Interesting historical photos

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A group of people with a snow sculpture of their beloved leader.Rome, Italy, 1926

Peep Show, 1874, Beijing, China
Demonstration of pornographic images on the streets of Beijing

BBC Sound Effects Department, 1927.

American servicemen with Adolf Hitler's private car during the war loans campaign, 1940s.

 

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Fala, President Franklin Roosevelt's pet dog, listens to his speech on the radio. 1944.

The plane crushed a tractor, June 14, 1977. the USSR
The AN-2 aircraft collided with a tracked tractor during the run-up. The tractor was not badly damaged, it just fell on its side, but the plane had it worse. But despite the damage received, after repair, the board returned to service and flew until 1980, when it was written off after working off the resource.

A German soldier near Moscow surrenders. December 1, 1941

Army officers who took part in military exercises. Germany, 1900

 

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Japanese soldiers infect a Chinese child with bubonic plague for experiments, 1940

The flight of German farmers. The Third Reich. March 24, 1945.

British paratroopers on exercises remove folding motorcycles "Welbike" from the container. The motorcycle fit into a cylindrical container with a diameter of 38 cm. It was assembled and started in 15 seconds. England, 1943

American soldiers on a captured German motorcycle Sd.Kfz 2, France, August 1944

 

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Alfred Dunhill sells pipes on the street in front of the ruins of his shop. Great Britain, London, 1944, WWII.

Fidel Castro holds future Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his arms, 1976.

Remelting of tanks from the Second World War, Ukraine, 1960.

British Princess (future Queen) Elizabeth, 1944.

 

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A worker cleans the rifling of the barrel of a 381-mm naval gun at the arsenal in Coventry. Great Britain, September 1917.

View from the Arc de Triomphe to the Champs-Elysees, Paris, 1900.

Steamboats on the Mississippi River, 1907.

The magic of Kodachrome - Alice Faye during a promotional shoot at the Lockheed model 12A Electra Junior, 1940.

 

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This photo was on the cover of YANK magazine, Continental Edition dated January 14, 1945 under the name "PRESENT ARMS", it depicted Pfc. Robert Lee and his collection of enemy weapons captured by the 83rd Infantry Division during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. (MP.38 and MP.40, MG.34 and MG42)

 

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Infantry regiment of the British Army before and after the war, 1914 and 1918

A German man accused of having an affair with a Jewish woman. The inscription is "I am a defiler of the race." Germany, 1935.

 

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14 million political prisoners were thrown into the gulag system by Stalin. Most died in prison.

The chick from another thread said there were 20 million, then she opted for 100 and I almost felt that she was crying writing those figures. What's your excuse for downplaying the dictators cruelty and blood-thirst?

 

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In October 1966, South Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Van Long came under mortar fire. The mine entered his body vertically and did not detonate. Moreover, the soldier continued to live, and thanks to the timely delivery to the hospital to an American surgeon, the object was safely removed without sad consequences and a fatal outcome. Luongo recovered within a few weeks and suffered only muscle damage.

 

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The head of production of the Leningrad Experimental Machine-Building Plant No. 185 named after S.M. Kirov
V. Smirnov at the line of manufactured shells.
From left to right, shells for guns of caliber: 406-mm, 356-mm, 305-mm, 254-mm and 152-mm. Leningrad, 1944.

The German "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer, sunk by British bombers at the shipyard in Kiel, the bow sections of the XXI series submarines are visible in the foreground.
On the night of April 9-10, 1945, during a raid by several hundred bombers, the ship received 5 air bomb hits. The Scheer tipped over against the wall with its keel up. Most of the crew was on shore, but 32 people, of those who were on board the ship, died.

A medical instructor helps a wounded soldier during a battle in Stalingrad. Stalingrad, USSR, September-November 1942.

Competition for the longest hair. Genevieve Sled won - 152cm. 1926 .

 

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Brandenberg Gate. 1928 and 2015.

Checkpoint Charlie, 1961 and 2009.

Japanese troops invading Kuala Lumpur in 1942, and 2016.

Notre Dame, 1850 and 2016.

Moulin Rouge, Paris. 1900 and 2016.

 

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Prisoners drag granite blocks up the 186 steps of the "ladder of death" in the Mauthausen concentration camp, early 1940s.

 

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Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group points to a hole in the wing of his P-51 Mustang, formed as a result of a collision with a German telegraph pole during the shelling of a military echelon north of Ulm, which was transporting military equipment to the western front. After that, he managed to return the plane to the Wormingford base in the UK.

1941. A German soldier poses against the background of a Soviet T-34 tank, which crushed the 50 mm German anti-tank gun RAK 38 L60 with its tracks. This gun was capable of fighting the T-34 in 1941. It was ineffective against KV. In the photo, a medium tank T-34 mod.1940, built by the Kharkov Locomotive Plant with a 76.2 mm gun L-11. Early release with a welded turret. 453 these tanks were produced in 1940-41. This is a third of those manufactured before the war.

