General post-WW2 pictures

[Louis]

Avro Vulcan over the wreck of the B-24 “Lady Be Good”, Libyan desert.

 

[Louis]

Six Day War: Israeli paratroopers stand in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. June 7, 1967.

 

[Louis]

Rudolf Höss (second, right) and other war criminals being extradited to Poland. 5 June 1946

 

[Louis]

Mr. Donald Ritter, a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Div who jumped over Sicily, Salerno, and Normandy during WW2.

 

[Louis]

Kurt ‘Panzer’ Meyer (1910/1961), Joachim Peiper (1915/1976), Otto Gunsche (1917/2003) and Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (1892/1966) reunited in late 1950s.

 

[Louis]

Richard Arvin Overton (1906/2018), America’s oldest WW2 veteran. He was 112 years old.

 

[Louis]

Six-Day War: captured Egyptian soldiers bound for a prisoner of war camp pass an Israeli troop convoy in the Sinai desert.

 

[Rico]

A Soviet officer on the American cruiser Thomas S. Gates is trying a hot dog and Coca-Cola. Sevastopol, USSR, 1989

 

[mTk]

Just waiting for the mustard drip...

 

[Louis]

Porn star Cicciolina (Ilona Staller) says goodbye to Soviet tanks leaving Hungary, March 12, 1990.

 

[mTk]

Tank crews were sorry to leave too.

 

[Louis]

Israeli soldiers, who recaptured the Old City from the Jordanians during the Six Day War, triumphantly carry a confiscated portrait of Jordan's King Hussein. East Jerusalem, Israel. June, 1967.

 

[Gnarly]

Avro Vulcan over the wreck of the B-24 “Lady Be Good”, Libyan desert.

Interesting (and sad) story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)

 

[Louis]

P-51 flying over battleship USS Texas (1948)

 

[Gunner]

The P51's are from the Texas National Guard.

 

[Louis]

Lebanese militiamen armed with Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifles, and one with an AK-47 assault rifle, on the streets of East Beirut, during the Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, c. 1978.

 

[mTk]

Ah, the good ol' 70's!

 

[Gnarly]

Lebanese militiamen armed with Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifles, and one with an AK-47 assault rifle, on the streets of East Beirut, during the Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, c. 1978.

Is it just me?

 

[Louis]

The Six-Day War: Israeli armor prepares for action on the outskirts of Rafah, Gaza Strip.

 

[Louis]

Otto Carius (1922/2015) in his last years.