Prisoners liberated at Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945 [1536×1246]
Aliya Moldagulova, Kazakh WW2 sniper. Died in battle at 18 years old. Fought in hand to hand combat and led troops into battle. (1943) [413 × 594]
Dedication of a sculpture, in Carmel, New York in 1961, of Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old girl who rode through the Hudson Valley countryside, rallying her father’s troops to battle, in the spring of 1777. [702 x 863].
Visit of the Emperor to the Austro-Hungarian troops on Eastern front, Khodoriv, Ukraine, 1918 [1600 x 1106]
A survivor of the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria following liberation. May 7-8 1945 [787×597]
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One of the only pictures ever taken of Edward VIII's highly secret departure from Windsor, the day after his abdication. En route to Portsmouth, where he would board HMS Fury for Boulogne. [12 December 1936 | 620 x 387]
Policemen lead Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. out of the courtroom in handcuffs after a jury convicted him of murder in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a perpetrator of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in 1963, which killed four young black girls aged 11 to 14, May 1, 2001 (722x513)
Nazi racial theorist measuring an Indian man (1928) (Egon von Eickstedt - Deutsch fototheck online) [1600x 1324]
Funeral procession of two Thai princes, carried on royal chariots on their way to the cremation ceremony. 1880s. [2000x1541]
Charles-Louis Du Pin in 1865, brutal leader of the French counter-guerrilla in Mexico, served in 19 campaigns. The Mexicans put 100,000 francs on his head, in vain. Was nicknamed "the monster of the warm lands", "the red devil", "the hyena of Tamaulipas" and "the tiger of the Tropics" [661 × 1056]
In 1912 on April 15 the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton, Hampshire, England, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage; some 1,500 people died. Here seen departing from Southampton (1280x941)
Grigori Rasputin, here seen with his children in 1917 was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who gained considerable influence in late period of the Russian Empire (521x744)
Ukrainian woman at work as seen by John Steinbeck during his visit to Kyiv, Ukraine in 1947 [500 x 780]
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Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna, sister-in-law of Nicholas II, in russian court dress - 1890's [500x665]
Soviet infantrymen running past a dead German sergeant during the Battle of Berlin. April 1945 [750×639]
war invalid in Berlin, 1923 [1024x768]
A post mortem photo of Frederick III, the 99 Days Emperor, 1888 [2560 x 2036]
RMS Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure on April 11, 1912. Four days later she would sink on her maiden voyage, 110 years to the day. [3000x3055] (Colorized)
King of Siam & Tsar Nicholas(2) July 3, 1897 [1300x1039]
Shown here is the Titanic on one of its sea trials, which took place on April 2, 1912. Today (April 15, 2022) marks the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. [3200 x 2294]
Polish soldiers of the Independent Podhale Rifle Brigade taking the oath in Malestroit, Brittany, France. April 10, 1940. [1500x1073] [Colorized]
A young South Vietnamese soldier on leave strolls along the beach at Vung Tau on Feb. 17, 1970 with a young girl. (AP Photo/Mark Godfrey) [1234x1600]
People celebrating the proclamation of the Spanish Second Republic in Madrid, on the 14th of April 1931 (91 years ago). [2047x1807] [Colorized].
King of Siam visit Russia(3) 1879 [736x548]
Professor Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, at Tu Du Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, is pictured with a group of handicapped children, most of them victims of Agent Orange. 2004.[567x391]
Artist Albert Herter dressed as Byzantine Emperor Justinian (New York City 1914) [5146x7067]
Two schoolgirls sitting on the wing of a downed German bomber in Chester, England (1940) [2966x1945]
[1496x1862] April 19th, 1995. American terrorist Timothy Mcveigh is photographed by a police officer for having no vehicle registration, no license plates, and a concealed weapon without a permit.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) in Disguise July 29th, 1917 [500 x 620]
101st Airborne troops posing with a captured Nazi flag two days after landing at Normandy, June 8, 1944. [640x355]
Captain Yael Dayan alongside her father General Moshe Dayan, then the Minister of Defense, in the days leading up to the Sinai Offensive in the Six Day War, 1967. [2448x1632]
Gas chamber in Auschwitz base camp immediately after the dispersal of the camp. January 1945, Poland [521×364]
De Haviland Mosquito of 21 Squadron jacked up and test firing it’s armament, 19 December 1944. [995x526]
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April 10 1942 Bataan Deathmarch. Was 1 of the gruesome war crimes in history that was committed by the Japanese Imperial Army. Over 60,000-80,000 American & Filipino POW are forced to march between 60-69.6 miles or 96.6-112km. Over 18,000 Deaths from American&Filipino soldiers.
View of the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx during the solar eclipse, August 30, 1905. Photo: Gabriel Lekegian [741x960]
[Colorized] War Is Hell, Soldier in Vietnam War (1965) by Horst Faas [950x1405]
Israeli Army soldiers on parade with Uzi submachine guns at the country's independence day celebration, 1958. [1241x1640]
[Colorized] Professor at University of Michigan, by Stanley Kubrick,1949. [5221x3490]
Whoe-A-Ke (Man Who Packs The Eagle), 1877. Dakota. (Photo by William Henry Jackson) [640x889]
Nurses of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) at the port of Hampton Roads, Newport News Virginia, in the United States on September 19, 1944. They would serve with FEB in the campaign of northern Italy, 1944-45. [1200x979]
Thomshon Graving Dock in 1911 [500x377]
View of Woolworth Building from City Hall, NYC, early 1910s [2864x3658]
A wounded man is carried back from the battlefield for treatment, New Guinea, 1961[828x1792]
Electric car in a private charging station. USA, 1919. [1536x1199]
77 years ago today- Tears stream down the cheeks of accordion-playing Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s flag-draped funeral train left Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 13, 1945. Roosevelt's fellow polio victims sit crying at Jackson's side. [2048x1377]
Camberley Kate, aka Kate Ward, and her stray dogs in England. She never turned a stray dog away, taking care of more than 600 dogs in her lifetime. (1962) [800X800]
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Hetman Skoropadsky of Ukraine at Spa, Belgium August 1918 [749 x 1024]
Royal Yugoslav Army officers in German captivity, circa 1941-45 [1800 x 1157]