Now I am become death; the destroyer of worlds

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>German 6th army troop marching to Stalingrad

I'll wager none of the faces in this photo survived the battle.

>>931156
That's fucked up, immolation is arguably the most painful way to die.

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>>931144
dude on the left with sunglasses is too cool to die

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>>931176
"It is good that war is terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."

>>931156
good thing cameras back then didn't record sound

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I must go for now, but I might return later with more good pictures.

>What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Did I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant.... What's this debris of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil?

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What's the endgame with war as a part of humanity, guys?

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

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http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-soldier-returns-home-find-family-longer-1946/

>>931208
What was this?

>>931304
>color
AAAA

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>>931331
looks like some Germans surrendered to the Americans, and they were all kids.

>>931331
German POW towards the end of the war. The significance is that they're just kids, which bares testament to the situation in Germany of how they were literally running out of trained soldiers to fight and thus had to call upon the very young and old.

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>>931251
Where does war begin and strife, unrest, policing, et cetera end?

There will always be conflict between parties as long as there are enough people left to harbor it. Traditional state versus state war is becoming obsolescent and will die out soon, if that's what you mean.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9b9UhFe6Eg

Roger Water's dad died at Anzio

>>931208
I once read a memoir of someone who was in the Hitler Youth and ended up being a head of one of the groups of pre-teens and teens who were called in to fight at the end of the war.

He remembered towards the end, he was in a meeting with an adult and at some point they ended up discussing the execution of some 12 year olds in another group who fled when fighting started, which the author said was 'something I would do in a heartbeat myself, sir,' and as the author was leaving the man stopped him and simply said, "My god, what have we done to our youth?"

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>>931110
Japanese sailors giving final "BANZAI!" before going down with the Zuikaku.

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>I saw two burnt bodies, not too far away. I saw that one of the bodies had holes where the eyes should be and one gold tooth. My mother had one gold tooth. So I knew it was her. "Hurry I found her!" I yelled to my sister. My sister said, "I'm too scared!" I said "Come here now!" So my sister ran over. Together we looked at the body. We reached out and said "Mommy!" Before our eyes, the body crumbled into ashes. This happened 60 years ago but I'll never forget it. "Mommy!"

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Who wants some nightmare fuel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

>>931176
I heard that you don't feel it for long actually. Your nerve endings die out and then you don't feel anything anymore.

>>931208

not trying to be edgy, but Im in tears at how jewy the first kid looks

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>>931620
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkyhaMdpto

>>931144
Explains why Germany is so cucked today. A whole generation of their best men were sent off to die in a senseless slaughter.

>>931688
Twice in short succession. It's difficult for countries to recover from that properly.

>>931144

guy on the left is /fa/ as fuck

>>931455
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the tragedy in this was that the bottom gunners were sealed inside their bubble for the duration of their flight and this aircraft had to make an emergency landing, killing the gunner.

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>>931620

We are already living in a post-apocalyptic world... the apocalypse was both world wars.

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>>931733
Yeah, you can see the blood spatter on the fuselage
Also, speaking of warcrimes.
>this fucking gun

>>931738
wait what

>>931495
Now this is a fascinating image. Inspired me to read about the carrier.

>>931751
A sidearm so awful, you could fire it by pressing on the side.

>>931751
The Nambu type 94 was garbage. it has an exposed sear (the thing he pressed) that would cause the gun to fire if something pushed up against it. Obviously this is a bad thing since you could accidentally push it while handling the gun or doing shit in combat.

>>931767
>>931768
I thought it was some super secret button you could press when pretending to surrender.

>>931451
powerful. This makes me want to write short stories about this sort of shit.

>>931473
the biggest of balls... that must of been so fucking frightening to just wait for the wooden doors to drop so your buddies and you could storm across to the walls.

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>>931735
All the horror stories our parents told us when we were kids were to prepare us for the monsters that exist in the real world... ourselves.

That quote about how when soldiers die they tend to cry for their mothers is always a bit gut-wrenching.

>>931677
My brother is 14, the thought of him going to war kills me.

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>>931794

If I were to somehow fully comprehend, not even experience, but just comprehend all of the anguish and suffering of just a fraction of a single event of the two wars, I would be driven to insanity. I would lose my mind.

