The Calutron Girls at work on The Manhattan Project... (1944)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Soldiers look at the 45-meter-deep crater left by the detonation of 21 tons of explosives underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, the blast killed 10,000 soldiers and was heard in Dublin. 19177yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Las Vegas visitors observe a mushroom cloud from atomic test just 65 miles away.... (1955)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Newly liberated inmates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp prepare a meal outdoors near the heaped bodies of the dead.... (April 18th 1945)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Cosmetic masks to be worn by soldiers badly disfigured during World War I... (circa 1920)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Slaves in the cotton field (Georgia – c. 1850s - 1860s)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Prostitute at a Storyville, New Orleans brothel in the only legalized red light district in North America until it was shut down in 5 years later.... (1912)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A woman grabs the matches from a Buddhist nun who had drenched herself in gasoline and was attempting to set fire to herself. Pagoda Park. South Korea. 19637yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Battle of the Somme in pictures (1916)... In the week leading up to the battle, over 1.5 million shells were fired.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A French Civilian crying after finding out Nazi's have entered Paris,19407yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
German soldiers reacting to footage of concentration camps in 19457yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
lleta Sullivan reads a letter from the U.S. Navy. She received 2 letters from F.D.R. in Feb. of 1943. The 1st informed her of the death of her 5 sons in the line of duty, the 2nd sent later requested her presence at the christening of the destroyer U.S.S. Sullivans named in their honor.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Dogs pulling a Maxim M1910 machine gun in service to the Belgian Army... (circa 1918)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Flyover of the Jones Town Massacre.... November 18, 1978, over 900 people died in the remote religious Peoples Temple commune in Georgetown, Guyana.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Seconds after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi | Photo by Nathuram Godse, (1948)7yr ⋅ king-inthenorth ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A woman in England wearing a gas mask pushing her baby around in a gas resistant pram (stroller) , 19387yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A little boy trying to go with his father who his leaving for the war, 19407yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Dresden, 1945, view from the city council hall over the destroyed city7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
During France in 1944, any females who befriended Nazis were required to get their head's shaved. This publicly marked them.7yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
President Bush being notified of the terrorist attacks , September 11th , 20017yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
World War 1 soldier with and without his facial prosthetic... From The Men with Broken Faces. Artists were commissioned to make face prosthetics, usually trying to match with what the wounded looked like Pre-WWI, made out of thin metal sheets... circa 19207yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
In 1998, Sudan underwent a catastrophic famine caused by drought and a lack of expedient action; the fragile infrastructure caused by civil conflicts between rebels and the government slowed down aid and made the famine more severe.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The McQuilken brothers, Sean(12) and Michael(18) grinning, hair standing on end, unaware that they were minutes away from being struck by lightning while climbing Moro Rock in California’s Sequoia National Park.... (1975)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Hermann Goring sits in the dock at the Nuremberg War Trials in 1946...He was sentenced to be hanged but committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before his sentence was carried out.6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Australian infantry wearing Small Box Respirators (SBR). The soldiers are from the 45th Battalion, Australian 4th Division at Garter Point near Zonnebeke, Ypres sector.... (27 September 1917)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Sgt. Stubby in his great coat during World War I.... (circa 1917)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A women falls from Genesee Hotel in 1942. Buffalo Courier Press photographer I. Russell Sorgi took a photo of Mary Miller standing on the Geneese Hotel. As she waved goodbye he reloaded the camera and caught the last second of her life, frozen in time 15 feet above the sidewalk below.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
After the liberation of Holland US soldiers escort traditionally dresses dutch children to a concert... (Feb 1945)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
A vulture watching a child starve to death in Southern Sudan, 19937yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
On May Day, 1947, after leaving her fiance, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. “He is much better off without me... I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody.” She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Then she jumped.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon, 19637yr ⋅ GreatPenguins ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Sailors aboard an Austrian battleship wearing their protective suits and gas masks.... (July 1916)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Hermann Goring sits in the dock at the Nuremberg trial, 1946.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
