Posted on 05/15/2022 5:54:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
American troops of the 1st Infantry Division leaving the port of Weymouth, England
en route to Omaha Beach in Normandy in June 1944
.
June 6th, 1944- Into the Jaws of Death
Tom Jensen, sergeant with the 626th Engineer Light Equipment Company, told the Chicago Tribune that many of the men he served with had no idea where they were going on that day:
They didn't tell us anything we didn't need to know. Heck, some of the guys on our ship thought we were headed to Japan, not Normandy. Just months earlier, we were either in high school or working odd jobs.
.
Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896
.
Elizabeth Taylor on the set of "Giant" in 1956
.
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia
.
Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world dances with his pet cat in the doorway of his Worthing home, 1956.
.
Oregon, August 1939. Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Social Security number tattooed on his arm identifies him as Thomas Cave.
.
Winston Churchill as a Cornet in the 4th Queen's Hussar's Cavalry, 1895. He was 21 at the time
. 
.
Charlie Chaplin in 1916, at the age of 27
.
Salvador Dali standing on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York City, 1936
.
Pablo Picasso wearing a hat and holding a revolver & holster given to him by Gary Cooper - Cannes, 1958
.
London readers continue to browse at a bombed-out library, WWII
.
Sophie Scholl, anti-Nazi political activist, was convicted of high treason after she was caught distributing anti-war leaflets with her brother, Hans.
As a member of the White Rose Resistance Sophie Scholl was one of the few Germans who worked against the Naxis out in the open. Her group was an underground movement who passed out flyers and passively resisted the Nazi movement.
She was arrested at the University of Munich on February 18, 1943 while she and members of her group were distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. When she dumped a suitcase full of fliers over a staircase at the university she was spotted by a worker sympathetic to the Nazi cause.
Scholl was sent to People Court on February 21, 1943 and sentenced to execution by guillotine.
Her final words were:
Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go...
What does my death matter, if through us,
thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?
.
Oscar Wilde, photographed in 1882.
.
Titanic Orphans, brothers Michel and Edmond Navratil, 1912. They were the only children to be rescued from the Titanic without a parent or guardian
.
These boys survived the sinking of the Titanic by making their way onto the Collapsable D, the ninth and final life-saving vessel. After the boys were placed onto the lifeboat by their father he was told to remain on board the doomed ship.
.
Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace, in 1908
.
U.S. athlete Jesse Owens salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, after defeating Nazi Germany’s Lutz Long, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
.
Winston Churchill & Charlie Chaplin, on the set of “City Lights," 1929
.
Rita Hayworth biking around the pool at The Beverly Hills Hotel
.
Tom Selleck dancing with Nancy Reagan and Clint Eastwood dancing with Princess Diana at the White House in 1985.
Tom Selleck recalled the night, " I was quite as uncomfortable as Clint Eastwood...he was really out of his safe zone." The dance got off on a bad foot when Eastwood told Di, "You're too old for me," which the princess responded with, "I'm only 24!"
.
The tallest, shortest and fattest man of Europe all playing a game of cards, 1913
.
Unpacking Mona Lisa at the end of World War II in 1945
.
For old guys like me, this is an excellent set of pictures...
Those are great, thanks for posting!
Note that Winston Churchill’s photos taken in different centuries. All these pics are very cool.
Thank you, that came at just the right time.
Have you read the case and circumstances, i have. She didn’t deserve the firing squad.
Liz Taylor went to summer camp a few miles from my summer camp. Her camp visited my camp. She was unbelievably gorgeous even as a teen. She was four years older than I was.
I have all her colorized photos, she was something.
Wow! Very cool! Thanks!
Please say more.
Thank you so much for these fabulous photos.
So much to see and to learn. Charlie Chaplin looked wonderful in color, loaded with personality. And on and on.
That said, the overlong and tedious film Giant truly was unwatchable, I hated every minute of it.
(Okay, I was 8 yrs old when I saw it, but I've never felt the need to see it again.)
Mata Hari in 1906, soon after the Dutchwoman reinvented herself as an exotic dancer. Inspired by dances she had seen in the Dutch East Indies, she took a stage name that means "eye of the day" in Malay.
I did not know that she was a Dutch woman.
Very nice.
Amazing! Albert Einstein, one of the most recognizable people who ever existed.
I always took pride in the portraits I took over the years, many of them in black and white. Thank You.
#18 A search on her found she was a nymphomaniac...
Excerpts: According to reports she was just 12 when she had her first encounter with a man, with future movie actor/director John Derek, who was six years older than her.
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor had sex with Mickey Rooney when she was just 14 years old, claims a new book.
The book claims that two years after meeting the actors were caught engaging in a sex act by 24-year-old Rooney’s second wife – Betty Jane.
At 15 with Ronald Reagan....
Wow. Cool story. I bet she was gorgeous at such a young age. Some never go through the awkward stage and she was probably one of them.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.