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Do you hear a plane coming? The Type 90 Sound Locator.

Japanese emperor Hirohito inspects the Type 90 sound locator in 1930.

Churchill weds Roosevelt: Atlantic Superpower Summit and the creation of the Atlantic Charter, 1941.

Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill attends Sunday Service on board the HMS Prince of Wales, 1941

What’s God spelled backwards? A photo of George Patton’s English Bull Terrier, 1946.

Willie the English Bull Terrier lies morose next to General George S. Patton's personal belongings, 1946

Der Wusten-fuchs in Libyen. A photo of Erwin Rommel from Beda Littoria, 1941.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel engages in a conversation with a fellow soldier in Libya, 1941.

Another time, another world. A photo of Yamamoto and wife Mihashi Rreiko, 1918.

Wedding photo of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his wife Mihashi Rreiko, 31st August, 1918.

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How the Bengal army came to be an army of robust Sepoys.

Delving into the fascination of populating the Bengal army with impressive Prussian type native Sepoys.

Why Indian Sepoys had preferred to enlist in the armies of the East India Company, between the 17th-18th century.

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And it took a mutiny to change policing: Why after the Mutiny of 1857, the old Kotwali system was replaced.

A vintage photo from 1900, and why policing changed in British India, from the Kotwali system of the Mughals.

The death of Charlotte Chambers during the Mutiny of 1857.

During the mutiny of 1857 the gruesome and ritualistic murder of Charlotte Chambers was a rallying call.