Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 84, click here.
1. American soldier poses with captured German weaponry, 1944-45.
2. American crewman loading a transport aircraft with the help of an elephant, India. WWII, 1944.
3. Elephant-mounted machine gun, ca. 1914-1918.
4. Oil well fire on Signal Hill, California, 1931.
5. A Wehrmacht veteran teaches Hitler Youth boys how to use a Panzerfaust.
The badges on his sleeve represent enemy tanks destroyed.
6. Rescued slaves crowd the deck of the HMS Daphne, 1868.
7. Little girl and three owls, Sweden, 1925.
8. Hitler takes Helga Goebbels for a walk.
She would later be killed by her parents in Hitler’s Berlin bunker.
9. A dead U.S Marine still clutches the knife he used to kill a Japanese soldier, in the background, in a duel.
He was killed by a sniper’s bullet moments later.
10. Terry Sawchuk – The face of a hockey goalie before masks became standard game equipment, 1966.
#1 is my Grandfather -Robert E. Leigh – Cover of Yank Magazine 1/14/1945 – Rifleman, Private First Class in the 83rd Infantry Division, 329st. Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, B Company
As an former Army Medic, happy belated Memorial Day to your Grandfather.
Ah sh*t that might be in bad taste, I don’t know if he died in that war. My bad bro. Memorial Day sh*t has me on autopilot.
the scars in photo number 10 are fake http://time.com/3878486/terry-sawchuk-a-face-only-a-hockey-puck-could-love/