American pilot Gail Halvorsen throws candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, 1949 (lemmy.world)
Solidarity in history, Yugoslavia, WW2, 1941 (lemmy.world)
Captain Nieves Fernandez, Filipino guerilla leader and former school teacher, demonstrates to a US soldier how she used her long knife to kill Japanese occupying forces, WW2, 1944 (lemmy.world)
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1870s. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge has always been an icon. When its massive stone towers began rising in the early 1870s, photographers and illustrators began documenting what was considered the most daring and astounding engineering feat of the era....
'Death In The Air', presented by Betty Archer (lemmy.world)
This is from a collection of 34 photographs that were in a book about World War 1, ‘Death in the Air: The War Dairy and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot’ published in 1933....
Japanese farm worker with traditional rain coat, 1870s (lemmy.world)
Japanese gathered around (and on) the massive Buddha statue at Kamakura, 1870s (lemmy.world)
British milkman making the rounds during the Blitz, WW2, 1940 (media.kbin.social)
German POWs being shown footage of Nazi concentration camps (lemmy.world)
Russian soldiers wait in ambush in a field, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (lemmy.world)
Elephant conscripted by the Imperial German Army to move logs, WW1, 1915 (lemmy.world)
Anti-communist fighter pursuing a suspected member of the 'Securitate' secret police, Bucharest, Romania, 1989 (lemmy.world)
'Radio hat' for listening on the go, USA, 1949? (lemmy.world)
During the Berlin Airlift Children of West Berlin Wave to Supply Plane Delivering Aid, 1948 (lemmy.world)
M60A1 RISE tank with mineplow being operated during Desert Storm in 1991. (lemmy.world)
Soldier holding an M3A1 fitted with an infrared illuminator from an M2 scope and wearing experimental night vision goggles. Fort Belvoir, Virginia, November 1946 (lemmy.world)
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British horse being fitted with protective gear, including a gas mask, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
Confederate submarine discovered by the US government in 1878. (lemmy.world)
Known as the “Bayou St. John submarine”, this vessel was discovered when the Bayou St. John, in New Orleans was dredged by the US Government in 1878. For years, the vessel was thought to be the Confederate submarine Pioneer, but research in the 20th century showed it was of a different design. There is no surviving...
Verna Eriksson, smuggler for the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, poses with some contraband weaponry, 1918 (lemmy.world)
American naturalist William Beebe in a deep-sea bathysphere, 1930s? (lemmy.world)
Peaceful protestors light candles in front of riot police during the Velvet Revolution, Czechoslovakia, 1989 (media.kbin.social)
One incredibly lucky British soldier showing a hole in his helmet, France, WW1, 1917 (media.kbin.social)
Traditional 'Chinampa' lake gardens and canals, Mexico, 1912 (media.kbin.social)
German U-Boat washed ashore at Hastings, UK, WW1, 1919 (media.kbin.social)
Marine in Vietnam holding M14 with 30 round magazine. (lemmy.world)
Full description: I saw an AK-47 while in Vietnam and it had a 30 round magazine. So I cut the top and bottom off of a couple of M-14 Magazines and welded them together and made a “40” Round magazine for my M-14. It really didn’t work very well when test firing it, several of the last rounds would not chamber with only two...
