In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a hilltop as American soldiers drive through the town of St Lo. France. 1944
10:54 pm • 7 May 2013 • 7 notes
Installing the Abraham Lincoln Statue at Lincoln Memorial 1920
12:54 pm • 30 April 2013 • 4 notes
Happy 90th Birthday Bill Guarnere
“I’m just one part of the big war. That’s all, one little part. And I’m proud to be apart of it. And sometimes, it makes me cry.”
(Source: misspepperwood, via rendezvouswithdestiny)
3:25 pm • 28 April 2013 • 601 notes
A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning POW’s. Vienna. 1947. Photograph by Ernst Haas.
6:02 pm • 21 April 2013 • 3 notes
fer1972:
Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras
1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937
2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944
3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989
4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940
(via collectivehistory)
4:26 pm • 18 April 2013 • 255,681 notes
Oh Stephen, you know just how to play my heart strings.
(Source: drunkonstephen)
7:02 pm • 17 April 2013 • 121,869 notes