For auld lang syne.........

baryshnya:

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov of Russia (smiling!) and his family

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heart-of-a-volunteer:

1945- U.S. 101st Airborne Division soldier fills his canteen cup with snow for making coffee in Belgium forest near Foy.

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“Will you ask him, uh… will you ask him what kind of camp this is? What, uh… why are they here?”

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operationkino:

1939 - British soldier takes tea to comrades working to repair banks of River Ravensbourne which flooded south London.

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glowingbunny:

History Meme. 1/4 Leaders → Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, 1874 –1965 was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister in history to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924–29, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Also controversial was his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII.

After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour government. After winning the 1951 election, he again became Prime Minister, before retiring in 1955. Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history. [more +]

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operation-pegasus:

US troops landing at Normandy, 6 Jun 1944

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silfarione:

A photo series  following an ex-GI and his new wife re-visiting the battlefields of France where he fought in the war.

Photos by Tony Linck.  June,1947.

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