24 Old Photos That Will Take You Back In Time
Kenneth Coo
Published
02/16/2016
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Pictures showing how diverse our past really is.
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A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. -
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Using banknotes as wallpaper during hyperinflation, Germany 1923. -
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B-25 Mitchell skip-bombs a Japanese Kaibokan escort ship, 6 April 1945. -
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U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England. -
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The Flying Tigers over China, 1942. -
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The first photograph upon discovery of Machu Picchu, 1912. -
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Maori Battalion dances haka in Egypt, 1941. -
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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct. -
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Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet, 1918. -
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Underwater detonation of 15 kiloton nuclear weapon. -
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Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940. -
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Erwin Rommel helps to push his stuck staff car somewhere in Northern Africa, 1941. -
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Female Viet Cong warrior, 1972. -
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German troops trying to get a French soldier out from a sink hole, 1918. -
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Control room of the U-Boat submarine, 1918. -
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British tanks maneuvering trenches during the Battle of Cambrai, the first use of tanks in mass, France, 1917. -
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B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas 1944. -
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James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, being led to his cell after his arrest in London, 1968. -
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A young private waits on the beach during the Marine landing at Da Nang, Vietnam, 1965. -
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Adenauer returned to Cologne after he negotiated the release of the last 10,000 war prisoners with the Soviet government, 1955. -
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Adolf Eichmann walks around the yard of his cell, Israel 1961. -
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Aleksandra Samusenko- the only female tank officer in the 1st Guards Tank Army. -
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Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in WWI, 1916. -
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A rare shot of a young Winston Churchill, 1895.
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