Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield to Normandy, France for “Operation Chicago. June 5, 1944.5yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Mae Yanagi, 7, waits to be bused to the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno for internment, April 19428yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ten-year-old Kazimiera Mika, whose older sister was killed during a German air raid, is comforted by American photographer Julien Bryan, Poland, 13 Sep 19398yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Carentan, rue du Quai a Vin, 3 American soldiers (gliders) carrying their bayonets (between 10 and 15 June 1944)6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General Sir Arthur Currie, who commanded the 1st Canadian Division at Vimy Ridge, on Apr 9 19177yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Edward Cambell Whitby England 1880s - Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Italian Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island, 1905. Lost baggage is the cause of their worried expressions.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sammy Davis Jr and Martin Luther King Jr backstage at New York's Majestic Theatre, 19658yr ⋅ BenAfleckIsAnOkActor ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bouncing Bomb Inventor Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979)5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
J. Hamilton Lewis, representative from Washington, and a Senator from Illinois. He was the first Senator to hold the title of 'Whip' in the Senate, later again served as the 5th Whip, and served in the Spanish-American war - ca. 19137yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wing Commander Alan Deere (1917-1995; right) with Squadron Leader Denis Crowley-Milling DSO DFC (1919-1996; left), 1940.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor, given to him due to his actions at Hacksaw Ridge, during the Battle of Okinawa8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Members of the Mochida Family wait for the Evacuation Bus, Hayward, California, May 8th, 1942. Identification tags are used to aid in keeping the family unit intact during all phases of evacuation.2yr ⋅ ColorizedPieceofJake ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Nancy Harkness Love (February 14, 1914 – October 22, 1976) c. 19435yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Mug shot of Al Capone taken by the Miami Police Department. May 19297mo ⋅ sefaoruc ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Richard Winters and Easy Company at the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's former residence in the Bavarian Alps, 1945.1mo ⋅ sefaoruc ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gather at the nose of a plane named Miss Fifinella, the mascot designed for the women by Walt Disney Studios, circa 19447yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Bath Suit Fashion Parade, Seal Beach, California, July 14, 1918 - close-up in comments5yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Battle of Britain 10 July – 31 October 1940 : A Supermarine Spitfire Mark 1A of No 19 Squadron, Royal Air Force being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8, Melsbroek, Belgium. Works No. 175140, 6 + – (Brown outlined in black). September/October 19446yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Flying Blind Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey F. Morley-Mower in Hawker Hurricane Tac. R Mark I, Z4641 (Olive II), of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, despite the fact he had been wearing glasses since the age of 11, Morley-Mower believed he too, could become an RAF pilot. Late 19416yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
On this day in history (1807), Robert E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War was born.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Jonathan Smith, veteran of the American Revolution - Fought in the Battle of Long Island on August 29, 1778 - seen here October 20th, 1854.7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Children in Halloween costumes at The Capital Times-RKO Strand Theatre Halloween party - Madison, Wisconsin, US - Oct 31, 19316mo ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) If it weren’t for a young engineering graduate who innovated the solution to a carburettor problem on the Spitfire and Hurricane Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, Britain might have lost WWII almost before it had even begun.5yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
King George VI congratulates Flight-Lieutenant A C Deere, on decorating him with the Distinguished Flying Cross at Hornchurch, Essex. To the King's left stands Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command. 27 June 19405yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ayrton Senna in a Van Diemen Formula Ford car in 1981. Senna is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Hesse and by Rhine family in 1876. Queen Victoria’s 23rd grandchild, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, is remembered best as Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Empress of Russia.6yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Blackfoot Piegan Native Americans in Northern Montana, ca. 19088yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, shown in one of The Times’s most famous photographs, on Feb. 10, 19618yr ⋅ BenAfleckIsAnOkActor ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Wing Commander C F Bunny Currant. Flying with No. 605 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain, Currant destroyed 13 enemy aircraft. In late 1941 he became Commanding Officer of No. 501 Squadron RAF and, in April 1942 Wing Commander Flying at Ibsley. He became a wing leader in 1944.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
German Albatros D.V (serial number D2359/17) Ltn. Otto Hohmuth, Jasta 23b , which was forced to land at Feuchy, being examined by British servicemen, 7 March 1918.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
U.S. Marines watching a F4U Corsair napalming a Chinese position during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, December 6 19504mo ⋅ Gensis916 ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers. Marseilles, 30th September 1914.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A victim of American bombing, ethnic Cambodian guerrilla Danh Son Huol is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp on the Ca Mau Peninsula (9/15/1970)8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Killing Field: Panther Tank of the Wiking Armored Division in Eastern Poland, July 19447yr ⋅ ExtraNoise ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (24 March 1910 – 17 September 1963) was a South African World War 2 fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain.6yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Robert Falcon Scott, British naval officer and explorer who died on his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed by Mathew Brady in Washington, April 18788yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Somme, In late July 1916. The 23rd RI fighters in a trench. #Somme1008yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs in the dressing room at half time during the first Super Bowl, January 15, 19677yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Molotov - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov - 9 March 1890 – 8 November 19867yr ⋅ jecinci ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Major Richard Winters, Captain Lewis Nixon, and other officers of Easy Company (portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers) celebrate V-E day in Hitler's private residence, Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps. May 8, 19458yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Filthy Thirteen member Clarence Ware applies war paint to Charles Plaudo. England, 31 December 1943.