Corporal Philip Margherito of HQ Company, US 752nd Tank Battalion drinking water during a M3 medium tank training mission, Desert Training Center, Indio, California, United States, 10 Jun 1942Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. Courtyard of the wrecked Horák family farm before the structures were totally destroyed.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. Members of the SS police stand in the courtyard of the wrecked Horák family farm before the structures were totally destroyed.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS firing squad conducting execution of all of the village’s men, ten at a time, at the Horák family farm.
Corporal Philip Margherito of HQ Company, US 752nd Tank Battalion drinking water during a M3 medium tank training mission, Desert Training Center, Indio, California, United States, 10 Jun 1942Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. Courtyard of the wrecked Horák family farm before the structures were totally destroyed.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. Members of the SS police stand in the courtyard of the wrecked Horák family farm before the structures were totally destroyed.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS firing squad conducting execution of all of the village’s men, ten at a time, at the Horák family farm.
Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer overseeing the destruction of the village. The wreck of St. Martin’s church built in 1732 is still standing in the village center.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officers overseeing the destruction of the village.
Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer overseeing the destruction of the village. The wreck of St. Martin’s church built in 1732 is still standing in the village center.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officers overseeing the destruction of the village.
Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 with one of the village’s barns in the foreground burned out but before explosives reduced them to rubble.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery in the act of being looted.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery with all graves open and the headstones broken up.Surviviors of Hiryu aboard USS Ballard, Jun 1942
Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 with one of the village’s barns in the foreground burned out but before explosives reduced them to rubble.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery in the act of being looted.Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery with all graves open and the headstones broken up.Surviviors of Hiryu aboard USS Ballard, Jun 1942
The burned out houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia with some still smoldering, 10 Jun 1942.The houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia burning, 10 Jun 1942.US Army Air Force First Lieutenant James Muri and his crew posing before their B-26 Marauder, Midway, Jun 1942
The burned out houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia with some still smoldering, 10 Jun 1942.The houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia burning, 10 Jun 1942.US Army Air Force First Lieutenant James Muri and his crew posing before their B-26 Marauder, Midway, Jun 1942


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