Two planes hanging from a British Royal Navy Airship, 1926 (lemmy.world)
Ship's Cat nestled inside a 6-inch gun, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
Messenger dog with a spool for laying out telephone cable, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
Soldiers at Fort Lee put on an all-male production of Clare Booth's all-female play "The Women" (i.imgur.com)
From LIFE Magazine, December 21, 1942
The first (coherent) underwater photo ever taken. 1899. (lemmy.world)
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Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)
The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....
"Quaker guns" at Manassas Junction March 1862. (lemmy.world)
A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The...
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....
US anti-armor grenade packed inside a foam football, 1973 (lemmy.world)
“Since a regulation-size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....
Listening device for detecting aircraft, USA, 1921 (lemmy.world)
"The Mother Of All Monowheels", 1923 (lemmy.world)
Ancient hillside etching of a cat. Nazca-Pampa region, Peru. (lemmy.world)
Excerpt: Enormous cat etched into a hillside in the desert in Peru. Home to the geoglyphs of a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider and a human, the newly revealed form of the feline is about 37-meter-long, and expected to be dating back more than 2,000 years....
Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912 (lemmy.world)
Australian soldier in Cairo, holding a Koala as a mascot, WW1, 1915 (lemmy.world)
British soldiers carrying an inflatable decoy tank, WW2, 1939 (lemmy.world)
I’ve known about these for a long time now, but seeing one actually carried is real Looney Toons shit, I love it.
French tanker wearing a British 'splatter mask' to protect against shrapnel/'spalling' in the tank, WW1, 1918 (lemmy.world)
Docked US Navy Dirigible upended after a strong wind, 1926 (lemmy.world)
Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (lemmy.world)
Pyramid of captured German helmets post-WW1, New York, USA, 1919 (lemmy.world)
Terrifying monowheel vehicle, 1917 (lemmy.world)
US Navy blimp protecting a convoy during WW2, 1943 (lemmy.world)
Treffaswagen prototype tank, WW1, 1917 (lemmy.world)
Straight out of “Abe’s Exodus”. Time to crush some Sligs?