Shasta nuclear test, 17 kilotons, 150 m tower, Nevada Test Site, 4:00 a.m. August 18, 1957. A deuterium-tritium gas boosted Swan primary was fired in a mockup of the thermonuclear system.

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▲ 657 r/TrainPorn+1 crossposts

Texas & New Orleans Railroad Westbound Local 85 LaCoste, TX in 1960 Roger Puta Collection Growing up in the 70's near busy tracks I would always wave to the guy in the caboose.

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Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Nissa the leopard in a publicity still for Bringing Up Baby (1938)

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Battle of the Somme. British artillery bombarding the German trenches (Schwaben Redoubt), 1st July 1916

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German soldiers stand near the body of a dead Soviet pilot on railway tracks. 1944 NSFW

Source:Janus Piekalkiewisz. “Die Deutsche Reichbahn im Zweiten Weltkrieg.” Transpress Verlag. Stuttgart, 1998.

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The moment of death of Private Jack William Rose (1922-1945) of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, U.S. Army. Rose was killed by a German sniper in the Belgian village of Bihain (near Ottré) while running across an intersection under fire.

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B-17G Fortress of the 414th BS, 97th BG based at Amendola, Italy on a mission over southern France, 15 Aug 1944.

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1000 yard stare : Army Private Lloyd Culuck of Company A, 1st Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment, taking a moment to eat a can of Ration B on New Georgia Island in the Solomon Islands, July 1943.

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Italian Breda Ba.65, was used as a ground attack plane in the spanish civil war

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The artist Francis Derwent Wood compares a cosmetic plate to the face of the disfigured patient for whom it is designed. These were made of metal and hand-painted to try to match the patient's skin tone. © IWM Q 30456

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Production still of Virginia Mayo and Dana Andrews from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

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On August 15, 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Apocalypse Now”, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen, was released in theaters.

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Albert, France. 20 August 1918. An Australian and Canadian Cemetery (Now known as Bapaume Post) on the Bapaume Road, after its recapture from the Germans. Canon Scott is seen standing by the grave of Captain Scott, his son. Captain Scott is now buried in Plot I. E. 4

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Cambrai area, November 1917: German prisoners tending to their dead comrade.

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Engineer 1st Class Hayakawa from the Yokosuka 1st SNLF on a Type 95 motorcycle in Cangkou, Qingdao, c.1938

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A United States Army Signal Corps photographer looks at a dead german who lays next to his Panzerschreck. He was a victim of the heavy air and artillery attack that took place during the shelling near Marigny, France. July 26th 1944

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