Powerful photograph thread
>>1987002
Will we ever again have a war that is so truly good against evil?
>>1987009
Only if the US ever goes against Communist China and North Korea with Russia
>>1987017
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
>>1987002
This is photography from film or its real?
>>1987206
It is a real, though staged, Photograph taken at Iwo Jima. Probably the most famous American photograph of WW2.
prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Pass in the Yukon gold rush
>>1987002
>>1987015
I recently saw the film negative of this. It was really like this. Nick Ut added no dodging or burning wahtsoever
>>1987002
>>1987603
>>1987611
>>1987446
I just noticed the hand is still somewhat visible.
Something recognizable as Human amoung the blob makes it so much worse.
>>1988287
These rallies always astound me
And how many of these guys died off in Russia?
>>1987002
>>1987002
Bumpin'
>>1987002
>>1989290
Read the thread retard
>>1989299
well they're not "powerful" either so i don't see your point in posting them
>>1989307
>they're not "powerful
>50,000 years later
>Finnfags still assblasted
>>1989312
Old unfunny meme
>>1989312
>assuming im Finnish
>>1987002
>>1987002
Why is it so powerful? I recognize it's powerful on a gut level, but I don't understand why it is.
>>1989291
This is incredible, could you imagine seeing that in person.
>>1989378
It is the fulfillment of duty, "winning the day", a "together, we did this" moment. The flag is "we" and what we believe is good and the soldiers are our collective input. "We all worked for this and we succeded".
>>1988664
“Every seven seconds a German soldier dies in Russia. Stalingrad, mass grave"
>>1989397
The shockwave alone from the detonation of the batteries must have been terrible.
The effect on morale as well.
The biggest battleship, japan's symbol of power in the pacific, the guns that would save japan, all of it lost in an explosion that sent the yamato to the bottom of the sea in two halves.
>photo was taken in 1944, the oldest of these 3 is 16
>they were 10-12 in 1939, and theyre still willing to give their lives for a lost cause
>they've done more for their country than any of us in this thread will do for ours
both a curse and a blessing
>>1987245
It was a remake of the original. Which was real
>>1989312
Are you genuinely autistic?
>>1987225
where is this?
>>1990756
Russian soldiers before the battle of Kursk, 1943
>>1990802
are crosses even allowed?
>>1990803
By the communist party? No, of course not.
The people still wore them though.
>>1990802
it's a recreation though. But a very good picture none the less
>>1988456
>soldier below the flag bearer has a watch on each arm
every time
Brrrrrr, spooky.
>>1987245
Not staged. Just misunderstood. The book provides with more details.
Hiroshima before and after
Can anyone help me with this one btw?
The anon I originally saved it from claimed it was a Soviet soldier posing with two Germans in Poland, before they became enemies. But some people claimed that the guy isn't a Red Army soldier because they didn't adopt the hat seen here while they were still allies.
Chernobyl vehicle graveyard
Supposedly the mechanism jammed/was destroyed and the gunner wasn't able to exit it before the plane had to make an emergency landing due to enemy fire.
>>1991961
That's a Bulgarian solder, here's more: http://humus.livejournal.com/2186470.html .
Underrated photo
Had the potential to be powerful if it was taken in higher resolution/the Invasion of Panama was a bloody and drawn out affair (thus making it resonate with the public conscious).
>>1991964
>All that perfectly good military hardware gone to waste
>>1991981
JUST
Like I was actually there
>>1991423
Actually that's an officer
>>1990760
are they Aryan or fremen?
>>1991423
That's a compass, actually.
More current but this Yezidi girl
I swear every time i look at this photo i feel like she is looking at my soul
>Burmese Muslim children sit inside Buddhist concentration camp, Burma
;_:
>>1992306
It's some CNN-tier propaganda shit.
>>1992323
its a screenshot from this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMSfT9eI6o
>>1992332
>The New York Times
I was almost right.
>>1987002
>>1991993
Cool. Thanks for the source.
>>1992101
Makes for an awesome shot if nothing else.
>>1992332
Concentration Camps so awful that they let journalists enter them rather than shooting them as trespassers.
>>1987009
buying into good vs evil...oh brother
>>1989434
Dont romanticize child soldiers. Its wrong when they do it in Africa and its certainly wrong when we do it in Europe. Germany should have capitulated before sending boys to war. It extremely stupid and cowardly of the Nazi gov to try to defend Berlin using children and old men. A good leader would have agreed to terms ensuring the safety of his people and tried to save as many lives as possible instead of killing himself and letting the rest of the country carry the shame and deal with the consequences.
