Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 252, click here.
1. “The Thousand Yard Stare”—USMC Private Theodore J. Miller is helped aboard a ship after intense combat on Eniwetok Atoll.
Miller was KIA a month later, 1944.
2. British and French workers meet while digging the “Chunnel”, which connected Britain and mainland Europe for the first time, 1990.
3. A Japanese-American family being transported to an interment camp, 1942.
4. French soldier and British soldier sharing a cigarette, 1915.
5. American paratroopers from the 1st Airborne task force dropping into Southern France during Operation Dragoon, 15 August 1944.
6. Free French soldiers attend a mass at sunrise during the battle of Bardia, 1941.
7. An orphaned girl with her baby sibling strapped to her back, standing in the rubble of a town, during the Korean War, the 1950s.
8. A gun with bent-barrel.
The Krummlauf MP 44 developed by Germany in 1943 amid WWII to shoot around the corners.
9. Thorny Devil lizards joining soldiers for breakfast, Central Australia, 1941.
10. Joyous crowd celebrating the end of Prohibition in Chicago, 1933.
