From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.

Naval dispatch from December 7, 1941.

November 25, 1941, sailors jump from the hull of HMS Barham as she capsizes and her magazines explode.

Barham was the largest battleship sunk in WWII by a U-boat- 841 men were killed. News of the sinking was suppressed until 1942, and footage of the event wasn't released until the end of the war.







German soldier mocking an Orthodox Jew's hair (Payots), Soviet Union 1941.

British soldier gives a light to a Canadian sailor, January 1941.

The always vivacious Rita Hayworth in 1941.

Morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Corner of Sutter and Kearny Street, San Francisco, December 8, 1941.

 

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Cover of Man Without Fear by Frank Miller and John Romita jr. from 1993, the Marvel miniseries that was a retelling of the origin of Daredevil.

I still have that boxed away....it was a 4 issue mini-series if I remember right. The covers were with part of the art pressed out

 

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I still have that boxed away....it was a 4 issue mini-series if I remember right. The covers were with part of the art pressed out

Yes the embossed covers were part of the gimmick covers era of the 1990's.

 

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A father's hands press against the window of a bus carrying his tearful son and wife to safety during the Siege of Sarajevo, November 10, 1992.

Steve Irwin and his wife Terri at their wedding in 1992.

The writing staff of the Simpsons in 1992.

Peter Jackson, with the miniature set reproducing 1950s Newtown from the film Braindead, 1992.

Sniper codenamed "Arrow" fighting for the Bosnian side loading her gun in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, June 30, 1992.

Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored his 1000th career point in just his 513th game, May 24, 1992.

Mark Wahlberg and Kate Moss' 1992 Calvin Klein ad.

From the 1992 movie Sneakers,something relevant to current events.

Robert Di Nero on the set of the film he directed A Bronx Tale.

Deion Sanders in the Atlanta Braves locker room back in 1992.

Rick Hieb, a Mission Specialist aboard STS-49, looks through the window during his spacewalk, 1992.

The SNL cast of 1992.

 

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Donut advertisement from 1942.

USS Washington (BB-56), the second of two battleships in the North Carolina class. In 1942, She was assigned to guard against a possible sortie by the German battleship Tirpitz,..In July, she returned to the United States for an overhaul before being deployed to the Pacific in August for action against Imperial Japan, where she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee. Two months after her arrival at Tonga in September 1942, Washington was tasked with intercepting a Japanese naval task force near Guadalcanal along with South Dakota and four destroyers. In the ensuing battle, South Dakota was severely damaged, but Washington sustained almost no damage while her guns sank the battleship Kirishima and the destroyer Ayanami. Here she is near Hvalfjord, Iceland in early 1942.

A cadet in the Punjab Regiment in 1942. GRI on the turban stands for George Rex, Imperator (King George VI, last Emperor of India).

The British Indian Army, officially named just the Indian Army, was the principal army of India before independence in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of both British India and the Princely states, which could also have their own armies. The Indian Army was an important part of the British Empire’s forces, both in India and abroad, particularly during the First World War and the Second World War.

Japanese map of Asia-Pacific during World War II (1942) - with cartoon-like depictions of flora, fauna, ethnography and natural resources.

President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 leading to the internment of over 120,000 Japanese in camps, Feb. 19, 1942.

Construction of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., 1942.

October 1942, a painter cleans a P-41 Mustang.

Douglas SBD Dauntless Naval fighters at the Battle of Midway. Admiral Chester Nimitz was in command and led the forces of the U.S. and the Allies to victory on June, 7, 1942.

American troops celebrating Christmas with a handmade Christmas tree at an advanced dressing station in Buna in the Territory of Papua, 1942.

 

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In a Dec. 1941, photo illustration, helmet wearing Charles Don O’Day is posed crashing through a poster. This image, made after the Pearl Harbor attack, appeared in the Jan. 1, 1942, Los Angeles Times.

Tap dancing class at Iowa State College, 1942. Photo by Jack Delano.

Two German Type IX submarines on their way to strike at the North American coastline, Operation Drumbeat 1942.

