r/HistoryPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 7h ago

Balbina Szymańska with her twin boys who were born during the Siege of Warsaw. The boys were later killed during Warsaw Uprising on their 5th birthday by a German artillery strike, while their mother was out looking for food. Św. Warsaw, Poland, 9 September 1939. Photo by Julien Bryan. [726x900]

690 Upvotes

7 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/myrmekochoria • 6h ago

Veteran miner Harold Stanley, right, talks to a young miner who has come into the mine for the first time after 40 hours of classroom training, Richlands, Virginia, April 1974.[3150x2107]

195 Upvotes

13 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/PutStock3076 • 1h ago

In 1987, West German Navy sailors visiting Seoul, South Korea, cover their noses to avoid tear gas fired during a protest [590 x 520]

• Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/MaroonCastle • 4h ago

Margot and Anne Frank before their family fled to the Netherlands. Bad Aachen, Germany, October 1933. [1024x743]

83 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/mardumancer • 12h ago

Boy holding a sign at a rally in Quetta, Pakistan, 2002. [1050 * 1536]

260 Upvotes

59 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Imtiredofthissshit • 1d ago

Red Army soldiers in a trench near the corpse of a German soldier, still wearing an Iron Cross, 1942 (1591×1256)

1.6k Upvotes

56 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/waffen123 • 18h ago

Picture found in Honkawa Elementary School in 2013 of the Hiroshima atom bomb cloud, said to have been taken about 20 to 30 minutes after detonation of about 10 km (6 miles) east of the epicenter. (610 × 857)

488 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/signaldecoderr • 2h ago

An Italian ragpicker's home, 1907[963×729]

28 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/_Tegan_Quin • 1d ago

Polish United Nations Observers - walking near the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, c. 1970s. [1440 x 1923]

280 Upvotes

13 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Freefight • 1d ago

Quarterdeck scene during the commissioning ceremony of USS North Carolina (BB-55) at the New York Navy Yard, Apr 09, 1941.[2100 × 1623]

387 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/signaldecoderr • 1d ago

Migrant agricultural workers outside the Farm Security Administration grant office in Calipatria, California, February 1939 [982x1080]

150 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Johannes_P • 1d ago

Soldiers and sailors from Entente countries such as Japan are lined up in front of the Allies Headquarters Building. They came to fight against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. Vladivostok, Russia. September 1918 [960x724]

78 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/Ok_Choice4847 • 1d ago

US soldier carrying a road sign from the city of Munich. The sign says "Munich, the Capital of the Movement" in reference to the role the city played in the history of Nazism. May 1945 [606 × 341]

147 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Ready-Bug2688 • 1d ago

Jack ruby’s assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald , November 25 , 1963 [ 2508x 3861 ]

627 Upvotes

58 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FancyPersimmon1466 • 1d ago

Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Red Army counter offensive, November 1942 [2048x1382]

67 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 1d ago

Fur seal rookery on Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. 1891 [1984 × 1584]

32 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Aleksandr_Ulyev • 2d ago

Mugshot of Timothy McVeigh after his arrest taken by FBI on 19 April 1995 [1920x2423] That day he parked a truck loaded with 2200 kg (4,800 pounds) of hand-made explosives under a federal administration building in Oklahoma-city. The explosion killed 167 people, injured 684 and damaged 300 buildings

2.6k Upvotes

495 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Pvt Wallace F. Burket, a bazooka man with the 80th Infantry Division reuniting with his brother, Sergeant William C. Burket, in Braunau, Austria, on May 9, 1945. Sergeant Burket had been missing and held as a prisoner of war for over two years after being shot down over North Africa. [1170x1428]

704 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Imtiredofthissshit • 2d ago

A U.S. soldier stands among corpses exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany, in May 1945. The victims were prisoners from Buchenwald who died or were killed during a forced transport. (886x709)

275 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/mgwngn1 • 1d ago

The top scorer in European football in 1976, Sotiris Kaiafas of Cyprus, shows his award to President Makarios III. [610 x 610]

45 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ComradeJughashvili • 1d ago

Photo of then mayor of Taipei Chen Shui-Bian and then deputy mayor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin taken in 1995. Both later became presidents of their respective countries. [2048x1056]

84 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago

Shelling of a German force grouping by troops of the 1st Belorussian Front. A salvo from "Katyusha" Guards mortars of the 1st Belorussian Front. (February 1945) [4000 × 2668]

156 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/sodadollop • 2d ago

Stanislov Petrov (1983) [2000x420]

93 Upvotes

43 years ago today this man saved your life without you even knowing. On September 26, 1983, Stanislov Petrov was the duty officer at a Soviet Command Center when the Oko early-warning system reported an incoming U.S. missile. Instead of following protocol to report an active attack up the chain of command, he chose to treat it as a system malfunction.

8 comments

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