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Old 04-26-2021, 10:59 PM
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My buddy e-mailed me a bunch of old photos on various subjects. I thought some here might like to see them.
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Click image for larger version Name: 16 year old German soldier crying after being captured by the Allies, 1945.jpg Views: 265 Size: 96.2 KB ID: 565496   Click image for larger version Name: A Women Air Force Service Pilot during World War 2.jpg Views: 283 Size: 82.1 KB ID: 565497   Click image for larger version Name: Albert Woolson, last surviving Civil War veteran ever, enlisting at 14 and dying at 106 in 1956.jpg Views: 254 Size: 75.3 KB ID: 565498   Click image for larger version Name: Ambrotype of A British veteran of the Peninsular War and his wife, 1860s.jpg Views: 247 Size: 91.9 KB ID: 565499   Click image for larger version Name: American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Opera.jpg Views: 286 Size: 82.1 KB ID: 565500  


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Click image for larger version Name: An old French couple greeting soldiers of the 308th and 166th Infantries upon their arrival duri.jpg Views: 255 Size: 88.8 KB ID: 565501   Click image for larger version Name: Berlin 1961, Escape to the West.jpg Views: 251 Size: 79.6 KB ID: 565502   Click image for larger version Name: Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory, Sun Valley , Idaho . October, 1941.jpg Views: 251 Size: 51.1 KB ID: 565503   Click image for larger version Name: Five year old Albert Einstein, 1884.jpg Views: 248 Size: 50.7 KB ID: 565504   Click image for larger version Name: Ford Model T - U.S. Postal Service Truck, 1925.jpg Views: 239 Size: 67.0 KB ID: 565505  


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Click image for larger version Name: German prisoners of war in an American camp, photographed as they're forced to watch a film abou.jpg Views: 253 Size: 87.3 KB ID: 565511   Click image for larger version Name: Look closer, the sign reads WEAR A MASK OR GO TO JAIL. Spanish flu, California 1918.jpg Views: 239 Size: 59.2 KB ID: 565512   Click image for larger version Name: Marilyn Monroe.jpg Views: 363 Size: 81.4 KB ID: 565513   Click image for larger version Name: Mark Twain was actually a redhead, taken in 1870.jpg Views: 262 Size: 38.3 KB ID: 565514   Click image for larger version Name: Oldest photo of a tornado, 1884.jpg Views: 252 Size: 53.5 KB ID: 565515  


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Click image for larger version Name: The 12 Russian snipers responsible for the deaths of 775 German soldiers during World War II, 19.jpg Views: 252 Size: 65.5 KB ID: 565516   Click image for larger version Name: This girl, who grew up in a concentration camp, was asked to draw home, while living in a reside.jpg Views: 252 Size: 71.2 KB ID: 565517   Click image for larger version Name: U.S soldier bidding his family farewell to fight in WWI, 1917.jpg Views: 285 Size: 72.8 KB ID: 565518  

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The colorization processes are getting better and better. Good historic photos.

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Those are excellent. Very interesting!

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Thanks for posting! Here are pictures of my grandfather and thank God the ship that brought him back from France.
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I have some photos from the early 70's in Savannah, Ga.
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I have some photos from the early 70's in Savannah, Ga.
Very cool pics. I like the little Honda 600.

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Nice Pontiac behind MM

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I've seen/read (probably on here) the Pontiac with Marilyn was her personal car she bought for herself.

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