Historical photos thread!

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>When I think of religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who cannot believe: the Confraternity of the Faithless, one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine. Everything to be true must become a religion. And agnosticism should have its ritual no less than faith.

-Oscar Wilde; De profundis

>>2061575
Yo for real tho Oscar could suck dick like no other

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>>2059132

>>2059446
>>2059456

SOME FOLKS ARE BORN

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>>2061815
I AIN'T NO SENATOR'S SON

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Nannies, SoHo, NYC, 1982

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Studio 54, NYC, 1981

>>2059189
Seeing this image as as a child is what actually sparked my interest in WWI.

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Marines transport their seriously wounded atop a US army tank through the streets of Hue toward a helicopter evacuation point on 17 February 1968. Tanks were the only vehicles able to travel the streets because of rubble from buildings destroyed during the still-ongoing Tet offensive.

>>2061940
>German """engineering"""

>>2061962
>Tfw you will never ride a Panzeresel mk IV

>>2062038
>british uniforms look even more peasantlike than russian ones
how?

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Bamp

>>2059135
Is that the IJA? Cool photo

>>2062861
I always forget the name of the Kaiser in this pic

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>>2059132

>>2062912

Looks like chinese or allied forces, the uniform and gun do not match jap standards

>>2063199
The gun is Japanese but the soldiers are Chinese.

>>2062959
Middle is Hindenburg, and I think the right is Papen, but I'm not sure

>>2063252
Wait, nvm I'm retarded, it's Goering

>>2062959
That's President Hindenburg...

>>2063273
hmm....

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"Pals"

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>>2063367
doge

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>>2063382

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>>2063385

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>>2063389

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The first photograph of people enjoying alchohol

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>>2063395
Canadian troops hand out their chocolate rations to Dutch locals

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>>2063430
Dutch girls write warm slogans and regards on the hull of a Polish Sherman tank after the 1st Polish Armored liberation of Breda

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>>2063436
Polish troops march after the liberation of Breda by the 1st Polish Armored Division

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>>2063439
Lieutenant Colonel David Currie in his Humber Armoured Recconnaissance Car during the liberation of the Netherlands

>>2062916
Horses need to make a comeback.

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>>2063445
Dutch troops in exile return to their homeland

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>>2063464
Polish motorcyclist swarmed by Dutch locals

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>>2063470
Dutch collaborator is captured by Dutch resistance fighters after the liberation of Breda

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>>2063482
last of my small Netherlands liberation dump

Dutch resistance fighters celebrate after Polish troops march into Breda

>>2063496
okay, had to slip one more in

Dutch civilians take to the streets as Canadian tanks liberate Leeuwarden

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>>2063509

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raate_Road

>>2064356
If they make another ww2 game (BF or COD) It would be cool if they could to the finnish theatre or north africa instead of the usual eastern and western front.

>>2064414
It would be cool if they stopped making WWII games and pick something else from the five thousand years of recorded history

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French soldiers advancing during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

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Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870

It's also interesting to note that this is perhaps the first true photo of a battle in history

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Legionnaires in Indochina, 1954

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Polish ace in World War 2

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British tank during trials, World War 1

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Italian soldiers of the Savoia Cavalleria charging Soviets at Izbushensky, 1942

>>2064818
>all those crosses
>each one symbolizes a human being
>that look in his eyes
meep

>>2062038

What is Zhukov saying to Adrien Brody?

>>2064991

>a human being ;_;

Yeah, I bet the Polish fighter ace is real fuckin' sad about the Germans he killed.

>>2064996
i meant it as the Poles look in his eyes looks like he showed no mercy to the Germans. I read stories of what Poles did to Germans from 1940-45, especially Polish pilots

>>2064991
Those symbolize planes IIRC, not human beings.
I wouldn't put it past a polish ace to buzz ejected german pilots though, considering the circumstances.

>>2065109

Ah, sorry. /his/ has shortened certain fuses.

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>>2064807
>first true photo of a battle in history
What are you talking about? Weren't there a lot of photographs of the American Civil War?

>>2066193
I'm talking about a battle in action, there was one from a civil war battle, but it was impossible to see anything through the smoke and distance

>>2066927
Show it, please. It's my favorite war.

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>>2067198

>>2067243
This is way too small, I can't see anything.

>>2064414
It won't happen.
Most people who play BF/Cod probably think Finland along with every other country in Europe was under Nazi control during the war, or would think they're Germans because they wear the same helmets.

Not to mention that the majority of the most interesting/largest battles of the war took place on the Eastern Front.

>>2064816
Why do they wear hand-me-down American shit? You'd think a country like France would be able to make their own uniforms for their men

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>>2064991
>Germans
>Human
that's where you're wrong

>>2067286
They did make their own uniforms, but it is just based off the American style, pretty much every western country did this post-WW2, for whatever reason. Probably similar to as of how everyone copied French uniforms in the 19th century, until the 1870's, where everyone then copied the Prussians.

>>2067294
pls delete pic

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French soldiers giving candy to American soldiers after the closing of the Colmar Pocket at Rouffach, 1945.