>>1987009
Humanity vs. the Islamic State
Hopefully Trump will take the leash off the US Military and deal with them the same way we dealt with the Japs.
>>1993136
The boys in that picture are Polish Armia Krajowa fighters.
These are kids who have spent the majority of their adolescence under German occupation, had their neighbors, cousins, even siblings and parents murdered or simply disappear. They have come to view the German soldier with hatred and contempt. They are ready and willing to kill their tormenters who robbed them of a happy childhood.
You'd have a hard time turning them away.
>>1993189
My bad in assuming they were german then. But my point still stands. There are ways to help the war effort other than fighting.
>>1993208
The picture was likely taken during the Warsaw Uprising so there weren't exactly many things to do other than fight.
>>1991981
I don't get it
>>1993232
See where there is something detached? There -was- a gunner there before the landing gear failed and still had to make a landing.
>>1993259
yes but is there some part of the gunner that's visible? I'm not doubting the story but I can't see
>>1993189
On the topic of child soldiers. Not promoting them of course, but sometimes it's the only thing kids could do. War is hell.
These two boys are 12 and 14 years old, who were killed alongside their 16 year old brother when the Germans surrounded the partisan camp their dad was in. In fact the youngest one was the last to die in the camp. He was hiding up in the trees and once the camp was captured he shot a German officer in the neck and got immediately shot down. Out of the 70 partisans, 69 died in the fighting and the last survivor, unable to kill himself as their last order dictated due to being shot through his hand, was executed a few months later. In the last battle of the Pohorje Batallion they managed to kill 19 and wound 31 soldiers, out of the attacking ~2000.
>>1993232
Some American planes had a ball turret on their underside. In the picture I posted the gunner inside wasn't able to get out of it due to the jam. When the plane was forced to land the turret was torn off, killing the gunner. To make it even more fucked up, the gunner and the rest of the crew were still able to communicate with each other. I've seen some sources claiming the gunner accepted his death and went quietly for the good of the remaining crew, in others it's stated that he was screaming and cursing to the last second.
>>1993310
damn
>>1990768
actually makes me the saddest out of them all desu
fuck saddam hussein
>>1988431
Many, too many to count
Sucks
>>1990760
>retouched pics
B&W is GOAT
>>1991228
>man on stage in front of crowd
not really that great
>it's trump
oh nvm, you like it because you're emotionally attached
I have a friend who was captured at Stalingrad with about 90,000 some other Germans. I don't think they released him until 1952. He was drafted into the German army,no choice. Out of those 90,000 plus men less than 5,000 came home
/p/ fag here, going to share my opinions on these shots even though you didn't ask
>>1987002
definitely tells a story and has nice composition but is a little overrated IMO
>>1987015
contrast between the screaming children and the relaxed soldiers is wonderful
>>1987174
flat show of some injured dudes, not that great
>>1987225
love it. guy screaming in back and guy praying in front. different people coping in different ways
>>1987298
very powerful show, but a little cliche for me
>>1987446
like this one, don't love it though. military folks looking at casualties of war.
>>1987603
this one really works for me. guy at bottom, birds and artillery in foreground and birds in background relaly paint a story.
>>1987614
boring
>>1988287
powerful shot. really speaks to the mentality of organization in nazi germany.
>>1989411
interesting subject, not that great a shot
>>1990760
boring
>>1991228
>muh trump
>>1991461
absolutely in love with this. soldiers running to their death captured perfecltly.
>>1991961
don't relaly like these 'soldiers are people too'. except >>1992268 which works for me
>>1992075
boring shot of dude with dumb look walking down bland bridge
>>1992087
don't really like this shotguy walking alone, why is his squad behind? why is that one guy running out now? not a very cohesive image.
>if it was taken in higher resolution
that's not how photography works
>>1992101
boring
>>1992243
this is pretty powerful
>>1992282
meh. 'i fought and now no one cares'. kinda simplistic, doesn't really speak to me
>>1992291
yeah this one is amazing. her cool glance and the ak.
>>1992306
boring
>>1992310
boring
>>1992311
this ones nice. but thats about it.
>>1993247
now this is powerful. all the struggle and strife pictured in this thread were just blips in history, on a speck of dust in the cosmic expanses. (yes i'm a physics fag)
>>1993310
this is better than it should be. really human interaction.
