Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 305, click here.
1. Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone’s trial, 1931.
2. WWII: Chinese and Malayan girls were forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945.
3. Ground view of human fly George Willig climbing the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, 26 May 1977.
4. A Soviet Mi-24 Hind pilot with an AKS-74U, Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1980s.
5. U.S. Marines on patrol, South Vietnam, December 1969.
6. Women’s detachment of the Red Army, Russian Civil War, 1919.
7. Photograph from the Prague Spring, 1968.
8. Harrison H. Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission investigates a large lunar boulder with rover behind, 13 December 1972.
9. President Jimmy Carter personally inspecting the Three Mile Island facility just days after the initial accident occurred, 1 April 1979.
10. Eleanor Roosevelt holds up a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, November 1949.
