Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 143, click here.
1. President George HW Bush gazes at the Capitol in helicopter after leaving Clinton Inauguration, 1992.
2. Young Queen Elizabeth as a mechanic during WWII, c. 1939.
3. American Revolutionary War veteran George Fishley, 1841.
4. Nuclear bomb “shadows” in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.
5. Canadian soldiers pose by their Bren carrier, shortly after 8 am when the WWII ceasefire came into effect, May 5, 1945.
6. Teenagers picking a song at the jukebox, 1955.
7. “Emperor” Jean-Bedel Bokassa , seated on his golden throne for his coronation, Bangui, Central African Republic, December 4, 1977.
8. Danish actress and model Winnie Hollman, Cannes, 1975.
9. Sailor posing with a fish stunned by the explosion of depth charge in Harwich, Essex on April 15, 1918.
10. Japanese torchbearers run through the rain on their way to the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, October, 1964.
