Rare Historical Photos Pt. 7 [20 Pics]

Feb 6 2013

Another roundup of the popular historical series of posts that we do. You can find the previous post here, and the start of the series here.

Titanic in dry dock. Here you can see the scale of the person standing next to one of the propellers. 1912.

The headquarters of Benito Musolini and the Italian Fascist party. Rome, ~1930.

Crew members of Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing. 1966.

Hindenburg flies over Manhattan in 1936.

Construction of Mount Rushmore. 1934-1939.

Buzz Aldrin, sitting inside Apollo 11 lunar module. This photo was taken by commander Neil Armstrong shortly after the first successful moonwalk ever. July 20, 1969.

A Russian Sukhoi Su-25 close air support jet that was damaged by a Georgian MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System). Most likely a replica of the Soviet designed 9K38 Igla. Georgian Conflict, 2008.

Folsom Street in San Francisco, USA after the great earthquake of 1906.

Soviet cruiser “Murmansk” that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sørvær during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994.

Hoover Dam penstocks and outlet pipes such as this one were fabricated from 45,000 tons of steel and welded into nearly three miles of pipe varying from 8.5-30ft (2.6-9m) in diameter.

Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. By the end of World War 2, she had 309 confirmed kills - thus making her the most successful female sniper in history.

US Customs agent pointing a gun at a car that is suspected of transporting marijuana across the US-Mexico border. 1969.

A German soldier with kids on his motorcycle. Bulgaria, 1941.

John Lennon at Abby Road Studios in London, England. ~1963.

A distant Kremlin is seen in this 1852 photo of Moscow, Russia.

L Motors dealership that specialized in selling Dodges and Plymouths. New York City, USA, 1948.

Stalin is captured in this photograph by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the Soviet dictator’s bodyguard. Vlasik’s off-the-record photos of Stalin caused a sensation in the early 1960s when an enterprising Soviet journalist spirited some out, selling them to newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Prone position pilot bed that was designed in an attempt to lessen pilot fatigue and ease the effects of gravitational forces. 1949.

Members of the RECON platoon are shown unloading from a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter. Operation "Oregon" operating 3 kilometers west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam.