Terror

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>>1449273

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love this one

>>1449360
story? at least what war?

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Webms allowed?

Brits bombing Dresden.

great photos, but why don't you just explain it in your post? jamming all the info into a filename is cumbersome

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>>1449370
Sure, love b17s!
>>1449377
Ill never remember what the story/dates/details are so its easier to just put it in the file name

>>1449364
WWII, in the Philippines during the Liberation of Manila.

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>>1449392
Thank you

>>1449273
excellent thread. I would have a great deal to contribute but my hard drive became dead

>>1449273
>>1449398
>>1449353
Great photos, I've not seen any of these before and they are quite telling

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>>1449408
No problem. I love threads like this and I never see them anymore. I tried to do this on /b/, why? why did I do that?
>>1449410
I have ton like this

Here's a good one:

US Officer interrogates two young Japanese POWs, claiming to be 18 and 20 years old, after Okinawa

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>>1449418
fugg forgot to attach pic

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Ukrainian peasant woman giving surrendered Soviet soldier water.

>>1449416
I have not been on /b/ in a few years. But many of my best photos actually came from historical photo threads that used to be on there- that being said thee is only room for porn

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>>1449413
I have sauce for this

"Women fleeing from German bombing in Grushki district, Kiev, Ukraine, 23 Jun 1941"

>>1449431
I think it's been edited from different photo, the lighting just doesn't look like and the women don't seem to "fit" properly. Honestly it looks more like a film poster but I think it still works to show the horror of the east.

>>1449431
that's hardcore

>>1449442
It is edited, I know the original photo. I don't know why anyone would bother editing it though because the original photo is seriously metal

>>1449442
Dude in front is edited in from a picture of German soldiers after a firefight in France 1940

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FFL in North Africa

>>1449453
>>1449459
post it

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Ww1 battle of the somme

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>>1449485
I love this, never seen it before. Thanks anon

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If you want the old battalion
We know where they are
We know where they are
They're hanging on the old barbed wire
We've seen them
We've seen them
Hanging on the old barbed wire....

;_;

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>While Rooney and some other reporters were waiting in front of a control tower for a squadron of bombers to return, word spread that a ball turret gunner was trapped in his plastic bubble underneath the plane. “The gears that rotated the ball to put the gunner in position to shoot and then return him to the position that enabled him to climb out and back up into the aircraft had been hit and were jammed. The ball-turret gunner was caught in a plastic cage.”

>Just before landing, the Fortress’s hydraulic system, which was riddled with shell holes, malfunctioned, making it impossible for the pilot to put down the wheels. The emergency hand crank for operating the main landing gear has also been destroyed by enemy fire. The pilot would have to make a belly landing. “There were eight minutes of gut-wrenching talk among the tower, the pilot, and the man trapped in the ball turret. He knew what comes down first when there are no wheels. We all watched in horror as it happened. We watched as this man’s life ended, mashed between the concrete pavement of the runway and the belly of the bomber.”

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>Two days later (11 November) a German doctor named Stuttgen, accompanied by a medic, met with the Americans at the now-damaged stone bridge. They stood in the swirling snow and discussed terms for a truce to evacuate the dead and wounded. "It was worse than we though," recalled a German officer. "Between abandoned and shot-out tanks and vehicles lay the dead and wounded of both sides. Friendly and enemy lumped together, fully soaked through and starved in their foxholes."

>Artillery fire crashed down a few minutes later and interrupted the gruesome work of recovering the casualties. The commander of the 1056th Regiment ended the operation a few hours later. The Americans were attacking north of Vossenack, and the Germans had to return to the business of war.

>"The dream and reality of a peaceful meeting between both sides was over," said a German witness. The standoff continued for a few more days until the Americans abandoned the aid station.

>>1449657
battle of the budge? >>1449665

>>1449670

Hürtgen Forest, text is from

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Bloody-Ground-Hurtgen-1944-1945/dp/1585442585

>>1449370

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1468552166936.webm

>>1449437
Why does that man's life jacket read "AUTISM"

>>1449566
Why couldnt they try more dtuff ;__;

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>I tried to suppress the strange feeling that I was not alone. I reached out to feel my way and touched what seemed to be a large inflated bag floating on the overhead. As I pushed it away, my bare hand plunged through what felt like a mass of rotted sponge. I realized with horror that the “bag” was a body without a head.

>Gritting my teeth, I shoved the corpse as hard as I could. As it drifted away, its fleshless fingers raked across my rubberized suit, almost as if the dead sailor were reaching out to me. For the first time I felt confined in the suffocating darkness and had to suppress the desire to escape. “Breathe slowly,” I commanded myself. I must stay calm, professional, detached. I must not succumb to terror over something that could not harm me.

>I felt my way through the darkness toward the door to the machine shop, accompanied only by the sound of the air hissing into my helmet from the air hose trailing behind me. At the shop doorway I hesitated and drew my lifeline toward me. There was that feeling again. Something was near. I felt the body floating above me. Soon the overhead was filled with floating forms.

>My movement through the water created a suction effect that drew the floating masses to me. Their skeletal fingers brushed across my copper helmet. The sound reminded me of the tinkle of wind chimes.

>This time I did not panic. I gently pushed the bodies clear and moved through the compartment. I shuffled through the workshop area, threading my way around lathes, milling machines, and drill presses. I stopped and again found myself surrounded by ghostly bloated forms floating on the overhead, all without heads. This shop had been the damage control battle station for one hundred of the crew. The violent explosions plus the forceful impact of water, must have thrown the sailors like rag dolls against bulkheads, breaking their necks and severing skulls from spines. Voracious scavenger crabs had finished the job.

>>1449772
Jesus fucking christ.

Quick someone post the german ww1 gas mask story

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>>1449772
What is this? Searching a suncken ship? Are these stories from that booyou showed me?
"A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945"

>>1449431
Fuck eh, entrenching tool and a Luger?

I've haven't done any real reading on the battle of The Caucuses. Looks like shit got down and dirty.

>>1449921

Navy diver in the USS Arizona. Before they could start salvage they had to clear unexploded ordnance so he's 3 decks down looking for a torpedo dud.

From a different book;
https://www.amazon.com/Descent-into-Darkness-Harbor-1941_A/dp/1591147247

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>>1449951
Its actually a Walther P38.

It was 10 months of pure stalemate and hell.

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>>1449959
Jesus Christ what a job. The way he describes it in such detail... Thats some kind of living hell anon.

Pic shown here is more cheery

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Wish 4chan would allow multiple photos/gifs in one post, fuck.

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Anyone have Battle of the Bulge photos?

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>>1450277
>>1450285
last one for now

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The Prague Spring.

>>1450285
What sort of guns are those?

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>>1449886

>>1449566
stupid deaths fuck me up more than anything

>>1450406
They might be US 155mm Long Toms on an M40 chassis

>>1449416
Is that some sort of early ghillie suit? More on this during WWII pls

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>>1450132
>Anyone have Battle of the Bulge photos?

Anything in particular? Here's another picture of the same guy, with American cigarettes.

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>>1450809

Another.

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>>1450818

Taking boots from dead Americans

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>>1450825

Young Germans surrendering. Both wearing American pants.

>>1450809
Not just American cigs, American pistiol in hand and American vehicle in the back.

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SS-Obersturmführer Hans-Jorg Hartmann holding his daughter in 1941, he died before the year ended serving in the 5th SS during Operation Barbarossa.

>>1450509
Fuck that's harsh.

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>>1449772

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I think this is from someone's granddad who posted his WWII pics here some months ago. I really liked this one.

>>1450876

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-24454.html

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>According to US records, at 11:00 p.m., the 2nd Battalion 23rd Marines, and the 3rd Battalion 24th Marines, reported large-scale infiltration attempts along the regimental boundary. Then at 11:30 p.m., a full-scale counterattack hit Company E, 2/23. Shortly after midnight, Company E reported a severe ammunition shortage. This company alone expended 20 cases of grenades, 200 high-explosive 60 mm mortar shells, 200 60 mm mortar illumination shells, and uncounted quantities of .30-caliber ammunition. The Navy's support ships expended 193 star shells during the night.

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>>1450834

More wrecked American equipment from the Bulge

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>Around 4:00 a.m., they arrived at the ambush site to the smell of decay. Dead bodies, in various stages of dismemberment carpeted the ground. Some of the dead were felled by flamethrowers that burnt off their flesh to expose glistening bones. The corporal whispered for the men to lie down amidst them.

