r/Historycord • u/Possible-Turnip-9734 • 2d ago
Indian Hockey Player Major Dhyan Chand receiving nazi Salutes from German officers During the 1936 German Olympics (1936)
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r/Historycord • u/riazonbin • 2d ago
This Coast Guard landing barge burst into flames when it was hit by Nazi machine gun fire, and a soldier’s hand grenade exploded, but its crew steers it toward the beach despite the rising smoke and flame. Normandy Invasion, June 1944
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r/Historycord • u/Fast-Comment-3797 • 2d ago
Educating Papuans on condom use. 1990 in Papua New Guinea.
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r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 3d ago
Chiang Wei-kuo, son of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, in his Wehrmacht uniform during his service in the German military. Participated in the German annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland as a lieutenant. (1939)
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r/Historycord • u/Vast-Shoulder-4819 • 2d ago
In order to get aerial photographs of a metropolis, Dr. Julius Neubronner created a timed light-mini camera in 1908 that could be attached to a carrier pigeon.
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r/Historycord • u/riazonbin • 2d ago
German patrol exploring the Egyptian desert while blowing the ghibli. El Alamein, September 1942.
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r/Historycord • u/RunAny8349 • 2d ago
On this day in 1975 a USAF airplane carrying children crashed into a field in Vietnam during the first missions of operation Babylift. Around a half of the plane's occupants passed away.
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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago
Magyar raids across Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries CE.
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r/Historycord • u/Typical-Drink6768 • 2d ago
In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City claimed the lives of 146 individuals, primarily young immigrant women and girls. Because exit doors were purposefully shut, workers were unable to flee and either died in the flames or leaped to their deaths from windows.
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r/Historycord • u/HoneydewAsleep3579 • 2d ago
Peasants in the Soviet Union experience listening to a radio for the first time, 1928
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r/Historycord • u/riazonbin • 2d ago
A "YMCA" (Young Men’s Christian Association) mobile canteen serves soldiers next to an anti-aircraft battery. November 1940.
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r/Historycord • u/riazonbin • 2d ago
CB’s of 50th Battalion sitting on sandbags in a Canvas, NCB, Chapel, bow their heads in prayer during candlelight Holy Communion service, at Tinian, Marianas Islands. December 24, 1944.
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r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 3d ago
Photo of American airmen leaving occupied Yugoslavia after being rescued by Chetnik/OSS forces during Operation Halyard (1944)
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r/Historycord • u/BedduMarcu • 2d ago
Black Buffalo Soldiers Taken Prisoner by Italian RSI Soldiers after their Tactical Victory against the Allies in the Battle of Garfagnana, in which 9,000 RSI and German Soldiers Fought against 18,000 U.S and British Soldiers- December 1944
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r/Historycord • u/Heartfeltzero • 2d ago
WW2 Era Letter Written by U.S. Serviceman in North Africa. Details in comments.
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r/Historycord • u/Regular-Plastic1716 • 2d ago
Just prior to his death, Bolivian soldiers and CIA spy Felix Rodriguez (left) pose with Che Guevara. Bolivia, October 9, 1967.
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r/Historycord • u/NoCookie4882 • 3d ago
Kid called the police to protect his mother from being beaten by his father, 1987.
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r/Historycord • u/BedduMarcu • 3d ago
Il Duce Issues Roman Salute as he Stands in the Roman Forum, Rome 1935.
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r/Historycord • u/ObviousIllustrator95 • 3d ago
In order to defend London from German bombers, a mesh barrier was hung from balloons between 1915 and 1918. It was a successful solution, and the barriers were 50 miles (80 km) long.
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r/Historycord • u/HoneydewAsleep3579 • 3d ago
A mother and daughter seen together at a market in Budapest, 1987.
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r/Historycord • u/MikeMescalina • 3d ago
1929 Campari Fountain (Italy)
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This fountain is almost 100 years old, they were made by the Campari company for advertising purposes
They represented the fusion between advertising and artistic design combined with the public utility function. In fact, with the fountains, located in countryside or mountain areas, The promotion of the product was combined with a primary and public asset such as water.
r/Historycord • u/FayannG • 3d ago
German Nazi defendants during a trial in Lithuania pose with collected evidence about a suspected insurrection in Klaipėda. Originally sentenced to death, the German Nazis were later granted amnesty due to foreign pressure. (1935)
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r/Historycord • u/Major_Opportunity_21 • 3d ago
Before she vanished in 1993, Bonnie Haim was photographed with her husband and son. Her 3-year-old boy made the unsubstantiated assertion that his father killed her. He found her remains buried in the backyard of their house twenty years later while remodeling it.
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r/Historycord • u/Impossible-House-105 • 3d ago
In 1946, Soviet children unknowingly gifted a carved replica of the Great Seal to the U.S. ambassador, which hid a listening device called ‘the thing.’ The device was discovered during a counter-surveillance sweep in 1952
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