>>931733

Yeah, it's captioned as that B17 in 'Masters of the Air', the one Andy Rooney wrote about.

To exit the ball turret it has to be pointed straight down, which is why the ball gunner didn't take off in it.

>>931620

One of the worst accounts I've read are soldiers going mad believing they're being undermined.

A trench provides security from artillery, bombs, and small-arms, but you can do nothing if 50 ft below you the enemy is tunneling to plant and set off mines.

>>932025
That poor sturmgewehr ;_;

>>932013
Suddenly I understand the connotation (a new connotation?) of "undermined".

>>931991
I wonder why the gunnder didn't just try to exit out of the when it was flying down the runway.
I'd take my chances of a nasty roadrash and some broken bones over getting turned into jam.

>>931620
The trenches are the most terrifying.

You sit in a canal you dig up so that flying metal doesn't hit you all the while waiting for somebody born in a better family to say some words and you have to shoot up out of the canal, run through a hail of steel, avoid barbed wire and debris and when you finally get over this you'll find another canal dug up by people just like you whose language you don't speak, sent there by similar leaders, you'll have to kill the man in the canal and then wait there in his blood, piss, shit and mud for the next action of your group. You do all this to men that have mothers and wives, maybe little kids that don't understand why daddy isn't playing with them home.

>>932123
>>931733
I'm pretty sure a lot of bottom gunners had a parachute and the ability to bail out.

>>931677
>FUCKING CHILDREN
>FUCKING CHILDREN FIGHTING IN THE TRENCHES OF WW1
This is fucking wrong. They weren't even 20 and they were sent to die in some shitty trench because of pointless alliances.

Don't have a pic related, but I remember this story from a documentary on the Vietnam War.

A Huey helicopter landed in front of a platoon waiting to be lifted back to base. One of the landing soldiers asked the returning soldier his name. It turned out his sister's husband was killed during a firefight and they wanted him to escort the body back home.
How he died? he was shot in the throat, but died by choking on his own blood.

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I'm back again, now I can post from some good folders.
I'll do a few WWI

>>931442
You should spoiler rape you cunt

>>931451
that's something

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Should I move on or keep at WWI?

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Few more WW1 then moving on.

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Moving on from WWI.

>>931259
Read so much stuff about normandy landings.Soldiers would use their fellow dead soldiers as cover and take their guns, since some of them broke during the assault.Must've been a hell of an experience, seeing bullets flying everywhere and killing people left and right

>>932359
the strange thing is that A) this only really applies to omaha, the other beaches had "only" a couple hundred casualties and went much more smoothly and B) despite its popular depiction, there still were "only" three thousand casualties on omaha, that's not even a drop in the bucket of the war (or even only its western portion)

>>932369
Yep the scope of Omaha beach is definitely overblown but 3000 in an afternoon is no small thing, that's like the 9/11 attacks pretty much. But 3000 died daily in Stalingrad for several weeks though and that was just a part of the operations on the Eastern front.

>>932388
what an iconic picture, these guys look like the role models for those green & tan plastic soldiers i played with as a kid.

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>>932419
Funny you should say that, but there are many iconic images to be found within the events of the last two wars.

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Another such example.

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I'll go back to WWI now, there are some powerful images to be found there.

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What a terrible war.

>>932449
>every dent on this picture is a shell crater

wew.

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>>932454
Truly inconceivable the horror.

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Anyone enjoying these dumps?

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>at the blow of the whistle, rush over the top

>>932465
Yep, keep em coming

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Sure thing.

gud thred

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>horrors of war
I would consider this to be.

>>932311
>Gore and death is ok, but just not a woman being force fed a hotdog

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>>932533
Context.
>The British incarcerated her in a concentration camp following the refusal of her father, a Boer combatant, to surrender. Activist Emily Hobhouse used her death as an example of the hardships the Boer women and children faced in the British concentration camps during the war. She describes Lizzie as "a frail, weak little child in desperate need of good care", who was placed on the lowest rations and, after a month, was moved to the new hospital about 50 kilometres (31 miles) away from the concentration camp, suffering from starvation.