>Before getting into his own position, the NCO crawled over piles of the dead to check on each man. He squirmed up next to Ōmagari and whispered, "You stand out like a sore thumb, sir. You don't look dead." Ōmagari wasn't selling it as a corpse. If the flamethrower tanks spotted him they would torch the whole group. The corporal instructed Ōmagari to smear blood on his face, and cover himself with intestines and organs. Ōmagari balked at coating his body in the guts of his countrymen. The NCO spoke through clenched teeth that if Ōmagari didn't convince the Marines he was dead, the flamethrower tanks would burn him and the others alive.

>The NCO pulled his bayonet from its metal sheath and brought it down hard against a dead man's torso, splitting the belly open. He pulled out a slippery mass of viscera. He handed the bayonet to Ōmagari and pointed to another corpse. With the fate of the mission at stake, Ōmagari accepted the glistening bayonet. Ōmagari tried to open the buttons of a dead man's jacket, but the corpse was too bloated so he sat up on his knees and swung the bayonet down into the dead man's abdomen, hacking through the uniform and exposing the dead man's organs. Ōmagari used the tip of the bayonet to fish out a long string of intestines. Ōmagari unbuttoned his own jacket and stuffed the entrails inside. He hacked off a large section and inserted it into a tear in his pant leg. Seeing this, the NCO was satisfied and crawled away. "The dead were no longer seen as human beings, but as objects. Even the dead were called to fight," Ōmagari said.

>>1450818
>>1450809
>>1450132
He's a real fan of that pose.

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>>1450442
Fuck off.

>>1449370
Best day of my life.

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Destroyed Russian tank where crew tried to escape.

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>At first glance the dead gunner appeared about to fire his deadly weapon. He still sat bolt upright in the proper firing position behind the breech of his machine gun. Even in death his eyes stared widely along the gun sights. Despite the vacant look of his dilated pupils, I couldn't believe he was dead. Cold chills ran along my spine. Gooseflesh tickled my back. It seemed as though he was looking through me into all eternity, that at any instant he would raise his hands—which rested in a relaxed manner on his thighs—grip the handles on the breech, and press the thumb trigger. The bright shiny brass slugs in the strip clip appeared as ready as the gunner, anxious to speed out, to kill, and to maim more of the “American devils.” But he would rot, and they would corrode. Neither he nor his ammo could do any more for the emperor.

>The crown of the gunner's skull had been blasted off, probably by one of our automatic weapons. His riddled steel helmet lay on the deck like a punctured tin can. The assistant gunner lay beside the gun. Apparently, he had just opened a small green wooden chest filled with strip clips of machine-gun cartridges when he was killed. Several other Japanese soldiers, ammo carriers, lay strung out at intervals behind the gun.

>As we talked, I noticed a fellow mortarman sitting next to me. He held a handful of coral pebbles in his left hand. With his right hand he idly tossed them into the open skull of the Japanese machine gunner. Each time his pitch was true I heard a little splash of rainwater in the ghastly receptacle. My buddy tossed the coral chunks as casually as a boy casting pebbles into a puddle on some muddy road back home; there was nothing malicious in his action. The war had so brutalized us that it was beyond belief.

>>1450153
Love how the west german police doesn't give a single fuck that they're out gunned and out numbered.

>>1450966
Damn it snafu

>>1449288
Finns are fucking disgusting

>>1450853
It's actually an FN Hi-power

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Anybody got anymore pictures of soldier's sidearms in action?
Sorry, got no story for the one

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USAAF B-24 Liberator bomber "Little Warrior" in flames over Germany on 29th of June, 1944. Only one crew member was able to exit the plane, and he was apparently killed by the locals after parachuting down to the ground.

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The hanging of a female partisan in Minsk, Belarus in 1941.

>>1451060
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/55292-finnish-military-forces-1941-44-mountains-of-heroin-morphine-and-speed/

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Finnish soldiers inspect weapons and gear captured from Soviet troops after a failed surprise attack on the Finnish lines, including PPSh-41 submachine guns, RG-42 hand grenades, at least one RPG-40 anti-tank grenade, and "amoeba"-pattern camo suits.

>>1449427
the historical photo threads moved to /pol/ and then finally here

also got a lot of the stuff in my historical pictures folder from the old /his/ generals on /pol/.

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Young Soviet POW shows the steel bib that saved his life after he was hit by a 3-round burst from a Finnish Suomi M/31 SMG.

>>1451143
/his/ started out as a general?

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American and Soviet troops meet on the Elbe, 1945.

>>1451148
The idea of /his/ existed years before the board was even made.

