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    • /r/ImagesOfThe1940s

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    16

    My father (cute one in front) in elementary school back when the nuns looked so scary!

    6 Comments
    2023/01/14
    02:03 UTC
    4

    Hedy Lamarr: Inventor, Actress, and All-Around Trailblazer

    0 Comments
    2022/06/26
    08:38 UTC
    14

    Girl wearing the traditional attire from Algarve (Portugal) at the Portuguese World Exhibition, Lisbon, 1940. Photograph by Casimiro dos Santos Vinagre [CFT178 128.ic]

    1 Comment
    2021/10/18
    06:48 UTC
    29

    My Polish Mom and her sisters at her wedding 76 years ago today July 7, 1945

    0 Comments
    2021/07/07
    15:14 UTC
    31

    Ann Miller, 1943

    0 Comments
    2020/05/04
    11:26 UTC
    17

    "War Ends" - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 1945 [captured by DOE photographer Ed Westcott]

    1 Comment
    2020/01/20
    21:55 UTC
    24

    Snapshot of an unidentified group of male and female teenager posing together outside in the snow around the time of World War II. [From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, State Archives of North Carolina]

    0 Comments
    2020/01/19
    14:30 UTC
    10

    My sweet mother stepping out, New Jersey, 1948

    0 Comments
    2019/11/22
    22:54 UTC
    44

    I'd never seen a photo of my grandma younger than 63. I just found this yearbook photo of her when she was 17. RIP, Margie Arrowsmith.

    2 Comments
    2019/10/19
    02:40 UTC
    16

    My grandma off the Texas coast around Palacios sometime in the late 40's

    0 Comments
    2019/10/09
    20:48 UTC
    11

    Operation Barbarossa Superimposed onto a map of the United States

    0 Comments
    2019/09/01
    23:57 UTC
    7

    WWII German propaganda map showing the strength of the "New Europe" and Axis plans for 1942, with an analysis of Allied plans up to and including the possible invasion of Italy.

    0 Comments
    2019/09/01
    20:16 UTC
    20

    I absolutely love this hairstyle! (Donna Reed)

    0 Comments
    2019/06/15
    23:53 UTC
    7

    Big Kahuna ( at the time ) inspecting the 1^ Stormo Caccia (Dad 2 from the Right ) Campoformido or N. Africa .

    1 Comment
    2019/01/02
    14:43 UTC
    12

    The beautiful Hedy lamarr

    2 Comments
    2018/10/22
    17:47 UTC
    13

    Actress Teresa Wright, 1942

    0 Comments
    2018/10/18
    22:49 UTC
    18

    My granddad was in the 12th armored division. This is an original photo of Berchtesgaden in 1945

    0 Comments
    2018/09/23
    21:25 UTC
    9

    My Grandad after leaving the Gurkha Rifles military to become a diver for the circus (1941)

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    19:18 UTC
    3

    My Maternal Great Grandfather aged 74 in 1970. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 76. Here he wears a traditional Sindhi hat. He survived the India-Pakistan migration and migrated to India in 1947.

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    19:06 UTC
    6

    My great-grandfather fled from Uzbekistan in 1948 during soviet control. Just found this picture from his identification when he became a Saudi.

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    18:58 UTC
    2

    "Treat the Trotskyist as you would a Nazi" - 1942 Communist Party of Great Britain leaflet

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    18:41 UTC
    0

    First EWC Gold medal for sweden since 1949!

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    18:11 UTC
    19

    My great grandparents in 1941

    3 Comments
    2018/03/30
    17:06 UTC
    1

    Picture of Stalin during "Operation Barbarossa" in 1941, colorized.

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    16:29 UTC
    14

    July 1944, Married During Wartime Leave

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    16:07 UTC
    3

    My great great grandmother, great grandparents, and grandma celebrating Passover Seder, Latvia, 1940

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    14:08 UTC
    11

    My grandparents wedding photo, England, 1940. She was 19.

    1 Comment
    2018/03/30
    13:53 UTC
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