Iconic photos through time

[DriftingSand]

Pearl Harbor

 

[DriftingSand]

Bonny & Clyde

 

[netman]

1945....the war was over politically....but never for them... their expression on VJ day says it all.

 

[FuelRod]

 

[editec]

 

[BDBoop]

Liberation Day

 

[BDBoop]

The SAS storming the Iranian Embassy to free hostages taken by terrorists. London. 1980

 

[BDBoop]

Before I disappear and none of you ever see me again,

New York Times Photojournalism - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives - Lens Blog

Amazing link.

Follow from here

New York Public Library Posts Collection of 1,000 Long Lost Depression-Era Photos

to the actual depression era photos, but you can use the search function like there's no tomorrow.

And this, specifically, is a good read.

The Romanian revolution. Bucharest, 1989.

 

[Amelia]

I guess we can't post the picture of the little children running down the road after being bombed with napalm.

Why can't we post it? Is it the nudity or the topic?

The nudity

 

[Ernie S.]

 

[BDBoop]

Definitely one of my favorites.

 

[BDBoop]

Their wedding day.

Bess & Harry met in Sunday School when she was 5 and he was 6 .They shared elementary and high school classes. Upon graduation, Mr. Truman went to work on his Grandfather Young’s farm in Grandview , Mo, about 20 miles from Independence. Harry Truman began courting Bess in 1910 – a courtship that lasted nine years. World War I postponed the wedding, but they were married on June 28, 1919.

 

[Ernie S.]

 

[Flopper]

1953 Queen Elizabeth coronation day.

I remember as a kid watching the coronation on TV. Elizabeth looked so young and scared.

 

[BDBoop]

1953 Queen Elizabeth coronation day.

I remember as a kid watching the coronation on TV. Elizabeth looked so young and scared.

She was so young. I believe she has served well.

HM King Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) with his niece, Princess Elizabeth of York (later Queen Elizabeth II).

 

[BDBoop]

Needs no introduction.

 

[longknife]

Same.

Elvis was actually a really decent guy and the others in his unit liked him. He did KP and toilet duties like everyone else and only got off-post housing when his commander asked him if he wanted it.

 

[longknife]

American media turns public against the War in Vietnam

Another example of how liberal media turns photo ops into crap.
The man was a VC caught trying to set a bomb in a market with hundreds of innocent people. He threatened to have his comrades kill the cops and their families.
Yes, he deserved a trial.
But this was no different than the 10s of thousands the VC killed in towns and villages all over the south without trials.

 

[boedicca]

John's third birthday, his father's funeral.

This is such a tear jerker.

 

[longknife]

Thanks for the thread. I was actually alive and remember most of these when they occurred.