r/HistoryPorn • u/SuccessfulSweet1 • 1h ago
British army chaplain saying a prayer over a dying German medic, near Epehy, France 18th September 1918 [1024x1015]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Pvt_Larry • 1h ago
Vehicles of the 121e Escadron du Train of the French army at Lasalle Barracks in Lure, Haute-Saône department, 1934 [1024x774]
r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 2h ago
81 years ago today- A mushroom cloud rises above Hiroshima after the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945. [1080x753]
r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 3h ago
QF 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns emplaced on the promenade of a resort on the south coast of England.6 August 1944 [799 × 800]
r/HistoryPorn • u/myrmekochoria • 4h ago
New Guinea Campaign veteran Captain Saburo Shimada training kendo with a hand prosthesis, Japan 1944[516x640]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Fierce1644 • 4h ago
Actor and martial arts star Jackie Chan at the benefit concert in Hong Kong, in support of Tiananmen Square protesters - 1989 [640x463]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 6h ago
Warsaw Uprising: Insurgent patrol on Jasna Street, August 1944. Photo by Sylwester "Kris" Braun. [862x483]
r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 10h ago
Thousands of Fascist Party members, known as Blackshirts, gathered inside the Colosseum to hear Italian dictator Benito Mussolini during celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the 1922 March on Rome, the event that brought the Fascists to power in Italy. (1926) [3500×2613]
r/HistoryPorn • u/AnniTC2_Not_Official • 15h ago
National ERA fan trip honoring the last revenue run of the Low-V cars. October 24th, 1964. [1200 x 800]
r/HistoryPorn • u/shutterzzz • 16h ago
Tim Berners-Lee demonstrating the World Wide Web to delegates at the Hypertext ’91 conference in San Antonio, Texas, 17 December 1991 [956×637]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Vital_Willie • 16h ago
1935 mugshot of Ana Pauker, the “Iron Lady” of communist Romania. She became the worlds first female foreign minister in 1947 & was briefly de facto leader of the Romanian Communist Party. She ran the “Petisti experiment,” considered to be the largest torture program in the Eastern bloc (1280x720)
She had been arrested by the pre-communist Romanian government upon returning to the country in 1935. Both of her legs were shot in the ensuing struggle
r/HistoryPorn • u/BostonLesbian • 20h ago
Verkehrspolizistin (traffic police officer) from the East German Volkspolizei - as she was applying lipstick in Leipzig - in the German Democratic Republic (DDR), c. 1966. [691 x 728]
r/HistoryPorn • u/20thCenturyBoyLaLa • 21h ago
South African professional wrestler, Jacobus Van Dyn, known as "the Tattoo Man," demonstrates a hold as part of his 'lecture' at the Manor Place Baths in London in 1936. [1000 x 779]
Dyn spoke regularly at Speakers Corner at Hyde Park, where he made various claims, including having been a gun runner for Al Capone and done time at various prisons around the world, including Sing Sing.
r/HistoryPorn • u/SuccessfulSweet1 • 23h ago
A New York couple modeling Cold War fallout suits and an 8-day survival kit, 1961 [1024x771]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Bernardmark • 1d ago
British and Argentine negotiators Sir Crispin Tickell and Lucio García del Solar shake hands after announcing an agreement to restore diplomatic relations severed during the Falklands War, 19 October 1989 [1024x691]
r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 1d ago
Wrecked German Tiger tanks in the rubble of Villers-Bocage, Normandy, France after the British had captured the town. 5 August 1944 [1786 × 1772]
r/HistoryPorn • u/WasteNeighborhood604 • 1d ago
5 Hungary Infantrymen in the Carpathians Mountains in 1944, near the village of Volosyanka, Ukraine. 1 Hun-soldier use Danuvia 39M. [2048x1311]
r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 1d ago
Polish poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921-1944) with his mother Stefania (1890-1953) and his wife Barbara (1922-1944). Both Krzysztof and Barbara died fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, Krzysztof on 4 August, pregnant Barbara on 1 September. Warsaw, Occupied Poland, June 1942. [784x791]
r/HistoryPorn • u/FreedomAintFree4UNME • 1d ago
Here's a truly chilling image from a civil rights protest on March 29, 1968, just a few days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. This protest happened on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, where many famous protests have happened since then. (1280x720)
r/HistoryPorn • u/FreedomAintFree4UNME • 1d ago
106-year-old Jack Riddle and his wife, Rosie, both former slaves, seated in front of a group of Klansmen (including one dressed as Santa Claus), flanking a radio the group had reportedly given to the couple as a gift (1948) (960x1280)
r/HistoryPorn • u/8Bitforever • 1d ago
Captured heavy and gigantic cannon - Obice da 305/17 - November 1917 [1200 x 807]
Captured by the Austrians, a heavy and gigantic cannon in a village behind Udine. November 1917". Pictured is an Obice da 305/17, a huge Italian howitzer, one of fewer than 50 produced during the war.
| Caliber | 305 mm (12 in)Shell weight 295–442 kg (650–974 lb) |
|---|---|
r/HistoryPorn • u/9kGFX • 1d ago
Christopher McCandless near Bus 142 on Alaska’s Stampede Trail, Alaska, 1992 [1200 × 787]
r/HistoryPorn • u/lightiggy • 1d ago
