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A Classic Photo of Flying Tigers over China, 1942
The Flying Tigers are flying in close formation. Every pilot in that picture is …
Author: RHP
Dec
3
German Soldier Giving Bread to an Orphaned Russian Boy, 1942
Heartbreaking to think this soldier might have had a child the same age at home.…
Dec
3
German SS Troops Relaxing at The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
These troops are members of Leibstandarte SS “Adolf Hitler”, at this time the re…
Dec
3
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s Assassin, Being Led to His Cell After His Arrest in London, 1968
The FBI put him in a bulletproof vest, they weren’t going to take any chances af…
Dec
3
Captain Paul Tibbets in The Enola Gay Minutes Before Takeoff to Drop The First Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, 1945
The Enola Gay was a bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot…
Dec
3
Japanese Soldier Surrendering to US Marines, Marshall Islands, 1944
The soldier is naked because he was probably ordered to strip to be sure that th…
Dec
3
Adolf Hitler Attending Memorial Service of The Polish First Marshall Jozef Pilsudski in Berlin, 1935
The head of Poland Józef Piłsudski died on May 12, 1935. His funeral was made a …
Dec
2
A Young Private Waits on the Beach during the Marine Landing at Da Nang, 1965
Looking at who was around Da Nang around then, he must be part of 1/3 or 1/9 Mar…
Dec
2
Burst of Joy: The Sad Story Behind the Iconic Picture, 1973
After spending more than five years in a North Vietnamese camp, Lt. Col. Robert …
Dec
2
The Story Behind Iconic Female Viet Cong Guerrilla Photograph of 1972
Her name is Lam Thi Dep (Dep means beautiful in Vietnamese), the picture was tak…
Dec
2
Soviet And German Officers Meet at the Polish City of Brest in 1939
On the left – Soviet officer, on the right – German officer, in the middle – Ger…
Dec
2
Goebbels Congratulates a Young Recruit After Receiving the Iron Cross II, 1945
Joseph Goebbels awards the 16-year old Hitler Youth member Willi Hübner the Iron…
Dec
2
Photo of a Luftwaffe Pilot in Africa, 1941
Luftwaffe Oberleutnant exchanges gifts with a native black Arab in North Africa.…
Dec
1
Ukrainian Askaris Standing Near Bodies of Murdered Jews, Warsaw, 1943
Two Ukrainian askaris peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during …
Dec
1
Preparing For An Assault On a Warehouse in Stalingrad, 1942
By September 1942, a brutal hand-to-hand battle was being waged inside Stalingra…
Dec
1
Photo of German Soldiers in the Flooded Trenches, 1943
The cheerful German soldiers in the trenches filled the autumn rains spread the …
Dec
1
Portrait of Austrian-Hungarian Soldier From 1918
It looks like a thousand-yard stare, it's like there's nothing there. The rank i…
Dec
1
Rare Photos: An Elongated Head Was an Ideal of Beauty Among the Mangbetu People
The Mangbetu people had a distinctive look and this was partly due to their elon…
Dec
1
Captured Italian Soldiers Are Escorted to the Rear by German Soldiers During the Battle of Caporetto, 1917
The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo or the B…
Dec
1
A Turkish Official Taunting Starving Armenians with Bread, 1915: The Real Story
In 2005 Oxford University Press published Donald Bloxham's The Great Game of Gen…