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    Dawn in Dresden. Once one of Europe's most beautiful cities it was almost entirely destroyed this week in 1945 by US & British bombers.
     
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    PFC Richie sniffs at delicate perfume of his girlfriend in Jay, Oklahoma, as he opens her letter in Vietnam - 1966
     
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    London was a beautiful city as well!
     
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    I remember coming off my motorbike in the rain on that bend outside the Cafe Royal in 1974, as I hit the ground spinning round I saw one of those buses coming up behind me, fortunately it stopped...

     
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    WOW this #Spitfire picture is incredible!!! Pilot is about to flip the wing of a v1 in order to knock the gyroscope off balance and stop the flying bomb reaching its London target!!!
     
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    Two women on motorcycles shаre a smoke break in Birmingham, England, 1930s
     
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    Are you sure it’s not a pair of her knickers?
     
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    Take it or Leave it, School dinner in the 1960s

    bit more choice in the eighties
     
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    I don’t remember having a written board telling us what we were eating in school in the sixties. There was just grey stuff put on your plate. And a sponge based pudding.

    Or maybe that was prison, I get them mixed up.
     
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    I have a very strange palate, I liked school diners, I even like air plane food.
     
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    me too
    even the hospital food here aint bad
     
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    Correction, you have no palate...:grin:
     
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    And you're even worse...<laugh>
     
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    I stayed in the Waldorf for 3 months when I first moved out here, The bed must have taken up 7/8ths of the room! It is well down on my list of my favourite hotels I've stayed in. Closed at the moment.
     
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    The Heavy Gustav, Hitler and generals inspecting the largest caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat, 1941.
     
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    Mass suicide in Jonestown cult, the biggest non-natural human loss of American citizens until 9/11 |||.
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    Two Beаutiful Flappers in Front of a Peerless Touring Car, San Francisco Bay Area, 1923.
     
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