#war photography

theworldofwars:

Ruined church at Zonnebeke, Belgium.
Just a few kilometers south of Passchendaele. It was here in 1917 that the British army fought for 4 long months in a desperate bid to break the German line. They advanced just 8 kilometres at a cost of almost 400,000 killed, wounded and missing. 

bigglesworld:

Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds an airplane engine in 1942