Historical Photos

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Pic related was the main bar of the Shanghai Club (now restored to its former glory as the Waldorf Hotel on the Bund, it's absolutely magnificent).

The higher you were up in the colonial foodchain in Shanghai, the closer you sat to the window. Sadly, this place was turned into a KFC one point, but I'm pleased to say that's its a real pleasure to visit these days.

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More from Shanghai during the International period.

Note the Sikh policeman, this was a big thing in many British colonies.

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The Flying Tigers mentioned in the filename were pretty fascinating guys, they were a group of Western (mainly American?) mercenary pilots who fought for the Chinese during the war, really cool bit of history

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One of the battalions of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, who would have been the main regiment in my home area here in Ireland before independence.

Very interesting guys, quite a lot of battle honours, and a lot of time served in India. Their colours hang in St. Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork to this day (as an interesting note, in the British Isles, military decoration in churches is an exclusively protestant thing, it doesn't happen in Catholic churches for some reason, despite the fact that the majority of regiments like these in Ireland would have been Catholics)

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14 year old irish girl, nasty feet

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>>1003757
Incidentally, the regiment in in question is the one depicted in pic related

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Cia funded Baltic protests against the Glorious Russian rule.
Balts didn't even want to get independent, all western antiRussian lies.

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mural of Lenin in what today is known as Saint Petersburg

>>1003849
damn, it's crazy to think that I'm one generation away from these old coots

>>1003855
What the fuck, those legs are like a handicapped wheelchair user's. I have like 3 times bigger muscle volume. Were they starving?

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surrendered partisans after the Warsaw Uprising.

>>1004002
Fighting for months in the desert in the 1940s is somewhat different to taking instagrams in the gym after your third protein shake

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>>1003858
This b8 deserves some recognition

>>1004036
Yeah, I know faggot, I used to be a soldier myself you see. the muscle you have in the legs won't just disappear like that, I don't think that these men were trained for rough terrain that much.

>>1004067
To be fair, this was shortly after the creation of the SAS, so they might not have been exactly Navy Seals-tier by that point

>>1004058
Here's your (you)

>>1004067
>I used to be a soldier you see

that_pasta.jpg

>>1003849
>Civil War
>WW1
>WW2
>Korean war (kinda)
These guys were alive for some shit, goddamn.

>>1005855
Not really historical, Seattle still looks like that.

>>1005910
Wut

>>1006783
A Nazi temple for the pagan gods Zyklon and B, mythical goblin slayers.

No one knows why the Nazi's worshiped these deities.

>>1006783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Battle_of_the_Nations

>>1007492

Is the background shopped?

>>1003757
are you a fellow irishfag? please say yes

>>1003757
You're a corktard arent you.

>>1003761
imagine what it would have been like to live in the shadow of one of the greatest civilizations on earth, knowing that they were your ancestors that held great power and pride, but now you and your people are nothing but sheep farmers ruled by turks.

>>1009412
It might just look like that for you.

>>1009412
Why? Does it look big?

>>1003883
Am I crazy or did they made him look like Stalin here?

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>tfw no qt nachthexen gf

http://www.seizethesky.com/nwitches/nitewtch.html

In the summer of 1941 Marina Raskova, a record-breaking aviatrix, was called upon to organize a regiment of women pilots to fly night combat missions of harassment bombing. From mechanics to navigators, pilots and officers, the 588th regiment was composed entirely of women. The 588th was so successful and deadly that the Germans came to fear them, calling them Nachthexen--Night Witches.

The Witches developed the technique of flying close to their intended targets, then cutting their engines. Silently they would glide to their targets and release their bombs. Then they would restart their engines and fly away. The first warning the Germans had of an impending raid was the sound of the wind whistling against the wing bracing wires of the Po-2s, and by then it was too late.

The 588th flew thousands of combat bombing missions. They fought non-stop for months, sometimes flying 15 to 18 missions on the same night. They flew obsolete Polikarpov Po-2 wooden biplanes that were otherwise used as trainers. They could only carry two bombs that weighed less than a ton altogether. Most of the women who survived the war had, by the end, flown almost a thousand missions each.

Years after the war, Nadya Popov commented that she used to sometimes look up into the dark night sky, remembering when she was a young girl crouched at the controls of her bomber, and she would say to herself, "Nadya, how did you do it?"

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>>1005855
What's amazing is that even when building a shanty town, Americans insist on possessing an individual and separated house.

For comparison, here's a view of the shanty town around Paris, on the ground where stood the fortifications of the city, in the 30's.

>>1003883
>the attack of the 100ft jew