Queen Elizabeth during Her WWII Service
The less-seen side of World War II
A German soldier buries an unknown English soldier that was killed in aerial combat in the Egyptian desert.
Soviet soldiers stand surprised at a large pile of human ashes found at the Majdanek concentration camp in 1944.
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The Naked Gunner Rescue at Rabaul, 1944
This man is a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY who was on a rescue mission. He had just jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a severely burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul. To boost his ability to swim, he stripped naked since clothes and boots would obstruct his ability to swim. While Japanese coastal defense guns were firing at the plane right in the water during take-off, this brave young man, after saving the pilot, manned his position as machine gunner without considering putting on his clothes. A hero photographed right after he’d completed his heroic act. Naked.
A Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, 1945
This boy is a Japanese boy standing erect, having played his role by bringing his dead brother to a cremation ground. The photo was taken by a man sent by U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. The boy standing at attention has a clear military influence. A closer look at the boy shows him trying to keep a stiff upper lip, and trying so hard to maitain a bold heart…isn’t that heart-breaking?
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One of the greatest surfers of all time, Surfer Buzzy Trent with a Hawaiian “gun” surfboard ready to surf 40 foot waves – 1955
Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961
The priest helping a dying soldier – 1962
Father Luis Padillo in cassock was walking about paying last rites to all dying soldiers during the fight for an insurrection promoted by Venezuelan Fuerzas Amadas de Liberación Nacional. Despite the danger, the priest insisted on giving a last sacrament to dying soldiers. The photographer, Hector Rondón Lovera who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture.
The Debris of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov – the man who fell from space, 1967
Saigon execution: Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief – 1968
While covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press Eddie Adams took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lém, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.
The Racial Segregation in the US South
Children for sale:
The four small children in this photo sit huddled on steps outside a home in Chicago, behind a sign that reads “4 Children For Sale Inquire Within.” Their mother who was pregnant at the time turns her head covering her face from the camera.
The three younger children in this heartbreaking picture were finally reunited in 2013. They all had stories of horrible abuse, both before and after they were sold. One claimed that their mother sold them because she needed bingo money, and because her new boyfriend didn’t like children.
A mother and her child in Las Vegas watching the nuclear testing just 75km away
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