War is Hell thread

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>>33472257
>Two US Army soldiers wounded in an IED blast console each other as they are treated on board a medical evacuation helicopter from Charlie Company, Sixth Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday, June 13, 2010."This image was taken in the summer of 2010 during the height of Obama's surge in southern Afghanistan where I spent a few months embedded. The two soldiers' vehicle had just been blown up in an IED on the highway close to Kandahar and they are seen here consoling each other as they are rescued. I remember the confusion and emotion I felt when taking the photo. I had this overwhelming feeling of guilt that I was intruding on such a painful and private moment but also realized the poignancy and power of what I was seeing through my camera and that I had to record it."

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>>33472264
>Early casualties: A junior German officer faces the camera as he contemplates the death of one of his men during street fighting on the second day of the invasion of Russia, June 23, 1941.

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>>33472276
>US Army Medic looks up in desperation after continuous resuscitation efforts are made on a dying solider, Vietnam 1967

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>>33472283
>A young Indonesian man with severe wounds is photographed at the Netherlands Indies Civil Affairs (NICA) Hospital in Borneo, the Dutch East Indies. He was the sole survivor of four men on whom Japanese soldiers had used for practicing beheading by sword. Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. 26 July 1945.

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>>33472290
>A Finnish soldier, whose artery was cut open by a grenade shrapnel. Kaalamo, Petäjävaara. 1941.07.22.

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>>33472298
>26 Sep 1944, Peleliu, Palau --- 9/26/1944-Peleliu Island: Weary and exhausted after the tough battle for Hill 200 Near Peleliu Airpoet, this leathr neck sits down amidst the battle rubble and weeps. According to latest reports, the marines are making steady progress on the Island, although heavy fighting continues.

Anyone monitoring? Going for a smoke.

>>33472312
love bump

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>>33472312
>>33472422
Wow, totally forgot I started this thread.

As Americans of the U.S. 25th Division advance across what used to be forested land, they pass a dead Japanese soldier fallen across a bomb-splintered tree. Balete Pass in northern Luzon, Philippines on April 12, 1945

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>>33472585
>US Navy sailors of the USS Menges treat a sailor who is covered in fuel oil after he swam from the sinking USS Lansdale. The Lansdale was part of convoy leaving Oran, Algeria, when German bombers sunk the Lansdale. 47 men from the Lansdale were killed

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>>33472597
>Time Goes Too Slowly. Minutes seem like hours to a Marine who cradles the head of a wounded buddy in his arms and scans the skies as the two await the arrival of an evacuation helicopter on Hill 881 during heavy fighting, May 3. US Marines swarmed back atop Hill 881’s northern summit, May 5, and killed 34 North Vietnamese who tried to rob them of their conquest of the hill, located just below the North-South Vietnam border. May 3, 1967

>>33472257
In the thumbnail it looks like the dude is swinging on the kid. Disappointed upon opening.

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>>33472600
>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.

Going again for a drink&smoke, hope the other anon isn't the only guy monitoring.

>>33472627
I'm here picturebro

>>33472620
Marky Mark would have done it

>>33472627
Also here. Appreciate the captioning, it's a nice change of pace.

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>>33472627
ayy

>>33472627
good work

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>>33472649
>>33472661
>>33472663
Good to know, will continue.

>Marines file past a truck loaded with dead troops during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.

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>>33472693
shukran

>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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>>33472726
This photo is the best depiction of my worst memory, a similar and larger MCE.

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man war is truly horrfic

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The sole survivor of a massacre finds his home in ruins after the Bosnian army recaptured his village from Serb forces in the fall of 1995. He is standing on what is believed to be a mass grave of sixty-nine people, including his family.

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>>33472620
>>33472659
>>33472752
I truly hate all of you /b/tard edgelords.

>>33472785
Appreciate the assistance amigo.

>An embedded photographer snaps a reaction of U.S Soldier during a Vietcong Ambush 1966.

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I think this one is fairly self-explanatory. Japanese Cities, the percentage of their destruction, and a city of comparable pre-war size from the USA.

>>33472828
How many of these do you have?
Either way I appreciate the dump man.

>>33472785
Such a depressing hell of a war.

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>>33472828
I am going to bounce around a bit, because war is largely hell because civilians are fair game (these days, and in all reality), as much as willing/unwillingly combatants.

>A heavily bandaged infant, Margaret Curtis, badly injured in a German Luftwaffe aerial assault on London during the Blitz is photographed while being treated in a London hospital. London, England, U.K. September 1940. Image taken by William Vandivert.

Captcha is being a bitch.

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>>33472872
I have around 15,000 military photos, not all dramatic "war is hell" photos. Most are just military history.

Have another 10,000 of other than military-history. Most are not as detailed as what I'm posting, though I'm trying to find background for every photo I've saved.

>Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.
And thank you.

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description in the file names

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wooh, really starting to feel the turkey.

>>33472928
further information I have on this photo.
>U.S. soldier killed while crossing a pontoon bridge over the Rur River (near Jülich, Germany 2-23-45)

>>33472923
>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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It looks like they were trying to move that machine gun when they all got shot

The Type 92 was heavy as fuck but it had handles to carry it

>>33472923
You wouldn't mind if I provide some homefront crackdowns against leftist nationalists/communists in Puerto Rico?

