The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome in Rare Color Photos, 1943-1945
The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of the Allied operations in an…
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Vintage Photos Show France in the Final Year of World War I, 1918
It’s 1918 and France was caught in the final year of World War I. American photo…
The First Armistice Day in Rare Historical Pictures, 1918
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or tem…
Rare Photographs Taken at the End of World War II, 1945-1947
At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions homeless, the E…
Vietnam War: The Early Years Through Rare Photographs, 1965-1967
On May 07, 1954, Viet Minh forces won the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and ended Fren…
US Marine Discovers a Near-Dead Baby in a Cave in the Jungle of Saipan Island, 1944
In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine…
A Mother and Her Children Wade Across a River to Escape US Bombing, 1965
The photo depicts a South Vietnamese mother fleeing through a river. She and her…
Wormwood Street in London After the IRA Had Detonated a Truck Bomb, 1993
Bishopsgate, in the heart of the City of London, was the scene of a devastating …
US Soldiers Pose with the Bodies of Moro Insurgents, Philippines, 1906
On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood mass…
The London Milkman Iconic Photograph: The Backstory, 1940
The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London introduced a new weapo…
Bloody Saturday: A Crying Chinese Baby Amid the Bombed-Out Ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station, 1937
"Bloody Saturday" - Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins …
A Refugee Carrying his Cholera-Stricken Wife Away from the Fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971
This photo is taken during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The atrocities of this…
The Post-War Ruins of Dresden Through Rare Photographs, 1945
At the end of World War II, the city of Dresden was in ruins, all its buildings …
A German Soldier Shares his Ration with a Russian Mother, 1941
Germany deliberately starved occupied Soviet territories by plundering their foo…
Facing the Death: The Different Expressions of Six Polish Civilians Moments Before Death by Firing Squad, 1939
It’s interesting to see the range of emotions displayed by these men: anguish, d…
American Tank Crew Listen to Bernard Herzog Who Was Just Liberated From the Camp of Santo Tomas, 1944
An American tank crew stands beside Bernard Herzog - an American citizen who liv…
A U.S. Soldier Offers his Hand to a Woman Leaving a Cave Where She Had Hidden with Her child, 1944
The photograph is taken during a battle of Saipan that claimed the lives of 22,0…