An American soldier replaces "Adolf-Hitler-Str." sign with a "Roosevelt Blvd" one in Berlin, Germany, 1945.
American soldiers discover Manet's “In the Conservatory” that was hidden (amongst other Nazi loot) in the
salt mines of Merker, Germany. 1945.
A different angle of the popular stand off between a man (top left in photo) and a column of Chinese Type 59
tanks (top right in photo) on Tiananmen Square.
A man on the corner is reading a newspaper which headline reads “Nazi Army Now 75 Miles Away from
Paris”. New York, May 18, 1940.
Civil rights activist James
Zwerg after being beaten
by a white mob in
Alabama, 1961. (After the
beating he had to wait two
hours for treatment as no
white crew would pick him
up.)
A German Krupp K5 283mm
railway gun firing. It was one of the
most commonly used railway guns
during World War 2 by Germany.
Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun from afar. It was the largest-calibre rifled
weapon ever used in combat, and fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.
George S. Patton's Dog, Willie, mourning his best friend on the day of his death.
British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.
A Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named “Enola Gay” was the bomber that dropped the “Little Boy”
(nuclear bomb) over Hiroshima.
In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through
the town of St. Lo. France, 1944.
152 mm Howitzer battery fires during Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1944.
Evacuating Saigon, April 30, 1975. An American evacuee punches away a South Vietnamese man for a place on
the last chopper out of the US embassy.
Corporal Luther E. Boger of US 82nd Airborne Division reading a warning sign, Cologne, Germany, 4 April
1945.
A baby cries at a bombed train station in Shanghai, 1937.
An RAF Pilot getting a
haircut during a break
between missions,
Britain, 1942.
A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing Brittish soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942.
The unbroken seal on King Tut's Tomb. end
cast Rare Historical Photos
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Music Jon Bon Jovi Dyin' Aint Much Of Livin'
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