REVEALED: Interesting history pics explaining wars - The Real Truth

Wonder how respected and celebrated the poor sods who coughed their lungs out because of the mustard gas felt

My FIL landed on Omaha Beach in the first wave of men (29th Div. 116, G Company), fought in the hedgerows and helped liberate Saint-Lô, then fought until VE Day. He also landed in the Incheon Invasion and fought until the end of the Korean Conflict. Later, he served in Vietnam as a sniper. He was a heluva dude!

Simply epic! And the odds have to be ridiculous...all survivors from the war AND still alive considering their likely ages AND the same plane??

So you can't write a g*****e, but you can show a picture of one

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"Drink copious amounts of alcohol and wait for the inevitable blast wave. "

They should have named it Eeyore! 😊

This picture says a lot about how even strong, seemingly unflappable humans can be moved to tears and sorrow.

Also happened at the siege of Alesia when Julius Caesar was besieging Vercingetorix.

Today's US could very conceivably have joined the Axis.

The Panzer V, aka Panther, was one of the smaller tanks ... only about 45 tons. Thats a hell of a crane load

One of my favorite actors and a true hero in WWII.

One round hit her ammo magazine ... she broke her back and sank in three minutes

*Horses on the battlefield* "Finally, birds can have a turn!"

Accuracy wasn't that great back then.

A bird did this to my mum's windscreen once. A perfect imprint of every feather.

💯 I even made sure that there was a tea urn at my dad's wake.

FYI, this was a Soviet unit, since the text above doesn't locate them.

"We'd have sent it back, honest!"

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America 1940. We're never going to get government approval to join the war unless Japan attacks Pearl Harbour.

So this is where the "tis but a scratch!" bit originated!

His career was a matter of life and d***h.

On some documentary I watched on TV, a Japanese woman, in charge of a Hiroshima memorial, had the cojones to accuse the USA of crimes against humanity for the bombing. Seems her school didn't teach her about China, Pearl Harbor, Comfort Women, D***h Marches, a*****e POW camps, and so on./s

And so the Empire descended from an age of gold to an age of iron and rust.

I'm so grateful for vaccines

"This is Bob. Can we keep him?"

You don't have to play the game if you're the bank

His name is Doug Hegdahl.

Vaqueros

Kinda like when my cat drags me around on his walk. Except I don't have that cool Samurai gear.

Anyone else see a face behind her?

just ask Jimmy Carter.

"...And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober..." - one of Churchill's little white lies.

I've seen Ned Kelly's original armour! It's on display in Melbourne.

True bravery. And before authenticity became commodified.

Inspecting troops or auditioning for A Chorus Line?

Too bad it's Budweiser.

Is the kid in the back about to whack him? Is this story about to take a turn?

Life Savings...

Last I heard. Russia and Belarus had the highest percentage of alcohol related deaths in the world.

Without the French, Americans would still be speaking English.

And how many UFO reports were there that day?

W S Churchill deserves a lot of criticism. But for all his flaws, he did have personal courage - joined the British army as a young man, and as it turned out, actually took part in the last significant British cavalry charge. Compare and contrast to some of the current crop of world leaders... 🤔

"I know Zelenskyy well. I know Putin well. I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours." Some random f#ckwit.

It's still there, still striking. The oldest commissioned warship I think.

Poland needs to admit that civilians participated in purges, murders, and other crimes against the Jewish population. They were not the total victims some claim they were.

Rommel wasn't daft. He had Luftlandehindernis ("air-landing obstacle"s) aka 'Rommel's asparagus' installed in places where the Allies were expected. Basically, wooden poles linked by wires, including barbed wire and tripwires set to explode mines or hand grenades. Link follows.

After dismantlement, they can still be remantled. They haven't been destroyed. Also, they've been updated to greatly increase their use-by date.

Stalhelms were adopted worldwide, including an excess sent to China. Poland seized hundreds and copied the design (after Germany lost, of course. They didn't steal it mid-war.)

I think the fact that they only made a few of these horrific gas masks makes the point that actually, they were much more terrifying than the normal gas masks. Yes, 'over 1000' is only a few - the entire UK population at the time was supplied with gas masks.

It was called Operation Babylift. Unfortunately the first flight crashed and many lost their lives. 😥

For all practical purposes, he was.

Many of them ended up getting their heads shaved and run out of town when the Germans retreated

This is a fake. There's no photograph of the actual event - and by the pilot's account, he was flying straight and level at the time in any case. To cut a long story short and quoting Wikipedia he was 'arrested and later invalided out of the RAF on medical grounds, which avoided a court martial' - 'and the embarrassment to the government of Pollock publicising the reason for his stunt and perhaps receiving the support of the public'. He didn't actually plan on flying under Tower Bridge's walkways. From what I recall reading, it's just that he was flying along the route of the Thames and the bridge was there, and he basically just couldn't help himself... 😁