Montmartre, Paris,1955. Unknown ph. credit.

Three Soviet guerrillas in action in Russia during World War II.

One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near Omaha Beach, on May 28, 1945.

Photograph: Peter J. Carroll/AP

Spring, London, 1973. Photograph by Mary Brown.

8-year-old Różyczka Goździewska, the youngest nurse in the Warsaw Uprising. She helped as an assistant in the field hospital by bringing water to the injured, chasing away flies and serving as a source of happiness.

Amazing portraits of Parisian women in the 1930s taken by André Zucca. See more here…

French resistance fighter, Paris, 1944

Food delivery, Tokyo, 1935. Unknown photo credit.

A well-armed Soviet partisan, 1944

DFS 230 transport glider with landing ski. First flew in 1937. Carried pilot w nine troops or supplies. Usually towed by a Ju 52

Ulica Marszałkowska w Warszawie (1926).

Maori soldier with captured German submachine gun, World War II

British infantry in a captured German trench, 1917.

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

The Fw.189 reconnaissance plane of the Nazi Luftwaffe, captured by the Russians

English Spitfire Fighter In the Soviet Union