USS Alcedo (SP-166) while off NY City in August 1917. While escorting a convoy en route to Brest, France, Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk by UC-71 on 5 November 1917. Twenty-one crewmembers were lost with the ship. She was the first American vessel lost in WWI. [2700 x 3407] Comment Vintage
Pooli a cat who served abroad a United States attack transport during WW2, and who was awarded three service ribbons and four battle stars on her 15th birthday, 1959 [412×399] 1 Comment Vintage
Construction of tunnels behind Niagara Falls, 10 stories underground, before they were filled with water. January 9, 1906. [747×514] 1 Comment Vintage
Soviet Il2 ground-attack aircraft firing on a German convoy during the Battle of Kursk, 1943 [600×414] Comment Vintage
