Historical images - Images that made history

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American soldiers , injured while storming Omaha Bay on D-Day, recover just after the landings in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
 
Private photos of tsar Nicholas and his family. After 1918, these were smuggled out of Russia by a family friend, Anna Vyrubova (last photo, right), who had unfortunately also played a role in introducing Rasputin to tsarina.

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Eddie Adams photographed South Vietnamese police chief Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Viet Cong suspect Nguyen Van Lem in Saigon
in 1968. Adams later regretted the impact of the Pulitzer Prize-winning image, apologizing to Gen. Nguyen and his family. Adams wrote
in Time Magazine "I'm not saying what he did is right but you have to put yourself in his position."
 
Gunga Dan said:
Adams wrote
in Time Magazine "I'm not saying what he did is right but you have to put yourself in his position."
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That guy was a real scumbag (even by VC standards) and had it coming. He murdered a general, which is okay, it's war, but he also murdered seven members of the general's family, which was a war crime. Nguyen was probably in a blind rage.
 
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Blinded Gas casualties of the British 55th (West Lancashire) Division, awaiting treatment at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, in France. This is one of the most famous pictures showing the effects of gas warfare. It was made by the official army photographer Second Lieutenant T.L. Aitke on April 10, 1918, during the Battle of Estaires, which was a part of the German spring offensive.
 
Chan Fan said:
April 19th, 1993 - the standoff between the Branch Davidians and the ATF ends with the Mount Carmel compound catching on fire (a fire the ATF says the Branch Davidians started *eyeroll.) The standoff lasted 51 days. A total of 82 people (including 25 children) were killed.

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Timothy McVeigh drove to Waco during the standoff. He was interviewed while sitting on his car. McVeigh was said to have cried when he saw the burning compound on TV.
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Two years later, on the same day, McVeigh drove a rented Ryder truck to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. The truck was loaded with 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane. The explosives were detonated at 9:02 AM, killing 168 people (including 19 children.)

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McVeigh was arrested about 90 minutes after the explosion for having no license plate or vehicle registration on his getaway car. He also had no license for the concealed firearm he was carrying. While still in jail, he was identified as the suspect the police were looking for. He was put to death by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.

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Adding some photos to my post about Waco/OKC bombing from last year (a day early) -

Some photos from Mt. Carmel during the standoff/siege:
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Little known fact - The Columbine Massacre was supposed to take place on April 19th, 1999. The reason it did not was the person who was supposed to buy bullets for shooter Eric Harris on the 18th, but forgot. After giving Harris the bullets on the 19th, he asked whether Harris was planning to do some shooting, to which Harris replied "Maybe tomorrow." I wanted to share this because fake news reported that the massacre taking place on 4-20 had something to do with Hitler but it was never meant to take place on that day.
 
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April 20th, 1999 - Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold meet at Columbine High School during lunch and kill 13 people, injure 24 and commit suicide in the school library. The photo above was taken from the security camera in the cafeteria and widely published, showing both Harris and Klebold holding weapons. While in the cafeteria, Harris took a drink from one of the tables to wash the blood out of his mouth which had resulted from a broken nose (after his weapon kicked and hit him in the face.) Earlier that morning, bombs the pair made were placed there with the hopes of the ceiling giving way and the library collapsing into the cafeteria but neither bomb detonated. Had the explosives detonated the death toll would have been much higher.
 
S. A. Andrée and his 1897 attempt to pass over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Retrospectively not a well executed voyage, but in its ambition and patriotism very typical of the late 19th century era. The balloon crashed and all three men died on their way back to civilization. The bodies were discovered decades later on the island of Kvitøya, the easternmost part of Norway. There's a Swedish film made about the expedition, The Flight of the Eagle (imdb). I'd recommend it if you're into slow-paced movies.

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