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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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