Union soldier Charles Merrill was saved from a musket ball by his Bible at the Battle of Chancellorsville. When he wrote to Lincoln about the incident, the President sent him a new Bible with his signature inside.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Remembrance Day: Iconic photo of WWI veteran Joseph Ambrose, aka “Doughboy Joe”, at the Vietnam War Memorial dedication in 1982.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A tooth extraction taking place in a liquor store in 1872 before dentistry became a common profession in of itself.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A Romanian soldier giving a sign of victory after the 1989 revolution, having removed the communist insignia from his headwear.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
The Babe and Japanese pitcher Eiji Sawamura in 1934. At 17 years old, Sawamura faced an American traveling team and struck out four future HoFers in a row: Geheringer, Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx. He was killed in 1944, serving in WWII.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/baseball
Cecil Fielder and his son Prince. Both hit exactly 319 home runs in their respective careers.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/baseball
Gunny Sgt. Ryan Shane attempting to rescue Sgt. Lonny Wells in Fallujah. Shane later said: “I’m finding it really hard to accept my greatest achievement as a Marine, this medal, also comes from my greatest failure” [975 x 625].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Tsar Nicholas II in infantry uniform in 1909. The Tsar personally evaluated the outfit by marching 40km in about 8 hours with nothing but the supplies of a common soldier [750 x 935].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A US Marine Corps drill instructor greeting a new recruit [750 x 500].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
United States Marines raiding a police station in 2004 during the Battle of Najaf3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Sgt. Jesse Leach pulling LCpl. Valdez-Cortez to cover after being wounded by sniper fire in Karma, Iraq. Valdez-Cortez survived the ordeal.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Bronze sculpture, inspired by the Legend of King Arthur, standing at Tintagel Castle.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A French trench raider with a revolver and dagger in 1916 [750 x 930].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
German soldiers firing and tossing grenades from their trench in 1915.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
A Japanese WWII veteran plays guitar on the street in 1946 [750 x 786].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A Saxon soldier taking one last photograph before leaving for the front in 1915 [750 x 935].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
British Royal Marines breaching a Taliban compound in Helmand, Afghanistan3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Russian WWII veterans and married couple Lyudmilla and Alexei, survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, in 2013 [750 x 935].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
112 year-old Teimruz Vanacha (left), veteran of WWI and the Russian Civil War, with his son Ivan, a veteran of WWII, in 1980 [750 x 926].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A wounded French soldiers pleads for help from German soldiers during street fighting in France in 1940.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
“Bonaparte Before the Spinx”: A 1858 painting depicting Napoleon before the Great Spinx with his army in the distance [1280 x 766].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A Serbian soldier sleeps beside his father who visited him in the trenches near Belgrade, 1914/15 [750 x 567]4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
An Armenian soldier firing artillery on an Azerbaijani position in September 2020. The man pictured, Albert Hovhannisyan, was killed on October 8th.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Japanese girls training in 1945 for the anticipated invasion of mainland Japan3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
An American soldier posing with a M1917 revolver and bolo knife in 1918 [750 x 842].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A South Vietnamese soldier punches a captured Viet Cong guerrilla during an operation in Quahm Nam province in 1965 [750 x 580].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A Red Cross nurse writing the last words of a dying British soldier in 1917 [750 x 705].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Members of the German Freikorps, a paramilitary organization consisting mainly of WWI veterans, with an armored car in January 1919 during the German Revolution [1125 x 747].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A stunned Finnish soldier walks away without injury after shrapnel pierced his helmet in August 1941.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
King Charles XII of Sweden, and the uniform he was wearing when he was killed, still surviving to this today.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
An Italian Alpino being hoisted up a cliff side in 1916 [1125 x 1230].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A Finnish military chaplain writing letters to the families of fallen comrades in 1941.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese fighter ace Takeo Tanimizu on Okinawa with his Mitsubishi A6M. Tanimizu had great respect for his US adversaries, even flying low to throw a life preserver to Cpt. Harvey Carter after shooting his plane down [1125 x 770].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A South Korean sniper and An Chan-il, a North Korea studies expert who escaped from the country in 1979, stand together at a border security zone in Cherwon [744 x 992].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Soviet soldiers fighting in the suburbs of Stalingrad in September 1942.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
A US marine shares rations with an elderly woman on Okinawa in April 1945.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
A Kenpeitai sergeant and his wife in a wedding photo in the 1930s [750 x 933].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Photograph of a fallen soldier from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, taken by German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt [750 x 810].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
General George S. Patton: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country”.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
An entrenched German MG34 team provides suppressing fire on a street in the northern sector of Stalingrad in 1942.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Despite suffering wounds from shrapnel, 76 years ago on D-Day army medic Waverly B. Woodson made it ashore Omaha Beach. For the next 30 hours, he treated over 200 men before collapsing from his injuries. He was nominated but never received the Medal of Honor.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
Japanese Coast Guard JCG Muzuki (PS-11) & JCG Nobaru (PS-16) ramming Chinese boat piloted by activists in 2012 [960 x 630].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
