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Handloading 250lb bomb on F-4

Source Photos - Vietnam War Marine Corps

by davisf 10 Apr 2008 - 5,883 views this week (231,075 total)

"Old Guard" 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Charlie Co, 2/3

Source uploaded by KarenRossEpp

by KarenRossEpp 06 Apr 2008 - 3,040 views this week (116,902 total)

Contributions 1 comment

"Swept away by the tide..." Franklin Thompson requests amnesty, May 7, 1866

Source Confederate Amnesty Papers

by pmhughey 14 Apr 2008 - 3,027 views this week (115,932 total)

"There's ghosts done come after me right in the broad open daylight!"

Source Project Blue Book - UFO Investigations

by peter 13 Feb 2008 - 3,024 views this week (81,542 total)

Contributions 1 comment

Ernest Foster, 11, trying to locate relatives. Ernest, son of Guy Foster

Source News - The Atlanta Constitution

by margaretann1858 03 Aug 2008 - 3,023 views this week (90,274 total)

Swiss Cheese, the Surface of the Moon or A German Landscape?

Source WWII US Air Force Photos

by gopherfly 06 Dec 2007 - 3,013 views this week (79,041 total)

Contributions 1 comment

The Heart of a Tiger - Vietnam

Source Photos - Vietnam War Marine Corps

by peter 26 Mar 2008 - 1,500 views this week (39,396 total)

Contributions 6 comments

B-24 Liberator on bomb run

Source WWII US Air Force Photos

by chris 25 Aug 2008 - 1,427 views this week (34,152 total)

ferry dock 110th

Source City Directories - New York

by asearch2find 21 Jan 2009 - 362 views this week (7,316 total)

Photographer, Daguerreotypist, New York

Source City Directories - New York

by DavidLowe 03 Mar 2009 - 358 views this week (7,323 total)

1912 St. Louis City Directory Pleimann

Source City Directories - St Louis

by djcochran33995 21 Jun 2009 - 352 views this week (3,889 total)

Jefferson's secret message to Congress

Source uploaded by nathan

by nathan 18 Jan 2008 - 328 views this week (1,911 total)

M.M. Turner -- Guest Myrtle King

Source News - The Kiowa News (KS)

by jackilarae 21 Sep 2008 - 314 views this week (1,473 total)

Haluptzok Joe 1964-06-11 MN [guests at wedding of Dean Maser and Shirley 2

Source News - Askov American (MN)

by vkohanek 27 Sep 2008 - 314 views this week (1,563 total)

M.M. Turner -- Mrs. E.A. Tommey Guest at No. 41 East Cain Street

Source News - The Atlanta Constitution

by jackilarae 21 Sep 2008 - 309 views this week (1,439 total)

Aircraft was added to this photo after the fact

Source WWII US Air Force Photos

by blake 10 Jun 2008 - 167 views this week (1,496 total)

Anna Wilhelmina Fredricka Hartmann Eckert

Source uploaded by flowermaze46

by flowermaze46 20 Jan 2008 - 163 views this week (5,700 total)

Chris Rock's great-great-grandfather

Source Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index

by chris 07 Feb 2008 - 161 views this week (6,148 total)

Contributions 3 comments

Fred Virgil Banister and his wife Gladys

Source uploaded by flowermaze46

by flowermaze46 21 Jan 2008 - 161 views this week (5,559 total)

man with x-ray eyes

Source News - Gazette Virginian (Halifax Co VA)

by chris 11 Jul 2007 - 155 views this week (6,900 total)

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