/lit/ and /pol/ were the biggest campaigners for /his/ and often started mock generals to prove that a /his/ would work on 4chan.

Moot was pretty stubborn about adding new boards but after Hiro took over we saw an opportunity and here we are today.

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Pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy pose with some locals in front of a Mitsubishi F1M (Allied reporting name "Pete") floatplane.

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Exhausted-looking US Marines eat onboard USS Artur Middleton after the Battle of Eniwetok, 1944.

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German 75mm round stuck in the armor of a Soviet KV-1 heavy tank.

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>>1451093

American Marine inspects dead Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Buna–Gona, 1942/43.

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dude in the middle is Karol Wojtyła(later become pope John Paul II)
in the polish people army there was unit where they send priest(or candidates for priest) to broke their spirit and so they loose their faith

>>1450712

Nope, just a net that the Japanese soldiers would wear and strap shit on to camo themselves. The IJA had a lot of problems involving their tactics, but their camo training and use was quite good.

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German Fallschirmjägers with a captured British light truck in Crete, 1941.

>>1451183
I don't think that's a marine.

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Fun little video. German and soviet soldiers meet during the invasion of Poland to discuss their "non-aggression pact."

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>>1451202

Yeah, he's probably Army actually, I didn't check before I posted that.

>>1450872
For the love of Jesus, poor guys, I hope they found peace

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>>1451205

"Friends 4ever"

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>>1451216
>hey untermenschen, look at this photo of my daughter
>she is of cute tovarisch)))
>yeah thanks, :^)
>I will be of visiting her soon)))
>yeah... ehhehe
Men of the 1st SS touring Paris in 1940

>>1451222
Americans are pure scum

>>1449360
I hope she fugged him :DDDDD

>>1450922
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.

>>1451545
I'm sorry your grandma blew a GI for a pack of smokes, Hans, but she had a choice and made it. If she wanted to get raped for free she could have gone to the other front.

>>1449273
He looks like Eminem.

>>1451721
I was thinking more Jake Gyllenhaall

Got any good red army pics? So far it's all Americans and Germans

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>>1451766

I have some, let's see what I can dig up.... here's a Red Army soldier with a PTRD antitank rifle on a makeshift AA mount.

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always makes me smile

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Red Army officers pose on top of an abandoned Marder III tank destroyer, surrounded by other German vehicles.

>>1451852
Did he just have pictures of head nazis on him? A bit gay desu;

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Soviet sappers and some cleared German AT mines.

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Red Army officers inspect captured German weapons.

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Soviet partisans pose with their weapons, 1943.

>>1451545
>German women will suck a dick for a cigarette publicly
>Americans are scum
Okay, Helmut, as you think

>>1450853
Its not an american pistol bro

>>1451060
>literally all they do is prop up zerg rush victim as a warning for those trying next
>"how dare they"

>>1450825
Why is it scribbled red on the signed?

>>1451116
Wounder how they killed him. I guess id be pissed if my family was harmed by bombers above though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

every day until you get PTSD

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Photographed from the deck of another escort carrier, US Navy escort carrier USS White Plains is seen in the distance manouvering under fire from Japanese cruisers and/or battleships during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Amazingly, despite being a very "thin-skinned" CVE, the White Plains not only survived the battle, but is believed to be the ship most responsible for sinking the Japanese cruiser Chōkai, using its single 127mm gun. Though it has not been verified, White Plains scored at least six hits on Chōkai during the battle, and most likely one of these hits set off the Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes that were on the deck of the Japanese cruiser. The resulting explosion crippled the ship, making it an easy target for American bombers.

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Dead American soldier on a pontoon bridge to Germany, 1945.

>>1451222
Wait is she actually sucking his dick??? I thought this picture was a joke

>>1449370
>>1450944
Salty anglocucks detected. Did a german fuck your mum?

>>1452194
No, but a German blew my grandpappy.
>>1451222

>>1452199
>>1451222
You call that a dick? I thought he was sticking out his pinky

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>>1452199
haha

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Japanese ship explodes after an American air attack, 1944.

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Adolph Hitler explains to a little Nazi girl that her screams during her first gang rape by the invading armies won't upset him because he will be deep in his bunker and she's quite a grown up for thinking about the Fuehrer's feelings.

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>>1452218

>>1452218
Do you masturbate to these kinds of fantasies?

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German, Italian, Romanian, Japanese and Hungarian military attachés visiting the front lines in Northern Finland.