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>>33472947
>A US Marine still clutches the knife with which he killed a Japanese soldier, in background, in a duel. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed him. Eniwetok Atoll, 1945
>>33472966

>This photograph shows an emaciated Indian Army soldier who survived the Siege of Kut. The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 100 miles south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo.

I'm going to step back, and let you other anons step up. I will post what further info I have for your photos when I sober up.

Probably sooner

Anyone have those pics of some kids covered in dust and blood after hiding in a basement while getting shelled/bombed in Chechnya?

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>>33473078

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>>33473042
This is honestly the best part of COP life, no CSM/1SGs stopping around every day to bitch about your appearance/uniform/AR-670-1. I have many similar photos from the several cops we were out of.
COP life fucking sucks in all other respects.

>US army Flight Medic Brandon Lowther (L) holds the hand of a fatally wounded US army soldier as he is airlifted by the Medevac helicopter of 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder on August 24, 2011 to Kandahar Hospital Role 3. Two US soldiers were heavily injured by gun shots and brought to the hospital. All foreign combat troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 in a process that started last month and will require the Afghan army and police to play an ever-greater role in fighting the Taliban insurgency. By Johannes Eisele

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>April 30 1975
Combat boots litter the road on the outskirts of Saigon, abandoned by ARVN soldiers who shed their uniforms to hide their status. "I'll never forget the shoes and the loud 'thump, thump, thump' sound as we drove over them," recalled the photographer. "Decades of war were over and we finally had peace."

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Verdun

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>>33473112
Here is a clearer photo.

>Marines drinking coffee after 2 days of fighting on Eniwetok Atol.

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>>33473170
thanks famalam

Crazy to think the Marine holding the cup to his face is probably only 18 years old

>>33473147
>"Decades of war were over and we finally had peace."
More like a few more decades of purges

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>>33473170

>>33473183
>mfw I joined a couple weeks after I turned 17
>was in kuwait at same time my hs class graduated
>had three months in iraq by my 19th b-day
>get wounded by ied a few months later
>was medically retired before i could legally drink

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>>33473156

>>33472298
did he live?

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>>33472257
296th Infantryman Regiment of the Puerto Rican National Guard occupy the Nationalist held city of Jayuya, Puerto Rico after mortar fire, air support, and artillery razes parts of the city.

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>>33473337
Forgot to say the date was October 30th, 1950. Here's one of the buildings leveled down by artillery and 2,500 lb bombs from the P47 Thunderbolt. The aircraft also did gun run, firing at nearly all the roofs with their fifty

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What happened at Hurtgen Wood?

It was a hell of a licking the US that was overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge

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Moving onto my 'Nam folder

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Any Nationalist who didn't surrender were caught into a firefight with Guardsmen. Here guardsmen return fire against the Nationalists, best be note that they had their 30 cals watercooled.

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A convoy of US Guardsmen and supplies enter in the town of Jayuya, October 30th, 1950

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>>33473407
>the Battle of the Bulge

I just read pic related recently. I suggest it for the historian types. Some of it is very entertaining.

>Patton's son-in-law is shot through the ass by a faggot German prison guard
>"YOU SON OF A BITCH YOU'VE RUINED MY FISHING!"
>my sides

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The freed Insular Police Officers who were captured by the Nationalists join the battle and provide support to the Guardsmen. here they're taking cover and returning fire at the insurgents

>>33472283
Is it just me or does this dude look like a young Ethan Hawke

>>33472620
I thought he was lighting a smoke for him

>>33473327
Not likely Anon

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>>33473900

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>>33473921

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>>33473932

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>>33473946

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>>33473972

>>33472750
The only good kebab is a dead Kebab

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>>33473983

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>>33473990

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>>33473909

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>>33474013

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Battle of France

>>33473353
It all ways strikes me as odd when I see how skinny the US soldier on the left looks. were these soldiers cut off from supplies?

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>>33473983

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>>33474024

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>>33472290
>survived being practiced on for beheading
Jesus fucking christ, what the actual fuck. War is hell.

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>>33474099

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>>33474003

>>33473698
Aw man I know that one. Its fucked.

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>>33474105

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>>33474161

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>>33474170

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDq9fL--Avw
Is Come And See /k/ approved?

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>>33474193

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>>33474201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYIaDYRipoM
2nd half

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>>33474205

>>33473147
>Decades of war were over and we finally had peace.
Fucking commie.

>>33474088
The Japs deserved everything we did to them and more. Never forget that.

>>33474211
While these images are rather interesting given that I hadn't heard about this incident before, why are you posting so many? Is there a personal connection?

>>33474285
i dont know about not forgeting, i mean some good anime does tend to make poeple forget war crimes. why remember nanking when instead you could be watching some naruto.

>>33472828

LMAO.

a faggot posting actual war images calling others edge lords

>>33472947
This pisses me off

This thread is phenomenal. Please continue.