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Erwin Rommel as a Lieutenant, wearing a Pour le Merite after the Battle of Caporetto, Italy 19177yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA, P8147 'YT-W' EAST INDIA SQUADRON, of No. 65 Squadron RAF, in the cockpit is Sergeant Svatopluk Stulir, RAFVR (787184) -11th July 1917 - 8th November 19415yr ⋅ ColourbyRJM ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Admiral Nimitz in the conning tower of the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), on 24 June 1957, off San Francisco, California7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, 'The Butcher of Prague'. He was Acting Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (Modern day Czechoslovakia) when he was assassinated in Operation Anthropoid in 19427yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Senate Beer Ad. New York Ave NW & 14th St NW, Washington, DC 1942.8yr ⋅ Urban2487 ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Execution of a Soviet tankodesantniki by Finnish soldiers, Hangon Iohko, July 13, 19417yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Col. Claus Schenk Graf Von Stauffenberg, the German officer who tried to kill Adolf Hitler.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Picture of British inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell. USA, 19101mo ⋅ sefaoruc ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two girls standing outside of a snow fort, ca. 1910, by Jeanette Bernard8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-47 Skytrain flies over the Giza pyramids in Egypt, 1943.8yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Adolf Hitler declaring war on America, with the claim that he was honoring their commitments to Japan under the Tripartite act - Dec. 11th, 19419yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
An unidentified American soldier, shot dead by a German sniper, clutches his rifle and hand grenade in March of 1945 in Koblenz, Germany.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Two color guards and color bearers of the Japanese-American 100th Battalion, 442d Combat Team, stand at attention, while their citations are read. They are standing on ground in the Bruyeres area, France, where many of their comrades fell. November 12 19448yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Thomas James Rodoni, veteran of the First World War, and an amateur photographer, self-portrait (Selfie), ca. 1910-207yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Orville Wright conducts a gliding experiment with a glider resembling the Wright 1911 powered machine, ca. 19118yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
High school route boys. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight, and nine years. New Haven, Connecticut, March 1909.8yr ⋅ Ruzden ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Nikola Tesla, with Roger Boskovich's book 'Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis', in front of the spiral coil of his high-frequency transformer at East Houston St., New York8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Dumpu, New Guinea, 7 October 1943. Members of the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company.7yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sir David Attenborough, born this day in 1926, seen here petting a macaw, ca. 1950-518yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Negro tenant farmer, rehabilitation client. Jefferson County, Kansas, 1938.8yr ⋅ klassixx ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A Finnish soldier inside the cockpit of a Yak 9D that was crash landed by two Soviet defectors, September 2, 19448yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Junio Valerio Borghese, nicknamed 'The Black Prince', was an Italian Navy commander during the regime of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party and a prominent hard-line fascist politician in post-war Italy, unknown date7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Soldier from the York and Lancaster regiment in a front line trench, WWI.9yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A pretty lady from St. Petersbourg. Photo by Carl Bergamasco. 1870s3mo ⋅ Klimbim ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, and a Naval Intelligence Officer during WWII8yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Ensign Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy Jr., older brother to President John F. Kennedy, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, seen here as a PB4Y Liberator Pilot, of the VB-110 Squadron - Taken in England, in January of 1944. Joseph would die 7 months later, on August 12th, 19447yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Boy watching TV for the first time in an appliance store window, 1948.10yr ⋅ BenAfleckIsAnOkActor ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles. June 9, 19458yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Adolf Hitler visits C. G. Mannerheim, who is celebrating his birthday. This was the same day that Mannerheim was honored with the title Marshal of Finland, a title that no one else has held since. June 4, 1942.8yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Captain Thomas H. Garahan, 'Easy' Company, 2nd Battalion, 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division, raises the 'Stars and Stripes' flag made secretly by a local French girl. March 16, 1945.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
General George C. Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff during WWII, later Secretary of State and Defense during the Truman and later Eisenhower administrations - he also gave name to the Marshall Plan in 1953, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize7yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
David Lloyd George (1902), British chancellor and prime minister from 1916 to 1922.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant killed in air combat. Western Desert, Egypt, 194110yr ⋅ salsifufu ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Samuel Arnold, a conspirator in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln, was arrested with the other men involved in the assassination plot, seen here April 14, 18658yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Airman 1st Class William H. Pitsenbarger, 38th Rescue Squadron of the U.S. Air Force, during the Vietnam War - He received the Medal of Honor posthumously for saving 9 fellow soldiers in 1966 during heavy fighting in Cam My, seen here ca. 19657yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
A German paratrooper from the 3rd Fallschirmjager Division captured near Weywertz, Belgium, 15 january 1945.8yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
[ColorizedHistory] A group of bootblacks gather around an old Civil War veteran in Pennsylvania, 19359yr ⋅ mygrapefruit ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
The Old Post Office 1910,The second tallest structure in Washington, DC9yr ⋅ DJhinVA ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Unemployed men outside Al Capone's soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, 193110yr ⋅ klassixx ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Japanese soldiers climb out of rocks and bushes of Kerama-retto and into water to give themselves up to crew of picket boat, May, 1945.8yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
British Premier Sir Neville Chamberlain, on his return from talks with Hitler in Germany, at Heston airfield, London, England, on September 24, 1938.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
USS Macon Flying over New York Harbor, circa Summer 1933. The southern end of Manhattan Island is visible in the lower left center.8yr ⋅ Captain-Cliche ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents an hour, 19438yr ⋅ DJhinVA ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Medics from the US 5th and 6th Engineer Special Brigade help wounded soldiers on Omaha beach.9yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Harry Houdini steps into a crate at New York Harbor as part of an escape stunt, July 7, 1912.9yr ⋅ klassixx ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Sgt. Henry 'Black Death' Johnson of the 369th 'Harlem Hellfighters' poses wearing the Croix de Guerre, awarded for bravery in an outnumbered battle against German force. He also received the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2015 - 12th of February, 19198yr ⋅ zuzahin ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
An automobile accident on the U.S. 40 between Hagerstown and Cumberland, Maryland, 19369yr ⋅ klassixx ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.8yr ⋅ marinamaral ⋅ r/ColorizedHistory
