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General Douglas MacArthur and staff land at Palo Beach, Leyte, 20 October 1944.

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Greek sponge divers offer President Harry S. Truman some of their prize wares at an impromptu lunch stop near the Everglades, Florida.

;)

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V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in Times Square in New York City, on August 14, 1945.

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VE Day Celebrations, London, 8 May 1945.

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Teaching piano in 1947

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/USS_Oglala_(CM-4)_capsized_at_Pearl_Harbor_1941.jpeg
Pearl Harbour?

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Pearl Harbour?


Yes I believe it is.

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Rita Hayworth

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Fred Daly triumphant after his 1947 British Open Success

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1949-Crosley-9-425.JPG

http://www.history.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/okinawa.jpg

Seventy years ago (in 1945), the Battle of Okinawa drew to a close after two and a half months; it would be the final major land battle of World War II.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Legendary_kiss_V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square_Alfred_Eisenstaedt.jpg

V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) in Times Square in New York City, on August 14, 1945.

http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/Images/eisenstaedt_main.jpg
Snap!!!!  ;D ;D

Snap!!!!  ;D ;D


I didn't know you posted the same photo.  ;D

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article10392837.ece/alternates/w620/soho1940a.jpg

Shaftesbury Avenue in London pictured in the 1940s.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Potsdam_Conference_group_portrait,_July_1945.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Potsdam_Conference_group_portrait,_July_1945.jpg
Can this picture be explained please?

Can this picture be explained please?



That's from Potsam.

That's from Potsam.
Potsam?

That's from Potsam.
Which was on this date (July 17th in 1945), when Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman, leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany.

Which was on this date (July 17th in 1945), when Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman, leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany.


Wasn't that The Treaty of Versailles?  ???

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Wasn't that The Treaty of Versailles?  ???
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.


Sorry I didn't know why I said Treaty of Versailles? I said something that came out of my mind. I must've been thinking of something else.

http://www.local-life.com/warsaw/pages/m.3601_warsaw-1944-uprising.jpg

Sorry I didn't know why I said Treaty of Versailles? I said something that came out of my mind. I must've been thinking of something else.
Wartime treaties can get confusing, especially if you history is confused.

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March 1949

That's from Potsam.
The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany, was signed this day in 1945.

Here is a picture of 1946 Ford models:
http://www.route66hotrodhigh.com/ID-Cars/images/Ford1946-48.JPG

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Anne Frank

What would've she tweeted about?  ???

http://www.motherjones.com/files/20120228_zaf_d20_162-630.jpg
Anne Frank

What would've she tweeted about?  ???
If she tweeted she would have given her location away!

http://www.motherjones.com/files/20120228_zaf_d20_162-630.jpg
Anne Frank

What would've she tweeted about?  ???


I think she'll be more vulnerable of getting captured by the Nazis if she had a Twitter account. So, Anne wouldn't really get a Twitter account. In fact, I don't really think she'll be on the Internet that much.

If she tweeted she would have given her location away!


and would've been freed.

and would've been freed.
Not freed, she was not a prisoner, she was hiding from the Germans.

and would've been freed.


Okay, maybe the Allied Powers might've helped her if she tweeted, but I think she likes to keep her life a secret from the Nazis.

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1940s Golf Fashion For Men & Boys

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1940s Tour de France

http://climate.umn.edu/img/journal/PP_10_11_1949_crop.jpg

Not freed, she was not a prisoner, she was hiding from the Germans.


What did the Germans do?

What did the Germans do?
Anne Frank was born into a Jewish family in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. The family fled to Amsterdam in the summer of 1933. That was the year in which Hitler came to power and began his policy of driving the Jews out of the country.

The Frank family found a house in the Rivierenbuurt in Amsterdam. Anne went to school there and learned Dutch. After the occupation in May 1940, the German authorities implemented measures in the Netherlands aimed at isolating the Jews from the rest of Dutch society. It was a dramatic moment for Anne when she had to say goodbye to her fellow pupils and teacher, because she had been transferred to a Jewish school. Jews were forced to wear a star of David so that they were easily recognisable in public. Signs were hung in cinemas, cafés and theatres stating: “Entry Forbidden to Jews”. From July 1942, the German occupation forces implemented a large-scale operation in the Netherlands to transport Jews to Eastern Europe. Jewish families were notified to pack their bags for work in the East. They were collected from their homes, put on trains to the transit camp at Westerbork in the province of Drenthe and from there they were taken to death camps in Eastern Europe. Over 100,000 Jewish men, women and children from the Netherlands died in concentration camps. In total, some six million European Jews were killed in the holocaust.

In 1942, together with four other people, the Frank family went into hiding in a house behind Anne’s father’s company on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. It was here that Anne began to keep the diary which made her famous after the war. She wrote about her experiences as a young, ambitious girl living in a stifling, small room. Later – when she was free again – she wanted to become a writer. The family managed to stay hidden from the Germans for two years but were then betrayed and captured. Anne died in the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 1945, aged only fifteen. Her sister also died in the camp. Her mother died in Auschwitz. Only her father, Otto Frank, survived the camp and returned from Poland.

After the war, Miep Gies, a woman who had helped the family when they were in hiding, gave Otto Frank a bundle of exercise books. These were the diaries his daughter Anne had written. Otto Frank took the diaries to several publishers and in 1947 they were published under the title Het Achterhuis. (The English title is: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.) In 1955, an American stage adaptation of the diaries made the book world famous – just in time to save the actual Achterhuis that had been recommended for demolition.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Overthrown_statue_of_King_Sigismund_1945.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Overthrown_statue_of_King_Sigismund_1945.jpg
World War 2?

World War 2?


