1538
Hot history related posts. Chat: @r_channels
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot Captain Chris Stricklin ejects from his F-16C fighter jet after he miscalculated a Reverse Half Cuban Eight maneuver during an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho 14 September 2003 [3008 × 1960]
https://redd.it/16j7hf5
Yvonne De Carlo and Burt Lancaster - Criss Cross (1949)
https://redd.it/16gtqwb
An unidentified Chagossian harvesting coconuts in 1971. Only 2 years later, he and ~1700 native inhabitants of the archipelago would be expelled from their homes by the British at the request of the US government so they could turn it into a military base. [1172x1800]
https://redd.it/16ivig3
A typical American family in 1950s, Detroit, Michigan.
https://redd.it/16ingds
G.I. Joey: 1942- Photo by John Earl McNeil.
https://redd.it/16gvxig
'Zero Hour' by James Prinsep Beadle in 1918. [1200 × 690]
https://redd.it/16dwjdo
A Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) member of the London District, shows her brand new tattoo to fellow enlistees Circa 1934-44
https://redd.it/16hrcel
A photo of Stephan Bibrowski (1890-1932) AKA Lionel the Lion-Faced Boy. He was born with a rare medical condition known as Hypertrichosis, & worked as a freak show performer in Europe & the U.S. The locks of hair on his face could grow up to 8 inches in length, 1907 (1140x1631)
https://redd.it/16hh73h
"Les vedettes 1914" by Eugene Chaperon
https://redd.it/16foa96
A political caricature of the civil war in Libya, 2011.
https://redd.it/16gnewo
Archery competition during annual Juwenalia student carnival. Kraków, Poland, 1935. [1080x787]
https://redd.it/16gp6i4
The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Savannah (CL-42) is hit by a German radio-guided Fritz X bomb while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943 [5660 x 4182]
https://redd.it/16g2qp9
"The twin towers ten years later." 2011
https://redd.it/16fuit8
A Zulu tribesman pulls a tourist in a pedicab in Durban, Union of South Africa. Photo by Melville Chater, 1930's [636x865]
https://redd.it/16fok61
War Pieta, 2007, by Max Ginsburg
https://redd.it/16fle4s
Pythagoras (centre) teaches 8 other physicians (Andromachus the Elder, Andromachus the Younger, Heraclides, Philagrius, Proclus, Magnus of Mesa, & Galen). From the Kitab al-Diryaq (Book of Antidotes), an 1198 Arabic medical treatise + collection of tales about these nine Greek physicians. [751x1024]
https://redd.it/16d7sam
A giant Nazi flag (Personal standard of Adolf Hitler) measuring 2.5 m²/26 ft² being made in Berlin for Hitler's Nazi congress to be held in Nuremberg. On 15 September 1935, the Nazi flag became the only national flag of Germany (Berlin, Nazi Germany 1935) [2867x2031]
https://redd.it/16j4wt0
The Crimson Ghost (1946) - Fight & Car Chase Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRRwmrIp1NU&ab_channel=ColorCinema
https://redd.it/16hrpvx
Gniew Castle 🏰 Gniew, Poland
https://redd.it/16ihug8
American writer John Steinbeck in 1935
https://redd.it/16glxhn
U.S. Infantrymen await the word to advance in pursuit of retreating Japanese forces on Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. 13 September 1943 [2119 × 1709]
https://redd.it/16hieeg
The World Trade Center airplane alert antenna, amidst the rubble of ground zero. 13 September 2001 [1312 × 2000]
https://redd.it/16hh0dq
So I tried this new online dating fad...!
https://redd.it/169xyos
An Iraqi Kurdish woman visits the grave of her relative, Hafkar Omar Mustafa who was killed in a gas attack by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 1988 during 24th anniversary of the attack at the memorial site of the victims in the Kurdish town of Halabja. 2012 [612x612]
https://redd.it/16gjan8
USS Arron Ward (DM-34) after being hit by six kamikazes and two bombs while patrolling Radar Picket Station Ten off Okinawa on May 3, 1945. Forty-two of the crew were lost and the ship was eventually not deemed worth repairing. [1280x944]
https://redd.it/16gmaw5
50 years ago, on September 11, 1973, the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende was overthrown by a US-backed right-wing military coup, ushering in decades of sadistic repression. Below are Allende's final words to his people and the world, broadcast live on the radio. [1500×967]
https://redd.it/16fwwpa
Nobel Prize Winning Agronomist Norman Borlaug, Father of the Green Revolution Credited with Saving Over a Billion People From Starvation, 1960s [1000x567]
https://redd.it/16g3l9q
Removing rocks obstructing the Hell Gate, a narrow tidal strait in New York's East River. It used 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) of explosives, probably the largest artificial explosion in the 19th century. October 10, 1885, scan from a book from 1893 [1303×806]
https://redd.it/16fodqp
Anti-Shah propaganda poster. In 1979, a huge Shi'a Muslim revolution took down Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Ayatollah Khomeini took the reign. The painting depicts Khomeini holding the Quran over Iran as the Shah leaves humiliated accompanied by his dog, with coins dropping.
https://redd.it/16fmmm0
"Don't hurt children!" USSR 1979
https://redd.it/16ey0gk