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▲ 67 r/noir

Two Silhouetted Women at Bus Stop Under Umbrellas, Rainy Night, Times Square" 1953 by H. Armstrong Roberts

u/waffen123 — 7 hours ago

German soldiers work in a trench at positions near Demyansk in the spring of 1942. In the background is a destroyed Soviet KV-1 tank.

u/waffen123 — 12 hours ago

USS Enterprise burning furiously after a Japanese Special Attack aircraft struck the carrier at the forward elevator off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945; photograph taken from USS Essex

u/waffen123 — 12 hours ago

May 15, 1983- Benny Parsons races with his Skoal teammate Harry Gant in the Mason-Dixon 500 at Dover. Parsons' engine only made 190 laps before giving up. He finished 29th. Gant posted a ninth place finish despite being ten laps down at the finish.

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago

Sergeant Gerald Laird firing a machine gun, Company A, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam.

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago

Butternut nuclear test, 81 kilotons, barge, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:15 a.m. May 12, 1958. TX-46 primary test.

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago

A wrecked German Sd.Kfz. 250 light armored half-track in the village of Cristot, France, on June 17, 1944.

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago

Pilot Officer Kennedy of No. 47 Squadron RAF Detachment inspecting his Wellesley bomber after engagement with two CR.42 fighters, Agordat, Eritrea, 25 Mar 1941

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago
▲ 590 r/Ships

USS Boston (left) and USS Newport News cruisers. The second, Des Moines class, is one of the largest Heavy Cruisers built for the US Navy.

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago
▲ 204 r/1930s+1 crossposts

Norma Shearer in a publicity still for Strangers May Kiss (1931)

u/waffen123 — 13 hours ago

The Last Sleep of the Brave, painted by French artist Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville in 1881

u/waffen123 — 14 hours ago

Train 111, the Banner Blue at right, arriving next to train 1, the Wabash Cannonball at left in Decatur, IL during the early N&W era on May 7, 1966. Rick Burn photo.

u/waffen123 — 15 hours ago

"Dear radio listeners! Now you will hear the voice of a human rights activist" - Soviet cartoon (1985)

u/waffen123 — 15 hours ago
▲ 242 r/wwiipics+1 crossposts

A US B24H Liberator from 783rd Squadron, 465t BG, 15th Air Force is hit by anti-aircraft fire over Germany - 1944

u/waffen123 — 15 hours ago
▲ 260 r/ww1

A German barrage falls near Entente trenches. (Believed to be in the Ypres salient during 1915). Source: 'On the Fringe of the Great Fight' by Colonel George G. Nasmith (1917).

u/waffen123 — 15 hours ago
▲ 60 r/ww1

Men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at dinner near Lievin, 14 May 1918.© IWM (Q 6626)

u/waffen123 — 5 days ago

Castle Nectar nuclear test, 1.69 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:20 a.m. May 14, 1954. The Zombie TX-15 device was a radiation imploded fusion boosted fission bomb, 80% of its energy release from fission.

u/waffen123 — 5 days ago