A U.S. Marine rescues two Vietnamese children during a gun battle at the city of Hue, during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, 1968.
San Francisco’s iconic cliff house, shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1907.
Female Snipers of the 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, 775 confirmed kills, Germany, May 1945.
Coal Miners coming up a coal mine elevator after a day of work in 1920’s Belgium.
Grand central terminal, NYC, the sun can’t shine through like that now due the surrounding tall buidings. 1929.
Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing. She was arrested for indecency (1907).
Meet the “Night Witches”, fearless Russian Female Pilots who bombed nazis by night, 1941.
The bullet bra. Just in case you ever think that the current trends are going too far….remember what they were wearing in the 1940s and 50s.
The Russian author Tolstoy, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time posing in 1908.
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania arriving at Dover, England for a state visit on May 12, 1924.
American soldiers watch as the Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again, August 25, 1944, Paris, France.
Hitchhiking was a common way of getting around in life during the ‘60s and ’70….the better looking you were the easier it was.
Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world dances with his pet cat in the doorway of his worthing home in 1956.
June 6th, 1944. Into the jaws of death.
Harley Davidson’s first factory, 1903.
Las Vega Strip, 1980.
Traffic during a snow storm in Houston, Texas. February 12, 1960. It wouldn’t snow again in Houston until 1972.
The Queen Mother talking to a young evacuee whilst he works in the garden of a evacuation school at Horsted Keynes in Sussex, November 1939. The royal family were personally targeted by bomb raids on several occasions throughout the war.
Graduation party on June 21, 1941, Moscow. The next day, Germany will invade the Soviet Union.
Balloon Apron is suspended to defend London from air attacks in 1915.
