Photographs

The famous photograph took by Juan Guzmán shows a 17 year old Marina Ginesta, a French born reporter, translator and communist militant, at the top of Hotel Colon in Barcelona. The image is dated July 21st, 1936, right at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Ginesta is carrying a …

Soldiers of the Finnish army are pictured using a captured Soviet ROKS-2 flamethrower during training exercises. The ROKS-2 was designed so it could not be identified as a flamethrower by the enemy – the gas and fuel tanks were camouflaged to resemble a backpack, while the flame projector imitated a …

The Ludendorff Bridge pictured in 1945, compared to modern times. The Bridge was built in World War One at Remagen, Germany, to help German movements over the Rhine river. In early March 1945, it was a critical bridge still left standing, as the Allies achieved a surprisingly quick advance towards …

Bucharest North Train Station, the largest railway station in Romania, Spring of 1948 (according to the top-left banner) vs modern times. Notice the communist insignia in the middle of the historical photograph, and the banners which advertise some kind of conference for a youth organization. By 1948, King Michael I …

A bunker pictured during World War Two has been turned into a flower shop, 1945 vs 2018. It seems like the windmill in the bunker was being reconditioned in the second photograph. Alkmaar went through a rather uneventful occupation by German forces during World War Two. However, the Jewish community …

Panzer IV tanks traversing an improvised bridge on the Eastern Front. Russia, September or August 1943. The Panzer IV was the most popular German tank in WW2, with around 8500 units built, and the only German tank to be produced during the entirety of the war. It was produced between …

A German Wehrmacht soldier is photographed while sharing his meal with a kitten sometime during World War Two. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 Animals In War: Valiant Horses, Courageous Dogs, and Other Unsung Animal Heroes (Jilly Cooper, 1983)

Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who is thought to have fought for the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army and the German Wehrmacht – thus being the only soldier in recent history to have engaged on three sides of a war. Although there are some who dispute the …

A wrecked PZL P.23B aircraft, sometime in 1939. The PZL.23 Karas was a Polish light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, designed in the early 1930s. It first flew in 1934, and entered service in 1936. The 23B variant (pictured here) was equipped with a superior Pegasus VIII engine. The PZL.23 was …

USS Nevada (BB-36) battleship firing its 14″/45 guns towards shore during the Utah Beach landings on June 6th, 1944. The “unsinkable” USS Nevada BB-36 was the lead ship of the two Nevada class battleships. It was launched in 1914 and served in both World Wars. Among other feats, it survivied …