London (December, 1952) - a deadly cloud of fog and pollution lasted for five days, in what became known as the Great Smog of 1952.6yr ⋅ GoodGriefWhatsNext ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
“Beware Of Death” Sign Above An Unexploded Shell In A Tree During WW1... (circa 1917)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
More than 100,000 American soldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. This photo by Jonathan Mitchell... (1944)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
On June 20, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 panels [on the White House roof] designed to harvest the sun's rays and use them to heat water.7yr ⋅ johnabbe ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Falklands War.... Royal Marines guarding Argentine prisoners.... (1982)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Erwin Rommel in North Africa during June 1942. Many, if not most pundits, would rate Rommel as the best General of WW2. His ability to smash the Allies line at its most vulnerable point on numerous occasions begrudgingly made him a star in many Allies eyes.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on August 15, 1961, during construction of the Berlin Wall.6yr ⋅ GoodGriefWhatsNext ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Bread and Roses strike begun by immigrant women in Massachusetts ends with 23,000 men, women & children on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line. The Department of Labor is created. Massachusetts establishes the first minimum wage law, protecting pay for women and minors. (1912)7yr ⋅ johnabbe ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Sergeant Andrew M. Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Co. F., and Silas Chandler, family slave.... (circa 1863)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Albatros C.I was the 1st of the C-series of 2 seat biplanes built by Albatros Flugzeugwerke on the unarmed Albatros B.II. The rear cockpit was fitted with a ring-mounted 7.5 mm Parabellum machine gun. This photo demonstrates a bombing run... (circa 1916)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Falklands War.... Discarded equipment in a field on the sparsely-populated islands.... (1982)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
This woman was locked in a box as a form of public punishment for committing a crime, some times until starvation. This was taken in Mongolia, in 19137yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
American athletes raising their fist for black power during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City7yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Easter rising. Snipers kneeling behind barricade, British Occupation Forces, Dublin, 19167yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Korean Conflict During a UN operation, men and equipment are parachuted down toward troops on the ground.... (circa 1951)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Waffen SS Major Otto Kumm playing with some animals... (c. 1941)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The dead body of a German officer lying on the steps of the Reich Chancellery following the Battle of Berlin.... (May 1945)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Gulf War 1.... U.S. soldiers speak near an Iraqi soldiers' corpses in February 19917yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Soldiers on the Western Front were seen eating a meal to celebrate Christmas Day in a shell hole partly occupied by the grave of a comrade... (probably 1914)6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Franz Reichelt “the Flying Tailor”, who jumped to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a parachute of his own design... (February 4, 1912)7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Fidel Castro with Chile’s President Salvador Allende upon his arrival at Pudahuel Airport in Santiago on November 10, 19717yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
The Korean War started on June 25, 1950, when the forces of North Korea invaded South Korea. Here, the U.S. Army's new tank killer, the 3.5 bazooka, is shown in action against North Korean forces during the Korean War on July 27, 1950.6yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Buss Mascot with an R.A.F. Squadron stationed in Libya, on February 15, 1942, takes a few personal liberties with the pilot of an American-Built Tomahawk plane somewhere in the Western Desert.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Michael Wittmann was Germany's top tank commander during the Second World War. He was holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He met his end in a fiery ambush on August 8, 1944 at age 306yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
This hydroplane is part of the R.A.F. rescue service in the Middle East.Consisting of a cabin mounted on seaplane flats it is driven by an aircraft engine and propeller mounted in the stern and steered by an aircraft rudder.The top speed of the craft is about fifteen knots. March 11, 1942.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
On January 22, 1987, R. Budd Dwyer scheduled a press conference to resign as Treasurer of Pennsylvania. During his speech, he pulled a revolver out of a manila envelope and put it in his mouth. Millions of people saw him pulling the trigger and witnessed his suicide.7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
An Eastern - Alliance fighter watching an American B-52 bomber circle above, Afghanistan 20017yr ⋅ Glumbot_2 ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
Buried by a record breaking 1952 blizzard near Donner Summit in the High Sierra of Soda Springs, California7yr ⋅ Reporter_at_large ⋅ r/OldSchoolImpactful
