#June 1940

[xr250r]

June 1940 - Paris

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rare color photo of Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948, the day his No. 3 was retired. Weak from cancer, he used his bat as a walking stick. Two months later, he was dead.

Photo: Ralph Morse for Life magazine

[theworldatwar]

American infantrymen hitch a lift on a captured German Kubelwagen - Carentan, June 1944

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Mid-June 1944: Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach at low tide during the early days of the Allied invasion.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

June - art by Peter Driben (c. 1949)

[weirdlookindog]

[ediths-shades]

Costumes of JUNE ALLYSON in Good News (1947) [1/2]

Costume design by Helen Rose.

[lolitafan1997]

Now that it’s summer we can all ride in the car like this. You know you want to.

[ellis-ofwoolworth]

are. are you telling me that the captain knew havers for TWO MONTHS and they both fell head over heels for each other? like they got to the commiting crimes stage of the relationship after knowing eachother for two months and then not seeing the other for five years?? me and who, man

[thursdaymurderbub]

Motion Picture magazine, January 1946

[thebarroomortheboy]

Reportedly the favorite film of Francis Ford Coppola. When he first met Michael Powell, in a New York restaurant, Coppola introduced himself by walking across the room singing Sabu's song "I want to be a sailor" at the top of his lungs to show he was a fan.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940) | dir. Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan

[margotfonteyns]

The Small Back Room (1949)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

D-Day services at Congregation Emunath Israel on West 23rd Street, June 6, 1944.

Photo: Howard Hollem et al. for the Office of War Information via Shorpy

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers on board ship get ready for the D-Day landings - June 1944 CREDIT IWM

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

June 1941: Photograph of Ukrainians being deported to Germany for slave labour during Operation Barbarossa.

Millions of people - up to three-quarters of them Ukrainian - were kidnapped during the war. By 1943 the Nazis took children as young as ten.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)