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Tried this last night, and ending up posting to myself until it died.
This is not exactly a "war is hell" thread, but general conflict photos.
I will try to include what background I have to the photos I post. Appreciate any who can contribute.
>Soviet soldiers move through the trenches amongst the ruins during the Battle of Stalingrad. The German and Axis allied offensive to capture Stalingrad began on 12 September 1942 and ended on 2 February 1943. It is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with over two million killed and the entire city in ruins. The heavy losses inflicted on the Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. It was a turning point in the European Theater of the war; the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to reinforce their losses. Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union. October 1942.
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>>33266382
>An injured North Vietnamese soldier is led from his bunker by US 1st Cavalry Division soldiers. He held up a US advance for one hour with machine gun fire from his position during the Battle of Bong Son in central Vietnam from Jan. 28-Feb. 12, 1966. This image won second place for news in the World Press Photo awards in 1966. Kyoichi Sawada/UPI
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>>33266394
>USS Neosho (AO 23). A wave breaks over her main deck, engulfing the hose crew, as she refuels USS Yorktown (CV 5) in early May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea. Neosho was lost in that battle. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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>>33266406
>Capt. Emil Kapaun (right), former chaplain with Headquarters Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, helps another soldier carry an exhausted troop off the battlefield early in the Korean War. Chaplain Kapaun was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on April 11, 2013
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>>33266418
>The view from the bottom of one of 19 mine craters at Messines Ridge in June 1917. The Battle of Messines was an attempt by the Allies to capture land to the southeast o Ypres to gain control of the higher land in the Ypres Salient
Anyone monitoring or care at all?
Going for a smoke.
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>>33266429
Yeah I'll bump the hell outta this OP
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>>33266442
Word, I'll keep at it for a little while.
>English: A time exposure of eight Peacekeeper (LGM-118A) intercontinental ballistic missile reentry vehicles passing through clouds while approaching an open-ocean impact zone during a flight test.
Date :20 December 1983
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>>33266464
>Over North Korea--Bombardiers in B-26s of the Fifth Air Force's 452 Light Bomb Wing used the " Y" in the tracks as an aiming point, and the accuracy of their calculations is attested by these two fiery blossoms of napalm, both directly astride a line filled with enemy railroad cars. The locale of this dramatic photo is a marshalling yard on the main rail line leading south from Wonsan, important East coast port city.
>Date: 23 April 1951
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File: A helping hand. U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Good feeds his comrade Pfc. Lloyd Deming a turkey drumstick during Christmas dinner 1944 COMMENT.jpg (184KB, 1150x911px) Image search:
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>>33266482
>A helping hand. U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Good feeds his comrade Pfc. Lloyd Deming a turkey drumstick during Christmas dinner at the 2nd Field Hospital following the Allied victory at the Battle of Mindoro in the Philippines. Both soldiers suffered severe injuries fighting the Japanese, and Pfc. Deming was left without use of his hands. San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Mindoro island, Philippines. 25 December 1944.
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>>33266494
>While embedded the 173rd Airborne Brigade in 1965, Tim Page photographed the aftermath of an ambush in an area known as the iron triangle, a Viet Cong stronghold north of Saigon. Photos by Tim Page.
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>>33266507
>During the 1982 Falklands War, the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano sinks amid orange life rafts holding survivors in the South Atlantic Ocean, after being torpedoed by the British nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine HMS Conqueror on May 1, 1982. While Argentine and Chilean ships managed to rescue 770 men, 323 were killed in the attack.
Drinking break, can someone help out?
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File: U.S. operations in South Vietnam’s Que Son Valley 1968 COMMENT.jpg (97KB, 804x540px) Image search:
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>>33266526
>South Vietnam, January 21, 1968: Illumination rounds fill the sky over Landing Zone Ross, a staging area for U.S. operations in South Vietnam’s Que Son Valley. The rounds were fired during a “mad minute,” in which the area outside the perimeter was lit up in anticipation of an enemy attack.
Photographed by John Olson.
Whatever, I'll post a photo here and there.
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>>33266611
>Bomber "Marauder" B-26, serial number 43-34565, 497 Squadron, 344th Bombardment Group, 9th U.S. Air Force is crashing to the ground after receiving a direct hit in the left engine during the bombing of a Erkelenz, Germany, 26 Feb 1945
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File: A Japanese soldier, held as a prisoner of war at Cowra POW camp in Australia commits suicide by slashing his own throat COMMENT.jpg (353KB, 1192x860px) Image search:
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>>33266695
>A Japanese soldier, held as a prisoner of war at Cowra POW camp in Australia commits suicide by slashing his own throat rather than be recaptured following the Cowra breakout. His knife still rests in his hand. The Cowra breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when at least 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war being held at the Cowra POW camp in New South Wales attempted a mass escape. It was the largest prison escape of the war and one of the bloodiest. During the ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed and 108 prisoners were wounded. The remaining escapees were all eventually recaptured and imprisoned. Cowra POW camp, near Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. 5 August 1944.
And, I'm done. If no one is monitoring, I'm wasting my time. Like last night.
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>>33266708
I'm lurking.
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>>33266727
19 May 1967, Con Thien. 19 May 1967, Con Thien, South Vietnam --- Picture shows a US Marine giving a young Vietnamese boy some water and medical attention. His body was burned after the Leathernecks swept through his village.
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>>33266826
>A struggling Japanese soldier who refused to surrender is being bodily carried back to Division Headquarters for questioning by a US Army soldier, Kwajalein Atoll, January or February 1944.
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don't know how to describe this.
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>>33266843
>Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops napalm on a Viet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the target, on December 26, 1964.
I love that plane.
>>33266858
Your background is more than I see with most of these threads.
Thanks for contributing.
>Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops napalm on a Viet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the target, on December 26, 1964.
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>>33266858
This scene was repeated a countless number of times everywhere in the war zone, European and Pacific. The postwar cleanup and rebuilding is nothing less than miraculous.
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>Shot out German captured British Male Mk1 tank.
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File: Soviet and American soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau. 1945 COMMENT.jpg (159KB, 1121x881px) Image search:
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>>33266882
>>33266908
>Soviet and American soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau. This contact between the Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, meant that the two powers had effectively cut Germany in two and would be commemorated as “Elbe Day”, the 25th of April 1945. Near Torgau, Saxony, Germany. 26 April 1945.
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In an arranged photo commemorating the meeting of the Soviet and American armies, 2nd Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (Red Army) stand facing one another with hands clasped and arms around each other's shoulders. In the background are two flags and a poster.
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>"Polish partisans, clad with captured firearms and helmets, gather to read a Nazi propoganda leaflet"
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>>33267046
phones dumb, heres the anti-ant version
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>>33266943
>>33267006
While I am not surprised that some of these photos were staged, similar encounters between USSR and US troops are known as fact.
>Soviet and American soldiers share a dance upon their meet-up at the River Elbe near Torgau. This contact between the Soviets, advancing from the East, and the Americans, advancing from the West, meant that the two powers had effectively cut Germany in two and would be commemorated as “Elbe Day”, the 25th of April 1945. Near Torgau, Saxony, Germany. 26 April 1945.
Not saying this isn't a propaganda image.
Am I the only one finding the "street signs" part of captcha to be nearly impossible?
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>>33266406
That story isn't retold enough. Those were some hard men in an impossible situation.
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>>33267070
Damnit, forgot to attach image. And as I look a proper caption, getting decently drunk.
Well, suddenly can't find the photo I meant to post. So there is this.
>Soviet officers and U.S. soldiers during a friendly meeting on the Elbe River in April of 1945.
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>>33266526
Am lurking OP
>Pic from Falklands War as well,
Not 100% sure which ship, but I believe it was taken from the deck of the HMS Brilliant while being strafed by two Argentinian A4 Skyhawks.
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>>33267089
I have a tremendous amount of respect for all sailors during WWII
>Shipwrecked after their ship sank, survivors on a raft wave to a Catalina flying boat. Sadly, the water was too rough for the Catalina to land, and the raft disappeared soon after this photo was taken
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>>33267108
Good to hear, thought I was wasting more of my time than usual.
>Two paratroopers take a break after the Battle of Mount Longdon, the Falkland Islands, June 12th, 1982.
Going for a smoke and a drink, be back in a little.
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>Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem executed by Saigon Police Chief Mark Wahlberg. Saigon,1968
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>>33267119
I thought a Catalina did try and land but began to take on water while taking on survivors. Could have been a different rescue I'm thinking where the rescuers needed to be rescued. It would fit with everything else that went wrong.
Side Note : It was well known that Catalina's were not sea worthy by their pilots and water landings were done mostly on still water like lakes or bays in some cases but never open sea.
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>>33267143
"History" channel please go
>>33267187
No, that does sound familiar to me as well. That is just the limited caption I have with the photo.
>USN pilots in the ready room of USS Monterey, on June 20, 1944 — the message emblazoned on the chalkboard behind is clear and simple: “Get the Carriers”.
>The pilots were so successful in this task during the campaign that it’s been referred to as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”
Pic related is me right now.
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>>33267279
There was a book written recently. I've listened to the author interview on WW2 Podcast and been meaning to pick it up.
The Ship That Wouldn't Die - Don Keith
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>>33267279
>In preparation for the assault on Hill 532 (the peak of Nui Hoac Ridge), 1LT Larry Swank, the
1st Bn 6th Inf Artillery Liaison Officer (LNO) and former artillery forward observer (FO) for
A/1-6 Inf, called in an Americal Division Artillery time-on-target (TOT). Every artillery piece
(105mm & 155mm howitzers, and 8-in gun) that could reach the target were coordinated to
mass their fires on Hill 352. The 8-in guns fired delayed fuzes to explode below ground and
destroy enemy bunkers. Photo of the artillery TOT provided by Larry Swank.
Getting my ass kicked on RB6.
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>>33267325
>August 18, 1959 250 miles east of Norfolk, Va. USS WASP is heavily damaged by an explosion and subsequent fires when a helicopter engine explodes while being tested in hangar bay number 1. The fires and reflashes take over two hours to control. At the time of the accident the WASP was carrying nuclear weapons. In the first 30 minutes as the fires burned out of control and the forward magazines were flooded, preliminary preparations also were made to flood the nuclear weapon magazine. It was not flooded, however, and 30 minutes later the nuclear weapon magazine reported no significant rise in temperature.
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>>33267377
The nice thing about bulk-posting is the dubs
>An x-ray of a 12,7mm bullet in the head of an American GI taken at the 4th US Army hospital. The soldier survived 11 days after receiving his injury, and died from internal bleeding, 18 Oct 1944
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Verdun
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>>33267494
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>>33266708
Lurking. Just haven't any of my own to share because new computer.
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>>33267474
I am extremely happy I missed that war.
>>33267544
Good to hear. I do not mind dumping, as long as there is an audience.
>A pile of human and animal remains during or after the Battle of Verdun in 1916
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>>33267661
>Pressure bandaged after they suffered burns when their ship was hit by a Kamikaze attack during the Battle of Iwo Jima; The wounded men are fed aboard the USS Solace in 1945/Lt. Victor Jorgensen.
Pic related: I'm done, for the night.
You anons keep it going until I awake from my coma, I'll post some more.
Goodnight /k/omrades.
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>>33267592
Can you imagine what ww2 would be like if your father said this what he fought in
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