F--- guys, that kid in the centre of the picture can't be much older than my little step-brother. Someone who isn't old enough to legally drink alcohol or vote, shouldn't be fighting a war.

Anyway, context time since this one is a bit more niche than the others. This photo was taken during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch#:~:text=Operation%20Torch%20(8%20November%201942,they%20might%20support%20the%20Allies.">Operation Torch</a> which was a combined Anglo-American operation which saw them battling the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France">Vichy French</a> for control of French North Africa.

Although it was initially hoped that the French would surrender without a fight, due to a strong Free French Presence in the region, the invasion force soon came under fire from snipers and coastal artillery batteries. The resulting campaign lasted from 8 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 and resulted in about 2000 casualties for each side.

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F--- guys, that kid in the centre of the picture can't be much older than my little step-brother. Someone who isn't old enough to legally drink alcohol or vote, shouldn't be fighting a war.

Anyway, context time since this one is a bit more niche than the others. This photo was taken during Operation Torch which was a combined Anglo-American operation which saw them battling the Vichy French for control of French North Africa.

Although it was initially hoped that the French would surrender without a fight, due to a strong Free French Presence in the region, the invasion force soon came under fire from snipers and coastal artillery batteries. The resulting campaign lasted from 8 November 1942 – 13 May 1943 and resulted in about 2000 casualties for each side.

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Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin become the first humans to land on another celestial body. (July, 1969)

The [_Commodore Vanderbilt_] was a streamlined version of the venerable Class J1-E 4-6-4 Hudson locomotive that ran on the New York Central System.

The first of its kind to be modified for streamlining on the New York Central, it was christened in 1934 and pulled the [_Empire State Express_] for the duration of its career. Two more locomotives were streamlined in its pattern, designed by Karl F. Cantola. Later streamlined engines on the system would take after the pattern designed by Henry Dreyfuss.

Sadly, none of the Hudsons survive today. All were scrapped by 1954

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Window Washer working on the Empire State Building in 1936

He's wearing a shirt, tie and shoes to clean windows, suspended by two bits of rope. Man had style and balls.

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<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/988rne/window_washer_poses_while_hanging_from_empire/">Source of Colour Photo</a>

British and German Soldiers playing Football during the Christmas Truce, 1914

Original Photograph belongs to Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images.

<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accounts">Source of Black and White Photo</a>

<a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299389909279666181.html">Source of Colour Photo</a>, haven't been able to work out who colourised it yet.

The Construction of Tower Bridge, London, 1889.

Flight of the Kitty Hawk, 1902

I have to say, I'm really impressed with what people can do with these old photos. It's almost like a time traveller brought a camera back with them to the past and took the shot themselves.

<a href="http://coastalcottageobx.com/the-legacy-of-the-wright-brothers-in-kitty-hawk/">Source of Black and White Photo</a>

<a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299389909279666181.html">Source of colour photo</a> which comes from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/History-They-Saw-Iconic-Moments/dp/1452169500/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529518577&sr=1-1&keywords=history+as+they+saw+it">History As They Saw It</a>

Ethnic German Refugees evicted from Lodz, Poland, 1945

Ethnic German refugees huddling in blankets - the only survivors of an original 150 Polish people who walked from Lodz in Poland to Berlin hoping to find food and shelter. They are waiting by a railway track hoping to be picked up by a British army train. Ethnic German refugees converged on war-torn Germany by the millions after the end of WW2. Of this group of originally 150 people only 10 reached Berlin.

Viet Cong Field Hospital, Vietnam War (Second-Indochina War)

Võ An Khánh was born in 1936, in the village of Ninh Quới in Hồng Dân District, Bạc Liêu Province, south-western Vietnam. During the 1960s and early 1970s, he traveled with a guerrilla unit to document the front line of the Vietnamese resistance against the U.S. in the Cà Mau region. He also managed the Photography Department of the local revolutionary cause and documented events related to frontline music and dance events. Between the years 1962 and 1975, Võ An Khánh staged a photographic exhibition in the exceptionally challenging condition of mangrove forests. His two well-known photographs, ‘Mobile Military Medical Clinic’ and ‘Extra-curriculum Political Science Class,’ were included in this traveling show, which Võ An Khánh himself developed on the spot using natural light.

Võ An Khánh’s photographs have been included in the exhibition “Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side” in 2002 (co-organized by the International Centre for Photography, New York) and various other international and local exhibitions and publications.

The Effects of Mustard Gas

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Indian Sikh soldiers arriving in France

The Arrest of Gavrilo Princip

French Makeshift Gas Masks, Second Battle of Ypres, 1915

<a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Battle-of-Ypres">The Second Battle of Ypres</a> was the first time mass gas attacks were carried out during the First World War, where the Germans unleashed Chlorine Gas against French positions.

The only hope for a person caught in one of these early gas attacks was to tie a piss-soaked rag to their mouths and cover their eyes as they retreated to avoid being blinded by the gas. After this, many different versions of mask were tried before each country created what we would term a "modern Gas Mask" during mid-1916.

Early Plastic Surgery

Doctors would use masks to cover areas near the eye for those severely injured in the war. The eyeglasses this man is wearing aren't meant to improve his vision but to hold the mask in place. The picture on the left shows what the man looks like without his mask post-surgery.

French Cavalry at The Battle of the Somme

French cavalry crossing a swollen stream on the front lines of the Battle of the Somme.

I have not been able to find out if they are simply manoeuvring to a new position or are carrying out an assault against German Positions.

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F--- guys, that kid in the centre of the picture can't be much older than my little step-brother. Someone who isn't old enough to legally drink alcohol or vote, shouldn't be fighting a war.

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The Effects of Mustard Gas

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Indian Sikh soldiers arriving in France

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French Cavalry at The Battle of the Somme

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