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My 3x Great Grandfather, Joseph Axford (15), 1873, Wandsworth Prison, London. Arrested and given 2 weeks hard labour for stealing a blanket early January.
After the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945, roughly 900 men went into the water. Only 316 survived. The Navy court-martialed the captain. A 12-year-old kid’s school project got him exonerated 55 years later.
(1906 x 1202) Andrea Doria (C 553) helicopter cruiser of the Italian Navy, commissioned in 1964 to specialize in anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
A Palestinian woman points to the bloodstain of British documentary filmmaker James Miller, as his helmet and bulletproof vest lie at the scene where he was fatally shot in the neck by an Israeli sniper while Miller was filming his documentary “Death in Gaza” for HBO. Rafah , May 2003
Wernher von Braun, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.
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Ricky Ray Rector, an effectively lobotomized death row inmate, sits at his clemency hearing. To prove how ‘tough on crime’ he was, Bill Clinton returned home to preside over his execution. Rector left behind a pie from his last meal, saying he was saving it for later (Arkansas, 1992) .
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USS Bremerton (SSN 698) visits her namesake city in 1986. A Washington State Ferry and dozens of civilian craft escort the attack boat.
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My grandparents circa 1948
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Moments before the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, 1945.
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A ‘Schienenzeppelin’ (rail zeppelin) alongside a steam train – at a railway station in Berlin, Germany, c. 1931.
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US soldiers playing Xbox in Saddam Hussein’s Palace, 2003
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Jordan Belfort’s, aka the “Wolf of Wall Street”, mugshot after being taking to FBI New York on charges of money laundering and securities fraud, September 1998.
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Japanese map published at the start of the Second World War, ca. 1939.
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Iranian students celebrating the victory of the Islamic Revolution, holding a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, February 1979
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Fanatical Japanese ultranationalist, mass murderer, and war criminal Hiroo Onoda finally surrenders. After World War II, he and others murdered up to 30 people in a 29-year terrorist campaign. Onoda would be pardoned for his crimes by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines, 1974) .
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Indian Navy Visakhapatnam-class destroyer INS Imphal (D68).
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Ukranian soldiers posing for a photo in Iraq 2003. Ukraine sent one of the largest contingent of soldiers to be part of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’. (640×473)
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‘Western Hemisphere 1941’ // Italy // 1941
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a poster made by pro–ROC group in Taiwan, 2020
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USS Oriskany (CV-34) is scuttled off Pensacola, Florida, 17 May 2006
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Mexico reconquers the Southwestern United States in Absolut Vodka’s ‘In an Absolut World’ ad campaign (2008)
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“Human Pyramid” (680×450) picture released in 2004 showing Iraqis being force into a human pyramid. Colorized
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February 1990 cover of National Lampoon, anticipating the inevitable Japanese takeover of the US
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My mom, 1936.
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A victim, tied in a tortuous position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death by Fascists during the Yekatit 12 massacre in Italian East-Africa (19 February 1937)
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