For Veterans Day. A day late! 

sailor and cat by marilyn_cvitanic on Flickr.

Loomis Dean: Private Floyd Humeston walking pet lion Fagen on leash at beach, 1951. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Member of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps holding a cat next to young man and woman seated on couch, 1944. Source: Library and Archives Canada.

collective-history:

An officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras, 19 July 1918

(via weirdvintage)

Time to play “Find the Cat: Civil War Edition.”

Image: Officers at headquarters by The U.S. National Archives on Flickr.

Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896

Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865

Members of the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, World War One. Source: Corbis.

You can read more about the Women’s Battalions here.

vintagetails:

Dog, cat, baby and cigarette. No. C25

Found photo with no ID.

[Coal is in short supply], cartoon by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, 1941. Source: Cartoon Collection, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales.

A soldier sleeps and a woman is frying sausages over a candle. There are coal coupons in an unlit fireplace.

Grey Villet, Tabby cat standing in front gondola during Operation Stratolab, 1956. Rapid City, South Dakota. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Project Strato-Lab was a high-altitude, manned balloon program sponsored by the Navy in the 1950s and ’60s. It lifted people into the upper stratosphere! Read more here.

Captain who commands an armored division, playing with a kitten. China, 1947. Photograph by Mark Kauffman. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.