r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 8h ago
r/HistoryPorn • u/PRADYUSH2006 • 18h ago
Thousands of conservative white South Africans march through the streets of Pretoria on February 15, 1990 in a protest against the reforms made by President Frederik W. De Klerk and the release of anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela [1536x1024]
r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 15h ago
Kriegsmarine Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, firing at close range at Polish positions on Westerplatte - in the first hours of the German invasion of Poland, on September 1st, 1939. [800 x 533]
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 20h ago
PFC Elbert “Jack” Brown died from his wounds in France on August 31, 1944, he was 35 years old. [427x448]
Born in Marion Township, Ohio to Mr & Mrs George Brown on June 30, 1909, Elbert Noel “Jack” Brown had at least one sister.
He was living in Audrain County, Missouri when he was inducted into the Army on May 16, 1942.
After training Jack served in Company E, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division.
They landed at Omaha Beach on the day after DDay on June 7, 1944 and participated in the capture of Isigny-sur-Mer.
While fighting through the grueling hedgerows, Jack was wounded in the head by shrapnel on June 25, 1944.
He was medically evacuated and after surgery recovered from his wounds and eventually rejoined his unit.
On August 30, 1944 during fighting on the outskirts of Brest, Jack was wounded again but this time more seriously.
He passed away from his wounds the following day at a field hospital near Plouzané, France.
PFC Elbert “Jack” Brown is buried at the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in France - Plot H Row 2 Grave 6.
r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 12h ago
Soldiers of the SS Heimwehr Danzig unit advance on the Polish post office while being covered by an ADGZ armored vehicle, Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), 1 September 1939. [616x593]
r/HistoryPorn • u/City_of_Commorragh • 10h ago
Burning HMS Queen Mary during Battle of Jutland, 31th May 1916. Both sides claimed victory, but the battle sealed british dominance over North Sea and ended any german chance to break the naval blockade[750x404]
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 22h ago
Artillery men of ‘C' Battery, 90th Field Artillery, lay down a murderous barrage on troublesome Japanese artillery positions in Balete Pass, Luzon, Philippines, April 19, 1945. [485x600]
r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 5h ago
Jan Plesman, a fighter pilot with No. 322 (Dutch) Squadron RAF holding parrot "Polly Grey," the squadron mascot. August 1943 [3638 × 2429]
r/HistoryPorn • u/mgwngn1 • 21h ago
A DAF YP-408 during a military coup in Suriname, 1980. [460 x 337]
r/HistoryPorn • u/myrmekochoria • 7h ago
At segregated drinking fountain, Mobile, Alabama 1956.[900x902]
r/HistoryPorn • u/PRADYUSH2006 • 17h ago
Skyline of Johannesburg, South Africa, with Hillbrow Tower, then known as JG Strijdom Tower visible, 1970 [1519x1036]
r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 14h ago
Residents of Homestead, Florida, sorting through piles of donated clothing in a parking lot following Hurricane Andrew, which left around 160,000 people homeless. (1992) [3500×2402]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Armios-San • 9h ago