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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Testing US military Z-Binoculars, early infrared systems. Approximately 1944-1945. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyphotos@piefed.social

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[–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 1 point 4 months ago

The thing on his helmet? I am by no means whatsoever an expert, but I think those are just the infrared sights. The thing on The gun is a infrarwd torch. Those first things back then needed an active component.

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