Ideals are peaceful, History Is Violent.

[gougeddoll]

1940s nurse uniform

[asthetiques]

The Real McCoy’s - M65 Field Jacket.

[timthetoolmann]

a message to my life

[thehillsofbastogne]

Members of the 101st Airborne leaving Bastogne. 31 Dec 1944.

Photo courtesy of the National Archives (U.S. Army Signal Corps)

[atomic-raunch]

Marge Mellor

[buhdonkers]

[vintagegoddesses3]

[13corrosion13]

June Palmer

[butterflyemoji]

paintings by John kacere

[thereserve69]

[karagin22]

[usafphantom-2]

September 1944, Peleliu Island Airfield

Abandoned and riddled with numerous bullets

Zero Fighter Plane

Marine sitting on the wing

@maguro via X

[usafphantom-2]

Japanese women and teenagers see off army kamikaze pilots as they leave for the airfield in a truck. The same pilots .1945

@Destroye83 via X

[usafphantom-2]

Japanese army kamikaze pilots have a meal at the airfield before a combat mission. 1945.

@Destroye83 via X

[20th-century-man]

Dondi Penn / photos by Bunny Yeager.

I've posted these before separately but here they are together in one post. I think I have one or two more from this set...

[phobic-human]

Red Army soldiers advance during The Battle of Kursk

(5 July 1943 – 23 August 1943)

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

U.S. soldiers cautiously advance in France 1944, watching out for the enemy. The G.I. in the door-way has a captured German Walther P-38 pistol. (FTP)

[neckkiss]