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>>1451852
Same here

>>1452442
That Jew has a wide face

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>>1451116
>>1452106

It actually became policy to allow civilians to round up crews or to "escort" them through civilian centers because the mob would usually kill them. There's a monument in some Germany city to American airmen who were killed by civilians thinking they were British night bombers who had torched their city.

>>1452840
They were just the pilots that we're killing their soldiers and tanks is all.

>>1452089

Censor markings.

>>1451842
That's a PTRS, not PTRD.

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>>1452857
>‘We are different than you, not better, just different. It has nothing to do with courage or concern for women and children, or anything like that. It’s the job we are given, the orders we carry out, that make us different. Our commanders have a better idea how to beat the enemy: by destroying his industries, not his cities, and by trying to do this as accurately as possible. Yes, we miss a lot, can’t be helped, but in warfare or anything else, intent surely matters.’

>>1452639
Luftwaffe Field division?

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>>1452883

Holy shit this is like the third time I've posted that photo here and the second time I've had a brain fart and called it a PTRD instead of a PTRS. Unacceptable mistakes for a military autist.

>>1451222
>>1451545

She's a Hungarian refugee.

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Marine Colonel Francis I. Fenton, kneeling, prays at the foot of his son’s grave. Private First Class Mike Fenton was killed in a Japanese counterattack on the road to Shuri during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945.

>>1452298
Spotted the finn
Front row leftmost

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>>1453107

Well meme'd

Here are two more Finns, doing some logging during WW2.

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warsaw uprising 1944

>>1451222
>>1451545
>>1453049

In this gallery if you care.

http://www.akg-images.co.uk/Package/2UMEBM3BWN65

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Second Italo-Ethiopian War

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>>1453183
emperor and his son

>>1452298

Also lol at the Italian. Everyone else wearing their long coats, boots and fur or regular caps... but not Luigi, oh no. Gotta bring my fucking cape and the biggest peaked cap.

>>1453049
>being this butthurt

>>1449566
right square between the feels.

>>1450570
>>1449738
>>1449566
Seems to be an urban legend among WW2-era bombercrew. No actual confirmed cases of this happening, cross referenced with crash landings. That said, it may have been censored, but still seems doubtful. It's certainly true they could get jammed and were rather slow to get in/out of. If a crew was suddenly ordered to abandon ship, they did not have precious minutes to slowly hand-crank a turret to the right position and slap a parachute on their turret gunner. So they'd be forced to abandon and leave the gunner to his fate.

>>1451222
>>1451545
I am extremely skeptical that any woman would publicly felate a soldier, in the middle of a crowd, in front of a photographer, in Europe in the 1940s, and for a cigarette. Not only was oral sex far less common than today (though of course, hardly unheard of -- more the role of prostitutes though), so was premarital/extramarital sex. Sure, shit happens in wartime. Maybe this woman is a hooker. The original caption is the same (or hinted at less obviously), but I think we can still be a bit skeptical...

>>1454512
I recall a famous WWII reporter talking about this event in an interview in a documentary. There was 2 documentaries that I recall him talking about this but i forgot what they were called

>>1454597
Rooney is his name. He is the one traceable source of this urban legend. Could it have happened? Yes, and many trapped ball turret gunners probably did have to die with the plane while his bros bailed out. But there is zero actual evidence in this case.

>>1449423
manlets, when will they learn

french soldiers at dien bien phu, if anyone has a higher res image it would be much appreciated

>>1451222
Well this picture received a lot of (you)s.

>>1451033
and out-fashioned

>>1450442
Gaaaay

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>>1454625

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>>1454584
Lol she was a typical german frau probably, and her standards were low to do that we can all agree, sucking off a foreign soldier for a horrible tasting ration chocolate bar or cigars probably.

>>1454627
Yes, the wehraboos furries/larpers and other types of right wingers who love nazism so much were most likely triggered by that picture :^)

>>1454512
>>1454597
>>1454612

Being familiar with Rooney's WW2 work it would be very hard to believe he made it up. The picture and caption associating it to Rooney's story are printed in 'Masters of the Air'.

I've read about the myth status on other sites but it seems to stem more from its presentation in a 1985 episode of 'Amazing Stories' which may have been dramatized.

I get that Rooney's credibility and the picture from the book isn't enough without the crash report, but there are other stories of other turret gunners being stuck with crew members who refused to bail because of it, leading to their deaths. If the idea was just to dramatize why not use those accounts?

