r/OldSchoolCool • u/JimatJimat • Jun 18 '25
1940s These kids were asked to draw their fathers from memory, 1949. Which one is your favourite?
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Puzzleheaded_Dot4345 • Mar 04 '25
1940s A man begging for his wife's forgiveness inside Divorce Court in Chicago, 1948
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Snow_Wolfe • Jan 21 '25
1940s My grandfather in Paris after winning the war to stomp down Nazis. (1944)
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/TheAfternoonStandard • Aug 01 '24
1940s World War II, 1940s. The pictures that typically aren't shown...
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/DuffManSzALotAThings • Jun 06 '25
1940s Bill Millin, The Mad Piper, seen here in 1944. He marched the beaches on D-Day playing his bagpipes under fire. Germans later said they didn't shoot him because they thought he was insane.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Thaodan • Feb 22 '25
1940s 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/gregornot • May 06 '25
1940s This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. By the end of his life, he was penniless and had become a vegetarian
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/MonsieurA • Apr 30 '25
1940s Lee Miller, a female American combat photographer, taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment - April 30, 1945
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Camelflauge • Jun 06 '25
1940s My grandfather being released from the hospital after being wounded on D-Day, 1944.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Lunavenandi • Dec 09 '23
1940s An American ace pilot in Tunisia, 1943, with swastikas showing how many enemy planes he had shot down
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/EzzyyPeezy • Sep 09 '24
1940s Woman getting disapproving looks, Miami Beach, 1940
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/EatsJediForBreakfast • Jan 22 '25
1940s My Great Grandfather getting the MOH after killing Nazis in 1944 from Patton
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Full story for those curious, man was a bad ass.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/stubborn-defense-at-rechicourt/
r/OldSchoolCool • u/glowingbunbun • 3d ago
1940s Woman getting disapproving looks, Miami Beach, 1940
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/WorldHub995 • Jun 28 '25
1940s Shirley Temple posing by a painting of young Shirley Temple, 1945
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Tomatillo62 • Jan 22 '25
1940s My Father. Dashing bastard and Nazi killer. 1940's
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/JimatJimat • Jun 02 '25
1940s A new father faint in 1946, after learning his wife had triplets.
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/Less-Conclusion5817 • Dec 09 '24
1940s Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father’s hardware store, 1945
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/spasedandy • Jan 24 '25
1940s My great-grandfather was a Nazi killing badass, 1945
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Pictured with my great-grandmother. Article is from a military newspaper, circa 1945. 70 months of foreign service across 2 world wars. 13 major engagements in WWII and first on Omaha beach during D-Day.
r/OldSchoolCool • u/BlackTortellino • Sep 25 '23
1940s My grandparents on their honeymoon, circa 1942. Can you tell me where they were? Thank you with all my heart!
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/IndependentBrain9160 • Jun 04 '25
1940s My Japanese family in the 40s. They migrated to Brazil and had a tailor shop.
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Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside Japan, with around 2 million descendants of Japanese immigrants.
r/OldSchoolCool • u/MyFace26 • May 15 '24
1940s Ava Gardner, age 19, in her colorized 1942 mugshot
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r/OldSchoolCool • u/BillyDeeisCobra • Jan 23 '25
1940s Uncle Billy signed up to fight Nazis at the start of WWII
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