>>33473984
Go back to /pol/ LARP scumbag

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>>33474688

>>33472923
Do you have any from the 90's Yugoslav Wars?
I have some personal pics from my time in Kosovo and some from relatives who also fought Serbs. These have NEVER been digitized & posted online or in print. Some gruesome.

>>33474706
please post them

>>33473147
>we finally had peace
...but Vietnam invaded Cambodia shortly thereafter and dealt with a Chinese incursion on their northern border and Chinese-supplied insurgent forces in Cambodia and on their Laotian border.

>>33473698
I always thought the camera crew were in on it.

>>33472312
What a pussy

>>33474058
You'd be amazed how quickly the human body will lose weight in prolonged combat. The caloric requirements are absurd. Also rations were a shit.

>>33474285
Not the civilians, though, dude. Not the civilians. They were fucking clueless back home. Pre-1945 Japan was like North Korea. Hell, there was a medical unit deployed to Okinawa in 1945 composed of ultra patriotic teenage schoolgirl volunteers who literally believed in their hearts of hearts that their country was liberating colonized nations and that they were actually winning at that point. Yeah, the beheadings, the labor camps, the comfort women, Unit 731, what happened in Nanking, what happened at Chichijima, all of that crap... It's inexcusable. It's fucked up beyond belief, but the Japanese as a people didn't deserve what we did to them. The military sure as hell did, and it was definitely necessary at that point to nuke and firebomb them into submission to avoid further loss of American life, but the civilians are mostly unfortunate victims in this situation. Your average shopkeeper or rice farmer wasn't fucking shit up. It was his country's military junta calling the shots. Civilians don't deserve to be punished for the sins of the tyrants who abuse them.

>>33474706
Don't tease us.

>>33474836
>Japanese school girl nurses.

Nice.

>>33472861
Why are you shitposting? Goto /b/ with that off-topic kiddyshit.

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>Argentine Skyhawks on the deck for a run on a British ship. British AA was too strong for convention runs so Argentine pilots began running below their range of fire and pulling up at the last second to drop their ordnance. They often did not get enough altitude to arm their bombs which would then bounce across the decks. British seamen would then quickly roll the bombs overboard.

>>33474766
Americans never understood China is VNs historic enemy. Idiot hick Lyndon Johnson buried the US in Viet Nam for precisely zero strategic justification. Now the US makes port calls in VN and has a good relationship with Hanoi. The war was a bloody waste of US resources, hence the Commie slogan "two, three, many Viet Nams!".

>>33474836
>Pre-1945 Japan was like North Korea.

Nonsense, because Japs had been fighting heavily long before Pearl Harbor. That means their soldiery rotated home and interacted with friends and family.

The civilians pretended to know nothing to save face. Face is everything to Asians.

Tyranny? Hirohito was a living god. No tyranny needed. Reading weebs snivel about killing Japs is hilarious. They are as bad as Wehrboo.

>>33474975
>civilians pretended to know nothing to save face
Do you really think guys who were at Chichijima were going home and talking about how they ate a couple American pilots alive? Or that Unit 731 were writing home about their experiments? Everybody knew shit was going down, but your average citizen didn't have a personal connection to any serious atrocities. Just like a large portion of the German population with no personal/municipal connection to the death camps was out of the loop. Families of Soviets deployed to Afghanistan in the 80s knew shit was getting real over there, but it's not like they were hearing about atrocities their sons had participated in. It's a war and you know there's bad shit, but when you're that far away it's different. How many times has it been reported in the news that an atrocity has happened in Iraq back in the day? "A car bomb exploded near a school full of Shia Muslim children. X amount are dead and wounded." Nobody watching that brief news blurb on TV gives a shit. I know a guy who served in Fallujah and was unfortunate enough to have to blast a guy in the face up close with a Mossberg. He told his mom about it when he came home on leave and she wasn't even fazed by it. Like, she couldn't comprehend a world where her son was capable of blowing a human being's head to pieces with a shotgun. Psychology is weird, dude.
>Hirohito was a living God
Hirohito was powerless figurehead used by a strong military leader (Tojo) to justify his bullshit, a lot like the relationship between the shogun and the emperor during the Edo Period.

Regardless, holding a nation's civilian population liable for the atrocities committed by its soldiers is bullshit. A retired old mechanic from Erfurt didn't gas any Jews, just like some toddler following her mom around in the burnt out ruins of Kagoshima didn't decapitate any Aussies. Sometimes, those innocents get killed in the line of fire, but that only makes it justifiable, not morally correct.

>>33473698
I'll have to see if the thread's still alive when I've got time to post them.

>>33473565
ehh more like new star trek khan guy

>>33474898
Holy shit talk about adrenaline. For both sides

>>33472828
>I truly hate all of you /b/tard edgelords.
You're not alone, there are plenty of adults on /k/. The weapons aspect just attracts edgelords that want to talk about killing.

