civilians in Hermanville Normandy D-Day – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Perspective: View of Omaha beach from a German bunker 1944 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

View of a Spitfire from the cockpit of an He111,somewhere over Southern England 1941 – 2014

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Ghosts of the World Wars

Yanks in the Dorset pub in Burton Bradstock

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