Unknown History File II

1) This photograph of the Great Sphinx of Giza was taken by Felix Teynard in 1851, just over a year after Maxime Du Camp first photographed the Sphinx. It later appeared in a rare volume of photographs published by Teynard in the latter part of the 1850s called "Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire." A copy printed in 1853-54 can be seen online in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
2) An early photograph of the Great Sphinx of Giza taken somewhere between 1853-54 by John Beasley Greene who was a pioneer in archaeological photography. Sadly Greene died a few years later at the age of 24.
3) A photograph of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Francis Frith again dating to 1857. It shows that there once was a staircase over the causeway of Khafre's pyramid complex that led to a simple viewing platform to the south-east of the Sphinx. The image is from a book of photographic prints by Frith called "Photo-Pictures, Selected from The Universal Series" (1865).
4) A photograph of the Great Sphinx of Giza from the northeast by Felix Bonfils dating to the 1870s - probably 1872 if the gentleman perched on the Sphinx's right shoulder is the same as in the image above taken by Bonfils from the southeast. The image is now in the collection of the J.Paul Getty Museum.

A U.S. soldier takes a moment to smoke a cigarette during a lull in the fighting amid Operation Meade River in Vietnam, 1968.

Which WWII Turning Point Changed History Forever? 🤔
PEARL HARBOR 🇯🇵 | NORMANDY 🇫🇷 | BERLIN 🇩🇪

Three defining moments of World War II. One reshaped the Pacific War, one opened the road to liberating Western Europe, and one marked the final collapse of N**i Germany.

⚔️ Pearl Harbor ignited America's entry into WWII.
🌊 Normandy launched the largest amphibious invasion in history.
🏛️ Berlin symbolized the end of the war in Europe.

If you had to choose the most decisive turning point, which would it be?
👍 Pearl Harbor
❤️ Normandy
😮 Berlin

Share your choice in the comments and tell us why.

RAF pilot Alan Po***ck flew his Hawker Hunter jet under the Tower Bridge in 1968 to protest the government ignoring the RAF's 50th anniversary.

One of the most famous unauthorized flights in aviation history.

22 July 1944. Douglas A-20G-25-DO Havoc light attack bomber 'Bevo', s/n 43-9432 of the 387th Bombardment Squadron was hit by anti-aircraft gunfire and crashed into the sea during an attack on a Japanese base Kokas, Dutch New Guinea. All aboard were killed.

Soviet female soldiers who were captured by the German army as prisoners of war on the Eastern Front during the German-Soviet War in WW2. Everyone seems to have a uniformly stern expression, perhaps due to anxiety. Some even openly display hostility.

A German Panther tank turned upside down by the force of an explosion near Bretteville, south-west of Caen, sometime in 1944.

Some wag has added a 'Remove before starting engine' sign to the wreck.

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IWM (CL 398), RAF Official Photographer

The grim environment of urban combat in the late stages of the war:
A massive Tiger II (King Tiger) slowly crushing its way over a pile of debris and crumbled masonry, effectively clearing its own path through a blocked street in
October 1944.

Hit*ler's jacket after the failed assassination attempt on his life of July 20, 1944.

🇺🇸In 2004, hundreds of insurgents surrounded an American compound in Najaf, Iraq. On the rooftop, only eight Blackwater contractors, several allied soldiers, and a single U.S. Marine held the line under relentless enemy fire.

The Marine was shot near the spine, suffered a devastating eye injury, and kept fighting. Ammunition was nearly gone. The wounded kept piling up. The military rescue they were counting on never came.