ZUM4863515: Jul 07, 1953 - Dress Rehearsal of the Farnborough Air Display. The Huge Beverley Transport Machine. A dress rehearsal was held today of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display and Exhibition - biggest air show in the world... at Farnborough. Keystone Photo Shows: View of the huge Beverley Transport - built by the Blackburn Company - on show at Farnborough today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4848211: Jun. 01, 1953 - Landshut Preparing for its prince's wedding: The 50th jubilee performance of the” Landshut Prince's Wedding of 1475” is taking place by the end of June. The performance is a true copy of the grand court festival of late Gothic time: in 1475 Duke Hedwig the Rich married his son Joerg who later became Duke George the Rich, to the 18-years-old Hedwiga, daughter of king Kasimir the IV of Poland. All Landshut citizens are taking part in this play which is said to be the greatest historical festival of Germany and already for months the city and the citizens get prepared for the festival days. Our picture shows the trying on of the historical costumes in the dressing-room. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4863784: Second World War (1939-1945): American boxer Joe Louis (1914-1981) (Sergeant in the US Army) fired a 240 mm Howitzer shell at “Futa Pass” (Futa Pass, Passo della Futa) in Italy, one of the locks of the German Gothic Line. Photograph taken in Vaglia, Italy, September 1944. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4864268: World War II: Okinawa Island (Japan) 6/07/1945 - On board a US Navy boat, a Japanese prisoner of war and interpreter try to bring the last Japanese soldiers to surrender - Okinawa was definitively conquered on 21/06/1945 after 83 days of fighting and at the cost of heavy casualties - Photography / Bridgeman Images