A historical seating chart, Nuremberg, 1945/6
A historical seating chart, Nuremberg, 1945/6
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May 6th, 1937: the end of the age of the passenger airship.
Some photographs of Project Pigeon. This was a project…
Some photographs of Project Pigeon.
This was a project undertaken during World War II. Behavioural Psychologist B.F. Skinner attempted to develop a missile guidance system controlled by pigeons.
Three pigeons, inserted in the compartments of the nose-cone pictured above, were to be trained to recognize a target and peck on the inner surface of the lens in front of them. As long as the pecks were centred, the missile would fly straight; if the missile’s course were to veer off-target, the off-centre pecks would alter trajectory and bring the missile back on course.
The project was cancelled in 1944. “Our problem”, said Skinner, “was no one would take us seriously.”
Playing cards drawn by Slovenian artist and architect Boris…
Playing cards drawn by Slovenian artist and architect Boris Kobe, a political prisoner at Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich. Intended for use in the card game ‘Tarok’, these cards were most likely created after the liberation of the camp on April 22, 1945.
De Robot Anti-war cartoon by Dutch illustrator LJ Jordaan,…
De Robot
Anti-war cartoon by Dutch illustrator LJ Jordaan, 1940; one of many anti-nazi political illustrations published in De Groene Amsterdammer in occupied Holland.
Sergeant George Camblair training to use a gas mask at Fort…
Sergeant George Camblair training to use a gas mask at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Sept. 1942.
Propaganda stamp from “Operation Cornflakes”, a…
Propaganda stamp from “Operation Cornflakes”, a World War II PSYOPS campaign conducted by the OSS, meant to get the German postal service to inadvertently deliver anti-Nazi propaganda.
Beware… (U.S. Dept. of War, 1944)
“Krucza Street, Warsaw, 1945” The German army…
“Krucza Street, Warsaw, 1945”
The German army burned the city to the ground, destroying 85% of the buildings in Warsaw. The Russians found 174,000 inhabitants when they finally expelled the Germans, this was less than 6% of the pre-war population.
According to a note on the back of this photograph, it was taken…
According to a note on the back of this photograph, it was taken on August 6th, 1945, in the town of Kaitaichi, Japan. Kaitaichi is six miles away from Hiroshima; the photo was taken two minutes after the detonation of the first a-bomb, “Little Boy”.
This photo sat forgotten since 1953 in an archive of about 1,000 articles about the bombing, kept in Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima city. Most photographs of the mushroom cloud are from U.S. military sources, this alternate picture, showing the cloud broken into two parts, is quite rare.