>>1993553
wow. this really hit me. saved
>>1993247
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
1/2
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
— Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
2/2
>>1993298
>tfw you missed the golden age of physics
>tfw no funding
>tfw no jobs
>>1993760
>/p/ fag here, going to share my opinions on these shots even though you didn't ask
lmao this is so accurate. Even the ratings 10/10
>>1993760
>like this one, don't love it though. military folks looking at casualties of war.
It's way more interesting when you actually know the context
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov
>>1987002
>>1987015
MODS
>>1989290
It's a long running joke about the Finnish-Korean Hyperwar
I'll contribute as well.
Vietnam series
WWII series
starting to make me do captchas wont do much more
>>1988431
This is th3 thing that always wows me. Each of these rallies had to have ten thousand plus soldiers in atrendance. That's an amazing display of how much power the organizer holds, but also an amazing waste of time and money for the logistics to get those people in uniform and formation and location.
As a veteran myself, I also wonder how many of the guys in those ranks thought the rallies were an incredible waste of time and wishes they were anywhere else. Huge formations take forever to set up and the high ranking people talk for hours. Thank the flying spaghetti monster I got out.
>>1994128
>>1993773
Tell that to /sci/
>muh 300k starting
the japanese guy in this photo sudokud himself after it was taken
a couple WWI photos
boer war
someone's gonna have to pic up with some american civil war photographs
>>1994157
>implying most memes aren't built out of feelings of inferiority and insecurity
But seriously: Every few months there are threads about disillusionment with academia and existential crises about what to do after undergrad/masters/PhD. These threads are usually heavily populated by physics majors.
I think the problem is that people who go into physics go in because they're 1) naturally smart and 2) the physics they learned in highschool and on youtube videos was super cool. But when they get to uni, the workload is insane, you realize you're not as smart as you thought.
>>1993760
Replying en masse like this should be an automatic and permanent ban
>>1988456
Seeing this fills me with such hatred, not for the conquest of Berlin but for what that flag and symbol would come to represent in the post war occupation of Poland, for several decades of opression.
>>1994203
Why? Would you rather they waste 20 of the threads posts?
>>1994203
>>1993229
>>1989434
>>1993189
It was all for nought anyways, Poland continued to be occupied after the war by Soviet shits, and no doubt these brave boys if they survived continued their fight against their Soviet occupiers as well, for them the war was never over, but their sacrifices for Poland will never be forgotten.
On the anniversary day of the Warsaw Uprising, church bells ring and the wholy city goes silent and still for a few minutes in mourning and rememberance for those who fought for a free and independent Poland.
>>1994114
IT AIN'T ME
>>1994206
>I'm litteraly shaking right now
>>1994145
>>1994153
Why is it that his skull is exposed and yet his hands and uniform appear mostly intact?
Did he take a direct hit to the face and the skin was ripped clean off?
Also, anyone got any idea who this poor fucker was?
I mean, the Japanese only suffered a few dozen dead from Pearl Harbor so figuring out this guy's identity wouldn't have been too hard, especially if they had the Hull Number of the plane he was pulled out of.
>>1994206
It's fake anyway.
>>1994245
wow, great contribution anon! Please stick around for years to come with this high level of posting
>>1993760
You are a total fanny, if you ever studied photography and this is what you come out with, glib remarks on a par with highschool students' youtube comments please kill yourself. Most people on this board could do better without even trying.
Kid approaching Enver Pasha because his father was killed and wanted to join the army
>>1994253
because it would be his head immediately thrust against the console upon impact with the ocean
>>1994258
the fakest part is they cropped out some looted watches this soldier was wearing
>>1994305
It's funny they couldn't even do it right the second time.
>>1989270
Beautiful. Almost moved me to tears.
>>1994108
All tunnel rats should given a fucking MoH. Fuck that
one of my favs
>>1994160
>philippines.jpg
google reverse image search returns japan ww2
>>1995011
Did he know?
Also fuck the (((circumstances))) of Patton's untimely death.
>>1995063
Yeah its from the US invasion of Japan, near the Kyushu island.
>>1994181
>super fast German soldier running at VERY hihg spees
>>1991423
Legend says that they took this photo after the soldier had looted the downtown and the flagbearer had so many stolen watches on his arm that the photographer had to ask him to remove them.
>>1993760
>meh. 'i fought and now no one cares'. kinda simplistic, doesn't really speak to me
The context of that photo is that man has been waiting at the yearly spot he and his fellow veterans met up every year. That year, he was the only one to show up.
>>1987225
This is a picture from a reenactment or something, not an actual picture from history, so does this really fit the theme of the thread and the board?
