life:

In 1944, LIFE’s Alfred Eisenstaedt captured a private moment repeated in public millions of times over the course of the war: a guy, a girl, a goodbye — and no assurance that he’ll make it back. By war’s end, more than 400,000 American troops had been killed.

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itsjohnsen:

Saying goodbye at Penn Station before being shipped off, New York, 1943.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

fuckyeahvintage-retro:

Times Square from above, 1932

the-four-hundred:

The stairway in Mrs. Astor’s 5th Avenue home