Colorized photograph of four veterans of different wars from the same town of Geary, Oklahoma. From top left, clockwise: WWII, WWI, Civil War, and Spanish-American War [750 x 935].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Oldest photograph of a presidential inauguration: the James Buchanan inauguration in 18573yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Chinese resistance fighter Cheng Benhua moments before she was bayoneted to death by Japanese soldiers in 1939.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
Craftsmanship of the headware worn by Alessandro Farnese, a 16th century governor of the Netherlands.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
French soldiers and painter Jean-Julien Lemordant, blinded during WWI, in 1917. A patriot, Lemordant enlisted for frontline duty at age 36 and suffered 3 wounds at Artois. After a series of surgeries, his eyesight was later restored [677 x 928].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting fortifications in preparation for the Allied invasion, 1944.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
The French pre-dreadnought battleship Charlemagne in 1902 [715 x 475].4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
“You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball”: Cal Ripken Jr. and Sr.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/baseball
A young Hank Aaron in 1951 just prior to beginning his career with the Indianapolis Clowns3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Lauri Torni served for three countries (Finland, Germany & US) and in three wars (Winter War, WWII, and Vietnam War). He is the only former member of the Waffen-SS buried at Arlington Cemetery.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Ardelt Waffentrager. Only one such vehicle saw action, fighting at Brandeburg in April 1945.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/TankPorn
Skull of a soldier killed by a canister shot during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A South Vietnamese soldier armed with a BAR rifle kicks a captured Viet Cong guerrilla in 1965 [975 x 653].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
A German soldier viewing through binoculars Allied POWs captured at Dunkirk [1125 x 770].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
German machine gun team firing on Soviet positions during the Battle of Stalingrad.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The last American Civil War veteran Henry Albert Woolson in 1953 at 103 years old.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A Union and Confederate veteran at Gettysburg in 1913 shake hands on land they once fought over 50 years earlier.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
German soldiers posing in gas masks in the Vosges Mountains in 1918 (colorized by Julius Colorization) [750 x 930].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig fooling around during Spring Training in 1937.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/baseball
Hitler and his staff inspecting a model of the Maus Super Heavy Tank in 1943.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/TankPorn
Wentz congratulating Hurts after the Saints game. I think we need to remember to support both of these guys. They are Eagles no matter who is the starter this season or next.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/eagles
Supreme Commander and future 34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/wwiipics
General Otto Schumann presenting a portrait of Adolf Hitler to a young girl who won top prize in a Hitler Youth and Nationale Jeugdstorm competition in Laan Van Poot in 1941.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German and Swiss soldiers conversing at the border in Pontarlier, France in July 1940. The Swiss fully mobilized just three days after the invasion of Poland.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Field Marshal August Van Mackensen in Hussar uniform in 1915. In his lifetime, he experienced the Kingdom of Prussia, the North German Confederation, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and Allied occupation.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
French soldiers returning from fighting in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 [1125 x 1270].3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
I was bashed for calling the woman Palestinian so maybe you guys will appreciate this image more4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/Palestine
German and Romanian soldiers during Operation Munchen. Romania contributed more troops to the Eastern Front than all of Germany’s other allies combine.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Greek soldiers charging a Turkish position in the Battle of Gediz during the Greco-Turkish War.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Members of Luflande-Sturm-Regimen 1 enjoying cigarettes after the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium. Reputed to be impenetrable, the fortress fell on May 11, 1940.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Wehrmacht soldiers in a defensive position during the Battle of Berlin. The one in the foreground is armed with an StG 44 assault rifle with a ZF-4 scope (April-May 1945).4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Wehrmacht soldiers with a captured Browning machine gun in Normandy. The trench was dug to rotate in any direction.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
German soldiers of the 24th Panzer Division fighting near the southern station in Stalingrad, 1942.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Spanish General Agustin Munoz Grandes, commander of the “Blue Division”, receiving the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in 1942.3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
Photograph by war correspondent Hans Hildebrand depicting life in the trenches for German soldiers on the Alsace Front in 1914 (original color).3yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
Members of Panzer Lehr Division study a map of the region surrounding the village of Tilly-sur-Seulles during the Battle of Normandy, 1944.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
The Arado Ar 234, the first jet-powered bomber, dropping its payload in early 1945. In the few instances it was utilized as a bomber, it was nearly impossible to intercept, reaching max speeds of 480mph (780km/h).4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
British soldier guarding German POWs captured during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
Hauptmann Peter Kiesgen, recipient of the Knight’s Cross and five Tank Destruction badges, instructs young recruits how to operate the Panzerfaust in 1944.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/GermanWW2photos
King George V decorating American Private Harry Kelly with the Distinguished Conduct Medal, second only to the Victoria Cross, for his actions during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
Members of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in their trench on the Western Front (c. 1917).4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
Austro-Hungarian soldiers armed with Mannlicher M95 Stutzens on the Isonzo Front in 1917.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
French soldiers repelling a German advance from their hillside trench in the Vosges, 1916.4yr ⋅ WeAreBrainPolice ⋅ r/WWIpics
