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Coal-Miner’s Bath, Chester-le-Street, Durham 1937.

My mother and big brother, 1948

May Day in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, 1968.

“The Collector” Latvian cartoon depicting Vladimir Putin as a hunter with his “trophy” collection, published two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine (22 February 2022).

Lily Chin holds a photo portrait of her son Vincent in 1983, a year after he was beaten to death in Detroit. Vincent was targeted in a racially motivated hate crime

War

“The Collector” Latvian cartoon depicting Vladimir Putin as a hunter with his “trophy” collection, published two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine (22 February 2022).
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American Marines posing with a collection of Japanese skulls, Pacific Theater, WW2. Trophy-taking was so widespread that by 1944, declaring bones at Hawaii customs had become routine procedure. (600×453)
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The United States Navy’s Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Diego became one of the largest “Mothball Fleets” after World War II.
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A section of the ossuary at Douaumont, France, containing the unidentified remains of over 130,000 soldiers killed at the battle of Verdun, photographed in 1964. The remains include soldiers from both sides of the conflict (1920×1240)
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British battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal, circa 1917
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Members of the Imperial Guard of Iran, an 18,000-strong elite unit of the Iranian military devoted to protecting the Shah, 1975. They were often referred to as ‘the Immortals’ after the legendary corps of bodyguards who protected the ancient Emperors of Persia (1190×850)
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Guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) at anchor, Fremantle, Australia, August 1978
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Sculptures made by British soldiers from the skeletal remains and equipment of fallen German soldiers at St. Quentin, ca. 1918.
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Home at last. Over 15,000 US soldiers crammed on the deck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth as it enters New York Harbor, August 24, 1945.
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British Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air defense destroyer, HMS Daring (D32), having been fitted with the first of two Phalanx CIWS mounts.
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Swedish Navy corvette HSwMS Karlstad (K35), 5th ship of the Visby-class (2427×1053)
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Five SS men are forced to walk past the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering. They’d changed into civilian clothes in a failed attempt to evade capture. According to the photographer, the five men were all shot after this photo was taken (Germany, May 6, 1945) .
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An American soldier disarms a German prisoner of war after the Battle of Cherbourg, France, June 1944.
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Ostensibly still ‘active’, HMS Iron Duke has been stripped of weapons and sensors. The RN is down to five frigates.
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56 years ago today- these 4 students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by US military forces, as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft. May 4, 1970
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The British battleship HMS Duke of York heading to sea on the 23 September 1948.
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German Major Josef Gangl taken by an American photographer on May 4, 1945. The following day, he was killed while shielding former French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud, fighting alongside American soldiers and French prisoners against SS forces.
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A French Republican Guard gendarme takes aim with a captured German Panzerfaust 60 anti-tank grenade launcher during the battle for Kilstett. Jan 1945
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“The Unknown Soldier… The Known Soldier…”, USA, 2014
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British battleship HMS Nelson in the Panama Canal, 23 February 1931
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