>>33474309
Yes, its a mix of personal, and historical purposes. The 1950s Nationalist Party Revolution was an event that was suppressed from the news into the American mainland due to the outrage and concern it may have caused. Puerto Rico at the time had a history of being under a command economy and military rule (Then later turned into a limited democratic government under the Jones Act before the development of Law 600). I'm a native to the island myself, and while I find these independence groups unfavorable and support the crack down actions against them (They have connections to the Communists in Cuba), I'm also against the atrocities that certain US government agencies did in the island (Gag Law, Ponce Massacre, FBI surveillance and development of a national registry, etc) that has caused harm into our people despite our hard earned citizenry. Most of the reason why I'm posting it is because its an event that occured in the homefront and a part of the early cold war colonial conflicts. It is also part of my family history, and that of my older neighbors who underwent such treatment in dealing with these independence groups (both violently and nonviolenty). I enjoy showing the unheard sides of the cold war, especially when these communist terrorists are still alive to this date and have an impact in our local politics (So far they've been nonviolent after getting one of their leaders killed by the FBI back in 2005). At the same time, the Nationalist Party was a prelude to the inspiration and development of other communist terror groups that were responsible for local bombings here and in the mainland throughout the Cold War, which in turn, effects the history of the mainlanders who survived or lived through their terror bombing campaigns.

I was hungry before but now I am not hungry after reading this thread

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33474633
Picture related. No (you)s for him.

>>33474807
BOY THIS BETTER BE BAIT

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>>33473277
OP is back, and very hungover.

>Vietnam War. A radioman comforts his friend who just survived a battle during Operation Byrd in which nearly his entire platoon was wiped out Co. A, 2/7, 1st Cav. Div. (Airmobile) 1966

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>>33479045
>A young American GI shows the fatigue of battle as he weeps at a battlefront collecting station after being involved in the heavy fighting on the Taegu front. Korea. January 1, 1950.

File: 2 severely burnt British soldiers whose tank had been hit by a German shell shortly after the Normandy landings, 1944.jpg (155KB, 1280x852px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479058
>2 severely burnt British soldiers whose tank had been hit by a German shell shortly after the Normandy landings, 1944

File: The body of United States Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John M. Butler of the 52d Troop Carrier Wing lies amongst the wreckage of his Waco CG-4 glider COMMENT.jpg (2MB, 3305x2480px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479070
>The body of United States Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. John M. Butler of the 52d Troop Carrier Wing lies amongst the wreckage of his Waco CG-4 glider. The accident also killed U.S. Army Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division, who was the highest ranking Allied officer killed on D-Day of the Normandy Landings. Two other passengers, 1st Lieutenant Lee John May and Lieutenant Colonel Mike Murphy survived the crash, both severely injured. The accident occurred as the glider was landing and skidded on wet grass, overrunning the landing zone and subsequently striking a hedgerow line of 40-foot-tall (12 m) poplar trees. Hiesville, Manche, Lower Normandy, France. 6 June 1944.

FYI: This is a real photo from the "FUBAR" scene in Saving Private Ryan.

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>>33479099
>The body of a French boy hangs in a tree after being blasted by a German shell. The Battle of Verdun, 1916

Anyone monitoring?

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>>33479106
>A South Vietnamese Marine, severely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, is comforted by a comrade in a sugar cane field at Duc Hoa, about 12 miles from Saigon, Aug. 5, 1963. A platoon of 30 Vietnamese Marines was searching for communist guerrillas when a long burst of automatic fire killed one Marine and wounded four others.

File: Wounded when a mine blew up his Jeep, an ambulance driver sobs by the side of the road after learning that a friend was killed in the blast, Korea 1950.jpg (362KB, 1500x993px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479114
>Wounded when a mine blew up his Jeep, an ambulance driver sobs by the side of the road after learning that a friend was killed in the blast, Korea 1950

File: Marine Col. Francis I. Fenton, kneeling, prays at the foot of his sons’s grave. Pfc Mike Fenton was killed in a Japanese counterattack Shuri, May 1945.jpg (3MB, 2664x2289px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479130
>Marine Col. Francis I. Fenton, kneeling, prays at the foot of his sons’s grave. Pfc Mike Fenton was killed in a Japanese counterattack Shuri Castle,Okinawa. May 1945

Going to take a quick break, doesn't seem like anyone is monitoring anyways.

>>33479106
Right here

>>33479155
I'm lurking.
This is great stuff. The information along with the photos is great.

>>33472257
Incredible stuff. I mean, impossible to know in most cases if it's all 100% true and accurate or not, but fascinating none the less! Checking em out, and wish I could drink with you, anon. Being poor kinda sucks.

>>33474058
>>33474822

Combine that with fighting in the jungle, you're probably suffering from a wide variety of parasites on top of diarrhea as well, on top of sweating your balls off.

Caloric requirements are understandably a lot higher.

File: An American soldier lies dead beside water pump, killed by a German booby trap set in the pump in a French village on the Cherbourg Peninsula, on June 18, 1944.jpg (562KB, 1247x911px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479155
>>33479165
>>33479166
Good to know, most of the information I have is from reverse googling photos from past threads.

It is irritating to me when a photo has no further context.

>An American soldier lies dead beside water pump, killed by a German booby trap set in the pump in a French village on the Cherbourg Peninsula, on June 18, 1944

>>33479155

Only time I've ever heard of a father having to bury his son while in the same war and service. Truly terrible.

Didn't another son of his serve in Korea?