>According to Hobhouse, she was treated harshly in the hospital. Unable to speak English, she was labelled an "idiot" by an English-speaking doctor and her nurses, who were unable to understand her. One day she started calling for her mother; a lady went over to comfort her, but "was brusquely interrupted by one of the nurses who told her not to interfere with the child as she was a nuisance." Lizzie died in 1901 at 7 years of age.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faM42KMeB5Q

>>932556
This was probably used only for transportation but I can't stop imagining having a line of horses like this charge towards the enemy.

>>932556
specially designed caps that they put on their hat spikes are even more funny

>>932533
shoo shoo gains goblin

>>931331
The consequence of attempting to pursue a war beyond any meaningful hope of victory because you, as a leader are afraid of ending up swinging upside down from a gas station roof suspended by meat hooks and don't give a damn what happens to your country.

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I think this image very well encapsulates the great carnage that was World War 1.
A surge in technological advancement of Europe's armies that eventually rendered obsolete the held conventions on how to conduct warfare at the time. Resulting in calamity where men and beast are compelled by the millions to die senselessly in trenches and craters filled with the rot and remains of men who had already died there many months before.

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I must sleep now, I hope you guys enjoyed the dump.

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>>932166
>>I'm pretty sure a lot of bottom gunners had a parachute and the ability to bail out.

Nah, one of the reasons the ball turret was such a horrible job was that you couldn't fit a parachute while inside the turret.

In this webm the guns are pointed down, the only position that allowed the hatch inside to be used, meaning he's probably already exited the ball to put on a chute and bail or is in the process of doing so.

Repostinf from other thread as i didnt notice it was dead

My Grandfather fought in the Greek army during world war 2 and the civil war after.
He never talked about it with me, mostly because by the time i was old enough to really care he was 90 and already losing it.
Anyways apparently he was a tank driver and one day the gunner asked him if they could switch positions since he wanted to drive the tank.
They did, then the guy who was driving drove off the path which was cleared of mines.
They hit a mine and since my Grandfather was sitting in the open turret he got blown out of the tank and everyone in his tank crew died except him.
He only lost a part of his thumb. Crazy to think i was this close to not existing
He also apparently was chased through olive fields by Nazis
Then he moves to Canada and opens a successful restaurant which we still run today.
What a great man.

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>>932108

Probably the original meaning, since it's a practice that goes back to ancient warfare. WW1 tunnel war is crazy but not that different from what ancient armies did during sieges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9s3ZMYIec

>>932492
Maori battalion were pretty badass.

On a sidenote, my mum and I got talking a while back about her dad serving in WW2 etc. She mentioned that she remembers him waking up screaming pretty much every night for as long as she could remember.
Made me wonder how many men of my grandfathers age were walking around with various forms of PTSD.

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Americans helmet concepts for WW1. Though knowing they were better at protecting soldiers from fragments (the major killer in WW1) than the kettle hat British design, it was felt that they looked too much like German helmets, which were used in propaganda to depict the terrible Huns.

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>>932651

The arm armor was a bit silly but the chest plates were also used by Germans in WW1.

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This is my grandfather's cousin. Over a year ago someone posted this picture in /k/ captioned with his surname and hometown, which I immediately recognized. Emailed it to some family and none had ever seen it before, including his niece who attended his funeral when she was 4. Of four brothers he's the only one who didn't come back from the war.

He was the driver of the Sherman hit in the famous Cologne tank duel footage, something I must have seen a dozen times never knowing. Was a bit of a mind fuck. He and the loader were killed instantly, the commander seen bailing died a few minutes later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5bJQOkI1g

>>932465
Immensely. Thank you

>>932668
Wow that is so incredible coincidence. I've never seen such pictures captioned with personal information. I didn't think it would even be allowed.

>>932620
It was a bloody mess but the worst is yet to come i believe. Nuclear weapons sit ready in their silos, with trajectories pre-programmed. We have just to push a button to unleash a hell 100x worse than the "Great" war.

>I am the bone of my sword

>>932668
Interesting stuff Anon

>>932414
those screens were to protect against panzerfaust, but they didn't work too well, but the Russians commanders who knew this didn't tell the men, because what you don't know can't hurt you I guess

World War I may show how depraved mankind is, but the one thing that truly sends chills up my spine is imagining having to clear tunnels of Vietcong. That must have been the absolute worst.

>>932885
it works quite well against panzerfaust in particular, i don't know what you are talking about. The "fist" if the panzerfast is a ceramic shell connected to the contact fuse. When that shell impacts the screen the fuse is triggered, the ceramic shell cracks and the main charge is ignited inside of the shaped cup (the bottom part of the "fist") which projects the stream of molten metal forward out of the cup. When that happens, the stream of molten metal is shot out too far from the armor and loses its penetrating power.

>>932969
The screens were adapted specifically to counter the panzerfaust and that's why you can see it here in 1945 during the late stage of the battle of berlin.

>>931443
Kek, this again

>>931620
It's the soundtrack that makes that so disturbing

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>>931195

>>933058
i feel like the ponyfags everyone used to make fun about, i feel more connected to the scenario becaue gondola is standing there. i have become the meme. fug

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I dunno why these pictures/stories have me welling up so much, just eesh, really fucking not nice.

>>933130
cuz ur a pussy faggot

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>>933137
I know I am :3

>I saw things that I won't forget for as long as I live. It started with a loud strange noise that sounded like bombs exploding, and a man came running into our house, shouting, 'Gas! Gas!' We hurried into our car and closed its windows. I think the car was rolling over the bodies of innocent people. I saw people lying on the ground, vomiting a green-colored liquid, while others became hysterical and began laughing loudly before falling motionless onto the ground. Later, I smelled an aroma that reminded me of apples and I lost consciousness. When I awoke, there were hundreds of bodies scattered around me. After that I took shelter again in a nearby basement and the area was engulfed by an ugly smell. It was similar to rotting garbage, but then it changed to a sweet smell similar to that of apples. Then I smelled something that was like eggs.
>When you hear people shouting the words 'gas' or 'chemicals' -- and you hear those shouts spreading among the people -- that is when terror begins to take hold, especially among the children and the women. Your loved ones, your friends, you see them walking and then falling like leaves to the ground. It is a situation that cannot be described -- birds began falling from their nests; then other animals, then humans. It was total annihilation. Whoever was able to walk out of the town, left on foot. Whoever had a car, left by car. But whoever had too many children to carry on their shoulders, they stayed in the town and succumbed to the gas.

>>933257
Halabja?

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>Streams of stunned people were slowly shuffling from the city centre toward nearby hills. They were naked or tattered, burned, blackened and swollen. Eyes were swollen shut and some had eyeballs hanging out of their sockets. They were bleeding, ghostly figures like a slow-motion image from an old silent movie. Many held their hands above the level of their hearts to lessen the throbbing pain of their burns. Strips of skin and flesh hung like ribbons from their bones

>>931156
>"le friendly Amerigan liberators douse a Vietnamese child with a healthy dose of FREEDOM"

>>933543
>American
Think again dumb fuck

>>933543
>>933582
Oh yeah also
>Vietnamese
Why are you even on /his/?

I'm a bit late, but thread theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpwTG7KP3k

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You can feel the madness drip from all of Otto Dix's paintings. I wonder how you can remain sane when you come to realize that you get up everyday to see people dying all around you and can only tell yourself they should'nt.

I remember a story like this about an american soldier during Vietnam. He was in a truck sitting next to the driver, talking normally and shit, when suddenly a vietnamese child crosses the road and the truck crushes him. The guy said that he felt the mental shell he had developped until then crack under his skull. He said that he also felt that if he let the crack widen up he would never be able to go on. So he laughed. He laughed and the driver did the same. They both laughed about a dead kid and kept going.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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>>932559

>>931195
me on the left

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>>933543

>clearly has a british WW2 uniform

>"FUCKING AMERICANS!"

>>931331
Hitler Youth soldiers surrendering at Falaise Pocket.
Watched a documentary of this.

>>931738
Fuck carrying that in a holster.

>>933988
They were Aussies anyway

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Bombing of Dresden.

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Srebrenica

>>932654
It defended you from shrapnel, it was not as silly for a machinegunner or stormtrooper.

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Two women who committed suicide as the Russians entered the city

>>934065
>>934085
for fucks sake these are brutal

>>931304
Looks like a Belgian flag patch on the guy in the back, though.

