Favourite WW2 Photo

This photo here, probably:


Just shows the fluid motion of combat and if you look claosely you can see a .30 cal cartridge flying from the M1 Garand...just cool, like the sunlight too and it adds to the idea that it's hot and humid in the jungle where these guys are fighting...don't know for sure exactly which campaign this is, most likely Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Phillipines or New Guinea. Post back if anyone has any idea.

 

This is at Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. March 1944.

 

Cool thnaks man

 

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One of my all-time favorites. A friend of mine and I were looking at this picture, and he said, "Look at the way that the soldier is looking at the woman, and she is totally unaware of it. He looks as if he has been waiting for this moment forever."

 

Léon Degrelle

 

More Léon Degrelle

 

I wanna see more!

 

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One of my favorites: a Japanese soldier at Hiroshima, following the atomic bomb attack.

 

Predictably:



The man with the SS-Leibstandarte labarum was Senior Sergeant Fyodor Legkoschur.

 

This is my fav photo. The Japanese claiming victory at Corregidor

 

There's a lot of history sitting on that step!

-whatever

-Lou

 

This


This



And this...who cares if it was staged?

 

Intresting thing about the 3rd photo, Ceraphix:

A few days before the Reichstag was captured, the Red Army in Berlin ran out of flags. The photographer of this picture, Yevgeny Khaldei flew back to Moscow, where, upon finding no flags, commandeered three large red tablecloths from a News Agency. The commisionary there asked him what the cloth was for, and Khaldei replied that it was a military secret. He then had his uncle stitch homemade hammer-and-sickle emblems on the three red tablecloths.
Upon returning to Berlin, Khaldei planted one flag on the Air Ministry building, one on top of the Brandenburg gate and the third he carried with him as he followed an assault squad to the top of the Reichstag. He then photographed the tablecloth "flag" as it was being planted.

Gosh, there are so many wierd and cool stories behind war photographs.

 

General George S. Patton, Jr. with his HQ staff and dog Willie

 

One of my all-time favourites:



Taken in France, 1940. Just look at the expressions in their faces... both sides surprised.

 

this one is a favorite, from my own collection.


I Love this painting too

 

Ceraphix, your photo above (2nd in series) was staged too. Sorry

 

The rumor is that Goebbels saw the original photo, but felt that the grenadier involved, with his prominent brow-ridge, vacant, sunken eyes and all-around hulking physiqe lent too much of a cretin-esque visage to the photo, and that it was far too fearsome an image for general distribution (even though it was propaganda), and ordered the staged photo above, with which we are all familiar.

Through herculean research on my part, I have located a copy of the original image.....




















....scary stuff, that!....





-whatever

-Lou

 

My favorite photo is one I don't have yet! It's an aerial shot of the ship coming across the channel on D-Day!
but i also really like this one as well!

 

I am a total fan of 'before & after' shots. This is awesome. Thank you kind sir. And yes indeed, the party is over.