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>>33479244
>A Marine chaplin says the Last Rites for a dying soldier south of the Demiliarized Zone near here July 4th. A Communist trap built around the bodies of American dead cost the Marines 21 killed and 40 wounded. It pushed to 79 the number of Marines killed along the northern border since July 2nd. 7/5/1967

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>>33479269
>>33479262
>Capt. Ike Fenton, commanding officer of Baker Company, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Brigade, receives reports of dwindling supplies during the battle to secure No-Name Ridge along the Naktong River in Korea in September 1950 by David Douglas Duncan.

Honestly not sure if they are related

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>>33479285
>Dead and wounded people lie scattered outside Sarajevo's indoor market after a mortar shell exploded outside the entrance to the building, on August 28, 1995. An artillery shell killed at least 32 and wounded more than 40 others.

This one is very graphic.

File: A U.S Corpsman applies a field dressing to the neck of an injured Marine during the battle of Saipan. COMMENT.jpg (270KB, 1152x1055px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479299
Literally took me a few minutes to get further context for this photo.

>Iraq, Baghdad. November 17, 2004. After the offensive on November 8, Marine units take up positions in the northeast of Fallujah. Insurgent groups were still fighting against US forces, who had the task of "cleaning" the city house by house

>>33479302
>A U.S Corpsman applies a field dressing to the neck of an injured Marine during the battle of Saipan. In the distance behind them, another U.S. Marine is visible in a foxhole. 3,426 U.S. forces would be killed on the small Pacific island, with a further 10,364 wounded. Japanese losses would top nearly 25,000, with a further 5,000 Imperial Japanese soldiers committing suicide rather than surrendering to the Americans. Tanapag, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. June 1944.

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>>33479338
>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

Crappy photo, but that story.

File: Casualties of a mass-panic during a Japanese air raid in Chongqing in 1941..jpg (131KB, 428x592px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479357
>Casualties of a Japanese air raid, in which 4,000 people were trampled or suffocated to death trying to return to shelters. Chungking, China, June 5, 1941

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>>33479338
Yeah I don't really know the story behind most of the pictures I have but I'll share some

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I think this is from the falklands war

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>>33479383
>A Japanese naval lieutenant surrenders to American forces after hiding in caves on the island of Okinawa (July 14, 1945). He decided to surrender after he heard a Japanese compatriot broadcast from an American landing craft recommending his experience as a POW

>>33479385
Pretty sure that is in Sirte, during the Libyans Civil War, just off memory.

>>33479406
It was posted already

>>33473156
>>33473297
feelsbad man
:(

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>>33479406
Argentine A-4B Skyhawks low level attack on HMS Broadsword. Falklands War, May 25th 1982.

>>33479411
>Captured by German soldiers, Soviet POWs on the Eastern Front break from their column at the assembly point to drink water from a frozen stream. Russia. 9 November 1941.

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>>33479426
>>33479430
>A pile of human and animal remains during or after the Battle of Verdun in 1916

File: Hill 689, April 1968 COMMENT.jpg (893KB, 1500x1048px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479442
>The bodies of U.S. Marines lie half buried on Hill 689, about 2 1/2 miles west of Khe Sanh, in April 1968 during the Vietnam War. Fellow Marines stand guard in the background after battling entrenched North Vietnamese troops for the hill.

>>33474026
Muh B1bis

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>>33479456
>Two of the eighteen POWs rescued by the USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Rakuyo Maru on September 17, 1944.
On September 12, 1944 the USS Sealion (SS-315) attacked the Japanese passenger cargo ship and sank it with two torpedoes. Unbeknownst to the crew of the Sealion, the Rakuyo Maru was actually a hellship-a floating prison transporting nearly 1,300 Allied POWs. The Japanese crew fled immediately after the attack and the ship took 12 hours to sink, which gave the POWs an opportunity to gather supplies and build rafts but help did not arrive until four days later when the USS Pampanito (SS-383) found two of the survivors floating on a raft. The Pampanito radioed for help and soon the USS Queenfish and the USS Barb (SS-220) were also combing the area for survivors before a typhoon forced them to abandon the search. Altogether the American submarines picked up 159 POWs which along with the 136 recovered by the Japanese left a total of 295 survivors from the Rakuyo Maru’s original 1,318.

File: In the pictures the sailor is crouched in tall grass during the battle for Hill 881 COMMENT.jpg (110KB, 1416x301px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479476
>In the pictures the sailor is crouched in tall grass during the battle for Hill 881 near Khe Sanh. He is cradling his comrade who has been shot while smoke from the battle rises into the air behind them. In the first frame Wike has two hands on his friends chest, trying to staunch the wound. In the second, he is trying to find a heartbeat. In the third frame, "Corpsman In Anguish", he has just realised the man is dead

He is still alive

>Married four times, with two daughters he no longer speaks to, he had been living meagerly on a $325-a-month pension. The 58-year-old told Leroy that he felt more like 80. "While not physically hurt, he suffers from extreme Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, waking from nightmares every night," wrote Le Sommier. "On his arms, he has tattoos of the names of his dead comrades. He's lost in a jungle of his own mind."

Taking another quick break.

>>33479357
Fuck.

