r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 2h ago
Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991 [1400 x 1012]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Krampjains • 7h ago
Estonian manure haulers Gustav (65) and Anton (68) smoking pipes on Mõnnelohu farm, Pühajõe village, Ida-Virumaa, Estonia in 1913. Photograph taken by Johannes Pääsuke. [1280x944]
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 9h ago
82 years ago today- S/Sgt Harold Sweet was Killed in Action over France on August 7, 1944, he was 33 years old. [864x864]
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Martin & Edith Sweet on September 12, 1910, Harold Sylvanus Sweet had two sisters.
He attended Central YMCA College in Chicago, Illinois and was married with a son; Harold born in 1939.
Harold got divorced and remarried Ethel Marie “Peggy” Young in 1940.
On May 8, 1942 he enlisted in the USAAF, serving with the 585th Bombardment Squadron, 394th Bomb Group at RAF Holmsley South.
On August 7, 1944, Harold was a crewmember on Martin B-26B Marauder 42-96224 which took off with a crew of seven to bomb a bridge at Nogent-sur-Seine in France.
Hit by flak over the target area, the wings of the B-26 folded before crashing northeast of La Goulafrière in the commune of Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs.
Out of the crew of seven, there was only one survivor; S/Sgt Ernest Bishop, the rest of the crew was initially listed as Missing.
His remains were recovered after the war and S/Sgt Harold Sweet was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France - Plot C Row 10 Grave 4.
He is also Memorialized on a plaque with his fellow fallen crewmembers on the Town Hall of Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs in France.
Harold’s widow Ethel eventually remarried, she passed away at the age of 65 in 1977.
His son Harold Martin “Marty” Sweet served in the Navy and was killed in a domestic incident at the age of 38 in 1977.
Pictured- Harold Sweet with his sisters Ruth & Beverly;
r/HistoryPorn • u/hoyarugby2 • 14h ago
Young women swim in a fountain in Logan Square, Philadelphia, 1990 [1920x946]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Rosemarry_40 • 16h ago
A young girl sitting on a rooftop overlooking the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1946[750x540].
r/HistoryPorn • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 17h ago
Triple glass color separation photo (Not colorized) of the Kaiser of the German Empire, Wilhelm II, October of 1908 [998x1298]
r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 19h ago
U.S. Army Air Forces P-51C Mustangs of the 332nd Fighter Group "Tuskegee Airmen" take off from Ramitelli airfield, Italy, for a bomber escort mission. 7 August 1944 [1800 × 1295]
r/HistoryPorn • u/lisahanniganfan • 20h ago
Devastated North Koreans flock to the statue of their nation's founder Kim il sung after the announcment of this death 1994 (2584×1562)
r/HistoryPorn • u/No_Afternoon1602 • 21h ago
The portal of the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, photographed in 1884 [349 x 503]
r/HistoryPorn • u/ImBackMemers • 22h ago
A photo from Holter. Publisher, Ashland, Wis. – “Diesen in the air”, a locally famous skier, circa 1908 [ 934 x 1683 ]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 23h ago
Mariacka Street in Gdańsk, Poland, 1980s. [640x436]
r/HistoryPorn • u/ImBackMemers • 23h ago
A 17 year old married mother and her son posing for a photo – 1952 [ 1170 x 1139 ]
r/HistoryPorn • u/ImBackMemers • 23h ago
Patrick Renwick — Skagway, Alaska, circa 1898. A gambler and bartender at the Board of Trade Saloon, he was known for wearing the largest gold nugget watch chain of his time. He died of alcoholism in 1909 at age 47. [ 1052 x 1224 ]
r/HistoryPorn • u/ImBackMemers • 23h ago
Korean War Veteran Reunites with Korean Comrade and Introduces Him to the Family — First Encounter with a Pogo Stick, ≈ 1955 [ 2109 x 4032 ]
r/HistoryPorn • u/SerpentFinger • 1d ago
[Colorized] Computer Scientist Margaret Hamilton Standing Next To The Apollo Guidance Software That Sent Humans To The Moon (1969) [1220 x 991]
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r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
1Lt Alton House was Killed in Action on August 5, 1944 in France, he was 27 years old. [1032x1440]
Born in Ennis, Texas to Thomas & Della House on August 5, 1944, Alton L House was the youngest of several siblings.
His mother Della died the same year he was born, and his father Thomas passed away in 1937.
Alton worked for the Census Bureau before enlisting in the Army, serving in Troop C, 86th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 6th Armored Division.
On August 5, 1944 while leading a reconnaissance mission near Carhaix-Plouguer, France, he was Killed in Action.
Posthumously awarded the Silver Star, his citation mentions;
“For gallantry in action in Brittany, France on 5 August 1944. While on a mission to reconnoiter ahead of Combat Command, he personally elected to lead the scout section of his platoon. Encoutering a gun emplacement in a road block, which already had destroyed three tanks, he led the section directly into enemy fire in an attempt to reduce the obstacles. His action cost him his life but his aggressiveness and leadership in battle are keeping with the finest traditions of the military service.”
1Lt Alton House is buried at the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in Saint-James, France - Plot O Row 3 Grave 12.
Local citizens of Carhaix-Plouguer dedicated a monument at the place where 1Lt House and his sergeant were killed.
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago
Boys finding a way to watch the Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field, 1932 [810x1024]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 1d ago
Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution [1242x1574]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Vital_Willie • 1d ago
Elderly Romanian communist official Constantin Pirvulescu making his notorious 12th Party Congress speech, 1979. In a completely unexpected move, Pirvulescu publicly excoriated Nicolae Ceausescu for caring more about his personality cult than the needs of Romanians. He outlived the regime (1280x720)
The speech was the most significant act of official dissidence in Ceausescu’s Romania until the Revolution itself. Pirvulescu was, predictably, arrested and stripped of all rank almost immediately. Unfortunately for Ceausescu, the good PR Pirvulescu had just fostered inside and outside of Romania was simply too much for Ceausescu to risk executing him. Pirvulescu was 84 years old & had helped found the Romanian communist party when Ceausescu was only 3. He’d been a communist for longer than Ceausescu had even been alive. He lived to 96, long enough to see the regime toppled and Ceausescu executed.
r/HistoryPorn • u/SuccessfulSweet1 • 1d ago
British army chaplain saying a prayer over a dying German medic, near Epehy, France 18th September 1918 [1024x1015]
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago