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Relic of the machine age.
Retro milposting and glimpses of the past.
Pinned
"Children of the cold sun and the broken horizon,
O secret faces, multitudes, eyes of inscrutable grief,
great breath of millions, in unknown crowds or alone,
rooms of dreamers above the cement abyss,-and I,
who all night restive in the unsleeping rain,
awake and saw the windows covered with tears.
Two snipers watch carefully for the enemy. Later they killed a Japanese soldier at 1k yds and kept 4 others pinned so they couldn't fire their mortar with effect. With tracers they pointed out the position of the mortar and other Marines rushed them and killed them. Okinawa 1945

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February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
February 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
A German U-boat crewman with a double barreled flare gun, circa WWI.

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February 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Sri Lanken T-55AM tanks during the Sri Lanken Civil War, 1995.

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February 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Soldiers of the Irish Reserve Defense Forces return to assembly areas after completing a training exercise at Ft. Davis in County Cork, 2005.

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February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
4th Marine Division Gyrenes show off a captured Japanese sword on Roi Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, February 1944.

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February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Mike Company 3 RCR during Reforger.

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February 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A Japanese amphibious tank captured by soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division at Ormoc, Leyte, P.I., 6 January 1945.

📸 US Army Signal Corps.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
German prisoners taken in the drive south of Colmar carry a wounded American soldier (Pvt. Charles Deatheridge) with them as they are marched out of the battle area, 4 February 1945.

📸 US Army Signal Corps.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"On Campaign" by Vasily Vereshchagin.

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February 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
February 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"Close Call." By Keith Burns.

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February 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Captain Lee Royal, CO of Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment gives instructions over the radio from his M60A3 in West Germany during Reforger '85.

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January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Austrian Army soldiers on exercises, ca. 1960s.

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January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Concept art for the 1978 La Grande Royale by SILCCO.

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January 28, 2026 at 3:54 PM
"Transporting the Wounded" by Wilhelm Dachauer, 1916.

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January 27, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Portrait of Leila Khaled.

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January 27, 2026 at 2:13 PM
331st ASA Company during Reforger '82, September 1982.

Photo by James A. Brown.
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January 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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I had never heard of this before yesterday, and it's a great example of why Americans need to think more broadly than either 1930s Germany or even US history as a whole about parallels for the current situation
The Chun regime that my wife fought against in the 80s did the exact same thing. They needed a "crisis" that "only they could solve" to hoard more ill-gotten power, so they chose one city (Gwangju), declared its inhabitants enemies, sent trucks full of soldiers to violently attack and kill them.
January 25, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Swiss grenadiers circa the 1940s.

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January 25, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"The Hell where youth and laughter go..."

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January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
American paratroopers pose in the door of their C-47 Skytrain just prior to taking part in Operation Market Garden, September 1944.

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January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Soldiers of the Slovak Fast Brigade advancing through Lypovets, USSR, 1941.

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January 22, 2026 at 2:01 PM