Rare Historical photos

[samt98]

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Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers flying over the Pacific, 1943.



USS Manila Bay under attack by Japanese planes while en-route to Saipan to deliver the 318th Fighter Group’s P-47s.



A Japanese soldier surrenders to U.S. Marines, Marshall Islands, 1944.



A German soldier with a Gewehr 43 in the ruins of a Normandy home in June, 1944. WWII



Soldiers eating food outside a field hospital during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944.



Battleship Colorado firing her after 16-inch guns at Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in November, 1943. WWII



The 7th Panzer Division in France, 1940.



A Soviet assault group advancing during the Battle of Budapest, early 1945.

[GreenArrow89]

Amazing thread, spent the last few days going through it, none of these are reposts.
The source of this photo claimed it is a photo of a Soviet soldier looking at his lost comrades after a battle in Afghanistan but I did not find anything showing its authenticity. Due to what type of war that was I don't doubt it, just posting since I couldn't confirm it myself. 1980s

I'm pretty sure that's a still from russian movie "The 9th Company" ("9 Рота"). Sorry brah. Great thread though.

[pellekuling]

Please pick up a history book. 15% of the soviet population was killed during WW2. The towns overrun by the Germans were eliminated. I never said the Soviets were not brutes as well, especially the rear guard troops through Berlin, however you date not show affection, especially on Camera to the Slavic people in Nazi Germany.

Did I say all Germans were Nazi's? Nope, not even close

yes and why were 15% of the soviets killed ? becuase they were just rushed to the front lines with poverty equipment and basic training against the then superior german army. And to not talk about the people stalin himself killed in russia by sending them to gulag

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German POW captured in Belgium, September 3, 1944.



A kamikaze before hitting the USS Missouri during the Battle of Okinawa, April 1945.



American soldiers fighting in the jungles of Leyte, Philippine Islands, 1944.



Soldiers of Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland in a Sd.Kfz. 251, 1944.



U.S. soldiers advance across a road past a disabled German tank in Normandy, 1944.



U.S. Marines hit 3 feet of rough water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.



German soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944.



American troops unloading cargo from LCI vessels, Rendova, Solomon Islands, July, 1943.

[Avalanche3319]

Subbing. Love this stuff.

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Urban combat in Stalingrad, February, 1943.



Soviet troops in action during the Battle of Moscow on September 21, 1941.



Finnish troops passing by the remains of a destroyed Soviet T-34 at the Battle of Tali-Ihantala. July, 1944.



A Royal Canadian Army Medic bandages the burnt leg of a French boy as his brother looks on in June, 1944.



A B-24 bombing raid of oil refineries in Ploiesti, Romania, 1943.



A Marine fires his Thompson submachine gun at enemy positions on Peleliu, September 1944.



Germans captured by the 82nd Airborne Division on a road outside of Hierlot, Beligu in December, 1944.



A girl holding her dog in a devastated neighborhood in Warsaw, Poland, on September 5, 1939.

[brozilla]

in for later

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FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-323 flying over Okinawa, Japan, 1945.



An oil storage tank explodes during the first Japanese air raid on Darwin on February 19, 1942.



Men of the 28th Division HQ prepping mines for the advancing German Panzers.



Polish resistance fighters with various small arms during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944.



A Soviet machine gun crew crosses a river along the second Baltic front, 1945.



Artillery observers of the Fifth Army look over the German-held Italian town of San Vittore, on November 1, 1943.



Three Soviet guerrillas in Russia during World War II.



Russian soldiers with PPSh-41 submachine guns entering the Frankfurter Allee station in Berlin, Germany, 1945.

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American troops unloading supplies on the shores of Guadalcanal Island in 1943.



A group of American soldiers inspect heavily damaged and abandoned German armor, Italy, May 1944.



A US pilot stands up in the cockpit of his plane on the tarmac on Midway Naval Base, Midway Islands, 1942.



A close-up, in-flight view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless near New Guinea, April, 1944.



The flight deck crew prepares planes for launch from the USS Lexington (CV-16), en route near New Guinea, April, 1944



American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified & nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944.



A group of Curtiss P-40 Warhawks escort Consolidated B-24D Liberators on a flight near the Aleutian islands, 1944.