>>33479487
Dude you are fucking awesome

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>Marines and sailors of BLT 1/8, 24 MAU (Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 24th Marine Amphibious Unit) recover and treat casualties of the suicide bombing that killed 241 American service members and 58 French Paratroopers (October 23, 1983)

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>>33479526
Appreciate it Anon.

>>33479487
>The Massacre of Kondomari. On 2 June 1941, German Fallschirmjäger rounded up the civilians of the Cretan village of Kondomari in one of a long series of mass reprisals on the Greek island of Crete. The execution of the men of Kondomari was orchestrated by Wehrmacht Generaloberst Kurt Student in retaliation for the civilian participation during the Battle of Crete, which had ended in a German victory only two days prior. Throughout the Battle of Crete, the Allied forces and Cretan civilians had inflicted heavy losses of lives on the Wehrmacht soldiers. In particular, the unprecedented resistance from the local population exasperated the German sense of military order, according to which no one but professional soldiers should be allowed to fight. Generaloberst Student in particular, blamed the civilians of Kondomari for the death of a few German soldiers whose bodies had been found near the village. Four trucks full of German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) from the III Battalion of Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment 1 under the command of Oberleutnant Horst Trebes surrounded the village. Men, women and children were forced to gather in the village square. Then, a number of hostages were selected among the men while women and children were released. The hostages were led to the surrounding olive groves and shot by an ad hoc firing squad. The exact number of the victims is unclear. According to German records, a total of 23 men were killed, but other sources raise the toll to about 60. Kondomari, Platanias, Crete, Greece. 2 June 1941. Images taken by German Wehrmacht war propaganda correspondant Franz-Peter Weixler.

Pretty sure that didn't all greentext, but I can't be bothered.

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>>33479608

>>33479503
>remainder of the USS Indianapolis crew mentioned in the movie 'Jaws'

Just for you.

File: A dead civilian lies nearby as a young Vietnamese boy shields his ears from gunfire blasts and runs for cover on a Da Nang street on January 31, 1968.jpg (822KB, 1500x1013px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479606
Great photo, don't think I have that one. Thanks

>>33479624
>A dead civilian lies nearby as a young Vietnamese boy shields his ears from gunfire blasts and runs for cover on a Da Nang street on January 31, 1968

File: The Indian ambulance driver clentching his hands indicating the intense pain of his leg which has been almost completly blown off Korea 1951.jpg (408KB, 1280x893px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479634
>The Indian ambulance driver clenching his hands indicating the intense pain of his leg which has been almost completely blown off Korea 1951

File: VC & ARVN face to face COMMENT.jpg (603KB, 1200x800px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479645
>Viet Cong meet the enemy face-to-face, most likely in the Mekong Delta or Plain of Reeds. This rare image shows both sides in combat, ARVN soldiers at the top and Viet Cong in the foreground. The VC have flanked the enemy at left and right, which likely meant the ARVN unit was wiped out.

File: A U.S. Navy medic comforts U.S. Army Pvt. J. B. Slagle aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship USS Solace 1945 COMMENT.jpg (174KB, 1030x1027px)

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>>33479663
>A U.S. Navy medic comforts U.S. Army Pvt. J. B. Slagle aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship USS Solace as he receives his painful daily dressing of wounds he sustained at the Battle of Okinawa while en route to Guam, Mariana Islands. May 1945.

>>33472969
Looks like a Type 11 to me. Was the Type 92 perhaps a smaller/lighter version of the Type 11?

File: Nermin Divovic Saraevo 1994 COMMENT.jpg (358KB, 1200x849px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479678
>Seven-year-old Nermin Divovic lies mortally wounded in a pool of blood as unidentified American and British U.N. firefighters arrive to assist after he was shot in the head in Sarajevo Friday, November 18, 1994. The boy was shot and killed by a sniper firing from an apartment building into the Sarajevo city center, along Sarajevo's notorious Sniper Alley. The U.N. firefighters were at his side almost immediately, but the boy died outright.

>>33474633
This thread was meant to show the horrors of actual war, not to enable edgelords and faggots like you from posting something to derail the thread.

>>33473001
Story behind this?

File: Some of an estimated 400 Russian soldiers killed in a battle, Finland on February 1, 1940..jpg (180KB, 1200x807px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479690
>Some of an estimated 400 Russian soldiers killed in a battle, Finland on February 1, 1940.

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>>33479683
It was in the final hours of the battle of Tarawa, with no where left to go, they took their own lives instead of surrendering

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>>33479708
Not mine, but there is brief description in the filename.

>>33479709
>Caused by the British, the crater resulted when the 19 mines they dug and placed underneath the German positions near Messines in West Flanders was detonated on 7 June 1917. A total of 10,000 soldiers were killed in the blast, amongst those casualties was nearly the entire 3rd Royal Bavarian Division.

>In the history of man, the blast is considered to be the biggest non-nuclear explosion, and was heard in both Dublin and London.

>>33479744

That is terrifying.

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>>33479744
>still clutching his rifle after a Japanese sniper shot him, Iwo Jima

>>33479744
>10,000

Holy shit, just think about it for a second

10,000 people from a single explosion

Jesus Christ man..

