most powerful photos ever taken

[Hamann Pineapple]

Aurora Borealis photographed above the clouds in Finland

Looks like another planet

 

[idahoblues]

 

[Dalian Blue]

Australian POW about to be beheaded by Japanese soldier in WW2

Is it an Australian or one of the American flyers shot down and captured after the Doolittle raid?
I have seen this photo in many places and it has different interpretations to who it is

In am almost certain that all the Airmen from the Doolittle raid were executed in prison.

From Wikipedia:

Sixteen U.S. Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Hornet deep in the Western Pacific Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land in China—landing a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible. Fifteen of the aircraft reached China, and the other one landed in the Soviet Union. All but three of the crew survived, but all the aircraft were lost. Eight crewmen were captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of these were executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union at Vladivostok was confiscated and its crew interned for more than a year. Fourteen crews, except for one crewman, returned either to the United States or to American forces.[1][2]

 

[foetus]

The second the world changed forever.

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

The second the USA changed forever.

Edited for you. The rest of the world had suffered this stuff before

 

[Pelly Greeny]

Any spotted the guy towards top right, second one in on the row behind the men in lighter shirts - wonder if he was deliberately giving the V?

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIzNPrikKEs[/video]

 

[whp.blue]

is that taken from the Movie ET

 

[bluemoon32]

is that taken from the Movie ET

No, it's Jeremy Beadle with a tan

 

[idahoblues]

is that taken from the Movie ET

LOL, picture taken after his bike crashed and burned

 

[Sir peace frog]

I wasn't going to go through 160 odd pages to check. But this does it for me.

Epic photo. Saw a documentary about the girl.

It was in every history schoolbook I think I read and some funny sod had drawn a speech bubble on everyone.

OMG that is funny

 

[aguero93:20]

Epic photo. Saw a documentary about the girl.

It was in every history schoolbook I think I read and some funny sod had drawn a speech bubble on everyone.

OMG that is funny

Had me cracking up too :D

 

[bluemanc]

Might be an idea if any mods that view this thread could clean it up,its one of the decent ones & it'd be a shame if it was turned to shit.
Cheers.

 

[whp.blue]

OMG that is funny

Had me cracking up too :D

would have been better if Gary Glitter was chasing him

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

The surface of Venus.

The Surface of Titan (one of the moons of Saturn)

Didn't know we landed on venus

In the early 60s all the way through to the late 70s, when Nasa were concentrating on Mars, culminating with their Viking missions, the Russian space agency was concentrating on Venus, I think they were called the Molniya missions (but I'm probably wrong on that). It would be kind to say that these missions had varying degrees of success. Most of the earlier missions failed completely, many of them even failed to leave Earth, but by the mid 70s they were regularly landing their probes on the surface of Venus.

 

[1.618034]

Might be an idea if any mods that view this thread could clean it up,its one of the decent ones & it'd be a shame if it was turned to shit.
Cheers.

+1

 

[scotty123]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI[/youtube]

Sailors on nearby ships said body parts of R.N.sailors were flying through the air and landing on their decks and on their upper superstructure and they had to remove them!

 

[TangerineSteve17]

The caption was "Chinese doctors bow to a boy who had brain cancer, but saved several lives through organ donation."

Powerful bow.

 

[1.618034]

Not a photo but still... It's in 4k

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]