Vintage

"Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat." By CphoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944 found at the US National Archives.

"A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Germans removed from their victims to salvage the gold. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near Buchenwald concentration camp." By T4c. Roberts, May 5, 1945 found…

"President Bill Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner hosted by President Yeltsin at Novoya Ogarova Dacha, Russia" By Bob McNeely, January 13, 1994 found at the US National Archives.

"View of soldiers from the 331st Machine Gun Battalion performing exercises at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois." found at the US National Archives.

found at the US National Archives.

A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (found at the US National Archives)

Personnel viewing the detonation of Project "Open Shot", Nevada. (Source: US National Archives)

On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S. Navy re…

found on shorpy (via kottke)

November 1942. "An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va." found on Shorpy.

A photo (CC by-nc licensed) I found in the Wellcome Image Collection. I wonder why these women are all wearing masks. I assume it's to protect their privacy, but nonetheless it looks funny.

Nice vintage book cover found in the Wellcome Collection.

"Müllern Sie Ihr Haar!" -- found in the Wellcome Collection.

Old-timer, -- keeping up with the boys. Many structural workers are above middle-age. Empire State [Building]. Source: US National Archives

The famous "Warschauer Kniefall" of German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Staatsbesuch von Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt und Außenminister Walter Scheel in Polen (6.-8.12.70). Bundeskanzler Brandt kniet am Denkmal für die Helden des Warschauer Ghettos nieder.

The famous "Warschauer Kniefall" of German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Staatsbesuch von Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt und Außenminister Walter Scheel in Polen (6.-8.12.70). Bundeskanzler Brandt kniet am Denkmal für die Helden des Warschauer Ghettos nieder.; Mo…

A panorama picture of 1971's San Francisco, taken off the Bay Bridge, then stitched together by Brad Templeton. (via Telstar Logistics)

Hm. Now that's ironic. Stumbled across it here.