elevenacres:

Pratt & Whitney R2800

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demons:

Rescued airmen smoking aboard after being pulled onto a PBY, 1944/Horace Bristol

demons:

An American GI on a recon mission near Tronia, Sicily 4/5 August 1943/Robert Capa

endlessairshow:

SS Normandie enjoying her stay in New York.

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for-all-mankind:

January 1960 design for the Project Mercury Ballistic Capsule.

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peerintothepast:

American soldiers from B/68th Armored Infantry Battalion engage German snipers entrenched in the Church spire at Oberhoffen, while the tank in the foreground provides supporting fire, February 1945.

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gibsart:

meisturwerkmachinen:

Weight distribution is apparently for wussies :

engine where it should be

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zolotoivek:

People of the first Five Year Plan, 1930. Photo by S. Ivanov.

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greatestgeneration:

A grave marker on Kiska Island in the Aleutians. It reads, “Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his Mother land. July 25 - Nippon Army.” It was placed there by the occupying Japanese soldiers after they buried an American pilot who crashed onto the island.

demons:

Robert Capa taking a smoke break while on the Tunisian Front, 1942

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demons:

The second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division fly over an RTO and his commander on an isolated landing zone during Operation Pershing, a search and destroy mission on the Bong Son Plain and An Lao Valley of South Vietnam.

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