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Relic of the machine age. Retro milposting and glimpses of the past.
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"Children of the cold sun and the broken horizon, O secret faces, multitudes, eyes of inscrutable grief, great breath of millions, in unknown crowds or alone, rooms of dreamers above the cement abyss,-and I, who all night restive in the unsleeping rain, awake and saw the windows covered with tears.
8 months ago
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4th Marine Division Gyrenes show off a captured Japanese sword on Roi Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, February 1944.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
#usmc
about 20 hours ago
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Mike Company 3 RCR during Reforger.
#history
#armor
#reforger
#coldwar
3 days ago
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A Japanese amphibious tank captured by soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division at Ormoc, Leyte, P.I., 6 January 1945. πΈ US Army Signal Corps.
#wwii
#ww2
#history
#tanks
#armor
4 days ago
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German prisoners taken in the drive south of Colmar carry a wounded American soldier (Pvt. Charles Deatheridge) with them as they are marched out of the battle area, 4 February 1945. πΈ US Army Signal Corps.
#wwii
#ww2
#history
#worldwar2
5 days ago
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"On Campaign" by Vasily Vereshchagin.
#art
#history
6 days ago
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#illustration
#art
#advertising
#noir
6 days ago
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"Close Call." By Keith Burns.
#art
#history
#aviation
#wwii
#ww2
#RAF
7 days ago
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Verdun 1916.
#history
#ww1
#greatwar
#wwi
10 days ago
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Captain Lee Royal, CO of Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment gives instructions over the radio from his M60A3 in West Germany during Reforger '85.
#history
#nato
#reforger
#coldwar
#armor
#tanks
11 days ago
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Austrian Army soldiers on exercises, ca. 1960s.
#history
#coldwar
12 days ago
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Concept art for the 1978 La Grande Royale by SILCCO.
#art
#classicars
#illustration
#history
12 days ago
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"Transporting the Wounded" by Wilhelm Dachauer, 1916.
#history
#art
#greatwar
#wwi
#ww1
13 days ago
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Portrait of Leila Khaled.
#Palestine
#history
13 days ago
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331st ASA Company during Reforger '82, September 1982. Photo by James A. Brown.
#coldwar
#history
#reforger
14 days ago
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#classiccars
#vintageadvertising
14 days ago
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Patrick Wyman
15 days ago
I had never heard of this before yesterday, and it's a great example of why Americans need to think more broadly than either 1930s Germany or even US history as a whole about parallels for the current situation
add a skeleton here at some point
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Swiss grenadiers circa the 1940s.
#history
#swissarmy
15 days ago
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"The Hell where youth and laughter go..."
#history
#wwi
#ww1
#art
#illustration
17 days ago
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American paratroopers pose in the door of their C-47 Skytrain just prior to taking part in Operation Market Garden, September 1944.
#wwii
#ww2
#history
18 days ago
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Soldiers of the Slovak Fast Brigade advancing through Lypovets, USSR, 1941.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
18 days ago
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Red Army troops assaulting a contested village near Moscow, December 1941.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
#armor
19 days ago
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East German armor on maneuvers, circa 1960s.
#history
#coldwar
#tanks
#armor
#eastgermany
20 days ago
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Artwork by Rene Follet.
#history
#art
#illustration
#pulp
#ww2
21 days ago
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Clippings from Life Magazine, December 1957.
#history
#coldwar
21 days ago
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American M-1 Abrams tanks on maneuvers, circa 1980s.
#history
#coldwar
#armor
#tanks
22 days ago
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A soldier of the 502nd Engineers directs traffic across a pontoon bridge spanning across the Sava River linking Croatia to Bosnia, 1 January 1996. Photo by SPC Alejandro Cabello.
#history
#balkans
#usarmy
22 days ago
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Street fighting in Seoul,South Korea. September 1950. Photos by Hank Walker for Life Magazine.
23 days ago
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A Sherman Firefly in Uedem, Germany, March 1945.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
#tanks
#armor
24 days ago
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Near Khe Sanh, 4 April 1968. Wounded cavalrymen, many with head wounds, wait to be evacuated on a misty hilltop overlooking Route 9 during the advance to release the siege on the embattled Marine base.
#history
#vietnamwar
#khesanh
#vietnam
#photography
25 days ago
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An M4A3E2 Sherman leads a column of the 6th Armored Division into Oberdorla, 4 April 1945.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
#tanks
#armor
26 days ago
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Belgian soldiers on exercises, ca. 1970s/80s.
#history
#coldwar
27 days ago
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27 days ago
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British SAS men armed with Armalite pattern rifles during the Falklands war, 1982.
#history
#falklands
#coldwar
#sas
28 days ago
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Military traffic in West Germany during exercises, 1980s.
#history
#coldwar
#armor
#tanks
28 days ago
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28 days ago
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American armor during the First Gulf War, 1991.
#history
#gulfwar
#armor
29 days ago
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Pfc. Elmer McDaniel, USMC, decorated the back of his coveralls with what he called a βGeorgia Peachβ - on board the USS Lexington (CV-16). November 29, 1943. πΈ NARA Photo.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
30 days ago
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Landing craft laden with assault troops prepare to make the final approach to the Normandy beachhead. June 6 1944.
#wwii
#history
#ww2
#dday
30 days ago
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An M8 Greyhound armored car in action. Belgium September, 1944.
#history
#armor
#wwii
#ww2
about 1 month ago
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American armor in West Germany circa the 1970s.
#history
#coldwar
#tanks
about 1 month ago
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American troops in Germany in the spring of 1945.
#history
#wwii
#ww2
about 1 month ago
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West German armor on maneuvers in the late 1980s.
#history
#armor
about 1 month ago
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A hilltop helipad in Vietnam.
#history
#aviation
#coldwar
#vietnamwar
about 1 month ago
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An American bomber crewman in Europe during WWII.
#history
#aviation
#wwii
#ww2
about 1 month ago
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Russian troops outside of Grozny during the First Chechen War.
#history
#chechya
about 1 month ago
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East German troops wearing chemical gear, ca. 1970s
#history
#ddr
#eastgermany
#coldwar
about 1 month ago
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Canadian mechanized infantry on maneuvers in the 1990s. Note the use of an experimental load-bearing vest.
#history
#canadianarmy
#armor
about 1 month ago
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US military personnel set up a field radio inside a building at Point Salines airport during Operation URGENT FURY in Grenada 3 November 1983.
#history
#coldwar
#grenada
about 1 month ago
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Soviet troops having some downtime at a base in Afghanistan, 1980s.
#history
#ussr
#redarmy
about 1 month ago
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Chechen soldiers carrying bread rations to their positions in Grozny during the First Chechen War.
#history
#chechnya
about 1 month ago
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