It looks like that it came from Germany after the Allied bombings in early 1945.

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1941 Plymouth radio car

This picture may be upsetting for others to view.


Nah, I'm okay with seeing Mussolini's corpse on that picture.

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Rockford Peaches 1943

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One of the first Pepsi ads specifically targeting the African American consumer, late 40s.

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One of the first Pepsi ads specifically targeting the African American consumer, late 40s.


But how much was it for a bottle? ???

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Tuskegee Airmen 1945

But how much was it for a bottle? ???
"Pepsi was at this time rivaling coca cola with the slogan ‘More bounce in an ounce’. Pepsi was selling at the 5 cent rate, but offering more in larger bottles."

https://joanneodonnell.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/coca-cola-and-pepsi-cola-in-the-1940s/

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1940's ad for YouTube

http://hahapiclol.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/youtube.jpg
1940's ad for YouTube
Was the Internet available back in the 1940's?

Was the Internet available back in the 1940's?


I don't think so.  ???

Was the Internet available back in the 1940's?


It looks so 80s. I mean, who the hell has that kind of a computer in the 40s? Did you get this from Cracked or something?

http://hahapiclol.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/youtube.jpg
1940's ad for YouTube
That is a mock 1940's poster, and is not from that era.

That's from Potsam.
The Potsdam Conference ended this day in 1945.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/We_Can_Do_It%21.jpg

"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale.

That is a mock 1940's poster, and is not from that era.


Why would they advertise something that hasn't existed yet?  ???

It looks so 80s. I mean, who the hell has that kind of a computer in the 40s? Did you get this from Cracked or something?


I guess it was from a website. ???

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3217/3157521284_c37a67b796_z.jpg?zz=1

Why would they advertise something that hasn't existed yet?  ???
It is the other way round, it is YouTube advertising like 1940s.

Why would they advertise something that hasn't existed yet?  ???


They did it for jokes.

They did it for jokes.
That retro look?

That retro look?


Yeah, they did it in a funny way.

Yeah, they did it in a funny way.
I like it!

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Clark Gable

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August 6th 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/B-29_Enola_Gay_w_Crews.jpg

August 6th 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.


Wow, it's been 70 years since we did that to Japan.

Wow, it's been 70 years since we did that to Japan.

http://sun.iwu.edu/~rwilson/hiroshima/pan2.jpg

Nagarekawa Church in the foreground. Hiroshima Station upper far-right.

http://sun.iwu.edu/~rwilson/hiroshima/pan2.jpg

Nagarekawa Church in the foreground. Hiroshima Station upper far-right.


Was that photo taken after the bombing?

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August 1945 Newspaper

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1944, IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

http://static.euronews.com/articles/234152/606x340_234152.jpg?1375369807
70 years ago

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The Battle of Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines debark from LCP(L)s onto Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942.

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1940's War poster

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Department store 1940's

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1946, the First flight of the Convair B-36.

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President Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment of 1949 in the Oval Office.

1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."
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1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yLb8dOKqxYE/hqdefault.jpg
In was searching for an image of the original series this morning.

1945 - The Allies informed Japan that they would determine Emperor Hirohito's future status after Japan's surrender.
http://cdn.celebheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Emperor-Hirohito-249x300.jpg

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Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers in "Rainbow Over Texas" (1946)

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August 13th 1942 – Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.

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Rita Hayworth

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Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri as General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945

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concentration camps 1945

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http://www2.artflakes.com/artwork/products/292169/poster/06239c0e5d68dd119fb89a0484a600c8.jpg
A 1940's food poster.

http://www2.artflakes.com/artwork/products/292169/poster/06239c0e5d68dd119fb89a0484a600c8.jpg
A 1940's food poster.
Good for your eyes...

...all propaganda!

Good for your eyes...

...all propaganda!


How did they know carrots were good for your eyes?

How did they know carrots were good for your eyes?
The British Propaganda: Why We Thought Carrots Improved Eye-Sight?

http://www.scienceabc.com/humans/the-british-propaganda-why-we-thought-carrots-improved-eye-sight.html

http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ccbc69e20112793f7f9a28a4-400wi
1940's ad about potato chips

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Paris Railway Station under occupation in 1940.

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Bess Myerson 1945

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In November 1947, aviation pioneer Howard Hughes' 200-ton plywood flying boat made its 1st and only flight. The "Spruce Goose" still holds the record for the largest wingspan and height of any aircraft in history.

http://www.pcschools535.org/vimages/shared/vnews/stories/4f4d8b176c927/a_1940_1.jpg
class picture 1940's

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Fashion on the ration in 1940's UK.

http://www.thelifenostalgic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1940s-mens-fashion-trousers.jpg

1940's Men's fashion

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Luftwaffe bomber over Wapping, London. 1940

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Laurel And Hardy

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Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona. 1945

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/MikeTheHeadlessChicken.jpg

Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona. 1945


How did he choke if he didn't have a head?  ???

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/b14SNScktb0/hqdefault.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/b14SNScktb0/hqdefault.jpg
Abbott and Costello?

Abbott and Costello?


Yes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Amrally.jpg

Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany. 1941

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1940's camera

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1949_ford_business_coupe.jpg

1940 Packard Darrin Convertible Victoria- Howard “Dutch” Darrin

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Nucky Johnson getting arrested for tax evasion in 1941.

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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/93/10/ac/9310ac9996641327b77fad730503f259.jpg

The glorious Rita Hayworth!

(Fun Fact, my mother, Rita, was named after her. Funner fact, her mother, Clara was named after Clara Bow. Funniest fact, my father Harold was named after Harold Lloyd. If I had been born a few decades sooner, I guarantee I'd have been named after a film star!) 

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Clark Gable