 

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The large ocean-going submarine U-550 (type IXC/40) sinks in the North Atlantic, east of New York, shelled by depth charges and artillery fire from three American destroyers. 44 crew members were killed, 12 were rescued.

U-550 was one of three boats that hunted in the area, and only U-550 decided to attack convoy CU-21. The convoy included 21 ships. The commander of the boat decided to attack the largest tanker ship Pan Pennsylvania (at that time the largest tanker in the world). The tanker was hit by a single torpedo and its crew, not fighting for the survivability of the ship, began to leave the ship. Two destroyers of the convoy rescued 56 tanker sailors, 25 sailors were killed. At this time, U-550 was trying to hide near a sinking tanker. After a couple of hours of waiting, the Germans decided that the Americans had left, and the submarine gave way, but literally immediately was covered with a series of 30 depth charges from the destroyer Joyce (DE-317). After receiving damage, U-550 surfaced about one mile astern of the Joyce. The destroyers Joyce and Peterson (DE-152) immediately opened a window on the boat, because the Germans tried to use the submarine's guns. As a result of the shelling, many U-550 crew members were killed. Following this, one of the destroyers of the convoy, Gandy (DE—764), went to ram the boat. Ramming the submarine next to the conning tower, "Gandy" moved aside and the boat was re-opened fire. For all the time, the U-550 managed to make only a few shots from a 20-mm gun.

Only then the Americans began to collect survivors. The photo was taken from the escort destroyer Joyce (DE-317). Probably, the picture was taken when the Joyce went to rescue the Germans from the doomed scoundrel: multiple traces of hits are visible on the cabin of the boat, and no more than twenty sailors can be seen on the boat and next to it.

The photo shows the moment of the beating of the German submarine U-118.
U-118 is a German large supply submarine.
On June 12, 1943, at 13:45, the submarine was detected in the Atlantic at coordinates 30 °49's.w. 33 °49' s.d. by a squadron of Grumman TBF-1 Avenger torpedo bombers (4 aircraft) from the air group of the American escort aircraft carrier USS Bogue. The submarine was found in a surface position, was immediately attacked and damaged, was able to dive, but it was given oil stains (the oil plume is visible in the photo). The submarine was forced to surface, the German submariners tried to resist with the help of anti-aircraft guns (this moment is captured in the photo -two white figures are visible), but to no avail. Planes bombed and shelled the boat until it exploded at 14:08.
17 German submariners were rescued by the approaching ships.

 

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American Marine, First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegal in sign language tries to start a conversation with two short Japanese soldiers captured on the island of Okinawa. The one on the left is 18 years old, the other is 20 years old.

A man shows off his electric car. 1973

Charging the Baker electric car, 1914.

 

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Paratroopers of the American 101st Airborne Division at two amphibious gliders that crashed in the German rear near the city of Arnhem on September 17, 1944. Soldiers are trying to get survivors; the faces of two, still trapped by debris, are visible to the left of the central parachutist, standing with his back to the viewer. Among the soldiers at the gliders, whose faces are visible, from left to right: Joe Crawford, Chaplain Tilden McGee, Captain Tollet, and Stanley Speiwak, all from the 506th Regiment.

A fighter of the 369th Rifle Division of the Red Army met his sisters who had escaped death in their hometown of Karachev, which had just been liberated from the nazis, their father and mother were shot by the germans just before retreating.

 

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Alexey Miroshnichenko has been a participant in the Great Patriotic War since 1941. Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the battles for the romanian city of Sulina, thirty scouts under the command of Miroshnichenko marched through the swampy terrain to the rear of the enemy. They quietly crept up to the house where the headquarters of the military unit defending the city was located, broke into the room and disarmed everyone in the headquarters. Miroshnichenko forced the commander of the german unit to give his subordinates an order to cease fire. The garrison surrendered.

French resistance fighters and police escorted by citizens of the German captive officer on the square in front of the opera. Paris. The French state. August 1944.

Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan in the lunar module on the moon. December 13, 1972.

Paparazzi and Marlene Dietrich, Paris, 1975.

 

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I wonder why the artist depicted a finn peeping through the window, and not an italian, romanian or hungarian?

 

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Anton Klein, a warden at the Mauthausen-Ebensee concentration camp moments before his hanging on November 5, 1948 at Landsberg, Germany.

 

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A weary US soldier, takes a nap at Hermann Goering's villa, Carinhall (just north of Berlin). 1945.

Workers clear snow from the railroad, Alaska, 1904.

Restaurant in Boeing 747. 1970s

The evolution of the swimsuit from the 1900s to the 40s.