105 years ago, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after it collided with an iceberg during its voyage to New York City. Since the, that infamous maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic has served as an endless source of fascination for both casual and hard-core history buffs alike. Below is a unique … Read more
Medical orderlies tend to the wounded in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in 1916. The man on the left is suffering from Shell Shock. The Battle of Flers–Courcelette in 1916 was fought during the Battle of the Somme in France, by the French 6th Army and the British 4th Army and Reserve Army, … Read more
The British Concorde fleet at London Heathrow Airport, January 21, 1986. The occasion was the 10-year anniversary of British Concorde flight service, which began in 1976. Photo credit: British Airways First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued commercially for 27 years. With a cruising speed of 1,350 mph (2,180 km/h at … Read more
The Operation Barbarossa, or Unternehmen Barbarossa, was the German codename for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which commenced on June 22, 1941. Operation Barbarossa was the turning point of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The Operation resulted in the eventual defeat of Nazis. Operation Barbarossa opened the Eastern Front would … Read more
An iconic photo “Bloody Saturday” showing a crying baby amid the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai’s South Railway Station after a Japanese air strike against civilians on August 28, 1937 The “Bloody Saturday” photo became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. Photographer H. S. “Newsreel” Wong took the photo a few … Read more
The “Big Three of World War II” – Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill –- meeting at the Tehran Conference (1943) The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill from November 28, to December 1, 1943. The Conference was held in the Soviet Union’s embassy in Tehran, Iran. It … Read more