WWII

Berlin Airlift by Henry Ries, 1948

Dozens of pilots dropped more than 21 tons of candy across Berlin and when the airlift ended, the United States,…

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1944 | Vienne Execution

. After France was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a wave of retributions swept through the country. Nazi collaborators…

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Dresden, 1945

Over 2 days in February 1945, 3,900 tons of explosives were dropped over Dresden. Thirteen square miles and 100,000+ civilians were…

2 years ago

Last Picture of War | Robert Capa

His biographer called them the most gruesome photographs of Robert Capa’s career. In a Leipzig flat, a young soldier lay…

2 years ago

The Zamzam Affair

. “One of the picture scoops of World War II,” Time magazine called it. The photos showed the sinking of…

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Shanghai by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949

Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A…

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Bombing of Singapore

. On 8 December 1941, seventeen Japanese bombers dropped bombs over the island of Singapore, the opening salvo in their…

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Cal Whipple (1918 – 2013)

Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple, writer and censorship fighter, died on March 17, aged 94.“Words are never enough," wrote Life magazine…

11 years ago

Jean Leslie (1923 – 2012)

Jean Leslie, MI5 secretary whose photograph may or may not have changed the outcome of the Second World War, has…

12 years ago

The End of the Thousand-Year Reich

As the Second World War came to a close, a wave of suicides swept Berlin and other parts of Germany. Hitler…

13 years ago