25 History Pictures of the Week – Nov 23 to 29, 2016

Castro and Justin Trudeau, 1976

Roza Shanina, a Soviet sniper during WWII. She volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in [1941].

Princess (later Queen ) Elizabeth of Great Britain doing technical repair work during her WWII military service, 1944.

Young Ottoman officers in Istanbul (1914)

german kids flying a kite made of worthless money during hyperinflation 1923 

Queen Elizabeth visits her daughter Princess Elizabeth, who is training as an ATS mechanic at a training centre in southern England, April 1945. At this stage she is a Second Subaltern of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). 

Private First Class Kerry Nelson, an American M48 tank gunner of the 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in Vietnam’s ‘Iron Triangle’ during the Vietnam War, mid 1960’s , original publication of the photograph, 1967 

Inventor J. A. Purves drives his Dynasphere spherical car (aka Jumbo), an automobile shaped like a giant radial tire – Sept 1932 

A 16-year-old Princess Elizabeth registers for war service under the Ministry of Labour’s Youth Registration Scheme, 25th April 1942. She is wearing her Girl Guide uniform. 

A Japanese American unfurled this banner over his business the day after the Pearl Harbor attack, 1942. Photographed just prior to the owners internment by Dorothea Lange.

German zeppelin sinking in the Thames estuary April 1st 1916 

WWII German prisoner of war covers face from US photographer

Albert Einstein’s office – just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it – taken hours after Einstein died. Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. 

The fabled Arabian Bazaar in Souc-el-Trouk, Tunis, Tunisia. photochrom c1899

A selfie from George Harrison in India, 1966

Woman in front of water cannon on first great protest against Milosevic, Serbia, March 9, 1991 

Republican soldiers are escorted to the firing squad by Francisco Franco’s men (Seville Spain, 1936)

Fidel Castro at the Lincoln Memorial, 1959

Salvage divers working after the attack on Pearl harbor 1941 

Adolf Hitler – 1929 

Tree converted into camouflaged observation post by Australian troops in preparation for detonating the largest non-nuclear explosion in history – WW1, Battle of Messines, Belgium, 1917 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt carves the turkey during the annual Thanksgiving dinner for polio patients at Warm Springs, Georgia, with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt smiling beside him, on December 1, 1933

The last moments of SMS Szent István, dreadnought of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1918)

A group of Frenchwomen, who had been accused of collaborating with the Germans, stripped down to their underwear, some with heads shaved, as part of their public humiliation.

U.S. Navy airman Alva Parker, wounded by shrapnel during a raid against the Japanese on Rabaul in New Britain during the Solomon Islands Campaign, awaits medical treatment aboard the USS Saratoga. 5 November 1943