Fascinating Color Pictures of Life in My Tho, Vietnam Taken By a GI in 1969
This post was originally published on this site“My number had come up with the draft before my Jan 1968 graduation from Fresno State College,” writes […]
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Holland House Library After an Air Raid in London, 1940
This post was originally published on this siteAn interior view of the bombed library at Holland House with readers apparently choosing books regardless of the […]
Gas Mask Designed for Typists, 1935
This post was originally published on this siteA type of gas mask, which slips over the head of an office typist in the event of […]
Photos of Women Workers in the Factories in London During World War II
This post was originally published on this siteThese women were all training in various London polytechnics to work in munitions factories during the early 1940s. […]
50 Historical Photographs of the Anglo-Egyptian Army in Sudan During the Battle of Omdurman
This post was originally published on this siteThe Battle of Omdurman took place in present-day Sudan during the Mahdist War (1881–1899). These photographs documented the […]
Glass Case Protects Baby From Poison Gas, 1938
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1938, masked nurses clad in gasproof rubber garments are testing out the latest invention of war-fearing Europe. […]
Rack Protects Food From Poison Gas, 1940
This post was originally published on this siteSupplies of food and drink can be protected from contamination by poison gas in case of wartime air […]
Intimate Portraits of the Tuskegee Airmen at Air Base in Italy During WWII
This post was originally published on this siteThe Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World […]
Masks Tested With Real Poison Gas, 1933
This post was originally published on this siteTempting death daily is the lot of a few daring men in a London laboratory, where a steel-walled […]
Little Curies: Marie Curie and Her X-Ray Vehicles’ Contribution to World War I Battlefield Medicine
This post was originally published on this siteDuring World War I, Marie Curie recognized that wounded soldiers were best served if operated upon as soon […]
22 Vintage Photographs of Clark Gable Served in Uniform, Flew Combat Missions in World War II
This post was originally published on this siteClark Gable was an American hero. Not because of his superstar status where he earned the title “The […]
17 Amazing Vintage Japanese Gas Attack Posters, 1938
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1938, the Japanese Red Cross worked with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach […]
20 Historic Photos of USS Recruit, a Dreadnought Battleship Built in Union Square From 1917-1920
This post was originally published on this siteUSS Recruit was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan […]
Amazing Historical Photos of the Great Patriotic War
This post was originally published on this siteThe Great Patriotic War is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet […]
Vintage Photos of Type B Bus “Pigeon Loft” During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteFrom its start in the summer of 1914, the demands of the First World War provided the impetus […]
20 Rarely Seen Photographs of the Liberation of Paris, 1944
This post was originally published on this siteThe liberation of Paris was a military battle that took place during World War II from August 19, […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of London Buses Used to Take British Soldiers to the Western Front During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteWhen the First World War broke out, the era of the horse bus drew to a close. London’s […]
25 Color Photographs Capture the Fall of Paris in 1940
This post was originally published on this siteOn June 14, 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a […]
Do Not Believe Him
This post was originally published on this siteIn WWI there were numerous campaigns aimed at slowing the spread of this debilitating disease that can stop […]
55 Rare and Amazing Vintage Photographs of Paris During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
This post was originally published on this siteThe Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a […]
A Collection of 40 Rare Color Photographs of France in World War I
This post was originally published on this siteServing in the French Army, photographer Fernand Cuville (1887–1927) continued the autochromists’ tradition of recording the world around […]
The British Pet Massacre of World War II
This post was originally published on this siteThe British pet massacre was an event in 1939 in the United Kingdom where over 750,000 pets were […]
The Most Touching Video Ever: Watch a Man Be Surprised by a Room Full of People He Rescued During the Holocaust
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1938, Sir Nicholas Winton brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK. Fifty years […]
Portrait of Jacob C. Miller, a Civil War Veteran Who Lived With an Open Bullet Wound in His Forehead for Decades
This post was originally published on this siteJacob C. Miller (August 4, 1840 – January 13, 1917) was a private in company K, 9th Indiana […]
Pyramid of Cannons on Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1919
This post was originally published on this sitePyramid of captured German cannons on Place de la Concorde in Paris on the eve of the Victory […]