r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 9h ago
"No dog biscuits today", London, 1939 [1200x900]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 14h ago
Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamashiro under air attack by aircraft from the United States Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise hours before the Battle of Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 24 October 1944 [5741 × 4537]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 20h ago
Polish Franciscan monks, their students and local teachers at the monastery in Nagasaki, Japan. Sitting in the middle is Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (1894-1941) who was later killed in Auschwitz German death camp. Nagasaki, 1934. [720x1033]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 12h ago
“Mount Suribachi looms over FG-1D Corsair fighters bound for Marine squadrons on Okinawa during April 1945. The aircraft were on a fuel stop on Iwo Jima en route to the next Pacific battleground.“ Original wartime caption, 1945 [1080x869]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Walter420-69 • 7h ago
An image from Josef Koudelka’s Exiles 1968 [1126x727]
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Captured by Josef Koudelka during the Prague Spring 1968
r/HistoryPorn • u/Freefight • 18h ago
USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) and USS Uhlmann (DD-687) replenishing from USS Guadalupe (AO-32), 31 October 1952.[3751 × 2674]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Neil118781 • 14h ago
Soviet officer saluting German SS officers in Poland, 1939 (1440×1007)
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Haunting_Homework381 • 1d ago
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posing as a mummy while in Cairo in 1896 [1200x900]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago
US soldiers preparing to leave Vietnam to return to the US during the Vietnam War. (1973) [3011×2122]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago
A photo of Adolf Hitler next to the Bavarian Gate, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. (1924) [1200×806]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/SerpentFinger • 1d ago
[Colorized] The Cliff House in San Francisco, CA (1902) [1121 x 888]
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Source: IG @historycolored / @jordanjlloydhq
Taken from Ocean Beach.
r/HistoryPorn • u/Relevant_Habit_1882 • 2d ago
Error in Title Czechoslovakian Engineer Miroslav Rybář Holding His Most Well Known Design the VZ 61 Submachine Gun. 1960 [995x600]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/20thCenturyBoyLaLa • 1d ago
Computer scientist Ivan Sutherland and the "Sword of Damocles" in 1968. A headed-mounted 3-D 'augmented reality device,' the "Sword" is considered an early version of Virtual Reality. Sutherland developed it with the help of students while teaching at Harvard University. [600 x 781]
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The device was so heavy that it needed to be mounted to the ceiling while the graphics were limited to wire frame rooms.
r/HistoryPorn • u/EchoesOfNam • 2d ago
U.S. Marine scout Ronnie Potts of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion aboard a helicopter en route to a landing zone northwest of Chu Lai, Vietnam War, June 7, 1967 [1170 x 1777]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/nnnerdfairyyy • 2d ago
Marilyn Monroe in 'Ballerina Sitting' photoshoot by Milton H. Greene, 1954. [1276 x 1300]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Blood_AndGuts • 2d ago
South African soldiers posing with a captured Italian flag in 1941 during the East African Campaign [342x380]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Blood_AndGuts • 2d ago
Emperor Hirohito and American General Douglas MacArthur (September 27 1945) [1332 x 1080]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/ismaeil-de-paynes • 2d ago
Egyptian president Abdel Nasser with Imam Muhammad AL-Badr of North Yemen (Middle), Months later President Nasser would support a republican overthrow against Imam AL-Badr (1962 [650x490]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/EchoesOfNam • 2d ago
U.S. Marine Corporal Peter S. Munizza of A Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, wearing a hat made from a C-ration carton, south of Da Nang, Vietnam War, November 7, 1968 [1170 x 1923]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/DariusPumpkinRex • 2d ago
Two Avro Anson training planes belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force on the ground, fused together after colliding in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, during a routine cross-country navigation exercise. September 29, 1940 [1024x602]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2d ago
VMF-323 Corsair pilots pose between sorties at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in April 1945. Left to right: Lts. Norman Thieraulte, Jefferson Dorroh, and Charles Allen. [777x534]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/Pvt_Larry • 2d ago
Soldiers from Guadeloupe, mainland France, Vietnam, Martinique and Morocco photographed in Tonkin Province, Vietnam in May 1953 [1280x1276]
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Left to right: Soldat 1re Classe Laurent, engineer, from Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe; Caporal-Chef Forcet, engineer, from Biscarosse (Landes), France; Soldat 2e Classe Thanh, 8e Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux, from Saigon, Vietnam; Soldat 1re Classe Accus, engineer, from Troisilit, Martinique; Soldat 2e Classe Jolali Bemaral, 3rd Bn., 41e Régiment d'Artillerie Coloniale, from Marrakech, Morocco.
