Skip to content
Latest :
As the ceremonies for the formal surrender of Japan concluded 9/2/45, MacArthur told Halsey ‘Start ’em now’ which was the order for the final display of airpower. Hundreds of carrier-based planes and B-29 bombers filled the sky over Tokyo Bay to punctuate the day’s events.
Yugoslav WW2 Poster – 1945
My mom and her siblings 1940 (she’s the big one holding her sister)
“The whole world looks at you as a force capable of destroying the paving hordes of German invaders – Stalin” Soviet poster during WW2, 1942
After the Fall: A Photo from inside of Hitler’s Bunker, Berlin 1945,
Exhumed corpse of Gustav Vasa king of Sweden 1523-1560, picture taken in 1945.
Love This Image? You Can Post It!
you might also like
“Colonial” Living Room Furniture from the Sears catalog, 1975
The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950.
Lepa Radic, a 17 year old Serbian girl about to be hanged. She was asked by the Nazis where her accomplices were to which she replied, “You’ll Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.” (1943)
cease fire signature – North Korea 2009
Police arrest a Falun Gong demonstrator at Tiananmen Square, October 12, 2000. At least 300 people protesting the ban of Falun Gong were arrested on the square that day, making it the largest demonstration at Tiananmen Square after 1989.
One of the only known photos of Mexican general & president Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna, 1853. Known in the US for his role at “the Alamo” & notorious in Mexico for coming to power 11 times & losing over half of Mexico to the US in 1848, some regard him as the worst man in Mexican history (816×1154)
Previous
145
146
147
Next
Load More Posts
Page load link
Go to Top