>>934492
Samefagging. Nevermind, upon research it turns out it's a dirty French flag.

>>931331
German kid soldiers
they were that desperate

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Bomb squad member walking towards a van in Northern Ireland.

After the picture was taken, the bomb exploded and the man died.

>>934324
Yeah the Srebrenica one is fucking horrible. 8,373 deaths in 2 days one of the worst things to happen in modern history imo.

>>934603
>After the picture was taken, the bomb exploded and the man died.

No it didn't, and no he didn't.

>>934687
The man exploded and the bomb died?

>>933103
No shame in that. Gondola has transcended the memes into the realm of philosophy.

His stillness and his closed mouth say more about our world than words ever could.

>>934603
>prepare to meet thy god

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>>931144
But they're so hansom :3

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These are really troubling. Does anyone have pics of japanese war crimes? Or are they too DENIED?

>>934872
and by these I'm not talking about the pictures with the silly biped finnish meme

>>932171
at somepoint it was more about nationalism than those alliances.

>>932044
nevermind the gun, those boots are RUINED

>>932556
i wonder if more horeses than humans got killed in ww1

>>934251
there are 3 people tho

>>931144
HOLY FUCK THE SUNGLASSES GUY NOOOOOOO

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>>934872
I could've sworn I had this with a gondola in it. sorry. you'll get more finnish biped memes. dont worry.

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2 horrific 4 me!

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Poor Harold.

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>>935032
>>935042

>>934956
Oh, whoops, I didn't see the other woman on bench.

>>932407
I wouldn't say Omaha is overblown. The first wave was essentially massacred and it came very close to being a failed objective. The landings as a whole were actually below casualty estimates but Omaha was still a nightmare.

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you can see the fear in his eyes

>>935189
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>>935250
i want r9k to leave

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Group of Soviet partisans pose in front of disabled German tank.

>>931414
God damn. That song always gets to me. Such a personal piece by Waters.

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British soldiers train freshly arrived troops from the colonies.

>>935252
report the posts, it hides it automatically after. two birds one stone.

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German conscript prepares to go over the top.

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German artillery spotter marks coordinates.

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American Military Policeman after breaking up drunk and disorderly soldiers in Normandy.

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Canadian soldier withstands German bombing.

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God damn faggot wasting the image cap.

>>935331
where's the janitor when we need him?

>>931208
I wonder how many of those boys died in American "disarmed enemy combatant" camps

Here is a sad song about WWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp-OlpffDWw

>>935355
The American camps? Very few, if any, at least in terms of deliberate executions of the teenage soldiers. Alfons Heck (who was 17, so a bit older than the others) was sent to an American then a French camp, and in the French camp they threatened him and several others with execution but never went through with it, and one of the French guards told them they just said that to scare the fuck out of them as a bit of revenge. Most of the executions of captured German soldiers occurred out in the open and in the heat of the moment of capture, not once they were 'processed' into a camp or prison.

>>932627
Fucking hell this is hellish

>>935355
hopefully all of them

>>932335
It literally looks like hell.

>>932407
>>935184
Stalingrad was an endless massacre of unimaginable proportions.

>>935271
>>935275
>>935278
>>935286

There's something strangely bittersweet about seeing photos like these, of soldiers dicking around and having fun with the lads.

>>935391
Yep, the anglos didn't execute them they just let them starve and die of thirst at the Rheinwiesenlager.

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One more.

>>932635
>Hey Dimitri let me drive the tank today!
Goddammit, no wonder greeks are so shite at war

>>935432
Not sure what you're implying. Vastly different battles.

Ironically just like Omaha, a comparatively small part of a much larger operation that receives almost all of the attention, no more than one third of the German Sixth Army ever entered Stalingrad. The urban meat grinder, the bloody fighting building to building was a small fraction of the real battle outside the city.

I doubt you meant to point that out though.

>>935511
Nine

>>932388
Every time i see a F4U Corsair i get hard on.

A Royal Marine gets shot in the arse in this video and laughs it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLO5hTY_ICE

>>935266
>>935269
the legend

>>933651
Reminds me of that scene from 'Scrubs' where Dr Cox explains you have to find humor in the morose or you will never be able to go on.

>>934065
Why are their clothes and hair nearly perfectly intact but their faces are burned away?

