r/HistoryPorn • • 6h ago

Polish actress Ewa Krasnodębska (b. 1925) - oldest living actress in Poland as of 2026. She survived being struck by lightning, belladonna poisoning and being struck by a motorcycle, which caused a stroke and a clinical death. Still from movie Tarpany, 1962. [1366x1085]

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361 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 3h ago

A photograph of Cowboys in Calgary, Alberta, Canada circa 1883. [1028x771]

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153 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 20h ago

Mélanie Berger, French resistance fighter, on the Canebière. Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. April 1946 [500x640]

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832 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 6h ago

Soviet Defence minister Rodion Malinovsky in traditional Mongolian garb during a state visit in 1961 (1551x2099)

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57 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 4h ago

The fur vests that were left behind by retreating Germans are now in possession of three sergeants of Company H, 414th Regt., 104th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, 1945 [1200x955]

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The men are, L to R, S/Sgt. Gene McParland, 4712 59th Place, Woodside, L.I., N.Y.; T/Sgt. Walter F. Skora, 5423 S. Sawyer Ave., Chicago, Ill.; and Sgt. Kenneth L. Mueller, 5425 N. Richard St., Milwaukee, Wis., who are standing by the roadblock. Sindorf, Germany. 28 February, 1945.

Company H, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division.

US Signal Corps photo and original caption.


r/HistoryPorn • • 23h ago

Berlin residents, waiting to vote in the last multi-party Reichstag elections, line up next to Nazi Party stormtroopers and their DNVP coalition partners, March 1933. [750 x 562]

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705 Upvotes

Full caption: "Voters in Berlin-Dahlem line up to cast their ballots in the March 5, 1933, Reichstag election. Standing in the middle [Guy in the glasses and white moustache] is Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951), a far-right media mogul and who, as leader of the German National People's Party [DNVP], formed a coalition with Hitler's NSDAP in 1933."


r/HistoryPorn • • 4h ago

Workmen at Sydenham, south London, rebuilding the Crystal Palace after its move from Hyde Park, c. 1854. On August 15, 1853, scaffolding in the central transept gave way and twelve men died. [4000x3285]

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r/HistoryPorn • • 7m ago

Japanese heavy cruiser Kumano under attack by U.S. Navy aircraft of Carrier Air Group 7 (CVG-7) following the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 26 October 1944 [2267 x 2267]

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r/HistoryPorn • • 12h ago

First flag raising on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, 23 February 1945 [580x690]

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57 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

An attendee on her bicycle by a police barricade during the Gay Pride March in New York City, 1974. [800x1000]

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1.2k Upvotes

Photo by Leonard Fink (1930–1993). Part of the Leonard Fink Photographs Collection at the LGBT Community Center Archive in NYC, documenting 1970s street history and civil rights marches.


r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

A Japanese kamikaze pilot in a Mitsubishi A6M5 "Zero" crash dives at the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS White Plains (CVE-66) during the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944. The aircraft missed the flight deck and impacted the water just off the port quarter of the ship [5622 × 4443]

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291 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 20h ago

82 Years Ago Today: During the Battle off Samar, USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch her Wildcat fighters, while the USS White Plains (CVE-66) is straddled by 18 in (460 mm) shells from the Battleship Yamato. Oct 25, 1944 [1080x763]

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123 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

PFC Russell R. Widdifield of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, taking a break during a ground movement 25 miles north of An Hoa, Vietnam War, 1969 [1170 x 1736]

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205 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

May 1953: Winners of a youth basketball tournament in northern Vietnam, then part of French Indochina [1280x1271]

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161 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 18h ago

Peter Lorre and Vincent Price with some of the black cats that auditioned for Roger Corman's "Tales of Terror" (1962), photographed for LIFE Magazine [559 x 764].

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r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

Iraqi singer and actress, Afifa Iskandar - at a party in the Al-Shaab Hall (The People's Hall), in Bab Al-Muadham, Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, c. 1950s. [470 x 600]

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133 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

An image from Josef Koudelka’s Exiles 1968 [1126x727]

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77 Upvotes

Captured by Josef Koudelka during the Prague Spring 1968


r/HistoryPorn • • 2d ago

Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamashiro under air attack by aircraft from the United States Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise hours before the Battle of Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 24 October 1944 [5741 × 4537]

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251 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 2d ago

Polish Franciscan monks, their students and local teachers at the monastery in Nagasaki, Japan. Sitting in the middle is Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (1894-1941) who was later killed in Auschwitz German death camp. Nagasaki, 1934. [720x1033]

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662 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 1d ago

“Mount Suribachi looms over FG-1D Corsair fighters bound for Marine squadrons on Okinawa during April 1945. The aircraft were on a fuel stop on Iwo Jima en route to the next Pacific battleground.“ Original wartime caption, 1945 [1080x869]

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95 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 2d ago

Soviet officer saluting German SS officers in Poland, 1939 (1440×1007)

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77 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 2d ago

USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) and USS Uhlmann (DD-687) replenishing from USS Guadalupe (AO-32), 31 October 1952.[3751 × 2674]

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139 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 3d ago

US soldiers preparing to leave Vietnam to return to the US during the Vietnam War. (1973) [3011×2122]

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842 Upvotes

r/HistoryPorn • • 3d ago

A photo of Adolf Hitler next to the Bavarian Gate, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. (1924) [1200×806]

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587 Upvotes