King Frederick IX of Denmark, a former naval officer, showing off his tattoos, 1951 (media.kbin.social)
Senator Church Holds CIA 'Heart Attack Gun' During Committee on Misconduct By Surveillance Agencies, 1975 (lemmy.world)
The Church Committee sought to investigate abuses and reign in the CIA, FBI, and NSA. This committee would reveal controversial programs including MKULTRA and COINTELPRO....
1995 San Diego tank chase (lemmy.world)
In 1995, Shawn Nelson, a former Army tank commander drove into a National Guard armory and stole an M60A3 tank. He drove the tank out of the armory, and onto residential streets where he began crushing things in his path. He drove the tank onto a highway and was pursued by a number of San Diego Police Department cars....
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, high on acid at the 2000 Oscars. (lemmy.world)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Blame Canada”. The creaters, Matt Parker and Trey Stone decided that, “It’s a magical night tonight.”...
OJ Simpson freeway chase, 1994 (lemmy.world)
On June 17, 1994 celebrity and NFL player OJ Simpson had failed turn himself in to the LAPD in connection with the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman....
Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988 (lemmy.world)
Michael Dukakis was a Democrat candidate running for President in 1988. He had previously been criticized as being soft on national defense, so in September of that year he orchestrated a photo op in an M1 Abrams tank meant to toughen up his image....
US soldiers compare "Bazooka" sizes during the Korean War (lemmy.world)
The soldier on the left of the photo is holding an M20 series “Super Bazooka” which fires a 3.5 inch HEAT round, the M28 series , with a setback armed, base detonating fuse....
'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....
Experimental WW2 Japanese fighter plane, the Kyushu J7W Shinden (files.catbox.moe)
The Shinden was a plane first conceptualized by the Japanese military in 1943, and first flown on a test flight in 1945. Even before the test flight, the Japanese Navy had ordered production of the plane. However Japan’s surrender in 1945 stopped production, and in the end only two of the planes were produced. One was...
British civilians taking shelter in the London Underground, WW2, 1940 (media.kbin.social)
WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942 (media.kbin.social)
Russian Cossack firing from behind a dead horse, WW1, 1915
Pro-segregation rally in Arkansas, USA, 1960s
"My turn next!" Testing bulletproof vests, 1923
American-made M3 tank used by the British in the Burma Campaign, WW2, 1945 (media.kbin.social)
French Soldiers in Tunnel, WW1 (1910s) (lemmy.world)
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One wounded American soldier helping another eat some Christmas turkey, WW2, 1944
Yankee Claus giving toys to British children from his tank, Perham Downs, England, WW2, 1942 (media.kbin.social)
US soldiers giving an honor guard to 'Santa' and his Jeep sleigh, 1941 (media.kbin.social)
Santa shows up for US soldiers in Vietnam, 1964. Merry Christmas! (media.kbin.social)
US soldiers sharing Christmas gifts from home, WW2, 1944. Merry Christmas, everyone! (media.kbin.social)
During the Berlin Airlift Children of West Berlin Wave to Supply Plane Delivering Aid, 1948 (lemmy.world)
MG 08s Cast Aside as Enemy WWI Soldiers Engage in the Christmas Truce of 1914 (lemmy.world)
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