A U.S. infantryman from A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry carries a crying child from Cam Xe village after dropping a phosphorous grenade into a bunker cleared of civilians during an operation near the Michelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon, August 22, 1966. A platoon of the 1st Infantry Division raided the village, looking for snipers that had inflicted casualties on the platoon. GIs rushed about 40 civilians out of the village before artillery bombardment ensued.
y couln´t u eat?
too nervous, or excited about my finals.
finally eating ;)
yep, could not eat at all yesterday or the day before. but today i did. so everything is good.
on a side note, this bagel i am eating is fantastic!
Paul Bern of MGM studios and husband of Jean Harlow lies dead in their bedroom, leaving behind a suicide note to Jean, September 5, 1932
D.C. policeman Bill Norton measures the distance between women’s knees and the bottom of their bathing suits at the Tidal Basin bathing beach in June 1922. That summer, the superintendent of D.C. public buildings and grounds ordered that suits not be more than six inches above the knee.
Let’s hope Officer Norton isn’t in Rehoboth Beach, Del., this weekend…
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This is my Grandfather when he was stationed in Germany in the 1950’s, He was with the Second Armored Division, on the back of it before i scanned it was part of a newer news paper article. readingin 1951, the “Hell on Wheels Division was sent to Germany Fully trained, geared up, and ready to fight. Since the Russians were rattling sabers my division was diverted from Korea to establish a line of defense along the Rhine River. Most of our time was spent training in the field. Times were tense, we fully expected War.
Tommy Trent, 1951-52
2nd Armored Division
A sample of some of the earliest colour motion picture films you will see |1922 - Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Test No. 3
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Armin T. Wegner was born on October 16, 1886 in the town of Elberfeld (now suburb of Wuppertal)/ Rhineland in Germany. Following the military alliance of Germany and Turkey, he served in the German Sanitary Corps of the Turkish Army during WWI. As a personal caretaker of Field Marshall von der Goltz, he traveled with him along the Baghdad railroad in Mesopotamia, where he witnessed the Armenian Genocide.
Disobeying orders intended to stifle news of the massacres, he gathered information on the Genocide - collected notes, annotations, documents, letters and took hundreds of photographs in the Armenian deporation camps - visible proof of the systematic destruction of the Armenians. At the request of the Turkish Command, Wegner was eventually arrested by the Germans and was recalled to Germany. His photographs were confiscated and destroyed, however, he managed to smuggle some emulsions in his belt with images of the Armenian Genocide.
Wegner was also one of the earlier voices to protest Hitler’s treatment of the Jews in Germany. He was the only writer in Nazi Germany ever to publicly protest against the persecution of the Jews. In 1933 he was arrested by Gestapo, a few days after he sent an open letter to Hitler protesting the state-organized boycott against the Jews of Germany. He would suffer incarceration in seven Nazi concentration camps and prisons before he could make his escape to Italy. He died in Rome at the age of 92 on May 17, 1978.
“My conscience calls me to bear witness. I am the voice of the exiled who scream in the desert.” - Armin Wegner