>>1454318
>>1454584
>>1454717

Again, it's in this gallery with caption;
http://www.akg-images.co.uk/Package/2UMEBM3BWN65

It's also in this book with caption;
https://www.amazon.com/Entering-Germany-1944-1949-Tony-Vaccaro/dp/3822859087/

The woman is a Hungarian refugee. The photographer (Vaccaro) is a soldier with a camera, not a professional photographer at the time.

He has a whole set of later photos from occupied Germany with similar material, burlesque girls and strippers in a US officer's club. Sex is part of war.

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>>1454887
>He has a whole set of later photos from occupied Germany with similar material, burlesque girls and strippers in a US officer's club. Sex is part of war.

Personal favorite.

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>>1454887

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Here's a WW1 of the American Expedition in China, Cavalry, no less

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>>1455067

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>>1455054

>>1455072
That little boy is dead now.
No more tears.

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French soldiers inspecting a dead German during WW1, 1916

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>>1455105
are you sure they weren't surrendering to him?

>>1449423
Dat filename

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Bayonet charge up a slope in Argonne Forest during the Second Battle of Champagne, 1915

>>1449424
T H I C C

>>1449370
Hell on earth. Whatever jackass made the allied claim that there were only 25k civilian casualties needs to watch this video, assuming he still breathes.

>>1455134
nothing compared to what we done to tokyo leading up to the Bombs

>>1454898
This a blueboard anon. Gratuitous violence only.

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German cavalryman wearing a pickelhaube looking up at a biplane in the air, early 1910s (?)

>>1455174
For a second I thought that was Batman on a horse.

>>1455054
>>1455072

https://youtu.be/737PPxhTjUU?t=1923

>>1454717
>HEEE HEEE HURR DURR LE TYPICAL EUROKEK MAYMAY LOL
We're talking about the 1940s. She's Hungarian as it says in the caption. Passau, where the photo was taken, is right on the German/Austrian border, also close to Czech Rep., and is where three major rivers meet. It would have made an obvious refugee checkpoint, and indeed it was, much as today to be honest. Everyone fleeing the commies would have flooded the town.

>>1454887
I'm not saying it's not true, I saw the gallery context. Shit happens, yea, maybe she was joking around, but I'm just a touch skeptical. For baby formula, food, medicine, OK. A cigarette? Doubtful. Anyway, some nice gnarly rape photos too at the link.

>>1455497
>>>/pol/

>>1451852
E D G Y
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>>1452224
That's a reenactment photo, not a historical photo

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>Momčilo Đujić was a Serbian Orthodox priest and self-appointed Chetnik commander who led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia region of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.

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>Finnish troops wait out a Soviet bombardment on the Mannerheim Line.

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>>1456255
proof

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Perhaps my favorite WW1 picture. This thread needs more WW1, by the way.

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>>1456377
I dont have any, are those brit or canadian soldiers?

>>1456385
Australian actually

>>1455997
Um, I called out anon for his /pol/faggery, you moron. Does that sound like the kind of thing a /pol/fag does?

>>1456848
>faggery
It's faggotry.

>>1456989
No, what you just did is faggotry.

>>1453156
Scary to think of what the Germans probably did to her if she was captured alive.

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>>1449772
>ywn take revenge on the japs for this

>>1457093
Incorrect.

>>1451132
There's literally nothing wrong with this.

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Captain Merian C. Cooper poses with an unknown officer next to a Kościuszko Squadron plane of Italian origin. Capt. Cooper scored numerous victories during the War and the Russians later put a bounty on his head. He became famous in the 30's for helping to create, direct, produce, and stage the film, King Kong

>>1451222
Why are they all watching wtf

>>1456333
>Mannerheim Line

No. That is taken in 1944, the men clearly are not wearing winter uniforms.

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>>1456728
My dumbass didn't know Australia was in WWI, Thank you anon

>>1457164
Wouldn't you?

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>>1457187
Could it still be winter? Did every finn have access to winter clothes? Im just thinking of how some Germans did not during the first winter in Russia, 41-42

Pic not really related

>>1451222
Are germans the biggest cucks of Europe?

>>1457238
if it was a swede she would've fucked the whole crowd

>>1450966
Jesus fucking Christ

>>1457205
You do realise that Finns live in perpetual winter, right? There's a one in a million chance that the picture was taken in winter.