Operation Drumbeat was perhaps one of the greatest disasters to befall the USA in WW2. It was dubbed America‘s “Second Pearl Harbor”. From January to August 1942, 40 German submarines sunk over 600 Allied ships amounting to 3 million gross register tonnes(GRT) along the American coastline, many in the direct vicinity of large American cities such as New York, Boston, Miami and Atlantic City. German submarines also terrorized the lucrative oil industries in the Gulf of Mexico. Total panic ensued in the United States, many suspecting each other of collaborating with the Germans as rumors of German infiltrators from U-Boats are spreading among the populace. US Admiral Ernest J. King had been overly complacent about the preparations for a German submarine attack and had virtually ignored every warning and recommendation given by the British naval intelligence warning him of the impending attack. King belatedly realized the importance of organizing oil tankers and merchant ships into escorted convoys, which the British had done since the beginning of the war. German submarine commanders would comment how the Americans had completely failed to black-out their cities. They could see the bright lights of the skyscrapers of New York City, the neon-lit luxury suburbs of Miami, and individual cars driving along the coast and highways, as if no war was going on in the first place. More importantly however, the shapes of oil tankers and merchant ships were silhouetted against the skylines of major American coastal cities, making them easy targets for German submarines at night. Large explosions of oil tankers and blazing wrecks of merchant ships would become a common sight from windows of the residents of the East Coast from January to August 1942. The Wolves of the Atlantic had reached the Americas.

A traffic safety billboard in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942.

1942 magazine ad for training in radio.

Finnish Airwatch Lotta (Female volunteer) from 1942.

Anti-Isolationist cartoon by Dr. Seuss from 1942.

Civilians line up to donate blood for the war effort, Leningrad, 1942.

Foreword by author W.L. White to his book They Were Expendable for the 1942 printing.

 

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Toni Frissell! During World War II, she was the official photographer for the American Red Cross and for the Women’s Army Corps of the U.S. Office of War Information. #WomensHistoryMonth
Unidentified Photographer, Toni Frissell with children, March 1945

 

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Mahatma Gandhi in Lord Mountbatten’s study in Rashtrapathi Bhawan in the days just before India's Independence in 1947.

 

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Photographers Jacques Lemare, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline in Spain Documenting American Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion Fighting Against the Fascists During the Spanish Civil War 1937.

 

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Photographers Jacques Lemare, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline in Spain Documenting American Volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion Fighting Against the Fascists During the Spanish Civil War 1937.
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It's almost impossible to think about this today, that there was a substantial number of Americans that went over and fought in Europe BEFORE we entered into war against Germany and Japan.

 

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It's almost impossible to think about this today, that there was a substantial number of Americans that went over and fought in Europe BEFORE we entered into war against Germany and Japan.

Being a history buff (and from watching all types of movies) I have known of this for decades....but I'm willing to bet the majority of Americans have no idea of this. There was also a lot of Americans fighting for the British and French during WWI before our country entered that war.

 

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U.S. helicopters drop-off reinforcements in the Mekong Delta. Saigon, South Vietnam, August 1967.

 

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Being a history buff (and from watching all types of movies) I have known of this for decades....but I'm willing to bet the majority of Americans have no idea of this. There was also a lot of Americans fighting for the British and French during WWI before our country entered that war.

And it was a crucible that forged a lot of famous people into who they were, like Hemingway and Orwell.

 

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Light Horse ANZAC troops in a trench during WWI.

 

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Construction workers on the Empire State Building circa 1929-1932

 

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LIFE magazine’s Larry Burrows photographed wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie reaching toward a stricken soldier after a firefight south of the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam, 1966.

Photographer Larry Burrows was later killed with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet (43), Kent Potter (23) and Keisaburo Shimamoto (34), when their helicopter was shot down over Laos in 1971, he was 44.

 

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A MP and physicist Luis Alvarez posing with the plutonium core from the Fat Man atomic bomb, Tinian, Mariana Islands, Circa August 1945

 

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The damaged bow of the battleship USS Wisconsin after a collision with the destroyer USS Eaton.1956.

 

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American soldiers on their way home from World War II, 1945.

 

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Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. Showing Meliton Kantaria and Mikhail Yegorov raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the Reichstag building

 

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If you have ever seen the 70's TV series THE BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON starring Robert Conrad.....here is the real life character Greg "Pappy" Boyington that he played -

 

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Mathematician & trailblazer Katherine Johnson
On the image above, Katherine Johnson is calculating spacecraft trajectories… by hand! Astronaut John Glenn trusted her more than computers, and her accuracy in orbital mechanics equations helped NASA to fly the first men to the moon. On top of that, she was a race and gender pioneer.

 

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Couple on a bicycle take cover beneath an underpass as tanks deploy overhead during the Tiananmen Square protests, June 5, 1989

 

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Survivors of USS Princeton adrift in life boat at sea as seen from USS Cassin Young , 24 October 1944.

 

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General Douglas MacArthur walks to the bridge of USS Nashville (CL-43), Southwest Pacific Area, 22 April 1944