Rare Historical Photos(Pic Heavy)

[Jkether]

A United States soldier advances cautiously towards a burning German tank in the Medjez al Bab area, Tunisia, on January 12, 1943.

Australian soldiers in trenches at the Battle of Polygon Wood, 1917

Aerial view of US 2nd Armored Division tanks fanning out as they fight across the fields where German self-propelled guns behind burning houses have open fire on the tanks 4,000 yards from the Rhine River, 1945

Tupac Shakur at the Baltimore School for the Arts Highschool 1987

Messenger dog in mid-air while leaping over a German trench, possibly near Sedan, May 1917

Traditional Comanche with buffalo headdress, late 19th early 20th century

French Grand Prix 1913

NYC from Brooklyn Heights, 1911

[Slurgie]

Bumping in the name of 2014.

[Flakker]

Far left, a young Adolf Hitler. Taken sometime during his WW1 military service (1914-1918).


Postcard from Hitler while convalesced in Munich, requesting to be returned to the front. He was wounded in the thigh by shrapnel.

[Jkether]

The original unveiling of the B-2 Spirit bomber in 1988. This was the first time the public got to see the ultra modern bomber in real life.

Black children standing behind a fence of a “whites-only” playground, 1956. Mobile, Alabama, USA.

Ronald Reagan “punching” Muhammad Ali at his visit to the White House, 1983.

American soldiers boarding their Huey helicopters. Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966.

German aircraft engineer Franz Kruckenberg engineered and built the Schienenzeppelin in 1929 – a train that was powered by a 600 horsepower aircraft BMW V12 motor. Propulsion was by means of a propeller located at the rear, it accelerated the railcar to 230.2 km/h (143.0 mph) setting the land speed record for a petrol powered rail vehicle. Only a single example was ever built, which due to safety concerns remained out of service and was finally dismantled in 1939.

Fat Man – the bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. Here it is seen on a transport carriage after assembly on Tinian Island, 1945.

Tupolev Tu-144 being tested in flight, 1969. It was the first commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST) ever made.

Baby cages designed for toddlers that lived in apartment buildings to get enough fresh air, 1939.

[Jkether]

The view down Sacramento Street in San Francisco, California after the great earthquake of 1906.

A unique mugshot of young Joseph Stalin from 1911.

Assembly line of completed 1958 Chevrolet sedans and station wagons.

British rear gunner practicing shooting in a moving model cockpit on rails. World War I.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan meet at the summit meeting for the first time to discuss the “thaw” of the Cold War.

The view of Central Park at night in Manhattan, 1937.

The “Great Manta” that was captured by Capt. A.L. Kahn on August 26, 1933.

Henry Ford's modified Model T, the “Universal Car”. 1918.

[Jkether]

Neil Armstrong making pizza. Houston, Texas, 1969.(random as fuk)

Cliff House in San Francisco, California. 1955.

German flag at half mast after the Hindenburg accident in Washington DC. 1936

Colourized photo of London, England after a German aerial raid. 1940.

[RedSox1990]

That 1940 England pic after bombing is simply insane. The world has forgotten how bloody and brutal that war was.

[Humanoidlaws]

Bump for interesting thread

[HoLeeFuk]

[Humanoidlaws]

Sorry if these are reposts.



Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bomb falling in 1945.




A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.



A liberated Jew holds a Nazi at gunpoint.

[CXVII]

July bump!

[Jkether]

Glad to see people still enjoy this thread. Ty men