A US Marine giving his dog instructions on which foxhole to carry a message to, Iwo Jima.

[pellekuling]

merican pilots of the 'Flying Tigers' in Burma, 1941

A Secret Service agent brandishes a submachine gun while other agents and police subdue gunman John Hinckley, Jr behind him. Hinckley shot President Reagan in Washington on March 30, 1981

Astronaut chimpanzee, Ham, gets an apple after his first successful flight into space


African-American veterans of Vietnam don white-face as they protest against the war in 1971

Hitler with President Hindenburg (Potsdam, Germany 3-21-33)

[RThoe]

I'm pretty sure that's a still from russian movie "The 9th Company" ("9 Рота"). Sorry brah. Great thread though.

I thought so too (great movie btw) but when looking up stills from the movie I didn't see anything like this but that's why I posted I couldn't personally verify its authenticity.

[mojo85]

yes and why were 15% of the soviets killed ? becuase they were just rushed to the front lines with poverty equipment and basic training against the then superior german army. And to not talk about the people stalin himself killed in russia by sending them to gulag

That is not in dispute either, Soviet doctrine was 15 years behind the times and 300 000+ troops were taken captive and marched to the camps or simply shot multiple times. I'm not talking about Stalin/Zhukov's early ineffectiveness, I'm talking about how many German Army and especially SS were so indoctrinated and considered all Soviet and Slavic peoples to be sub human that you did not show them affection. Many, MANY did not believe this but did not show compassion for fear of their own safety. Capturing that on camera was even more rare and I have a feeling was probably a propaganda photo sent to groups like the Red Cross to show "Hey we're invading Russia but taking care of people we capture!"

They did the same thing when the Red Cross was given a "Tour" of concentration camps in Germany during the war showing how prisoners were in great health and having a blast when we all know the reality

[pellekuling]

That is not in dispute either, Soviet doctrine was 15 years behind the times and 300 000+ troops were taken captive and marched to the camps or simply shot multiple times. I'm not talking about Stalin/Zhukov's early ineffectiveness, I'm talking about how many German Army and especially SS were so indoctrinated and considered all Soviet and Slavic peoples to be sub human that you did not show them affection. Many, MANY did not believe this but did not show compassion for fear of their own safety. Capturing that on camera was even more rare and I have a feeling was probably a propaganda photo sent to groups like the Red Cross to show "Hey we're invading Russia but taking care of people we capture!"

Yes, and im not gonna argue that there were war crimes from the "nazis" or the wehrmacht on the eastern front, but hitlers hate from Bolsheviks and jews most likely came from the german revolution when he witnessed the Bolsheviks acting out their little "revolution" and most of the Bolsheviks "leaders" were jews. And im just ranting becuase i think hitlers germany have gotten to much of a bad name than they deserve. But im not gonna start rambling on about what i believe and such, dont want to get banned, ya know. But great discussion. But now Let's keep going with the pictures

[pellekuling]

William Jefferson Blythe III (later Bill Clinton) when he was 4 years old, Hope, Arkansas, 1950. He adopted his stepfather's surname when he was a teenager


Japanese mobile vendor selling baskets and brooms, 1901


Douglas Fairbanks Jr. holding up Charlie Chaplin in front of a huge crowd to promote Liberty Bonds. Wall Street, New York, 1918


A game of human chess with real soldiers. St. Petersburg, Russia,1924


Two ladies improve their aim by taking golf lessons from a ‘robot’ trainer, 1925

misc meetup. Gayclub in berlin 1930

Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett signing a baseball for Sonny Capone, the son of Al Capone, 1931

[watchngars]

Um guys. Not a thread for your debates.

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And?

[chitkunt]

And your source for this is ? I you consider the mass raping of berlin that there are legit sources of, id like to see if you have one that really states that the german soliders were brutes to civilians. Srs question

Elena Skrjabinas diaries show that they weren't so bad to many. They led a relatively normal life, operating a shop, medical treatment for her son, and when the soviets advanced she and her family evacuated to germany.

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An American mortar team in action during fierce fighting around Ormoc, Leyte, in December, 1944.