>>1454665
man I'd love any Indochina war photos

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>>1457346
If you ain't seen Thin Red Line you should. There's some in-tents shit about death, suffering, and callousness in there. It's a once-every-five-years-and-not-more movie to watch.

>>1457455
What part of the war is it?

>>1457493
Guadalcanal but the story being told isn't about the events of the battle, but a series of in depth looks at various characters, their own personal attitudes and beliefs, and how they cope, and whether they persevere or crumble

>>1457455

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out

>>1457455
I should check this out.

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>>1449370
>justice from the sky
Why does /his/ hate Germans so much? It's up to a really edgy level. Do you feel so repulsed by /pol/ that you have to revolve your whole board around it?

I know you guys are brighter than the elementary school "Everybody who lost was the bad guys!" xD

So really, what's the reason.

>>1457245
>if it was a swede he would have fucked the whole crowd

>>1457908
>Why does /his/ hate Germans so much?
Because they plunged the continent into a war whose consequences can be directly tied into the current shitty situation worldwide.

>>1457922
What's the connection there? Germans seem pretty over the whole "letting their inner barbarian rampage across the continent" shtick.

>>1457922
Though the Germans held certainly a great deal of the blame for beginning the Second World War, there were situations where the Allies outright failed or refused to act in ways that could have deescalated it or minimized its losses. The First World War, in particular, is loaded with instances of Entente members making decisions that directly escalated the first war or set everyone on track for the second.

Germany was fated to be the vengeful underdog of Europe ever since its creation in 1871, amidst a world of older empires unprepared for its arrival. It's not the fault of the Germans as a people. The course history mandated they follow this path due to geographic location and time period.

>>1455134
Butthurt Wehraboo detected.

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>>1457455
The novel is excellent, as well. James Jones actually fought in Guadalcanal and he had no romantic notions about combat or war in general. I'd recommend it to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkMJZUB7Y0

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>>1458028
le ebin maymay fellow poster

>>1452652
holy fuck

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>>1449370

>mfw Germany is still the supreme european country 75 years later

>>1458713
that's nothing †bh. tanks and shit roll over soldiers, bodies, and civilians a lot in wartime. entire villages in the french countryside would be bulldozed by tanks and mobile artillery with who-knows-how-many civilians. dead bodies after a battle couldn't be cleared and the tanks would have to roll over them all to press on. in vietnam the common ambush was to block the road to stop the convoy and then they'd shoot and grenade from the rooftops and alleyways and stuff. so, they wouldn't stop for anyone. the 'cong would try every dirty trick in the book, every human shield imagineable to get the americans to stop. my middle school english teacher told us about how a bus driver (who must have been a congy) drove his bus full of civilians in front of a tank convoy and they had to roll over it. like a hundred dead people smushed on the road in a tin can and tough shit. vans full of kids, old people, gigantic box trucks, whatever they could think of to block the road. they ran over all of it. my dad says it wasn't just tanks that would do this either, it was anything. pedestrians, bicycles, local police, old ladies... anything that got in front of your jeep, humvee, truck, tank, etc. got rolled and you didn't ever fucking stop.

they just don't send those pitchers home and publish it in Stars & Stripes is all.

>>1457164
Americans love a good ol' limp biscuit.

would post some neat pictures from my book if i had a smartphone

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men queuing outside of a recruitment office in Sydney, March 1916

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an Australian soldier attempting to rescue a fallen comrade in Chateau Wood, Belgium, October 1917

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Australian and Belgian officers in the officer's barracks of the POW camp at Karlsruhe, Germany

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John Simpson and his donkey at ANZAC cove in 1915

>>1451150
Is that Putin's dad?

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troops landing at ANZAC cove, 1915

>>1457986
>
Germany was fated to be the vengeful underdog of Europe ever since its creation in 1871, amidst a world of older empires unprepared for its arrival. It's not the fault of the Germans as a people. The course history mandated they follow this path due to geographic location and time period.

I must interveine here as I believe you are mistaken. In my opinion, Germany formed itself with one goal only: to crush France. The reason it exists, and acted like it did was to get rid of those who humiliated the German people in the Napoleonic era particularily, but well also before. The German resentment after the several defeats they suffered from the French is the root of German unity, which thus cannot be an effect of the period nor the geographical position they were in. Germany did started the 2 world wars, regardless of how you see it. They were the ones that wanted to fight the deerest in both, at least with France (because they both started with France (after Belgium of course)). The escalade that occured can certainly be put on their shoulders, for they should bear it.