>>1991961
The German uniforms aren't early enough to be from 1939, so I'd imagine as other anon said the guy is a Bulgarian
I don't think the Soviets wore those wool tunics either.
>>1995011
>Wake me up inside
>>1995931
>not historical
>not powerful
yeah, no
>>1995983
it's very clearly not a historical photograph
Look at the depth of field and the detail
It's from a reenactment
>>1989434
>>they've done more for their country than any of us in this thread will do for ours
Speak for yourself, bitch.
Dunno if you guys are intrested but here is link to photos collected by finnish defense forces during the wars. http://sa-kuva.fi/
>>1996034
>http://sa-kuva.fi/
You are looking at a historically unique collection of Finnish wartime photographs. The digital archive contains around 160,000 photographs from the Second World War from a time period of six years, from autumn 1939 to the summer of 1945. The pictures portray life on the home front, damage done by bombings, the war industry, the evacuation of Finnish Karelia as well as events and operations at the front.
>>1988307
I can't make it out, where is the hand?
>>1987015
>>1987017
>with Russia
>literally the only power more aggressive and savage than China
Nope
Happy Thanksgiving.
>>1994128
love it
>>1988456
such a perfect photo
>>1994206
cry more faggot
My personal favorite
>>1987015
The only legal CP
>>1994224
And now Poland is a rapidly dying nation.
Really makes you think
>>1998252
And here's mine
This one is pretty chilling. Someone just told Goebbels that the photographer is a Jew.
>>1998350
More like rapidly thriving
>>1991984
Why did they do firing squads if the media tells me the Germans were ruthless killers?
>>1998402
>Someone just told Goebbels that the photographer is a Jew.
Myth
really like this one
>>1998373
jesus christ
>>1998567
terrifying
>>1997867
Is that a cartoon turk in the middle?
>>1998567
>2007: Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon 2
>2014: AC: Unity, Watch Dogs
hmmmmmmmm
>>1987002
>>1993760
Fucking kys
>>1998567
What was the last good game Ubisoft made? Assassins creed 2? This explains so much
this one always makes me giggle
>>1993760
no one cares you dumb bitch
>>1998567
>why Ubisoft went downhill
can't find a good hq one
>>1989290
The worst thing about some newfags is that even though they're not familiar with board culture/running jokes is that they feel the need to speak out about it as if people care what they have to say. Sad!
>>1991949
this one is nicely absurd, i had to chuckle a little bit. look how happy little himmler is
nice anon
>>1993298
Today they would all be wearing ugly t-shirts and sandals.
>>1988456
Nice shoop
Hitler's concealed carry
gay image name right?
>>1994151
based von Braun
Underrated IMO
Don't think I saw this one posted yet.
>>1993760
>like this one, don't love it though. military folks looking at casualties of war.
What war, you dumbass.
>>1998567
the funny part about this image of "diversity" is that there are no black people. Just white women and one Asian. Kind of makes you think...
>>1998402
sounds exactly like some made up stupid story for fb shares
>>1998567
>>2002115
>>1998583
>>1998654
>>1999517
>>2000313
>The best decisions are always made with a diverse group of minds, not necessarily a talented or passionate one.
It's an obvious joke, people, and so is the response. A quick search confirms that. The second photo was taken on International Women in Business Day or some shit like that.
>>1998643
They used to add in colour and details to photos like these, so my guess is shoddy work adding in detail when there was none in the original.
>>1987174
Kek
>>2001075
story?
>>1993760
Im triggered
You really ought to kill yourself. Or, at the very least, don't reproduce or adopt. Just make sure you dont carry on your genes or mentality to future generations. Youre opinions are shit and I can tell you arent a very bright person, in that you lack the cranial magnitude of looking at a picture and putting it in perspective/context.
People like yoy are the reason why I believe eugenics is the only way to advance society.
It's just baffling as to why you had to share you're shitty and prissy opinions. Were you seeking validation? Did you think that people were going to think you were smart? Or were you just shit.
Just to help you out, you shouldnt comment on things when you know nothing about it. You look like an utter faggot and retard. Also, again, kys.
Young American rescued from Japanese prison camp, 1942. Really makes you think.
>>2002489
If it wasn't for that last part of your post i would've almost believed you
>>1998505
That is Goebbels and the photographer was a jew. You can read a TIME article about the photographer and experience that day.
Not certain about the "someone told him" story, but he certainly was displeased with the choice of photographer.
