ETE4929039: WWII:Marseille (France) November 3, 1945: holds of the Liberty Ship “Harold O.Wilson”, a barge crane discharges one of four 106-ton locomotives from the American company Baldwin Locomotive Works. These four locomotives are the first of the 700 previews for the French railway system / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929057: May 05, 1954 - Roger Bannister Does it. Runs mile in under four minutes: Britain's Roger Bajminister has done it. Last night he r ~ n she fabulous sixes four-minute mile, a feat which the world's athletes have been trying to achieve for years. His time was three minutes 59.4 seconds. As he passed the post at Oxford's shouting spectators / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929248: May 05, 1954 - Roger Bannister does it. Runs mile in under four minutes: Britain's Roger Bannister has done it. Last night he ran the fabulous four minute mile, a feat which the world's athletes have been trying to achieve for years, His time the three minutes 59.4 seconds. As he passed the post at Oxford's Iffley road track he was swept up in a mass of cheering, shouting spectators / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914959: Feb. 06, 1954 - That'll definitely get the ball rolling! These five young German deserters of the French Foreign Legion come fresh from the Indochina warzone to tell us what it's really like. Indeed, the German men have shutter-inducing things to report. This is a very delicate situation for Bonn: how to deal with France's attempts to hush up the such affairs. Although the men certainly had the purpose of informing young Germans of just what went on there, the poor devils were immediately taken into custody by detectives after their flight from Bangkok. Pictured: At their arrival in Hamburg: Horst Pethorius, Erik Bertmeyer, Hugo Schmidt, Erwin Hagemeidl, and Gunther Kleinke / Bridgeman Images