File: The crater produced by a mine near Messines Belgium, become over the years in a small lake. 2.jpg (83KB, 964x640px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479744
>>33479752
>>33479757
Kind of nicer follow-up photo

>The crater produced by a mine near Messines Belgium, become over the years in a small lake. 2

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>>33479770
>On April 6, 1994, a group of Hutu began slaughtering the Tutsi in the African country of Rwanda. The bloody foot prints of children attempting to escape the slaughter by climbing the walls was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

>>33473451
Jesus... body closest has their head blown open, and check the firearms to the right. I see a Thompson (looks like it's got the charging handle on the side, so probably M1A1) and an M1 Rifle. Must be early in the war, no?

File: US Marines scramble for cover as another volley of Viet Cong shells lands on the besieged base at Khe Sanh. March 1968, by John Olson.jpg (256KB, 1500x1029px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479783
>>33479782

>Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. March, 1968: U.S. Marines scramble for cover as another volley of Viet Cong shells lands on the besieged base at Khe Sanh.

>>33473618
Not likely, no, but consider that Simo Hayha got shot in the face and survived. It's possible, but yeah, unlikely...

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>>33479796
>Photo taken during the Battle of Verdun, one of the most deadliest battles of Great War. Verdun is located on the border of France and Germany. Upon the recommendation of Falkenhayn, who stated that the key to winning the war was not fighting the Eastern Front (Russia), but instead to fight the Western Front. Falkenhayn argued that if France was defeated than Britain would either surrender or be defeated later. The Kaiser agreed to allow the battle to take place.

>>33479744
>>33479770
I'm confused, what kind of ordinance was this?

Mines? As in land mines? What am I missing?

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>>33479807
Those coke cans look so surreal in this context.

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>>33479825
>Medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying soldier in war zone D, about 50 miles northeast of Saigon, June 17, 1967. Thirty-one men of the 1st Infantry Division were reported killed in the guerrilla ambush, with more than 100 wounded. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

most of you all have a fascination with Nam and Kosovo/Serbia/Balkan wars..

i'd like to see a Latin American 'war is hell' thread for once if anyone has any to share

File: In this April 1969 photo, a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam by Horst Faas..jpg (97KB, 950x651px) Image search: [Google]

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>>33479844
>In this April 1969 photo, a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam by Horst Faas.

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>>33473127

>>33479855
>>33479860
Well, you snaked the last photo.

I'm done guys, going to my birthday party. Might post more later.

>>33479663
jesus

>>33479720
His helmet is on backwards.

>>33474836
This guy has the right idea. I was talking to some prick on Youtube once about how it was wrong to nuke the Japanese civilians. He said that there was war and so the Japanese civilians deserved it. Next fucking day, Boston Marathon Bombing. Never heard from the faggot again after that, but hey, America was at war at the time, so I guess those civilians deserved it, right? Total war is bullshit. Let the soldiers fight, but targeting the civilians is fucked up.

>>33479783
>Annie Leibovitz
Took Pictures of John Lennon a few hours before he was assassinated.

>>33479870
Happy Birthday.

>>33479931
I have those photos, also the one where chapman is getting the autograph.

Might do a thread over in /his/, and post it there. Still on Spring Break.

>>33479942
Appreciate it Anon, been doing these threads annually on my b-day for a few years.

>>33479870

start a new thread m8
happy birthday

>>33472290

how the fuck do you survive a beheading?

>>33479269
Less than 4 months and it'll be exactly 50 years since that guy in the pic died. I guess he'd be in his 70s or so today if he never enlisted and if he managed to survive all this time. Enjoying retirement.

>>33480021
He might have been a pedophile though.

>>33472726

Fuuuuuuuug

>>33479487
Intense...

>>33479503
Concur.

>>33479526
Agreed.

>>33480016
I think the key word here is "practicing".

>>33479830
They spent around two years building subterranean mines from the Brit lines under the German lines. Theres a pretty good Netflix movie on it

>>33479744
Fuck me... that's intense. Heard from around France/Germany all the way over to Dublin? That's fucked... I wonder if the people in Denmark heard it as well.

>>33479752
Fuckin' rights it is.

>>33479757
10,000 people probably instantly killed. The community I'm from only has perhaps 2,000-4,000 people or so. That's a lot of lights going out all at once. A lot of crying mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers, and likely many sons and daughters too.

>>33479770
Fucking intense. Due to the lack of running water however, I assume it's quite a stagnant and stinking thing.

>>33479870
Happy Birthday, anon. Thanks. This was an intense thread.

>>33480041
Oh, then he'd be lurking on /b/.

>>33479709
jesus christ what the fuck did they do wrong? Did they just get stuck in the snow then mowed down or something?

>>33473277

>An U. S. soldier

>An

It doesn't even make sense to make that mistake.

With "an hero", you can at least understand with how the British say it.

>>33479155
Don't get butt hurt, bro.
Thanks for the pics and captions, but its not exactly the subject you can expect an enthusiastic reaction about.
Please continue.

>>33481051
>an oos soldier
there

>>33479915
Pretty sure the civilians at Pearl Harbor and Nanking would disagree, Mr. Morality.

