Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943. - History Education Network

Latest :

A group of men sitting next to each other in a trench. WWI, 1914

1924 US election poster from Robert La Follette’s Progressive Party, attacking Calvin Coolidge for not condemning the Ku Klux Klan.

“An Irish Hero! 1 Irishman Defeats 10 Germans… Join an Irish Regiment To-Day” – recruiting poster c. 1916

My grandparents. They got married when she was 16 and were married for 72 years. He died at 92 and she passed two weeks later. They were the funniest people I ever met.

“Whoever Comes to our Land with a Sword will get Destroyed by a Sword!” – Armenian Soviet poster c. 1943

Two Japanese Imperial Marines who committed hari-kari by shooting themselves rather than surrender to a U.S. Marine. Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. 1943.

Categories: 1900s

you might also like