British warden Mary Couchman shielding children during a Nazi bombing raid, 1940 (lemmy.world)
Papua New Guinean stretcher-bearers carry wounded Allied soldier through wetlands, WW2, 1942? (lemmy.world)
Egyptian hat seller, 1920s (lemmy.world)
A man takes up residence in a hollow tree after losing his house during the Turkish War of Independence, 1923 (lemmy.world)
84 year-old floodgate supervisor, Russian Empire, 1909 AD (lemmy.world)
Three female Soviet Partisans, WW2, 1941-1945 (lemmy.world)
Combat boots from South Vietnamese troops discarding their uniforms after North Vietnam's victory, 1975 (lemmy.world)
Union sentry standing guard at a bridge in East Tennessee, US Civil War, 1863 or 1864
Color photo of bombing damage on a London street, WW2, 1943 (media.kbin.social)
One wounded American soldier helping another eat some Christmas turkey, WW2, 1944
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)
Prisoners in Tsarist Russia being deported to a prison island via steamship, 1903 (media.kbin.social)
Algerian cavalry escorting German prisoners, Belgium, WW1, 1914-1918 (media.kbin.social)
American soldier inspecting a Nazi decoy tank, WW2, France, 1944 (lemmy.world)
You've heard of cars made to fly - prepare for an airplane made to drive! Light aircraft converted into a car, 1948 (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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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....
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....
Ship's Cat nestled inside a 6-inch gun, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
"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...
US Navy blimp protecting a convoy during WW2, 1943 (lemmy.world)
Listening device for detecting aircraft, USA, 1921 (lemmy.world)
Australian soldier in Cairo, holding a Koala as a mascot, WW1, 1915 (lemmy.world)