>>934251
Do you know the method? Cyanide?

>>935919
Not him, but it looks to me like they shot themselves, hence blood from the nose and mouth.

>>935286
War dogs are the best dogs.

>>935908
Rot
>>926562

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHcDjr8cSIg

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>>935919
Not sure. I found this alternate view, which was labeled

>Vienna, 1945: Father shoots wife and daughter and then commits suicide. Eyewitnesses said father wore gold Nazi Party badge, indicative of senior Nazi party membership. Incident occurred across the Parliament building in the Austrian capital.

Maybe the third woman was another daughter or family member. There's actually, now that I'm googling for information, several alternative views of these same people. Including a shot of the Red Army looking at their bodies.

>>931110
This thread has actually disturbed me, not in a like genital fungus kinda way. But an actually... i dunno but I tried to sleep after reading this thread and just could not. Thx /his/

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>‘We were all delighted when war broke out on August 4...bursting with happiness.’

>'Over by Christmas'

Taken from accounts by Sgt. Jack Dorgan of the Northumberland Fusiliers after his position is hit by artillery.

>'They’d had their legs blown off and all I could see when I got to them was their thigh bones...the rest of of their legs were gone'

>‘But the other fellow, Private Bob Young, was conscious right to the last. I lay alongside of him and said, “Can I do anything for you, Bob?”

>'He said, “Straighten my legs, Jack,” but he had no legs. I touched the bones and that satisfied him.'

>‘Then he said, “Get my wife’s photograph out of my breast pocket”. I took it out and put it in his hands. He couldn’t move, he couldn’t lift a hand, he couldn’t lift a finger, but somehow he held his wife’s photograph on his chest. And that’s how Bob Young died.’

>>935890
Yeah, the story was in a documentary about testimonies from Viet's veterans. It was made at the time during the anti war campaign so a lot of ex soldiers told their story about the atrocities they had seen or committed themselves.

I had no idead things were this bad prior to this documentary. The orders to kill fleeing civilians because they could be charlies, the artillery officers making bets about the village's houses they could hit with their canons (with people in it), the rapes, and so on.

One of a guy straight sold he murdered a civilian who was waiting in a queue because the viet didn't understand that the soldier was asking for his papers. So the soldier drew his knife and killed him where he stood.

But the one who got me the most was this story about a guy who was in a patrol surveilling the surroundings of the base every morning, and every morning a viet kid threw a stone on their truck yealling "Vietnam 1, US 0". So one day, they decided they had to deal with this "problem". So they charged big stones in their trucks, they got out of the base like every morning, and like every morning the kid went out to throw his stone. Except they did the same this time and killed him.

>>935257
fucking beasts...barely human

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>‘Where we fought several times over the same ground bodies became incorporated in the material of the trenches themselves...‘They were putrid, with the consistency of Camembert cheese. I once fell and put my hand right through the belly of a man. It was days before I got the smell out of my nails.'

>‘Your life and your death are nothing to these fields - no more than it is to the man planning the next attack at headquarters. You are not even a pawn.'

>'Your death will not prevent future wars, will not make the world safe for your children.'

>'Yet by your courage in tribulation, by your cheerfulness before the dirty devices of this world, you have won the love of those who have watched you.’

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A man was sitting here on the steps outside of a building in Hiroshima when the atom bomb was dropped just a few hundred meters away. He was vaporized instantly, leaving only this shadow.

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

http://www.warsawuprising.com/witness/schenk.html

Enjoy.

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>3 kids, who arnt even old enough to drive have to go fight for the very existance of their people and country
All 3 survived the war tho

>>935257
>>936469
kek

>>936495
>They were putrid, with the consistency of Camembert cheese. I once fell and put my hand right through the belly of a man. It was days before I got the smell out of my nails.'

Incredibly accurate. I've worked with dead bodies before, and the smell is something that seeps into your pores for days. God only knows the smell of thousands of rotting corpses on a hot summer's day.

>>933988
the eternal anglo strikes again

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>>936804
>tfw in almost every Warsaw Uprising photo each partisan photgraphed is identified and you can see where they fought, with what unit or if they died, which day and which street

We need more threads like this on /his/

>>937002
/his/ does this way better than /k/

Even after seeing all of these images hoping that it would give me a reason not to join the military, I have found none but only a glimpse of what I may witness

>>937187
Do it, then maybe one day the people here will be looking at a picture of your body lying in a ditch.

