Tail end of a Northrop P-61 Black Widow in France in 1944

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Tank surfing at Arras in 1918

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M4 Sherman among other vehicles gone with the blastwave after a nuclear test during Operation Teapot in 1955

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150mm Panzerwerfer rocket salvo and impacts in 1943

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French tank casualties including Char B1 Bis Toulon destroyed by its own crew after a gearbox malfunction on May 17th 1940

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Dornier Do X in flight

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355th FS pilot Captain Ralph Parr blows the wing off his fifth MiG-15 making him the 34th Sabre ace on June 18th 1953

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A simple device to enable a tank to get over an obstacle

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Rheinmetall Zwillingsflak 20mm cannon quick barrel change

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Sherman Crab cutting through beach obstacles during trials at 79th Armoured Division's 'E' Wing at Brancaster in April 1944

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Wolverine of the Volturno

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US Navy fighters dogfighting with a Japanese Nakajima A6M2-N floatplane off Truk Lagoon in early 1944

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Detail of what appears to be an unexploded 75mm Panzergranate 39 shell embedded in the side of a Soviet KV-1 heavy tank knocked out in 1942

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Handley Page Heyford

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F-4E Phantom II armed with a pair of GPU-5/A 30mm cannon pods [2500x1950]

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M4 Sherman and B-29 Superfortress wrecks on Iwo Jima in 1945

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German personnel pose with a disabled T-35 Soviet multi-turreted heavy tank

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Damaged Tanks being Lowered into the Hold of a Merchant Ship painted by Bernard Hailstone in 1943

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30mm cannon air burst rounds being walked through an infantry position

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USAAF B-24 Liberators hammered at close range by Luftwaffe Fw 190s

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US WWII fuzes used to set off antipersonnel mines and booby traps [2300x3000]

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F-80 gun and rocket runs on North Korean supply lines in 1951

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Autogyro target drone simulating a Soviet Hind helicopter for infantry training at Quantico in 1986

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Ice queen takes a hot load to the intake

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2/4 Australian Field Workshop Engineers blow up an abandoned Panzerjager I with demolition charges near Tobruk in 1942

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Northrop P-61B Black Widow Lady in the Dark unofficially credited with the last kill of WWII [3000x2300]

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Marmon-Herrington THD-315-6 Desert Pullman bus conversion commandeered by the RAF in 1943

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Firing tests of the Emerson TAT-161 turret installation that put a 20mm M61 cannon in the belly of a B-57G under Project Pave Gat

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Consolidated-Vultee factory workers enjoy their lunch near a PB2Y-3 Coronado under camouflage netting in San Diego in the Summer of 1943

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Proposed gunship variant of the Bell D-327 V/HXM to provide armed escort and fire support in 1980

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Fairchild XC-120 Packplane prototype lands with its modular cargo pod

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1944 US Army training clip showing GIs that their Garand can engage the enemy through a tree

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Northrop P-61B Black Widow night fighter in flight over the Pacific in 1945

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French La Galissonniere-class light cruiser Montcalm in Brest in 1950 [2100x1450]

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An eclectic formation of aircraft types operated by the United States Air Force in the late 1950s [5000x3900]

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Beecraft Wee Bee 1948 prototype that was big enough to carry a man and small enough to be carried by a man

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Morris-Martel tankette prototype trialed in 1927

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A young German soldier inspects the wreck of Sherman Firefly Vc T2102203 Chaser of C squadron of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers knocked out near Authie in June 1944

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1st AD tank casualties at Kasserine Pass shown on an Italian newsreel in early 1943

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North American B-25C Mitchell makes a wheels-up landing in Italy in 1943

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Frontal attack through anti-aircraft fire on a formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses in January 1944

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Cruiser Mk III tanks demolishing bombed-out buildings in 1941

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International M-2-4 Rocket Trucks in action on Okinawa on May 16th 1945

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Sad Tiger and the Tank Whisperer

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Night view of a B-36 Peacemaker at Carswell Air Force Base in August 1955 [5000x3600]

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Two of the first tanks ever knocked out in combat during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September 1916

