World war

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Color images of the Russian Empire in Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s gorgeous photos, the goofy Romanovs and Olga Shirnina stirring colorized pictures of Russians in World War 1 take us back. In this gallery we see Olga’s work on photographs from World War 2. See more of Olga Shirnina’s work on her website.

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Ngā Tapuwae - New Zealand First World War Trails Possibly the most original WWI commemorative sites I have run across is Ngā Tapuwae (The Footprints in Maori) which allows visitors to follow the New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. The presentation is multi-media, conventional website, and Facebook with apps of all types and downloadable PDF-formatted printable versions available. Ngā Tapuwae contains a lot of factual information, but it is absolutely masterful at…

retro aviation, space & military

[Photo] Red Army soldier Mikhail Alekseevich Yegorov of Soviet 756 Rifle Regiment flying the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 1945, photo 2 of 2; Meliton Kantaria and another watching nearby | World War II Database

the helmets of ww1

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A look at U-boats of World War II and their success and failure in the Battle of the Atlantic.