Random Cool Photo Thread

[FlakMagnet]

Came across this on my Facebook feed this morning.

Caption: "Two former Royal Navy ships-of-the-line converted into training barracks, HMS Duke of Wellington and HMS Marlborough,circa 1895"

 

[Micawber]

Post WW2 British military surplus sale.

 

[JonnyCrow]

Post WW2 British military surplus sale.

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Future movie stock along with uniforms and helmets

 

[Cyril]

for the non-german speakers...the writing says "big ass bird"

 

[Kermit3D]

Fujiyama, American heavy bomber B-29 “Superfortress” from the 499th Bomber Group of the US Air Force in flight over Japanese territory. World War II in the Pacific.

 

[ZuZu]

Fujiyama, American heavy bomber B-29 “Superfortress” from the 499th Bomber Group of the US Air Force in flight over Japanese territory. World War II in the Pacific.

The problem with war and fascination with war is that the bad shit is superceded in our minds with images like this! Look at it! The beauty- the adventure! Amazing!

One of my favorite war books is The World Within War by Gerald Linderman. He talks about this weird juxtaposition of the awesome and beautiful with the horrible- sometimes occuring at the same time.

 

[Pa12]

The problem with war and fascination with war is that the bad shit is superceded in our minds with images like this! Look at it! The beauty- the adventure! Amazing!

One of my favorite war books is The World Within War by Gerald Linderman. He talks about this weird juxtaposition of the awesome and beautiful with the horrible- sometimes occuring at the same time.

For sure. Hence the jackets

 

[Cyril]

 

[Cyril]

this obviously is out of Catch 22, still a wonderful (studio) shot of a planes' crew in flight. ...and a great movie

 

[flyincowboy]

SS General Karl Albrecht Oberg ( the Butcher of Paris with U.S. Major Cecil Simmons, who captured him May 26, 1945,

 

[flyincowboy]

Back from mission Ridgewell

 

[flyincowboy]

RIDGEWELL crew back from mission

 

[B-Man2]

SS General Karl Albrecht Oberg ( the Butcher of Paris with U.S. Major Cecil Simmons, who captured him May 26, 1945,


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Check out the Airborne A2 jacket on the major

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Otto Skorzeny Madrid, 1949View attachment 100113

I am not sure I see the point of posting pictures of a Waffen SS officer, a war criminal, enjoying a peaceful retirement. But then again, that's me.

 

[ZuZu]

I am not sure I see the point of posting pictures of a Waffen SS officer, a war criminal, enjoying a peaceful retirement. But then again, that's me.

Hardly a war criminal- he was tried as one for using men out of uniform behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. He had an amazing life.

 

[Pilot]

Hardly a war criminal- he was tried as one for using men out of uniform behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. He had an amazing life.

He ..and several others alike were cleanwashed reused by MOSSAD and CIA and all others in the new „chessboard“ after1949.

Otto Skorzeny - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Pilot]

The Laconia Incident - Deutsches U-Boot-Museum

The following is an extract from a letter by Horst Bredow of September 2011 directed to all members of the FTU. The film producers from “TEAMWORX” visited us in October 2010 asking for support of a project, they were engaged in cooperation with a British production team: A presentation of the...

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Amazing…must read all… see all, especially the photos…

 

[FlakMagnet]

Came across this on Facebook today. A Bf-109 wreck was recently dug up at a construction site in Malta. The plane was shot down 1 April 1942

Original post https://www.facebook.com/groups/2051970728290979/permalink/2627876407367072/?mibextid=S66gvF

 

[FlakMagnet]

Full story from the Malta Aviation Museum’s fb page

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0GawKPMD6ikJXv7x1TG5pEcw7Grm7MSoSKoRxejSEHdk46sj19n6KgEhC2eqPXafal&id=100063476952130&mibextid=qC1gEa

 

[flyincowboy]

Cattle and b17 England