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Just Clarence & Chuck putting on their faces for a night out
“Pvt. Clarence C. Ware, 438 W. 15th St., San Pedro, Calif., gives a last-second touch to Pvt. Charles R. Plaudo, 210 N. James, Minneapolis, Minn., make-up patterned after the American Indians....
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Brushing Up, 77 Years Ago Today
Original Caption: “PFC Rocco Festa, 328 Ft. Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y., brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft. Destination: a Normandy...
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day, gentlemen. Hold your family close today. Pvt. William R. Loop (left) of Binghamton, N.Y., bids farewell to his father, Cpl. Roderick R. Loop, also of Binghamton, who is leaving...
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Gurkhas on the Sharp End
The British Army’s Nepalese Gurkhas have been putting it on the line for the Crown going back to an agreement with the circa 1815 East India Company. Gurkhas in the Western Desert, July 1942 cleaning...
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Desert Haka, 80 Years Ago Today
Via Time to Go Home. 25 June 1941, Egypt: Members of the 28 (Māori) Battalion, Royal New Zealand Army, performing a haka, the ancestral Māori war cry. “The four men in the foreground are (from left to...
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Red Empire atop Cotopaxi
Green Berets of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), recently accompanied 18 Andeanistas from the Ecuadorian Army’s Grupo Especial de Comandos No 9 (GEK 9), to summit 19,437-foot Cotopaxi in the...
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HOISTEX!
Kingfisher, the embarked RCAF CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter of the Canadian frigate HMCS/NCSM Halifax (FFH 330) conducts a HOISTEX with Royal Norwegian Navy (Sjøforsvaret) Ula-class/Type 210...
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Smokey’s Lucky Witch, 77 Years Ago Today
Ensign Darrell C. “Smoke” Bennett, A-V(N), USNR, stands beside his plane, a General Motors FM-2 Wildcat fighter, on board the Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), 1 August 1944....
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The Guards Connection
Check out this great image, circa 1901, by Mr. James Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London, fame. The seated gentleman is His Grace, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of...
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Action at Sea!
This image has it all, and you can almost smell the saltwater and burnt propellant. Note the assorted seagoing tattoos, Dixie cup hats, total lack of eye and ear pro, and the assistant gunner with his...
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Manning the Oerlikon
Official caption: “Five steward’s mates stand at their battle stations, as a gun crew aboard a Coast Guard-manned frigate in the southwest Pacific.” Note the gunner is missing his left shoe but...
View ArticleCodename Snake Eyes and Jungle Green
Royal Marines exercise “Codename Snake Eyes” circa 1960 documentary– in Color!— by the Central Office of Information for the Admiralty. A great way to spend a half-hour. The exercise involves a...
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Toughing it out Behind the Iron Curtain
Lithuanian resistance fighters (left to right) Klemensas Širvys-Sakalas, Juozas Lukša-Skirmantas, and Benediktas Trumpys-Rytis stand in the forest circa 1949. Note their civilian attire, augmented by...
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Happy 80th Navy EOD
The first mine disposal class of 24 officers and enlisted Sailors graduated on 22 August 1941, marking the start of the Navy EOD community, the wearers of the “crab.” Today, more than 2,000 Navy EOD...
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Buffalo Soldiers Remembered at West Point
Lost in the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 remembrances over the weekend was a small ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy where Gen. (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks presided over the dedication of a monument...
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55 Years Ago: We have the technology
Such a captivating image of Atomic age wonder, hard to imagine it was real, and that it hails from September 15, 1966. NASA research pilot William Harvey “Bill” Dana takes a moment to watch NASA’s...
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Second Hand MP38
Maori troops line up on the quayside at Alexandria in Egypt following their evacuation from Crete, 3 June 1941. Photograph taken by Lieutenant L.B. Davis. IWM E 3373 The men above, of the New Zealand...
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An Unwanted Sword, 76 Years Ago Today
17 September 1945: Surrender of Borneo at Bandjermasin. The Japanese major general, a career officer in his full uniform with some 2,500 of the Emperor’s troops under his command, attempted to hand...
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Canadian U-Boat Ensign Preserved
U-889 in U.S. service before she was scuttled. The Navy was very interested in her snorkel, as numerous images of it are in the archives. However, before she flew a U.S. flag, and after she flew a...
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Forager Pontoon Bees
A motley but proud 302nd Naval Construction Battalion (Seabee) barge crew pose with captured Japanese yosegaki hinomaru “good luck” flag and Arisaka rifles aboard a beached 3×7-foot pontoon barge on...
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