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American soldier of the 12th Armoured Division guarding German prisoners, April 1945

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gonna dump some pics

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An old French couple of Baloux of Brieulles-sur-Bar, France, greeting soldiers of the 308th and 166th Infantries upon their arrival during the American advance. November 6, 1918

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>>2067387
Never heard of the Colmar pocket before. Had a laugh when i read that the German commander was Heinrich Himmler.

>>2067448
kek

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Merian Cooper (left) and Cedric Fauntleroy (right), American volunteers in the 7th Polish Escadrille "Kocuiszko Squadron" during the Polish-Soviet War

Fun fact: Merian Cooper was the producer of 1933's King Kong, was aboard the USS Missouri to watch the Japanese surrender and was a vocal supporter of Senator McCarthys anti commie tactics, saying quote "REEEEEEE GOMMIES GET OUT"

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>>2067764
also, Cooper was a veteran of the Mexican Border War, was wounded after crash landing in WW1 after putting out the flames on his DH-4 bomber by entering a spiral dive, escaped a Soviet POW camp during the Polish-Soviet war, was a member of Pan-Am's board of directors, co-invented the "Cinerama" style of projection, and has his own star on the Hollywood

>>2067778
Hollywood Walk of Fame**

>>2067433
>returning from the front
>1939

>>2064992
cyka blyaat

>>2061606
Who dis? Washington?

>>2067448
Why are there so many fat cunts in reenacting?
This guy didn't even buy a fitting tunic. Is he just preparing in advance in case he gets even more fat?

>>2067433
Does not look at all like 1939 to me.
The tunics they're wearing are WW1 era, and there was no front to return from in 1939.

>>2064992
>"And then, comrade, then I told Stalin that I'll reach Berlin no matter how many Russians I'll have to kill"
>"Don't you mean Germans?"
>"Oh..."

>>2067423
>hey, hun.
>watch me do a skid like a mad cunt

>>2063436
This is a really nice pic
:3

I hope they survived even the aftermath of the war

>>2067434
I'm a big Detroit guy and I've never seen this pic, that's a really good view of campus martius

Note the moonlight tower in the foreground, neat

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>>2059132

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Still underrated IMO

>>2061575
Tbh i thought he was hot based on other pics but he just looks like a fat old fuck there. Same as Rimbaud

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Arbenz

>>2064992
>yes, yes, we'll withdraw our troops immediately after the countries they occupy are stable.

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>>2072462
It is underrated.

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Iraqi guntrucks circa 1957.

>>2073901
Christ, Iraqis really love their technicals.

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>>2073909
It was the natural easy method to patrol the desert.

>Iraqi Churchills at the same parade, 1957

>>2059456
What is that apparatus that he's holding/wearing?

>>2074026
Looks like a flamethrower attachment for his rifle.

>>2066193
shit's about to get real for those horses.

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Can I get some early 20th century strong men?

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Not a photo, but definitely historical.

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Collusion with the enemy

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Stalins captured son

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Are you sure you dropped the dime on this hill?

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The oldest person ever captured on photo.

He was born in 1745 and had he lived in Europe he would have had a chance of fighting in the Seven Years War under Frederick the Great.

>>2075633
how old was he when he died?

>>2075894
104 I believe.

>>2074026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_sniffer

>>2067414
What is that?

>>2062114

British uniforms in the Great War were objectively better than WW2 uniforms.

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like what i posted so far?

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>>2076250
yea, continue.

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>>2059132

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>>2076325

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>>2076326

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>>2076327

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>>2076330

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>>2076332

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>>2076336

>>2076326
Pretty sure that's just another soldier posing for the photo.

Got any more ss wiking stuff?

>>2076327
The sheer joy on that man's face always brings a smile to my lips. He must have been so fucking happy to have his picture taken. Some pale dude just walked up to him and was like "Yo wanna sit in front of this magic box for a bit?"

He probably didn't even think it'd appear hundreds of years later on some Laosian shadowpuppetry forum.

>>2075502
wtf is going on

>muh image limit

pls migrate
>>2079319
>>2079319
>>2079319

>>2063436
>>2063439

This is pretty nice. I actually live there and I have never seen any pictures like this. Thanks a lot.

>>2073954
:(
Who killed Patton?

>>2062103
Once he felt his English had improved sufficiently, Benga discontinued his formal education. He began working at a Lynchburg tobacco factory. He proved a valuable employee because he could climb up the poles to get the tobacco leaves without having to use a ladder. His fellow workers called him "Bingo". He often told his life story in exchange for sandwiches and root beer. He began to plan a return to Africa.[27]

In 1914 when World War I broke out, a return to the Congo became impossible as passenger ship traffic ended. Benga became depressed as his hopes for a return to his homeland faded.[27] On March 20, 1916, at the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, and shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol.[28]

He was buried in an unmarked grave in the black section of the Old City Cemetery, near his benefactor, Gregory Hayes. At some point, the remains of both men went missing. Local oral history indicates that Hayes and Ota Benga were eventually moved from the Old Cemetery to White Rock Cemetery, a burial ground that later fell into disrepair.[29]
Damn

>>2062038
>>2064992
kek adrien brody, what film was this again?

>>2062959
That is President Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was not a Kaiser.

>>2063261
confirmed retarded

>>2067417
great picture, do you have a date for it?

>>2069875
definitely first world war

>>2076343
there's a history to this picture. But no, he's no soldier. He is kinda posing and realised it. Hence the smile.