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Fairey Gannet AEW.3 of 849 NAS B Flight lands on HMS Hermes in the early 1960s

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II Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet underway in the North Sea circa 1914 [2500x1500]

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Bitch I got my own chopper

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Cutaway displays of Russian HEAT, HE and APFSDS tank ammunition

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Firing and loading the BL 5.5-inch medium gun at El Alamein

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346th Bomb Squadron B-17G Flying Fortress 44-6408 Hammerhead lands with one of the crew parachutes unfurled from the tail gunner's position after her brakes were shot out in action in late 1944

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B-29 ditches in the sea off Iwo Jima

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PZAM captive piston cartridge cross section shown at rest and firing [675x932]

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1937 Thompson Aircraft Refueller used by the Shell Aviation Service

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US Marines file past the wreckage of an Aichi D3A Val dive bomber on Agat beach in Guam in July 1944

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Churchill gently opens the gate for friendly troops

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French Canon de 32 modele 1870/93 railway gun firing in support of the Saint-Mihiel Offensive in September 1918

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North American F-82 Twin Mustang low level passes at Las Vegas in May 1949

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Knocked out Sherman tank carried away by a Scammell Pioneer tank transporter in Normandy on August 13th 1944

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Color footage of a T-34/76 and twin-turreted T-26 knocked out in the Summer of 1941 on the Eastern Front

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Damage to Royal Navy cruiser HMS Vindictive fitted with additional mattress armor for the Zeebrugge Raid in April 1918 [2500x1860]

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5 Rocket Trucks in action on Iwo Jima

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Insane rocket and strafing runs by Coastal Command Mosquitoes on Axis shipping on the Nordic coast

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Soviet 203mm M1931 heavy howitzer

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U-boat deck gun frozen solid in the North Atlantic in 1942 [1800x1080]

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Goalkeeper CIWS getting its pipes cleaned [2100x1550]

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Bomb release camera image sequence showing a USAAF B-26 Marauder losing an engine to a bomb then colliding with an adjacent bomber resulting in the loss of both aircraft

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USS North Carolina (BB-55) firing her 5 and 16 inch guns during gunnery trials in September 1941

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Original color image of a P-40B Warhawk pilot in his cockpit in the early 1940s

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Supersonic shockwave visible in the air from a test projectile without gyroscopic stabilization

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McDonnell F3H Demon killing drones during Sparrow III missile testing

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Gun camera perspective of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 raking a Consolidated B-24 Liberator with cannon fire, closing to just 50 meters

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Focke Wulf Fw 189 V1 prototype in flight

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Douglas AC-47 Spooky fixed wing gunships firing their miniguns over Vietnam

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YOV-10D Night Observation Gunship System (NOGS) with FLIR sensor and XM197 20mm cannon in a ventral turret

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Churchill ARK Armoured Ramp Carriers being stacked to allow a third tank to cross a wide ditch

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Ad hoc artillery support from US Patton tanks in Korea in 1951

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FAA crash test with an unmanned Douglas DC-7 airliner at Deer Valley on April 24th 1964

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Two decades of RAF fighters [1330x1070]

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Sukhoi Drift demonstrated by an Su-7 fitted with skids instead of wheels for dirt strip operations

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Propaganda newsreel purports to show a Goliath tracked mine being used to destroy a US tank in France in July 1944

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Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 tiltwing prototype carries out a dump truck drop

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Japanese vessel off the Ryuku Islands explodes while being strafed by US Navy aircraft in 1945

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French armored cruiser Ernest Renan with a funnel for every seven of her 42 boilers [1400x1020]

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US CV-2 Caribou transport accidentally shot down by an artillery shell near Quang Ngai City in Vietnam on August 3rd 1967

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Test torpedo launched from an unidentified British vessel in the late 1930s [1000x1400]

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M4 Sherman tank with a perforated hull burned out after the fighting in Luneville in September 1944

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Republic-Ford JB-2 (US Navy V-1 copy) crashes into the sea after the launch sled fails to separate

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Patton tanks taken out by Hellfire missiles during AH-64 Apache trials

