1. picturesofwar:

    This day in history:

    American and Soviet troops link up at Torgau, Germany, a town on the Elbe River located less than 100 miles (160 km) away from Berlin.

    Five days after the meeting, known as Elbe Day, Adolf Hitler would commit suicide. Two weeks after the link up between east and west, fighting had ceased within Europe.

    April 25, 1945 - 67 years ago today.

  2. Last known photo of the Titanic, 1912

  3. militaryhistory:

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

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  4. todaysdocument: Leon Trotsky and American admirers. Mexico, 1940 From the court records of United States v. Vincent Raymond Dunne and Grant Dunne, the note for this photo states: “Trotsky posed with American Trotskyites Harry De Boer and James H. Bartlett and their spouses; print autographed by Trotsky, April 5, 1940.”
  6. poundoflogic: A German civilian helping Russian soldiers move the bronze Nazi eagle that once stood over the doorway to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin
  7. picturesofwar: American soldiers crossing the Rhine via assault boat while under fire from German troops during Operation Plunder. “I drew an assault boat to cross in - just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail.” March 24, 1945.

  8. picturesofwar:

    This day in history:

    Nguyen Van Lem, a member of the Vietcong, is executed in the streets of Saigon by South Vietnamese Police Chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, two days into the Tet Offensive.

    The execution is caught on film by photojournalist Eddie Adams and becomes one of the most controversial and memorable moments of the Vietnam War.

    February 1, 1968 - 44 years ago today.

  9. historical-nonfiction: A boy peeping through the Berlin Wall.
  10. picturesofwar: American soldiers under rocket fire during the Siege of Khe Sahn. Feb. 24, 1968.

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