One of the first SNCF Class 141R locomotives delivered from the U.S. is unloaded from the Liberty ship Harold O. Wilson. Marseille, France, 3 November 1945 [3216 × 4094]November 3, 2025
Mikhail Gorbachev hands files to Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski detailing the deaths of 21,000 Polish soldiers executed by the NKVD in 1940 – the first time the Soviet government admitted responsibility for the Katyn Massacre, 13 April 1990 [1000×656]November 3, 2025
“Guardian of the Pole” is a snowman made of ice by polar explorers in 1973.[1600×720]November 3, 2025
USAAF B-17G “Blue Streak” 43-37883 going down in flames after being hit by flak while dropping their bombs on the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg, Germany – November 2, 1944 [1008×1013]November 3, 2025
The last photo of former German Army colonel Erich Hammon, taken an hour before his execution by firing squad. A British military tribunal had convicted Hammon of murdering a recently liberated Russian slave laborer in Flensburg on V.E. Day, Allied-occupied Germany, May 30, 1945 [446 x 700].November 3, 2025
Women smile for a photo in Atlantic City beach, a segregated place in NJ around the 1950s. [976×1204]November 2, 2025
inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861. (1214×1634)November 2, 2025
The Eight Nazi Saboteurs of Operation Pastorius caught on American soil during World War II. Washington DC, 1942 [1020×650]November 2, 2025
Officers of the Civil Guard (Spanish paramilitary/gendarmerie force) in Cuba, circa 1892. [1000×902]November 2, 2025