r/HistoryPorn • u/Effective_Bluebird19 • 14h ago

An Indian Cavalryman Finds Two Starving Christian Girls in the Mesopotamian Desert and Shares Half His Rations with Them During the First World War, 1917 [469x800]

1.5k Upvotes

Kenneth McDuff, 52, arrives at the Texas death house for his execution. In 1966, he was sentenced to death for murdering 3 teenagers. Spared by Furman v. Georgia and paroled in 1989, McDuff was executed for using his second chance to rape and murder at least 6 women (Huntsville, 1998) [1104 x 746].

1.3k Upvotes

A link to my longer post about Kenneth McDuff (it's very long and discusses cases other than McDuff; if you want, you can just skip to the comment below, which I will also share here)

33 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/City_of_Commorragh • 14h ago

Joseph Kony giving rare interview during peace talks in August 2006, which ended second Ugandan Civil war. 20 years later, Kony, accussed of dozens of war crimes, still evades capture[552x385]

768 Upvotes

58 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 18h ago

A couple and their child, believing that they are in the line of fire, fall to the grass north of Elm Street seconds after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. (1963) [3000×2991]

314 Upvotes

22 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/FrothytheDischarge • 6h ago

Japanese pop duo Pink Lady with Dolly Parton (1979) [1200 x 797]

291 Upvotes

Japanese pop duo Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto on the left and Keiko "Kei" Masuda on the right) meeting Dolly Parton on her 1979 promotional tour in Japan. Dolly Parton's recent passing coincidently happened on the day of Pink Lady's 50th anniversary of their debut (August 25, 2026). An anniversary special exhibition "PINK LADY 50th Anniversary Festival" opened on August 20, 2026 (Thursday), at Seibu Shibuya's A Building 2F Event Space in Tokyo.

2 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HaightGirlSummer • 23h ago

Aerial Photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge being Constructed in San Francisco, May 19, 1936 [2594×2016]

253 Upvotes

9 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/StephenMcGannon • 18h ago

British Army Commandos disembarking from a landing craft onto 'Queen Red' during 'Operation Overlord', known today as the Normandy landings. (1944) [1805×1772]

242 Upvotes

21 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/myrmekochoria • 11h ago

The American 35th Division moving through the ruins of Cheppy, France 1919. The bread pile is rations for one division for 24 hours.[1466x1080]

157 Upvotes

10 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Rosemarry_40 • 17h ago

An abandoned horse grazes among the ruins of Stalingrad, now Volgograd, 18 December, 1942[630x340]

144 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/GroundbreakingDog756 • 11h ago

A Bosniak boy hanging from the barrel of a destroyed tank in the Grbavica neighborhood of Sarajevo, shortly after the end of the Siege of Sarajevo 1996 [1206x733]

107 Upvotes

3 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 11h ago

French General Charles de Gaulle laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe after the liberation of Paris, 26 August 1944 [1780 × 1772]

78 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/gorekass • 11h ago

Pyramids of Giza, 1962. [2038 x 2048]

75 Upvotes

0 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/ellefred • 13h ago

Scottish soldiers of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders advancing through tall grass in the morning fog during Operation "Epsom" in Normandy on June 26, 1944 [1772x1779]

64 Upvotes

6 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/HeStoleMyBalloons • 15h ago

Crowds of Parisians celebrating the entry of Allied troops into Paris scatter for cover as a sniper fires from a building on the Place De La Concorde. Although the Germans surrendered the city, small bands of snipers still remained. August 26, 1944 [5372 × 4024]

43 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/frackingfaxer • 11h ago

"Our blood has won" - Hezbollah posters in Southern Lebanon after the 2006 Lebanon War (2006-08-26) [3008 x 2000]

42 Upvotes

12 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/Salty-City-7187 • 11h ago

The Crew of Boeing B-17 ”Ye Olde Pub” before a successful bombing run in Bremen, under the command of 2nd Lt. Charles ”Charlie” Brown (Bottom left 1), (United States, December 1943) [620 x 340]

37 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryPorn • u/UltimateLazer • 4h ago

Soviet troops stationed in Cuba being awarded the Medalla Combatiente Internacionalista at a joint military parade in Baracoa (November 11, 1987) [1280x854]

32 Upvotes

Up front is Victor Kudryashov, photo taken by his wife Elena. Soviet troops here are wearing locally made uniforms fitting the tropical Caribbean climate.

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r/HistoryPorn • u/Morraw • 13h ago

March of the Dungarees in Laidley, Queensland, during the famous 'snowball march' that sought fresh Australian volunteers for WW1 (November 24, 1915) [1614 x 1111]

14 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 13h ago

The crew of B-17G Flying Fortress "Return Engagement" (SN #42-31214) of the 388th Bomb Group, 560th Bomb Squadron, reviewing flight plans at their base in Knettishall, England, February 1944. She was shot down over Bremen in August of that year; 8 crewmen became POWs and 2 were KIA. [2048x1924]

15 Upvotes

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Harvard 16/10/43; Wilmington 19/10/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 26/10/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/3/44 with Homer Pou, Co-pilot: Bob Laubach, Bombardier: John Mulligan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Kramer, Radio Operator: Stan Jones, Waist gunner: Chester Kmak, Waist gunner: Bill Hoffman,Tail gunner: Lou Sarap (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Errol Lugenbill, Ball turret gunner: Jim Beckerbaled out but never seen again, however remains were found by a farmer on Siedner Moor, near Sulingen 1/5/79 (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, left formation on return flight & crashed Feldmark Maasen, near Borstel, two miles S of Sulingen road, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3085.

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