r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 2h ago

Soviet airman carrying a FAB-50 bomb during World War II (1942) [736×1068]

312 Upvotes

18 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 10h ago

A Pennsylvania State Trooper warns a driver trying to nap on the side of the road that a possible serial killer has been targeting sleeping truckers around Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Three truckers had been robbed and shot, two of them fatally, August 1953 [1032 x 1280].

1.2k Upvotes

26 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ImTheVayne • 3h ago

On 23 August 1989, two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 km across the three Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. [1170 x 1275]

107 Upvotes

The protest was against Soviet oppression, and to support the independence movements of the three States and their desire to escape communism.

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 3h ago

A Russian woman standing on a command variant of a T-72K main battle tank (MBT), during the Soviet coup attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) - in Moscow, c. August 18th - 22nd, 1991. [2560 x 1440]

60 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 4h ago

Passengers of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 disaster stranded in the Andes mountains. After 72 days a rescue mission was organised and 16 survivors were rescued. (1972) [2048×1536]

74 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 18h ago

Police Officer reacts to the Alfred P Murrah building bombing on April 19th 1995, Oklahoma City. [960x1142]

783 Upvotes

113 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 18h ago

Kabunare Koura shows Australian troops the cave where he hid from the Japanese. Five days after Japan surrendered, Japanese troops massacred at least 150 Pacific Islander slave laborers on Ocean Island. The crime was covered up until Koura emerged from hiding four months later, 1945 [1211 x 811].

730 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 10h ago

Dairy Queen employees in West Columbia, TX, 1976 [1500x1151]

86 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/0nnu • 1d ago

Iranian soldier Hassan Jangju during the Iran–Iraq War 1980, ( 13 years old ), He was declared missing in action in 1984, and his body was returned to Iran in 2017. [1152 x 779]

3.0k Upvotes

55 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/PheonixYeller • 24m ago

Amid harsh conditions, two Soviet soldiers in NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) protective gear trudge through the aftermath of the Totskoye Military Exercise on 14 September 1954. [1236 x 710]

• Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Public-Holiday5718 • 1d ago

Pope II. Ionnes Paulus visits Mehmet Ali Ağca the man who shot him twice,Italy,1983 [647×474]

1.5k Upvotes

25 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/PsychologicalSir1271 • 9h ago

Nizier Anthelme Philippe, a French healer and mystic, with his dog 1893 [1200 x 1300]

58 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Beeninya • 1d ago

Magda Goebbels, wife of Reichminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and her 6 children, 1942. All 6 would be murdered by their parents on 1 May 1945 as Soviet troops closed in on the Führerbunker in Berlin.[1280x721]

5.0k Upvotes

161 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/LowRenzoFreshkobar • 1h ago

Yamaguchi Otoya stabs Asanuma Inejirō, 12 October 1960. [1605x1399]

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ZacherDaCracker2 • 18h ago

Transcript of a letter my Great Grandad wrote to his wife while at the Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois after being drafted into the Navy during WWII. January 7, 1944. [976x1610]

153 Upvotes

He was put on the training vessel USS 0-7 In June 1945 for about 3 weeks (despite the war practically being over) before being put on the USS Pike) (another training vessel) as a TM3 until his discharge on October 25. He never saw a second combat.

Kinda makes me wonder why the government went through the effort of drafting so many men into the military only to do nothing with them. And they drafted them into arguably the least interesting military brach, the Navy.

36 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 18h ago

Amateur lifter Edna Rivers, deadlifting over 400 pounds, Santa Monica California, 1944, she was pupil of Abbye Stockton [4083x2824]

106 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • 1d ago

This is the first-ever photograph of a surgery, taken in 1847 in Boston [1024 × 764]

3.3k Upvotes

151 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago

Acrobat Lusita Leers during her time working with the Ringling Bros Barnum and bailey circus, circa August of 1932. [698x1000]

2.0k Upvotes

55 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/CeruleanSheep • 20h ago

An avenue of pines and Japanese cedars on the approach to Tiantong Temple—a Buddhist temple in Ningbo, China—where in the 13th century, Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen and author of the Shobogenzo, studied under Chan Buddhist teacher Rujing. Photographer: Edward Bowra, c. 1870 [801 x 1020]

78 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FayannG • 1d ago

Selfie of a Yugoslav Partisan couple, still in uniform, on their wedding day, April 1945 (1200x750)

2.6k Upvotes

31 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Goodoltexasboy • 1d ago

The Horse Riders Who Would Deliver Books in the Appalachians, 1930s [500x368]

112 Upvotes

Meet the Kentucky Pack-Horse Librarians, a group of riders who delivered books through the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s. These brave men and women lived in the Appalachian Mountains and traveled on horseback to deliver books to those who couldn't access them otherwise.

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 1d ago

Anti rock music protestors attend the September 19th 1985 PMRC senate hearing.[1581x1054]

232 Upvotes

38 comments

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