US soldiers give cover on Omaha beach - 6th June 1944
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Brigadier General David “Tex” Hill on the wing of his P-51 Mustang 26th FS 51st FG, 1944
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Submarine bunker at Charente-Maritime, France.
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Today I discovered a mid-century photographer called Philippe Halsman who photographed the famous people of his era, from Richard Nixon to Marilyn Monroe. At the end of his sessions he would ask the person to jump into the air for a picture, believing that this would cause them to drop their pretenses and public persona, leaving him with a picture of the real person as they made their leap. He called this ‘jumpology’.
This is the photo he took of Robert Oppenheimer in 1958, possibly the most free and unreserved image of him that I’ve ever seen.
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A machine gunner of the Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1. „Hermann Göring” in Sicily. 1943. Colourised.
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British troops take cover behind a knocked out German tank during their victory at Second Alamein - Nov 1942
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United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Edson Raff rides a Welbike mini motorcycle in front of a United States Army Air Forces Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport aircraft at an air base in England, 1942 🪖🎖️🪖🎖️🪖
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The new American prosperity of the early 1950s was won atop the largest bone pile in human history. World War II had claimed the lives of over 40 million soldiers and civilians, and had introduced two radical new forms of mechanized death – the atomic bomb and the extermination camp – that seriously challenged the mind’s ability to absorb, much less cope with, the naked face of horror at mid-century.
David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken with his gunner Leo Boulange. New Guinea, April, 1944
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During the attack on Pearl Harbor, it’s chaos at Ford Island Naval Air Station as the USS Shaw explodes in the background, December 7, 1941.
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