This document provides brief summaries and historical context for 12 black and white photographs ranging from the early 20th century to the 1960s. The photographs depict scenes from wartime such as a priest attending to a dying soldier in 1962 and trench warfare in WWI, as well as portraits of historical figures including President George H.W. Bush throwing out a first pitch in 1991 and a Soviet aircraft from the early 1930s. Two photographs show children affected by war, one standing at a cremation site with his dead brother and another of the first dog launched into space.

1. Shocking Historical Photos!
World Explorer
Presents…

2. The priest and the dying soldier, 1962

3. Manly Presidential Pitch
President George H.W. Bush
throws out the first pitch at a Texas
Rangers’ opening night game in 1991,
Arlington, Texas.

4. Boy And Dead Brother
This heart-wrenching 1945 photograph
shows a young boy standing at attention after having
brought his dead brother to a cremation site.

5. USSR’s Kalinin K-7
The Kalinin K-7 was a heavy experimental
aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet
Union in the early 1930s..

6. Anthony Biddle
This famous colonel’s name was Anthony Biddle.
He was a hand-to-hand combat expert and dared
his soldiers to try an kill him after surrounding him.
They were never able to and
he managed to disarm them all… every time!

7. WWI Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare captured by a British photographer
during World War I. These are mortar
rounds firing back and forth. [c. 1917]

8. General “Sideburns” Burnside
Ambrose Burnside Civil War General
who coined the term “sideburn”

9. The Unsung Beatle
Jimmie Nicol filled in for Ringo Starr when he had
tonsillitis. Here he is photographed after the tour,
departing Melbourne Airport, on the cusp of returning
back to his bland, normal life. [1964]

10. The B**C* Of Buchenwald
Ilse Koch, the “bitch of Buchenwald”, in captivity.
Her atrocities involved making human skin lampshades.
1941

11. Fir st Dog In Space
Laika, the first dog in space, has her capsule
built around her.
No provisions were made for her return,
and she died in orbit. [1957]