>>932321
>"I died in hell, they called it Passchenadale"

>>935248
>there was a checkpoint charlie, he didn't crack a smile

>>935580
ForU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY

>>936676
Not a bad way to go all things considered. If he was a mile further away he would of had a slow radiation death instead of just being vaporized.

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>"Has life without fire become unbearable for them?"

>>932385
bless you for this pic anon/

Great-grandfather was a captain in the soviet army.

He fought all the way from Moscow to Berlin. I can't even begin to imagine all the shit he went through.

>>939855
You're welcome.

>>940159
The fact that he survived all the way makes it impressive.

>>933137
you have to be 18 to be on this website

>>931501
Holy fuck

>>932342
Can you give some background on this picture?

>>933669
Well done for posting this. Poetry is wild.

I kinda wish there was cameras back in napoleonic times. I wonder what the carnage was like during napoleon's invasion of russia, especially at Borodino and Berezina when Napoleon was trying to retreat from russia

>>934846
Inappropriate keks

>>931620
That guy makes some top quality videos.
WW1 War Neurosis had me staring at the screen feeling numb half way through

Here's one about the Yorktown in WW2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZL2arami8g

>>932321
Passchendael sounds like the most horrifying battle of ww1

>>936676
>Shadow
anon pls...

>>941074
Mainly a war of Dutch colonialism looking to exploit the wealth of resources (mainly pepper and oil) on the island of Sumatra. Several expeditions were sent by the Dutch from 1873 to 1904, with popular resistance all the up until World War 2.
Don't know much more about that particular photo though sorry, they'd obviously just got done fighting.

>>941167
The only thing we have is written accounts from those involved. The paintings offer a glimpse as well.

>>941282
Just did a spot of reading into it. Pretty heavy stuff. The uniforms and Helmets are interesting. I thought for a second they were British policemen(!) thanks for posting the interesting image mang

>>941202
I'd say Verdun is a strong contender. The amount of firepower concentrated in such a small area made it absolute pandemonium. More shells exploded there than in any other battlefield in history.

Yet I have to agree that Passchendael was absolutely shitty. Especially the mud. I wouldn't want to die sinking into what was essentially quicksand or a slippery shell hole full of corpses... even though Verdun had plenty of those too.

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>>941325
That's pretty funny, and you're quite welcome. I find that these threads are usually full of World War and later stuff (which is great don't get me wrong), but not much is seen of lesser known conflicts before them like these.

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>>941389

>>941389
I think I have some pictures of the Mexican revolution and the American Civil War in either my laptop or one of my flashdrives. It'll take a long time to find them though since my history pictures folder is extremely unorganized. All of the war pictures are mixed in with the non-war pictures.

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>>941418
I'm would have loved to see some of them, but this thread's almost at max anyway, you should save them for the next one when it comes around.

>>931455
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

>>941418
>>941389
Nice one pal. Keep em coming if it ain't too much trouble.

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>>941450
Sure thing. I'm getting low on pre-WW stuff, but I could still max this thread.

>>941434
>>941450
For sure. This would give me a good excuse to finally organize my folders. I won't be able to dump them right away cause I'm on my phone right now.

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Had less early stuff than I thought, oh well, still got plenty from WWII.

This one's not exactly war, but plenty fucked nonetheless that I think it has a place here.

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>>941488
>1488

>>939584
Amazing movie.

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It was fun guys, until the next one.

is that the image limit?

>>941524
Unfortunately

>>931778
There actually are stories of Officers doing that to commit suicide.

new thread?

to everyone to contributed and made the "dumps"
i seriously appreciate every photo and no matter ww1 or ww2 i love every picture i see that is real uncut warfare

>until the next thread

>>941559
why not? I have some poetry + images I'd still like to share

is someone making one?

>>936465
Source of the documentary?

ill start making new thread, gimme 5 mins

>>941612

new thread up guys

New thread >>941676

>>932465
I'm don't sure enjoying is the right word, but keep going

>>931442
Looks like it's from DPRK