>>33479915
>Let the soldiers fight, but targeting the civilians is fucked up.

How naive.

>>33472890
Ah fuck no. This one got me.

>>33472785

Hit me hardest out of all the pictures in the thread.

>>33474209
Yes. Great movie

>>33479155
I've noticed that the grave they are going to bury the body in is full of water.

>>33474691
You have to go back Abdul

>>33479708
Killed themselves to avoid capture/muh honor

Source: I have LIFE's picture history of WW2 somewhere with the same pic and the citation was something along those lines

>>33479244
Not disputing the caption, but isn't it more likely that the boobytrap was placed by french resistance fighters, and then blamed on the Germans after it was tripped?

>>33473109
looks shopped to me

>>33479709
All their mess kits are out. Maybe they were eating when "it" happened.

>>33484262
Seems more likely that Germans pulled out of an area, knowing that Allied forces would be advancing into it, and prepared traps accordingly.

If it was resistance, it is more than likely they would have warned arriving friendly forces.

>>33473219
>More like a few more decades of purges
Depends on what you mean by purges.
People got fired and were banned from any government jobs and had a pretty hard time getting permits for anything.

Except for the high officials, that was mostly it though. Even those officials generally just had to go back to selling food on street corners or something, assuming they couldn't escape the country and start a new life as an ordinary pleb somewhere else.

I've been to Saigon several times, first time in '98. Back then, all the motobike taxis and cyclos and tourist bus drivers were old vets who spoke pidgin English with a Texan accent. They couldn't get good jobs but they had a little English so they all worked with tourists, in one way or another. It's a living.

>>33479830
>I'm confused, what kind of ordinance was this?
Shitloads of mining explosive I believe. Dynamite?

>Mines? As in land mines? What am I missing?
Technically both? But I think anon means mine as in coal mine. They used soldiers who were coal miners etc and they dug/mined tunnels under the positions and then packed them full of explosives.

>>33479853
>Latin American 'war is hell'
The CIA didn't take embedded journalists or photogs and you don't trust commie propaganda do you?

>>33480016
>how the fuck do you survive a beheading?
It takes skill to carve through the body and probably to avoid snagging on vertebrae too? Obviously I'm not very experienced with this.

>>33472828
>implying there's any difference between killing a soldier and killing a kid
Brainlets pls go. And stop calling things you don't like "edge"

>>33474807
See this is being edgy.

>>33473063
man, this hits right home... fuck that hurts

>>33475040
>do you really think those guys went home and talked about eating other people
YES
Japs have ALWAYS been fucking weird, dude.

>>33479915
>war is bullshit
Ftfy

>>33486786
>Not knowing what 'total war' means

>>33486909
No I know what it means. But if you think total war is worse than war, you're either naive or retarded.

>>33481051
An United States Soldier sounds a little awkward to the ear, but appears to follow the rules, no?

>>33479663
Staged propaganda picture

>>33479844
Fuck me. They recently changed the CPR recommended procedure to be exclusively chest compressions- mouth to mouth resuscitation being deemed useless.

CPR itself is nearly worthless. ~97% of people who receive it die, 2% survive but with brain damage, if you DO make it through, you'll have cracked ribs and massive internal bruising. The percentage of Doctors who have DNRs that include CPR is staggering compared to non-health professionals.

They must have been so desperate in that moment. I can't imagine the fear and panic. For some reason, this one hits me hard.

>>33479870
This is one of the best threads I've ever seen on 4chan (or the internet) ever. I really appreciate the captions you added and your attention to detail.

I hope you have a good Bday anon and that things work out for you. Keep posting if you've got it.

>>33479785
Probably ARVN, I think they were using surplus WWII weapons for a while early on.

FFS I can't read the file names on my phone

>>33487275
Appreciate it Anon, and glad you enjoyed the thread.

Might do a similar thread on /his/ this weekend.

>>33487814
Poor bastards who had to carry a Thompson. What was it, 10.5lb unloaded? 230gr Ball .45 ACP weighs about 21 rounds per pound, so a 20-rnd stick mag has 1lb of ammo plus the weight of the steel mag itself. Probably nearing 1.5lb, and a 30-rnd stick mag is likely around 2lb. So a loaded Thompson is likely going to be 12lb even with the smallest mag available. Fucking harsh, and each 20-rnd mag is about the same weight as an M14 mag even though it's pistol rounds instead of rifle rounds. Thompson with 6 30-rnd mags plus one in the firearm? Probably 24-25lb in firearm and ammo alone, which only gives you 210 pistol rounds. Big pistol rounds, granted, but still only pistol rounds.

>>33479830
Watch beneath hill 60

>>33484684

i would bet that they were looted. i see open ammo pouches. remember that was the war that the mosin fought itself, ammo was worth looting.

I have an old german anti-war book about WWI with some of the most disgusting disfigurments I have ever seen, but my scanner is making problems.
Maybe someone could find it online and post some of it´s content? It´s called "krieg dem Kriege"

>>33488514
>i would bet that they were looted
I was thinking that too. I can't imagine that Russian soldiers had high quality rations but they might have had some sort of candy worth stealing. If the US provided MREs then it might even have included chocolate.