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Images of the Second World War - Possibly NSFW

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#252 13-07-2011 10:16pm

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Maybe not the right place... but just saw this sad video of the loss of a P51D “Big Beautiful Doll” at the Flying Legends airshow at IWM Duxford on the 10th july, 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctYWSuwoYA&feature=player_embedded#at=1

Duxford Press release
"Imperial War Museum Duxford can confirm that the flying incident at yesterday’s air show was a mid-air collision between North American P-51D Mustang (D-FBBD) and Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider (F-AZDP).

The incident took place over agricultural land to the south west of the airfield just after 5.00pm, at the end of the flying display.

The Skyraider suffered damage to its starboard wing, though was able to land safely. The pilot was unharmed.

The pilot of the Mustang baled out of the damaged aircraft and parachuted to safety, suffering minor injuries. The aircraft came down in a field away from buildings or property.

There was an immediate response by the onsite emergency services in accordance with Imperial War Museum Duxford’s event safety plan, co-ordinated by Cambridgeshire Constabulary, who were already present at the air show as is normal practice.

Members of the public were not involved in the incident.

The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has today begun its formal enquiry into the incident and the Imperial War Museum is complying fully with the requirements of the AAIB’s investigation team.

Imperial War Museum Duxford is aware that the AAIB’s investigation can take some time and there will therefore be an immediate internal review to determine if any changes to flying procedures are required."

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#253 29-07-2011 11:19pm

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Belfast wrote: »

Captured American B-17 used by the Luftwaffe

During World War II, after crash-landing or being forced down, approximately 40 B-17s were repaired and put back into the air by the Luftwaffe. These captured aircraft were codenamed "Dornier Do 200", given German markings and used for clandestine spy and reconnaissance missions by the Luftwaffe - most often used by the Luftwaffe unit known as KG 200, hence a likely possibility as a source for the "Do 200" codename.
more info here

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#254 01-08-2011 2:01pm

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Wellington

Typhoon

Hurricane

P-38

Spitfire

B17

B24

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#255 06-08-2011 7:26pm

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A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika mourns over her sister's body. She was killed by German machine-gun fire while picking potatoes in a field outside Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1939.

You know, I've seen so many different captions for this photo over the years, it's almost a joke at this stage.

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#256 07-08-2011 5:49pm

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The latest photo selection from The Atlantic magazine is up, Part 8, The American Home Front in Color, as shot by OWI (Office of War Information) photographers, in glorious Kodachrome:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/world-war-ii-the-american-home-front-in-color/100122/

Sample:

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#257 14-10-2011 10:43am

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The Blitz in Colour Photographs

Link to the photographs: http://ww2incolour.blogspot.com/2011...in-colour.html

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#258 16-11-2011 5:33pm

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A nice selection of Irish military (WW2 and WW1) and military related in Ireland here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/sets/72157615191499665/with/3369826702/

(would post images but flickr doesn't like this)

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#259 16-11-2011 6:07pm

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Tabnabs wrote: »

A nice selection of Irish military (WW2 and WW1) and military related in Ireland here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/sets/72157615191499665/with/3369826702/

(would post images but flickr doesn't like this)

Those are fantastic, Cheers.

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#260 16-11-2011 8:42pm

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This one is my favourite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/3642370609/sizes/l/in/set-72157615191499665/

Fascinating to see the position of the ship and the heading. She was on passage probably from Spain to Cork and heading home again, about 180NM to go. The lads on the bridge wing and another looking out the wheelhouse door, I'd say their nerves were on tenterhooks. RAF aircraft were no respecter of neutral Irish ships.

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#261 17-11-2011 12:13pm

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Don't think this has been posted before here -

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/1547/?source=ARK_plog

a sizeable archive of American WW2 photos.

