2020 New Random Pics

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Baz

26th January 1965: Actress Honor Blackman going for a ride on a Solex moped while in Cannes to film 'Moment To Moment'.

I was one day old.

[gregpark]

I was just old enough to be interested in Pussy

[GH85Carrera]

How the Japanese portrayed it.


Aftermath of Japanese Submarine I-17 shelling the Ellwood Oil Fields near Santa Barbara California USA on the night of February 23, 1942 -
LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer


Operation Grenade was a very dangerous assault crossing. Most US divisions had a difficult time getting their units over the fast-moving river Roer, and as the day progressed, many footbridges were swept away. The river crossing was the worst part of the first week of operation Grenade; once the US army was established on the east bank of the Roer, the operation went smoothly. The Germans, 59th Division and 363rd Volksgrenadier Division, which met the main weight of the American attack, were pushed back quickly. After twenty-four hours, 9th Army had twenty-eight battalions across the river and seven bridges in operation. The cost was 93 men killed, 913 wounded, and 61 missing. Many of these casualties were combat engineers involved in the river assault and bridge building. The terrain in front of 9th US Army was ideal for a mobile army. The relavely flat farm country was planted mostly in sugar beets and grain, and the road network was extensive. Apart from a number of fortified towns, there were few obstacles in the Americans’ path. By evening of the second day, tank and tank destroyer battalions were across and General Bill Simpson’s was beginning to sense that ‘ things were breaking up.’ There was ‘ not much in front of Ninth Army,’ and it was time to go for the Rhine river.
Source: The Last Offensive by Charles B. MacDonald


Unemployed men line up in front of a Chicago soup kitchen, which was operated by Al Capone, during the Great Depression.

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[Steve Carlton]

[Tishabet]

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I think this is photoshop or bogus. The sparks would be burning her thighs.

Random

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Thanks, guys... I really appreciate it. I was looking to the right of it.

"Beo" Wolfe...that's a great handle.

[rcooled]

I heard that new car owner's manuals are warning people not to drink the contents of the battery and I thought "That's BS...people can't possibly be that lame".

Then I saw this the other day ↓

[GH85Carrera]

Laying tracks on the extreme front of Prescott and Eastern Railroad in Arizona Territory, c. 1898. On February 24th, 1863 Arizona was organized as a U.S. Territory.






Clarence Leonard Johnson; born February 27th, 1910,
Clarence was 13 years old when he won a prize for his first aircraft design. While attending grade school in Michigan, classmates teased him by calling him "Clara". One morning a classmate chose the wrong moment to call him "Clara". Johnson tripped him, and the boy ended up with a broken leg. From that moment forth, they started calling him "Kelly". The nickname came from the popular song at the time, "Kelly With the Green Neck Tie". Henceforth he was always known as "Kelly" Johnson.
"Kelly" whent on to become an aeronautical and systems engineer, who earned the reputation as being one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers in the history of aviation. Notably the Lockheed A-12, U-2 and the SR-71 Blackbird. As a member and first team leader of the famed Lockheed Skunk Works, Kelly was said to have been an "organizing genius", and played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, including several honored with the prestigious Collier Trophy.
In 2003, Aviation Week & Space Technology ranked Johnson 8th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My father used to be a typesetter back in the early 60's in upstate NY when I was a little kid.
He quit his job of 19 years in '63 and we moved to California.

The building where the paper was located is now a restaurant.
He could see the writing on the wall.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Flame grilled steak. Nice.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

I think this is photoshop or bogus. The sparks would be burning her thighs.
g]

Stripper pole calluses formed a protective layer?

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Flame grilled steak. Nice.

[GH85Carrera]

A fascinating image of three galaxies colliding with each other in the farthest regions of outer space has been released by NASA.

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the remarkable snapshot shows in clearer detail than ever how the galaxies, which are 684 light-years away from Earth, are in the process of merging with each other, as well as the impact this incredible collision is having on the surrounding space.

Known officially as merger event IC 2431, the collision of the three galaxies has intrigued astronomers for decades, with the event first recorded more than a century ago on February 24 1896.


On February 23, 1945 the city of Jülich in Germany on the other side of the river Roer was captured by the Americans. Two days later, further south, Düren was followed. Both cities are completely in ruins after five months of air raids and shelling. Now that the Americans have crossed the Roer, they seem to have made a definitive breach in the German lines on the western front. The West Wall (or Siegfried Line, as the Allies call it) no longer plays a role. The road to the densely populated industrial area on the Rhine is open.

US soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division await orders to clear out a building in Duren in Germany, on February 24, 1945.

[Robert Coats]

[craigster59]

Saw this on an "Old House" FB page. A "Linoleum rug" from a child's playroom.

[Racerbvd]

[David]

My uncle Andy was at Iwo Jima. He never talked about it but the last time I talked to him before his death he talked a little. Nobody talked about PTSD years ago but looking back I'm sure it affected him greatly.

[NeedSpace]

Just 10 years after it was built. This is before they added the lower level in 1961. Note no divider.