Percival Lowell’s personal secretary Wrexie Leonard at the eyepiece of the Clark Telescope; The Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; 1896/7; [1427×1948]. 1 Comment Vintage
Known only as the “Naked Gunner”, this Navy crewman took off his clothes to rescue an injured pilot from the water while under enemy fire and then returned to his gun blister aboard an amphibious plane on a mission to save U.S. airmen downed over Japanese waters. Papua New Guinea, 1944 [1000×1051] 13 Comments Vintage
Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary Juan García Oliver, future Minister of Justice of the Second Republic, kisses his partner before leaving for the front. Barcelona, Spanish Civil War, August 28, 1936.[720×1082] 1 Comment Vintage
A Holocaust train from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstadt is liberated by the United States Army, early April 1945 [1486 × 1200] 2 Comments Vintage