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#262 17-11-2011 12:31pm

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Tabnabs wrote: »

This one is my favourite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33577523@N08/3642370609/sizes/l/in/set-72157615191499665/

Fascinating to see the position of the ship and the heading. She was on passage probably from Spain to Cork and heading home again, about 180NM to go. The lads on the bridge wing and another looking out the wheelhouse door, I'd say their nerves were on tenterhooks. RAF aircraft were no respecter of neutral Irish ships.

Great pic Tabnabs !

Don't know why the name 'Monaleen' is ringing bells with me ?? I must dig out the Grandfathers discharge books and see if he ever served on her.

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#263 30-12-2011 11:43am

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These pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the gruelling battle.

An American Sherman M4 tank moves past another gun carriage that slid off icy road in the Ardennes Forest during push to halt advancing German troops.

German Fuhrer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler and members of his General Staff review plans for 'Operation Bodenplatte,' an airstrike in support of the Ardennes offensive.

American troops man the trenches along a snowy hedgerow in the northern Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge

Soldiers with the Seventh Armored Division trudge through snow in a bombed-out Belgian village in 1945

A fifteen year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945.

German prisoners of war hold up their arms as Allied soldiers round up captives January 20, 1945 near the French-German border

American GI's helped local residents to load themselves and their belongings onto US trucks so they could escape the fight

This German plane was shot down by Allied guns and was found lying in snowy field in the Ardennes Forest

American soldiers of the 1st Army huddle around campfire in the snowy countryside of northern Ardennes Forest during lull in the Battle of the Bulge

German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy Ardennes field

View of German soldiers aboard a Jagdpanzer IV/70 tank destroyer from the 12th SS Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge

More pictures in this article (sorry about the source )

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#264 30-12-2011 11:45am

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#265 08-01-2012 12:03am

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Amazing photo's people

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#266 05-06-2012 11:05pm

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Excellent posts - very interesting

Especially the doctored photographs - good to see some people on here with real knowledge

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#267 16-10-2012 6:39pm

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A man I drink with "Charlie Flattery" gave me permission to publish these. They are a selection of photos of his Mother who was in the ATS and another relative of his who was a Pilot with Bomber Command.

Sean Austin 1943 1944

Seans crew 1945

Seans crew 1945

Castle Donnington 1946

Card home July 1943

Location and Year Unknown

Bedford 1944

Bedford 1944

Camberly 1945

Aug 1943

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#268 19-10-2012 6:42pm

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A little WW2 gem underneath Heuston Station Dublin.

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#269 04-11-2012 6:17pm

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The S.S. Franconia took Churchill and Anthony Eden to the Yalta conference. Below are the speeches given by both men to the Crew. I was recently given these documents by an uncle. My Grandfather was Bosun on the Franconia at the time, and these documents have been in my family since 1945.

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#270 04-11-2012 7:35pm

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Tabnabs wrote: »

These pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the gruelling battle.

German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy Ardennes field

This photograph show German POWs carrying an American soldier shot down by Jochen Peiper and his SS troops at Malmédy to the Red Cross identification unit set up nearby after the atrocity was discovered.

tac

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#271 01-02-2013 11:02pm

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I've always loved the "then and now" type of shots used in After the Battle magazine. Here's a further step in the process that I stumbled upon today:

Ghosts of War

Apologies if it's been posted before.

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#272 15-03-2013 3:05pm

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Max Wunsche/One brave son of a gun...and handsome

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#273 15-03-2013 11:00pm

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Polish September '39

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#274 17-03-2013 12:30am

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Tabnabs wrote: »

RAF aircraft were no respecter of neutral Irish ships.

Thats an interesting observation. Have you read "guarding neutral ireland"? There are alot of references and anecdotes about brushes between RAF and Irish shipping. Each time something happened, the Irish complained to Downing Street, with empty promises and excuses returned. It is an interesting side story to the relationship between us during the war.

