London Calling: The Blitz in Color by William Vandivert (via LIFE)
(via greatestgeneration)
This day in history:
After the announcement of surrender from Japan was made official, celebrations took place around the world to mark the surrender, and thus the long-awaited end to WWII.
The most famous picture taken that day would be of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. The spontaneous kiss was caught on camera but the photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, did not immediately ask for their identities.
Soon after the streets filled with people, and although many people have come forward over the years, neither person has been identified with certainty.
August 14, 1945 - 67 years ago today.
A captured German U-Boat on display in London following the end of WWI, with Tower Bridge visible in the background.
London, England - 1918
Portraits of the French Resistance - August, 1944.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Arlington National Cemetery - May, 1943.
Japanese Military - 1930’s
“Australian soldiers on camels in front of the Sphinx. Egypt, 1915.”
“U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks before reporters during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union about missile sanctions, during the Cuban missile crisis, on October 24, 1962 in Washington, DC.”
A portrait of American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside.
He is also the man responsible for the word “sideburns,” which were originally called “burnsides” before the syllables were reversed.
“This was an early attempt to co-ordinate infantry, artillery and air attacks.
With no radios in aircraft, success depended on precise timing.”
