Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day, 1966.
Dutch potatoes diggers having a meal on the field. The Netherlands – near Groningen, 1940
The daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig after the family committed suicide by ingesting cyanide on 18 April 1945, as American troops were entering the city.
A Palestinian woman pleads with an IDF soldier to allow her and her children to cross a checkpoint in Hebron, 31 October, 2001.
A woman IRA volunteer on active service in West Belfast with an AR18 assault rifle. Ready to engage with British soldiers, 1973.
A group of Danish Jews aboard a fishing boat fleeing to Sweden across the Øresund Strait. These citizen-organized evacuation efforts saved around 7,000 Jews (1943)
Soldiers of the 96th Engineer Battalion in New Guinea, 1942. The battalion had previously mutinied and killed their white officers while stationed in Australia
A sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of ‘Jasper’, a mine-detecting dog in Bayeux, Normandy, France. 5 July 1944
A German soldier shields his face from the camera after he was captured by the US Army’s 16th Infantry near Weywertz, Belgium, 15 January 1945.
Adolf Hitler, 2 fellow comrades and his beloved stray dog, Fuchsl (Little Fox), that he had rescued after Fuchsl chased a rat across No Man’s Land and ended up in the German trenches where he was stationed, near the Village of Fromelles – WW1, 1915.
Manchurian bride, 1870
California, 1965. A Hells Angels member and his old lady during a run.
Boris Yeltsin addressed crowds outside of the parliament building in Moscow during an act of public defiance that effectively dismantled the authority of communist hardliners after a failed pro-communist coup, and accelerated the formal dissolution of the USSR four months later. (1991)
High school student Walter Gadsden being attacked by police dogs in Birmingham, Alabama during a civil Rights march in May 1963.
Joseph Stalin conferring with his personal secretary & CPSU Central Committee “Secret Department” head Alexander Poskrebyshev, 1934. Despite Stalin’s execution of his wife, Poskrebyshev “the human encyclopedia” became one of the USSR’s most powerful men & Stalin’s de facto right hand man
GIs take a break and clean their weapons in the damaged church of Saint-Georges in Saint-Georges-d’Elle during the Battle for Hill 192 in Normandy, July 1944.
Helen Keller facing her teacher Anne Sullivan, glass plate negative, circa (1895)
United States Marines rest in the field during the Guadalcanal campaign in November 1942.
U.S. Marine First Lieutenant Robert B. Sheeks, a combat intelligence and Japanese language officer with the 2nd Marine Division, convinces a Japanese family to surrender. Saipan, 21 June 1944
SS overseers at Buchenwald concentration camp in civilian clothing who have been beaten by liberated inmates, kneeling in a cell in the detention cell building. April 11th, 1945.
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