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  • Collection: United States History, 1914-1945

Capone Fingerprints.jpg
The coroner's office provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Al Capone's fingerprints following his death.

Cubs Game.jpg
Al Capone called over Chicago Cubs star Gabby Hartnett at a charity baseball game in 1931 asking for the catcher's autograph

Capone DC.jpg
Al Capone died on January 25th, 1947 of a cardiac arrest, along with minor complications of syphilis and pneumonia.

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a propagranda poster from the US, published during the time of the cold war.

isthistomorrow.jpg
'The political hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990 not only perpetuated enemy propaganda in both countries, but was also a power battle between both nations to sell their respective ideologies to the…

fat-man-model.jpg
The bomb used on the Us at the end of the war

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Rockets similar to this R-7 rocket on display in Moscow were used to launch early Russian satellites into orbit, including Sputnik.

Tov_lenin_ochishchaet.jpg
In russia its states that "Comrade Lenin will clean up the earth

B-17B Flying Fortress McChord Field dedication ceremony and air show July 3, 1940.gif
With hangar 3 in the background, a new USAAF Boeing B-17B Flying Fortress starts its engines before flying in McChord Fields dedication Army Air Corps air demonstration. Forty RAF aircrew from No. 90 Squadron were trained at McChord Field from…

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Boeing B-17Es under construction. This is the first released wartime production photograph of Flying Fortress heavy bombers at one of the Boeing plants, at Seattle, Wash.
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