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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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D-Day, 6th June 1944.
It looks like something out of a alien invasion/sci-fi movie.
Like some last ditch attempt to save humanity, (and maybe it was) in both senses of the word.
The shot of the beach with all the landing craft, zeppelins, etc just blows my mind. How huge that operation was, I don't think another one like it will ever happen. And hopefully it never needs to happen again.
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One word: Iraq.
I work in a newsroom and it takes a lot to shock me, but some of the video and pictures that have surfaced over the last week - particularly the ISIS-released images of the execution of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers who were rounded up into lorries, laid out on the ground and shot like animals - have left me dumb-founded.
It's pretty hard to know where to start with this entire massacre, but instead of mass-posting, I thought I'd go with just one:
An Iraqi young boy holds a weapon from the window of a car as people gather to show their readiness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities on June 16, 2014 in the capital Baghdad.
Faced with a militant offensive sweeping south toward Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteer to fight, and thousands have signed up.0 -
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20th June 1943 the Detroit Race Riots begin in Detroit Michigan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Race_Riot_(1943)
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Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, after his release from the Old Bailey, London in October 1989.
Src: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/guildford-four-s-gerry-conlon-dies-in-belfast-1.1841247Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
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Some colourised history pictures - http://imgur.com/a/Qb8Ts?gallery
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Here is Lyndon Johnson, then US President, listening to a tape recording sent by Captain Charles Robb (Who I believe was his son-in-law) from Vietnam in 1968.
If there was ever a picture to show LBJ's despair during 'The War that America could not win', this was it.0 -
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Who said anything about pitying him?Theboinkmaster wrote: »Instead of posting smart comments why not take the time to post a link or some background to your random picture.Hardly a random photo, it's one of the most iconic photos of that era.
Info here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
Ok folks, this finishes here. Thanks
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On the world war one theme again,
The Accrington Pals
Officers of the Accrington Pals
The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Bradford. Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes. Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.The policy of drawing recruits from amongst a local population ensured that, when the pals battalions suffered casualties, individual towns, villages, neighbourhoods, and communities back in Britain were to suffer disproportionate losses. With the introduction of conscription in January 1916, further pals battalions were not sought. Most pals battalions were decimated by the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918, and most were amalgamated into other battalions to regularise battalion strength.
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Heinrich Hoffman: The Man Who Shot Hitler
On this day, 128 years ago, a young child named Heinrich Hoffman was born in Fürth, Germany. 35 years later, Heinrich Hoffman would become the official photographer for the NSDAP (The National Socialist German Worker’s Party) — hand picked by party leader, Adolf Hitler as his official photographer.
Getting his start in photography in 1908, the young Hoffman worked in his fathers photography store in Munich, and as a freelance photographer part time. It’s believed that in 1914, during a political rally, Hoffman snapped a picture of a young Hitler at a demonstration, and the photo subsequently ended up being used for propaganda. Just prior to joining the NSDAP, the photographer worked for the German Army.
Being the fuhrer’s only authorized photographer was a full time commitment, and Hoffman began to go everywhere that Hitler went. From large Nazi demonstrations in Berlin, to leisurely outings in the Bavarian Alps, Hoffman shadowed Hitler and shot… and shot… and shot. By the fall of the Reich, Hoffman had taken a staggering 2 million photographs of Hitler, which, due to their pervasive use as propaganda, ended up becoming a very lucrative venture for the Photographer.
When the war ended, Hoffman was arrested by the US Military and sentenced to four years in prison for profiteering. His photographic collections were gathered and sent to the National Archives where they are now considered to be in the Public Domain. Upon being released from prison, Hoffman wrote his memoirs named Hitler Was My Friend, which recounts his time with the dictator, and reveals his responsibility for introducing Hitler to his future wife, Eva Braun. The book is criticized for failing to mention any information about the holocaust, or insights into military strategy, it is still hailed as a brilliant fly on the wall perspective of a man who was Hitler’s confidant, and loathed by Propaganda Minister Goebbels and Secretary Bormann for his apolitical nature.
Enclosed are a series of rare photographs that Hoffman took of Hitler practicing his exaggerated hand gestures for future speeches. Upon seeing the negatives, Hitler ordered the photos to be destroyed, but the photographer hid them, and after the seizure of his archives, were unearthed to the public.
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Soldier’s Camera and Photos from Battle of The Bulge Found in Foxhole 70 Years Later
The Battle of the Bulge is known as one of the most deadly and influential battles of WWII. Taking place over the course of five weeks, this surprise attack by the Germans caught allied forces off-guard, causing massive casualties, especially among U.S. Troops.
Among the 89,000 casualties was a soldier named Louis J. Archambeau, a Chicago native who left behind an interesting surprise in a foxhole he had been taking refuge in during the cold weather and rough artillery fire.
Part of the Company C, 1st Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, Archambeau was an infantry rifleman. And even though he wasn’t part of the first infantry regiment on the scene, the 317th still managed to find their way into the thick of the battle.
Backing up other allied forces, Archambeau’s regiment eventually took a break to attempt to get some rest and rations. It was during this brief downtime in the foxholes of the frozen ground that Archambeau would document his final moments.
Declared MIA on December 26th, 1944, Archambeau’s last known position was in the side of the hill, in the foxholes with a number of his comrades. He was not declared KIA until February 23rd, 1945, when his body was found. At the time, the circumstances leading up to his death were shrouded in mystery.
Fast forward almost seventy years… U.S. Navy Captain Mark Anderson and his historian friend Jean Muller were out with metal detectors, scavenging around Luxembourg, where the most heated firefights of The Battle of the Bulge took place.
While traveling through the hilly forest that once served as a brutal battleground, the pair came across an empty foxhole, and inside of that foxhole they found the personal possessions of an American soldier, left untouched for almost three-quarters of a century.
Among those possessions was a camera with a partially-exposed roll of film still inside.
When they got that film developed, Anderson and Muller realized that they had stumbled upon a small collection of images taken by Archambeau during his final days, a photographic requiem of his own composition. But they didn’t stop there.
In hopes of finding out more, the duo teamed up with TheTroubledShooters.com in an attempt to seek out Archambeau’s family, show them what they had come across and hopefully shed a little bit of light on the mystery of what happened to their ancestor in his final moments.
A family member was eventually found, taking over custody of these historically and personally significant items, among them the strikingly intact images developed seventy years after being photographed.
We’ve included the developed and scanned images throughout the article, and even though they lack in quality, their power lies in accurately depicting the cold, harsh life of an infantryman during one of the most horrific battles of the Second World War.0 -
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Michael Keogh - Irishman who saved Hitler
Keogh was duty officer at a Munich barracks when he was called to quell a riot that had erupted in a gym. What he saw was not exactly a fair fight.
A crowd of some 200 soldiers was kicking the living daylights out of just two. Some of the attackers were brandishing bayonets. The two victims were about to die.
Keogh ordered his men to fire a salvo over the heads of the mob. It did the trick. He dragged the two victims out of the gym "cut, bleeding and in need of the doctor".
It was a measure of Hitler's madness that he had entered the hall to provoke a reaction from 200 troops, by hectoring them with views that were already openly hateful.
As Keogh dragged him off to the guardroom for his own safety, the future fuhrer continued to spew angry comments.
Once there, Keogh recalled: "The fellow with the moustache gave his name as Adolf Hitler. It was the Lance Corporal of Ligny. I would not have recognised him. He was thin and emaciated from his wounds."0
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