RAF reconnaissance photo taken on May 21st, 1941, at 26,000 feet, showing the 823.6-foot (251 m) German battleship Bismarck, revealing its position and leading to its sinking six days later [1284X1151].
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https://redd.it/1oomf1b
Salvation Army Red Shield comforts tent. New Guinea, WW2. Oil on canvas by WE Pidgeon.
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https://redd.it/1oobz6l
This is America… Keep it Free! (ca 1944). The Greatest Generation had the right idea! [1256x1810]
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https://redd.it/1op2u76
"Save your children", Italian anti-communist poster issued by the Christian Democracy Party, c. 1952
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Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen covered in paint by a protester over Iraq invasion involvement. (2003) [1240x826]
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https://redd.it/1opchp9
Hampton Lee, 24, Hugh Evans, 22, and Willis Evans, 18, are taken into custody for harassing a woman returning home from a party late at night, beating her male friend unconscious for trying to intervene, then kidnapping, robbing, and gang-raping her (South Carolina, September 22, 1940) [1000 x 772].
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https://redd.it/1opl9p6
Leftist Iranian students calling for armed resistance against the Pahlavi government. USA, 1970s [1224x856]
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https://redd.it/1opm26v
Volcanologist David A. Johnston, pictured 13 hours before he lost his life during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was the first to report the eruption from an observation post 6 miles away, transmitting "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!" before being overtaken by the blast [943x1327]
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https://redd.it/1opw4qv
19-year-old Brigitte Bardot during the Cannes Film Festival, 1953
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https://redd.it/1opz609
[1778x1330] Lindbergh Tries Motor Earth Runs. Detroit Free Press, 25th Feb 1928.
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https://redd.it/1octul8
Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910
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https://redd.it/1oq8duo
Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916. [1080x1365]
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https://redd.it/1oqdxun
Nat King Cole, poses with a fan, Gladys Knight, age 7 in 1951.
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https://redd.it/1oqkjr2
A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980. [1600x1060]
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https://redd.it/1oqtq9f
"Let's protect children from the priest's claws!" (USSR, 1962)
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The view inside Fort Sam Houston as 64 soldiers of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment are court-martialed for mutiny. After being repeatedly harassed and attacked by the police, the soldiers had snapped. A total of 156 soldiers marched on Houston, where they killed 16 people, 1917 [1200 x 804].
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https://redd.it/1oqzuuk
The inmate photo of Dan Tso-Se, a 14-year-old Navajo orphan, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Tso-Se killed four fellow tribe members, whom he said had treated him like a "slave", on a reservation in New Mexico when he was 13 in 1908 [1130 x 630].
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https://redd.it/1or6u7x
Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore (and Matt Damon) 25 years ago in 2000
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https://redd.it/1or9uo1
The last photo of SS officer Fritz Dietrich, 50. He had a leading role in the massacres of thousands by Germans and Latvian collaborators in Liepāja. Dietrich, whose role in this was not known at the time, was hanged for the murders of 7 American POWs in Germany (Landsberg Prison, 1948) [903 x 622].
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https://redd.it/1orey02