Random Fascinating Historical Photos We Wish We Learned About In School (19 items)

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  (#1) Soldiers In The Korean War (August 28, 1950)

  From the National Archives:

  A grief stricken American infantryman whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. 
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  (#2) Rachel Parsons Working On A Steam Turbine (c. 1914-1918)

  From the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums:

  These images belong to the Parsons’ "Women Laborers" photograph album, taken at Parsons’ Works on Shields Road during the First World War.

  The factory was founded by engineer Charles Parsons, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. In 1914, with the outbreak of war, Parsons’ daughter Rachel, one of the first three women to study engineering at Cambridge, replaced her brother on the board of directors, and took on a role in the training department of the Ministry of Munitions, supporting the increasing amount of women taking on jobs in industry to support the war effort.
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  (#3) "A Frenchman Sheds Tears Of Patriotic Grief As The Flags Of His Country's Last Regiments Are Exiled To Africa" September, 1940

  
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  (#4) The Jarrow Ladies Fire Brigade (1916)

  From the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums:

  [D]uring the First World War, so many working-age men were called up that women had to be recruited to fill many roles in traditionally male environments for the duration of the conflict.  Some roles were paid and others voluntary.  Women could now find themselves in action on the Home Front as a member of the local fire brigade, a postal worker or a tram conductress, as in the photos above.
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  (#5) Boys Working In An Indiana Glassworks At Midnight (August 1908)

  
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  (#6) Machu Picchu One Year After Its Discovery (1912)

  
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  (#7) Henry Ushijima At The Japanese Internment Camp At Manzanar, CA (May 29, 1942)

  From the National Archives:

  Henry Ushijima, formerly a sound engineer in Hollywood, plays dance records at a dance given by the Girls's Recreation Committee. Henry received permission from the authorities to bring this, his own, public address system to this War Relocation Authority center. (Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California.)
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  (#8) A Tent Hospital Erected After The Battle Of Gettysburg (August 1863)

  According to the Library of Congress, "[a]fter the battle ended, 20,000 wounded soldiers were cared for in a tent hospital at Camp Letterman."
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  (#9) Hélène Dutrieu (September 26, 1911)

  From the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:

  Helene Dutrieu of Belgium was known as the "girl hawk" of aviation because she was the most daring and accomplished woman pilot of her time. She first soloed in France in 1909 and within a year was setting altitude and distance records. She thrilled the world in September of 1910 by flying non-stop from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium and she became the first Belgian woman to receive a pilot license [and the fourth in the world] on November 25, 1910. 
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  (#10) Otoya Yamaguchi Assassinating Inejiro Asanuma, General Secretary of the Japan Socialist Party (October 12, 1960)

  From a Guardian article published one day later:

  A youth today stabbed to death Mr Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japanese Opposition Socialist movement, before 1,000 people at a political rally in Tokio.

  The youth Futaya Yamaguchi, aged 17, was with about 100 other members of the extreme right-wing Great Japan Patriotic Society in the Hibiya Hall. Suddenly Yamaguchi ran across the stage and stabbed Mr Asanuma with a dagger a foot long. Sitting nearby was the Japanese Premier, Mr Hayato Ikeda. Eyewitnesses said that Yamaguchi was smiling as he was taken into custody. Police later said that the youth had offered no motive for the stabbing.
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  (#11) A Civil War Sketch Artist (July 1863)

  From the Library of Congress:

  During the battle, special artists sketched action scenes for publication in illustrated newspapers that reached a wide audience. Alfred Waud, shown here, was one of the best and drew... while working for Harper's Weekly.
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  (#12) New York's Luna Park At Night (1904)

  
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  (#13) London Police Arrest A Suffragette (c. 1910-1915)

  
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  (#14) An Aerial Photo Of The Famous Kowloon Walled City In Hong Kong, 1989

  
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  (#15) A Street Gang In Springfield, MA (June 27, 1916)

  
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  (#16) Marlon Brando With Author James Baldwin At The March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom (August 28, 1963)

  
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  (#17) An Artist Using Paintbrushes And Airbrushes To Re-Create The Lunar Surface, Langley, 1960s

  
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  (#18) An Atomic Casualty From Nagasaki, Japan (1945)

  
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  (#19) The USS Independence Near San Francisco In 1951, Ready For Sinking After Years Spent Being Used For Radiation Testing

  

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