An American soldier cradles a wounded Japanese boy and shelters him from the rain in the cockpit of an airplane during the Battle of Saipan while waiting to transport the youngster to a field hospital. July, 1944
On Saipan I witnessed suicides during the very last of the fighting at the south end of the island. Japanese propaganda had told the native population that they ought to take their own lives because the Americans were going to torture anyone they captured. That wasn’t the case at all, but I saw girls, all holding hands, jump off the reef in the ocean, trying to drown themselves. In a truckload of civilians that the Marines had rounded up, I saw a little Japanese kid with his arm badly mangled and some makeshift bandages on it. The kid was about to be in a state of shock, and just then one of those observation planes landed on the road. I took the boy over to the plane and said to the pilot, “Is there any way you can take this kid . . . where he can get medical treatment?” He didn’t want to at first. Then he looked at the kid and said, “Sure.” The kid sat on his lap, I took one picture, and the plane took off.
Bill Clinton on his final day in office as President, January 19, 2001.
Czechoslovakian Engineer Miroslav Rybář Holding His Most Well Known Design the VZ 61 Submachine Gun. 1960
Chinese prisoners captured near Mufu Mountain. All of them would be murdered within a few days. (Nanjing massacre by Japanese, 1937)
Emperor Hirohito and American General Douglas MacArthur (September 27 1945)
Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake Success, New York, November 1949.
Seven Navajo riders and a dog cross Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, dwarfed by sandstone cliffs in 1904
‘The Church of God With Signs Following’ photographed in the 1960s – They believed that they would be safe handling poisonous snakes and drinking venom, as mentioned in Mark 16:17-18. More than 60 have died thus far. Still, it persists.
A bayonet manufacturing workshop, Wilkinson sword factory in Acton, West London, 1915
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, The last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and North America, 1920
President Kennedy bids farewell to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, as he departs the family compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for what would be their last meeting, 1963
“Eyes of Hate”, a photograph of Goebbels after he finds out his photographer was Jewish, Geneva , September 1933
George McLaurin, first African-American student admitted to the University of Oklahoma, forced to sit apart from white students. 1948.
A hired reader reads to cigar makers hard at work in Cuban cigar factory (ca. 1900-1910). Because many cigar factory employees were illiterate lectors were hired to read novels, poetry, nonfiction works, and newspapers determined by consensus.
Nazi Rally being held at the “Cathedral of Light” in Nuremberg. Designed by Albert Speer, the “cathedral” actually consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights, at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience. 1930’s.
British soldiers fire their rifles at German aircraft flying overhead during the evacuation of Dunkirk, May-June 1940
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast in the early 1930’s
Berlin after world war 2, July 1945
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