Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 215, click here.
1. Exhausted German soldiers returning from close-quarter combat with Soviet shock troops in Ukraine, 1943.
2. Nancy Reagan and Mr. T – Christmas at the White House, 1983.
3. Japanese soldiers buy ice cream from a Filipino vendor in occupied Manila, 1942.
4. Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet, 1917.
5. French Resistance member Georges Blind smiling in front of a German execution squad, October 1944.
6. Italian troops training for the planned invasion of Malta in the spring of 1942.
The ladders were to be used to scale the cliffs of Malta’s rugged coast.
7. The second explosion of The Narrow Water Ambush, in what was the deadliest single attack on the British Army by the Provisional IRA, August 1979.
8. Colorized photograph of Chernobyl plant during nuclear disaster approximately 15 hours after the explosion, captured by Igor Kostin in 1986.
Photograph distorted by high levels of radiation.