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#275 12-05-2013 10:41pm

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This is a picture of A. Hitler announcing Poland's surrender in 1939. In the shot are two individuals who would go on to command tanks at Kharkov, Kursk, Normandy and the 'battle of the bulge'. One was indited on war crimes charges, the other was captured and kept in captivity until 1948.;)

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#276 30-05-2013 5:59pm

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this link was posted by losthorizon in the Cool Vids & Pics section -
there's no captions, but an interesting mix of photos from a (largely) forgotten conflict, Finland

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2013/05/finland-in-world-war-ii-49-pics.html

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#277 30-05-2013 9:41pm

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tc20 wrote: »

this link was posted by losthorizon in the Cool Vids & Pics section -
there's no captions, but an interesting mix of photos from a (largely) forgotten conflict, Finland

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2013/05/finland-in-world-war-ii-49-pics.html

Brilliant pictures, I have drifted from my amazement at WW@ as I have been in the middle of a life changing move for the last year but those pictures have reawakened my passion. I often wonder about pictures like the one with all the dead German soldiers in the woods, did they all die there together in some massive suprise attack or were their bodies collected and dumped there after a battle.

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#278 30-05-2013 9:46pm

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BlackEdelweiss wrote: »

Brilliant pictures, I have drifted from my amazement at WW@ as I have been in the middle of a life changing move for the last year but those pictures have reawakened my passion. I often wonder about pictures like the one with all the dead German soldiers in the woods, did they all die there together in some massive suprise attack or were their bodies collected and dumped there after a battle.

I think they may be Russian dead , Russo-Finn war.
Though in hindsight I didn't read the opening part of the article properly..
Apologies.

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#279 30-05-2013 10:32pm

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I wasent sure where they were from, I was going to put (I think) after the word German. I just saw a mess tin and it looked German so I went with that.

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#280 25-06-2013 2:57am

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Have been getting into doing these lately.

My uncle Joe Tallon (1923 -1986). Served as an Aeronautical Engineer in the RAF during WW2.
This is a pic of him in a Lancaster Sky Trainer in Skyways, Surrey, England in 1948.

My Grandfather (Merchant Navy WW1 & WW2) on board the SS Severn Leigh in the Far East in 1937 - LHS

A Luftwaffe Ground Crew Load up a Heinkel He 177 Bomber.

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#281 27-06-2013 3:02pm

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nice work there

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#282 28-06-2013 2:17pm

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Thanks Jamesdriver . Here's a few more.

Not a great one this, was one of my first attempts, but think the photo itself is great.

An American Soldier in the turret of a knocked out Tiger Tank

Pre WW2 Photo of Irish Free State soldiers wearing German style helmets.
I think these Helmets were actually made by the 'Vickers' Company in England ?? which is kind of ironic in it's own way ...

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#283 03-07-2013 2:27pm

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Ghost Panzers in the Halbe Forest 1945 - 2013

A German Mortar Crew in action, in the future mass grave of their reburied comrades in Belarus 1943 - 2013.

Somewhere in France 1944

Somewhere in France 1944

German Ghost Infantrymen from 1944, witness their own exhumation in Belarus 2013

A German Ghost Platoon at their own reburial.

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#284 12-10-2013 4:48pm

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Fascinating to see the pics in colour, thanks for posting.

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#285 19-01-2014 10:55am

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Tabnabs wrote: »

Don't think this has been posted before here -

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/1547/?source=ARK_plog

a sizeable archive of American WW2 photos.

they are fantastic shots

thanks for posting

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#286 22-05-2014 9:16pm

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Flak battery on the lagoon of Venice about to have a bad day........

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#287 23-05-2014 10:05am

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How could anybody find that upsetting or offensive? Good to see a FLAK battery getting some good news back.

tac

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#288 06-05-2015 5:43pm

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Not an image and not during the Second World War but still a fascinating look of Berlin in colour during the first months of peace.

Great quality.

Notable landmarks include the Berlin Cathedral, Brandenburg Gate, Hotel Adlon, Sportspalast, Hotel Kaiserhof, Unter den Linden and the Reich Chancellery including the garden entrance to the Fuhrerbunker and petrol cans used to burn Hitler's body.

I'm not sure what the large statue at 2:03 is. Anyone know?

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