LIFE photographer Ralph Morse at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, seated in the chair used by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower when Ike announced Germany’s unconditional surrender, May 7, 1945.
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(Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Ann-Margret with family and friends, Fox Lake, Illinois, 1961. See more photos here.
(Grey Villet—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images)
“Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2004, nearly 60 years after their epic struggle.”
Featured in this documentary is veteran Joe Demler — who was famously pictured in LIFE as ‘the Human Skeleton’ from a time when he weighed merely 70 pounds while in a German POW camp. (you can find him 2 minutes and 46 seconds into the trailer)
For more information on the documentary. visit their website here.
On this day in LIFE — May 7, 1971: Saucy feminist that even men like.
Oh my… Did we really say that?
LIFE’s Ralph Morse was one of the few photographers present at Allied headquarters in France when Germany unconditionally surrendered on My 7, 1945.
Here, he tells his story.
(Ralph Morse—Time & LIfe Pictures/Getty Images)
Happy birthday, Edwin Land.
Here, an appreciation of his genius and of his crowning achievement: the beautiful, compact universe embodied in the Polaroid SX-70 instant camera.
(Photo: Co Rentmeester—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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Unsettling photographs taken inside a psychiatric hospital in 1938.
Caption from LIFE. “Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep.”
Happy birthday, Willie Mays.
To celebrate, enjoy these photos of the Say Hey Kid, on and off the diamond.
Pictured: Willie Mays at home, 1954. “Willie is one of those abnormal guys who never lets success and fame go to his head.” — Monte Irvin, teammate.
(Alfred Eisenstaedt—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images)
A taxi driver shares her front seat with her pet dog in Paris.
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(Alfred Eisenstaedt—TIme & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
In lieu of a stethoscope, Albert-André Nast, a blind doctor in France, holds his ear to the back of a 3-month old, 1953.
The story of a remarkable photograph that captures medicine the way it should be practiced.
(Thomas D. McAvoy—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
A previously published photo by the great Alfred Eisenstaedt captures Jackie Kennedy somehow looking at once regal and wholly at ease while seated on a bus. “A lady,” Norman Mailer wrote of Jacqueline Kennedy, “whose face might be too imaginative for the taste of a democracy which likes its first ladies to be executives of home-management.”
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(Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
