Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 161, click here.
1. North Atlantic Convoy seen from the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Core (CVE-13), 1 November 1943.
2. Helen Keller meets with a disabled veteran during her tour of military hospitals after WWII, 1945.
3. Tank on the Red Square, Moscow, Russia, August, 1991.
4. A little known police photo of Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav leader, from 4 April 1928, after he and several other protesters attempted to free an arrested baker from the hands of the gendarmes in Zagreb.
5. An Aichi D3A1 dives shortly before crashing into USS Hornet, A Nakajima B5N2 is also seen overhead shortly after dropping the torpedo that sunk the ship, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942.
6. British and Russian Royals at Cowes Week, Isle of Wight, 4 August 1909.
7. Barricades on Smolenskaya, Moscow, Russia, 3-4 October 1993.
8. Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw playing Santa Claus and Santa’s helper on the set of “Beach Blanket Bingo” in 1964.
9. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Edgar Kennedy in a deleted scene from the film “Their Purple Moment”, 1928.
10. Aristocrats from Menz, Ethiopia, between 1930-74.
Eisenhower knew how to shoot.