An aerial view of a Polish city through the gunner's station aboard a Heinkel He 111 bomber, September, 1939.



German soldiers in Poland, 1939.



A distant view of Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.



Japanese pilots receive their orders onboard an aircraft carrier prior to their mission of bombing PearlHarbor.



A V-1 flying bomb attack in London.



A B-24J Liberator on fire over Austria, after having an encounter with German fighters.



A scouting dog and a US Marine who is occupying a foxhole in Guam, 1944.

[pellekuling]

Elena Skrjabinas diaries show that they weren't so bad to many. They led a relatively normal life, operating a shop, medical treatment for her son, and when the soviets advanced she and her family evacuated to germany.

depends on who you're asking. Heres a german woman telling the exact opposite. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=106687768

And so does this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-ignore.html

[chitkunt]

depends on who you're asking. Heres a german woman telling the exact opposite. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=106687768

And so does this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-ignore.html

They're telling the same thing.

[pellekuling]

They're telling the same thing.

not exactly the same thing, just the beginning, then it branches out to individual stories with the same kindof content, but people are getting butthurt over the fact that im debating itt so my reps are slowly declining , so as i said, let's just keep posting pictures and debate in another thread if thats what you want

American bombers on their way to germany

An East German woman stands crying after she passed a young boy to a man in West Berlin, over a barbed wire fence separating East and West Berlin, 1961

Ouled Naïl woman (Algeria c. 1909)

The SAS "rescuing" princess diana during a hostage rescue simulation at the killing house. 1983, Hereford.

Rob Lowe, Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr at the Academy Awards Governors Ball, 1989

[pellekuling]

Um guys. Not a thread for your debates.

if you can't see i've contributed to this thread alot lateley. So if you can't accept us having a little debate here and there, go cry in a corner. But becuase im so nice, i will refrain from debating and just posting pictures from now on


U.S. Marines battle for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, WWII, May 1945.

General Douglas MacArthur kisses the white-gloved hand of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, August 7, 1950 just before he departed Taipei, Formosa after a conference with Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government


Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett signing a baseball for Sonny Capone, the son of Al Capone, 1931

Children celebrating Hitler’s birthday, 1934


DKW advertisement, 1935

SS troops take a rest during the Berlin Olympics, 1936

The ‘walking machine’ at the National Bureau of Standards, for testing wear on shoes, 1937


Gas-driven taxis in a street in Birmingham, 1940.

[pellekuling]

A C-46 cargo plane is loaded by elephants somewhere in South-East Asia, 1940’s

A German soldier is eyed suspiciously by a young french girl, 1941

Heinrich Himmler listens to a Norwegian musician in his home, Norway, 1941


Bucharest, Romania, 1942

A Victory Garden in a Bomb Crater, London, 1943

U.S. landing ship tanks are seen from above as they pour military equipment onto the shores of Leyte island, to support invading forces in the Philippines, 1944

[pellekuling]

Class held in a train wagon (reason unknown), Ontario, Canada, 1932



The Olympic flame arrives in Berlin, 1936


Toffs and Toughs – The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937


Driving class at Michigan Highland Park University, 1939


A Dutch woman entering military captivity with her husband, a German soldier, 1944


To demonstrate the superiority of the Red Army, 57.000 German prisoners of war are herded through downtown Moscow, July 1944


Liberty bridge in Budapest made temporarily usable after the siege, 1945


Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945

[pellekuling]

James Dean posing in the coffin in the local undertaker in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955


Fidel-Castro plays baseball in Havana


Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961


The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz, 1963


Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, by Yul Brynner, 1964


Woodstock – The Opening Ceremony. Bethel, New York, 14 August 1969


Detective in disguise in Brooklyn, 1969

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They said at the time the cranes got lowered by the dockers as a mark of respect, but it turns out they actually got paid to do it and hated Churchill!

[Slacker23]

Mother Teresa at the age of 18

How much of a degenerate am I if my first though was "would smash"?

Also, cool af thread.
Subbed and bumped.

[Diontjuhz]

Such an epic thread. Looked at all pics over the last 3 days. If only I could modrep...

[Dailydriven09]

epic thread. Great job OP