Sunday, January 16, 2022

Very Interesting Historical Pictures

I believe they are all authentic but you never know.  In any case, they are interesting.

 1. A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897


2. An airman being captured by Vietnamese in Truc Bach Lake, Hanoi in 1967.

The airman is John McCain.


3. Samurai warriors taken between 1860 and 1880


4. A shell-shocked reindeer looks on as war planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941.


5. Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios


6. Che Guevara enjoying a drink


7. The Microsoft staff in 1978


8. The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933


9. German air raid on Moscow in 1941


10. Winston Churchill out for a swim


11. The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940


12. Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yardin 1960. The boy is his son.


13. Google begins.


14. Nagasaki , 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945


15. The only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870


16. Hitler's bunker


17. A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.


18. The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott


19. The first photo taken from space in 1946


20. British SAS back from a 3-month patrol of North Africa in 1943


21. Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961


22. The first McDonalds


23. Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.


24. George S. Patton's dog mourning his master on the day of his death.


25. California lumberjacks working on Redwoods







It's time for Aunty Acid