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Royal Navy Westland Sea King HAS2A XV698 of 824 Naval Air Squadron sinking after #2 engine failed while delivering supplies on July 11th 1982 in the South Atlantic

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Exposed M61 Vulcan 20mm rotary cannon on a Luftwaffe F-104G Starfighter [1750x1700]

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*slaps roof of Jumbo* this bad boy can fire so many 76mm shells into Aachen on October 13th 1944

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Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Demon Interceptor in flight

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ENTAC anti-tank wire guided missile tested against Patton tanks

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Grumman F4F Wildcat misses the wire on USS Makassar Strait during a training cruise off Hawaii in November 1944

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PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader in flight

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Experimental chin turret on a Bell UH-1 with twin MG 3 machine guns

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Sherman Firefly burning on the roadside as XXX Corps vehicles drive by near Ruurlo in the Netherlands on April 1st 1945

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Color footage of P-39 Airacobra strafing runs including a third person view

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1st Battalion Grenadier Guardsman aims the Thompson submachinegun mounted on his Norton 16H in April 1940

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US Sherman tank casualties from the Battle of San Pietro south of Monte Cassino at the end of 1943

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P-51 pilot Merle J Gilbertson shoots a Bf 109 off the tail of a crippled B-17 on 14th January 1945

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Martin XPB2M-1 Mars prototype with a Piper Cub on each wing for scale

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Standard and Jumbo Sherman variants roll past in March 1945

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F9F Panther from USS Valley Forge engaging North Korean armored vehicles on the road with 20mm cannon fire in August 1950

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Avigdor Kahalani posing in 1999 with a Syrian T-62 knocked out by his crew 26 years earlier in the Valley of Tears

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VVS Ilyushin Il-4 bomber disappears into the clouds after taking fire from a Luftwaffe fighter

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F-51 Mustangs attack Communist positions in North Korea with rockets and gunfire

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Heinkel He 111 shot down on an English beach

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Boeing B-17E reengined with four liquid-cooled Allison V-1710-89 V-12s in flight at the XB-38

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Test fire of a Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifle timed fuze round in Afghanistan

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F6F Hellcat pilot rescued after losing his tail on landing on USS Essex on January 3rd 1945

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Vickers Wellesley in flight

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HM Submarine X1 submersible commerce raider during trials off the Isle of Wight in 1925

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20mm MK244 Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot round hitting 2.5 thick aluminum blocks

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B-29 Superfortress crash landed on Iwo Jima after being damaged by anti-aircraft fire over Tokyo on March 10th 1945

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Moncrieff or disappearing type gun carriage uses recoil to conceal the weapon after firing

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DUKW with ladder fitted for fire support during a cliff assault

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Egyptian M4A4 Sherman fitted with a French FL-10 turret knocked out during the 1967 Arab–Israeli War

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347th Bomb Squadron B-17G Flying Fortress 44-6430 in flight with damaged bomb bay doors after a raid over Northern Italy in October 1944

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121st Assault Helicopter Company Vikings UH-1B Gunships in action near Soc Trang in January 1968

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Damaged Sherman tank shunted on to an LCT at Inchon during the Korean War in December 1950

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Recovery of a M4A3E8 'Easy Eight Sherman knocked out by a mine is attempted then abandoned during Operation Killer in early 1951

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Unfinished Nakajima Kikka pictured in October 1945

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USAAF B-26 Marauder breaks up in mid-air after being hit by flak during a bomb run in the ETO in 1944

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Fokker D.XXIII single seat twin engined fighter prototype in flight

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TBA Sicario integrally suppressed Ruger MKIV

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Semovente da 75/34 self-propelled 75mm gun lost in Italy in 1943

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Panzerjager I of the lake

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T-34 tank blown to smithereens on the Eastern Front in August 1943

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SSM-A-23 Dart ATGM guidance testing in 1956

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Bristol 188 supersonic research aircraft takes off for its first flight on April 14th 1962

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Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 42-5897 experimentally fitted with a flexibly mounted 20mm cannon the Summer of 1943

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Edgley EA-7 Optica designed for low-speed observation work demonstrated at the Farnborough Airshow in 1981

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