>>1998390
>you just activated my trap card
>>1993760
Fucking fag you ruined a decent thread. Just reply to one or two things, fucking idiot. Kys
>>2002137
No but seriously, why is it just white women and one Asian though?
>>1994206
patriotic shirt already pressed?
jews already burnt?
cross alread kissed?
pope already defamed?
>>2002137
It doesn't matter if it's true or not. The bad part is that it's believable! that's why video games are dying.
>>1998621
The bottom center lion is getting real sick of his shit.
>>1994203
I agree. It's incredibly annoying when you want to see a response and you are forced to scan a wall of text to find the right one.
>>1987446
What's the story of this one?
>>1992166
K... KEEP ME POSTED
>>2005632
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Bлaди́миp Mихáйлoвич Кoмapóв; IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲJr mʲJˈxaJləvʲJtɕ kəmɐˈrof]; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in the first group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He was one of the most highly experienced and well-qualified candidates accepted into the Group Air Force № 1(the first squad of cosmonauts of the USSR) .
Komarov was ordered to re-orient the craft using the ion system on orbits 15 to 17. The ion engine system failed. Komarov did not have enough time to attempt a manual re-entry until orbit 19. Manual orientation relied on using the equipped Vzor device, but in order to do this, Komarov needed to be able to see the Sun. To reach the designated landing site at Orsk the retro-fire would need to take place on the night side of the Earth. Komarov oriented the spacecraft manually on the dayside then used the gyro-platform as a reference so that he could orient the craft for a night side retro-fire.[27] He successfully re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on his 19th orbit, but the module's drogue and main braking parachute failed to deploy correctly and the module crashed into the ground, killing Komarov. According to the 1998 book Starman, by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, as Komarov sped towards his death, U.S. listening posts in Turkey picked up transmissions of him crying in rage, "cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship."[28]
>>1993441
Saddam Hussein is not the reason Iraq is like this, ask any Iraqi they will say their country was prospering under Saddam. It was after foreign intervention that everything went to shit
>"We thought they had weapons of mass destruction"
>>1998495
Because the media is composed of lying zionists
>>1998592
Top right
>>1993760
>>>1992282
>meh. 'i fought and now no one cares'. kinda simplistic, doesn't really speak to me
It would if you knew that the guy was Ukrainian and nowadays no one wants anything to do with men who fought for the Soviet Union, in the Ukraine at least. In Russia they're heroes, in Ukraine there an unpleasant memory.
>>1998395
So when did France and Germany lost the technology that allowed them to create arcing laser cannons?
>>2006223
>It was after foreign intervention that everything went to shit
Yeah, when Saddam's former intelligence chiefs took the model of his regime and created ISIS to invade Syria
>>1998390
what am i looking at?
>>2006517
a mother asking about her son to an apparent officer or some military higher-up. Looks Russian to me but could be German idk
>>1994140
Looks like it would be from a movie.
>>2006378
chilling, but I'm enjoying looking at the classic 90's attire and gestures. Pretty cringy nowadays. That fedora up front and the neckbeard standing up still exist today. Style was so shit in the 90s, idk how anyone could stand it.
You can see the notorious "white hat" jocks too. Eric and Dylan seemed to want all of them dead but didn't actually kill any dudes with white hats on iirc.
I think all the seniors they killed (Lauren Townsend, etc) are in there somewhere. Not sure I could pick them out though.
>>1998373
not even remotely comparable
>>1987009
>good vs evil
go
back
to
pol
aint no room for spooks here
>>1994145
are you gay or something?
>>2000433
Why is the video different than the photo
>>1993760
Fuck you.
>>1994114
>it ain't me starts playing
>>1998252
>Run over him...run over him...RUN OVER HIM
God dammit
>>2006466
>American education
>>1997793
Good ole Marky mark
>>1993999
Gotta check those trips also nice pic
>>2002398
A-stan IED detonation somewhere in Kabul, methinks.
Same shit, different day...
>>2001161
Among the biggest piece of shit general officers ever produced in the U.S.....and the shitbags in congress actually gave that faggot the medal of honor, for essentially losing his command to the Japs in the Phillipines.
image limit reached
>>1994054
Context? Guessing its from the Congo Free State.
>>1997867
the cartoon turk looks like a proto pepe
>>2009622
nope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
>>2000366
D E V I L I S H
>>2003345
>It doesn't matter if it's true or not. The bad part is that it's believable!
this attitude is what is wrong with political culture right now
>>1998592
blue shirt
>>2002611
Cuz jews never made up any stories to benefit them cough cough holocaust cough cough cough