ZUM4873291: Aug. 15, 1953 - Greek Earthquake Disaster Latest Pictures: Six days after the first shocks, Argostoli, Capitol og the Greek Earthquake Islands of Cepahalonia, is still burning. Latest figures are that 1,000 people have been killed, 4,000 ijured and 10, 000amde homeless / Bridgeman Images
ETE4873363: Second World War (1939-1945): Protected by a work of the Maginot Line, soldiers of a US cavalry reconnaissance squadron prepare their M8 self-gun before a patrol behind enemy lines near Guising (Moselle), 13 December 1944 (WWII, Maginot Line, Guising, Moselle, France, 13th December 1944) Photography / Bridgeman Images
ETE4874013: Second World War (1939-1945): island of Huon, New Caledonia (French overseas community), 1942, soldiers of a reconnaissance group of the 23rd US “American Division””” captured a sea turtle to be offered to Major General Alexander Patch (?) , the Commander of the Allied Forces in New Caledonia - Photography 1940 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873773: Aug. 18, 1953 - 18-8-53 Preparations for Model Engineer Exhibition. Keystone Photo Shows: The Model Engineer Exhibition which opens tomorrow at the Horticultural Hall is interesting to both young and old and here is Mr. Gentry, aged 82, of Clapham, studying a steam traction engine. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873816: Tue. 03, 1953 - Jet Man Tells How Big Shot Him Down: The Pilot of the American Thunderjet shot down by a mystery Russian type MIG-15 yesterday, said today ta Wisenbaden he had seen unable to shake off his attackers., He said he tried to me throughout”. The pilot, lieut. Warren G.Brown, was on a routine patrol of the border separating the U.S. Zone of Germany from Czechoslovakia. With him was First Lieut. Donald G. Smith, also flying a Thunderjet. They said they were between seven and ten miles on the German side of the border when two Soviet-type Mig's intercepted them at about 13,000 fest. Brown baled out when he saw his machine has pretty well short up and the right wing was beginning to come apart.Photo Shows First; Lieut. Smith, on left, and Lieutenant Brown, demonstrate with jet fighter models at Wieshaden today how they were flying when the Mig's attacked. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873892: Aug. 19, 1953 -” Hey dad, wait a minute...” calls the six year old Kim, dressed in trapper clothes, to his father, famous American actor Broderick Crawford as he exits the subway with his wife. His young son then snaps a picture of the two as they tread onto Kurf? rstendamm. Broderick Crawford arrived in Berlin for the first time in the post-war period to film for the movie” Night People. / Bridgeman Images