A literal sea of humanity. Troops returning home from Europe aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth after WWII ended, 1945.
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An American sergeant enjoys his Thanksgiving turkey under a makeshift shelter on the Italian Front, November 1944
u/Xdestroyed — 12 hours ago
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South African infantry using a cactus hedge as concealment during their surprise outflanking of Italian defenses at the Battle of Combolcia, Ethiopia, 22 or 23 April 1941. [800x1143]
u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA — 9 hours ago
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Public humiliation in Nazi Germany (August 1933) [2030x1402]
u/druc — 12 hours ago
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German who wouldn't salute Hitler 13. June 1936 in Hamburg [1600x1066]
u/druc — 13 hours ago
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Tribal rep George Gillette crying as 154,000 acres of land is signed away for a new dam (1948) [1440x1791]
u/StephenMcGannon — 1 day ago
An RAF pilot conducting an unauthorised flight over London to mark the RAF's 50th anniversary, a milestone he felt was inadequately recognised by the government. The pilot flew a Hawker Hunter jet low over landmarks, including Parliament, before passing through Tower Bridge. (1968)
u/Nuclearpepe12 — 1 day ago
Douglas A-20J-10-DO (S/N 43-10129) of the 409th Bomb Group after being hit by flak over Germany on May 12, 1944. It burst into flames and crashed a mile west of the target. 2 crew members were KIA and 2 managed to bail out and become POWs.
u/UrbanAchievers6371 — 1 day ago
Danish resistance fighters holding up and disarming German soldiers, Copenhagen. (1945) colourized [1394 × 1656]
u/StephenMcGannon — 1 day ago
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Female snipers of the Third Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front. (Germany, May 1945) [1200×1858]
u/Xdestroyed — 1 day ago
Pope Formosus and Stephen VI by Jean Paul Laurens, depicting the Cadaver Synod of 897, when the corpse of Formosus was exhumed, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial in the Lateran Basilica
u/aid2000iscool — 1 day ago
A historical street scene on Broad Street in Manhattan, New York City, circa 1905
u/druc — 1 day ago
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Cole Younger, photographed after his capture at the Northfield Bank Raid — sentenced to life in prison while Jesse James escaped into legend, Minnesota, 1876 [526x852]
u/Nervous_Tip2096 — 1 day ago
A picture of Osama Bin Laden in The Independent Newspaper. This publication was released on 6th December 1993, in the United Kingdom. [602x402]
u/OkRespect8490 — 1 day ago
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An unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacks Chicago television broadcasts in one of the strangest unsolved media incidents in U.S. history. Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 1987 [1244x935]
Late on the night of November 22, 1987, an unknown person interrupted broadcasts on two Chicago television stations while wearing a mask resembling Max Headroom, a glitchy, distorted futuristic TV character popular in the 1980s. The hijacker rambled, made strange jokes, and behaved erratically before the signal abruptly ended. Despite an FBI investigation, the “Max Headroom Incident” was never solved.
u/PunisherCastle — 1 day ago
Military Officials in Joseon Korea, 1890s, colorized [1000 x 625]
u/Ye_average_edgelord — 1 day ago
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French social workers interact with Vietnamese children in rural Tonkin province, during the counterinsurgency campaign in Indochina, May 1951. [1270x1280]
u/Pvt_Larry — 1 day ago
Legendary water polo player Petre Mshvenieradze and his grandson in 1990, USSR. [962x1202]
u/FantasticAttitude — 2 days ago
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Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) working as a mechanic during WW2, 1943. [Colorized]. [960x721]
u/OkRespect8490 — 1 day ago
The "Iter Avto" (1932) – One of the earliest analog car navigation systems
u/Xdestroyed — 2 days ago