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burial parties burying Australian and Turkish dead during the armistice, 24 May 1915

>>1456225
I always feel worse for the animals, because they don't know what they got into

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>>1456204
POWs?

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>>1449273

german pow amputee is released and comes home to apathetic residents

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2 severely burnt British soldiers whose tank had been hit by a German shell shortly after the Normandy landings, 1944

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French woman fell in love with German occupier and got engaged. Tracked him down when he was sent out to fight and when she found him captured, refused to leave his side and went to the POW camp with him.

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16 Yugoslavian partisans and one German soldier waiting the firing squad. Josef Schultz refused to obey the order to participate in the killings.

>>1459868

Nah, American troops posing with captured Japanese flags.

>>1459868

If they were POWs they'd be stripped down to their uniform.

>>1459919
>her face
>their postures

That's honestly adorable.

>>1459919
>>1460702
Absolutely disgusting. No sense of loyalty whatsoever. I hope she was among those women who were shaved and paraded down the streets of Paris when the occupying personnel were forced to leave.

>>1460744
Sure, and you're right. What she did was a complete betrayal of her nation, and a stab in the back of the soldiers who were fighting to preserve her way of life.

But looking at that photo purely personally, it absolutely is downright adorable. And there's no way you're not aware of what a weird, callous, basement-dweller type sentiment you've just expressed.

>>1461018
>white knighting a woman
I bet you take large black dicks up your hershey highway, don't you homo libtard?

>>1461059
Shouldn't you be in /pol/? The whole point of photography like this is to appreciate the humanity of the people in these monolithic historical events, which often bring people to confront the extreme aspects of the human condition.

It's why images like
>>1450966
>>1451125
>>1451163
>>1451205
>>1451852
>>1453156
>>1455054 and
>>1456333
are so compelling. And that includes the one with the collaborationist woman.

Your first reaction to this is to spew memes. That's telling.

>>1458720
Recent news begged a differ

>>1459428
putin's dad prolly committed warcrimes-part of nkvd "destruction unit"

>>1459931
so that's it? His former comrades and maybe even friends just said nothing and killed him...sad man

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>>1460744
>Absolutely disgusting. No sense of loyalty whatsoever.

Loyalty to whom? France in the 30's was pretty much at boiling point. They were having riots in the streets of Paris and the government was in turmoil. That there wasn't a right wing coup before WW2 is pretty miraculous.

>>1460744
>>1460744
> Muh loyalty, muh fatherland

I'm your fatherland now you impotent manlet, so suck my cock.

>>1450132
I've seen that picture a hundred times and every time I just find it remarkable how his expression gives off both absolute exhaustion and hellish terror.

>>1452208
I think that actually is her pinky and she is unzipping his pants.

>>1450132
Are you sure about that source? I remember seeing this photo labelled as being from the Kharkov offensive in 1943.

>>1450834
Is that Spoony on the left?

>>1462442
It looks like he just farted and is apologetic about it.

>>1462768
Not the anon that posted it but people have argued about the source for a long time. Consensus seems to be Battle of the Bulge. I know there's a thread about him on a military history forum but I cannot find it for some reason right now.

Searching the picture from 4chan's extension just brings up a million Battle of the Bulge pages.

Were there any SS brigades/regiments/etc that were moved from the Eastern front to the West (outside Normandy)? He may have been in both.

>>1462834
I cant remember the exact regiments but i do know that soldiers from the eastern front were transferred for the offensive that became the battle of the bulge.

>>1462768

Those are very famous photos of the Bulge, so much so they have been controversies over multiple Germans vets claiming to be the man photoed, similar to American vets and the D-Day landing craft picture. The rest of the set also clearly show American vehicles being looted for equipment.

>>1460744
>>1462390

Good lecture about the myth of unified French resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-BGTJDBY8

>>1463588

>collaborators executed for abortion

dam son

>>1451060
It's their mongol blood

>>1455134
>getting upset over German casualties in ww2

kill yourself

>>>/pol/

IS there a documentary about who and how these photos were took?

>>1460034
Sweet, thanks
>>1460058
I thought it was something like Americans captured just as the photo was taken and the flag was there as a way to demonize them

>>1456168
If there were more fat people that photo could have been taken yesterday

>>1451033
They know no one would be stupid enough to shoot a West German officer on West German soil.