Random Cool Photo Thread

[JonnyCrow]

Collie Cross Peter's proudest moment was saving a small boy after one of the last flying bomb attacks on London. Peter even got to meet the king at the time, King George VI!

 

[Micawber]

I'll post a couple of wartime RSPCS, PDSA, NARPAC photos as planned then I'll let you take over Jonny, we don't want to go doubling up on stuff now do we.

 

[Micawber]

 

[JonnyCrow]

I'll post a couple of wartime RSPCS, PDSA, NARPAC photos as planned then I'll let you take over Jonny, we don't want to go doubling up on stuff now do we.

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You go ahead Steve, I just thought I'd add a couple, nice pics your posting

 

[Micawber]

I'm out.

 

[JonnyCrow]

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Great work the PDSA did Steve,

 

[ausreenactor]

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I'm out.

The Terrier looks as staunch as the elderly gentleman...

 

[ES335]

Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old militiaView attachment 87407, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Perfect spot to soak up some Barcelona sun while waxing fascists...

 

[Smithy]

NZers going "over the top" under machinegun fire from German Fallschirmjäger at Monte Cassino...

 

[Smithy]

James Blake Miller, US Marine, during a brief break after several days of intense fighting during the 2nd Battle of Fallujah, November 2004 which was the worst urban combat the US military had experienced since Hue in Vietnam. Miller struggled hugely with PTSD after what he experienced in Fallujah. His eyes say it all.

 

[herk115]

This is a low res version of a scan of an original proof print that was affixed to the original negative envelope [note sticky tape marks in the corners] showing somewhere where I used to spend countless hours - the control tower at Bassingbourn - shown here in silhouette with Fortresses off in the distance.


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Same place. A proper buzz job! Photo taken from the roof of the photo lab.

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"Have Captain Rickson report to my office right away!!!"

 

[Smithy]

Sorry about the size of the pic but an incredible one nonetheless...

Napalm strike in 1966 after being called in by the patrol in the photo.

 

[FlakMagnet]

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[Micawber]

The Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), sometimes erroneously called the Motor Transport Corps, was a British women's organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War. It was a civilian uniformed organisation that provided drivers for government departments and other agencies. Among other roles, members drove staff cars, including for foreign dignitaries whose drivers were not accustomed to driving on British roads, and ambulances in the Blitz.

 

[Micawber]

Original wartime caption: Working in leather jackets and woollen caps as protection against the stinging winds of North-East Yorkshire, men of an R.A.F. Works Squadron transformed muddy grassland into part of an airfield in a few weeks. They tackle any airfield construction job in the shortest time, working long hours to break records and increase the Allied air striking power. Here they extended a runway by 300 yards so that it could be used by four-engine as well as two-engine bombers, and to make a new perimeter track around it. The land was first levelled and drained. Then the huge concrete mixer got busy dealing with more than three thousand tons of material each day. In twelve hours fifty men had laid two thousand square yards of concrete six inches thick. The Works Flight with its bulldozer, concrete mixer, tractors and giant trenching machine is part of an Airfield Construction Wing. There are many such Wings working all over Britain speeding up the building and improvement of airfields. Picture (issued 1943) shows - Planning the job, the officer in charge of the project, Warrant Officer A.E. Fisk, of Swansea [second from left] talking with Sergeant E.P. Howell, of Leeds, and Corporal G.L. Dundas of Sheffield, who are on his left.

 

[Micawber]

Hawker employees Winnie Bennett, Dolly Bennett, Florence Simpson and a colleague at work on the production of Hurricane fighter aircraft at a factory in Britain, in 1942.

 

[ZuZu]

Sorry about the size of the pic but an incredible one nonetheless...

Napalm strike in 1966 after being called in by the patrol in the photo.

This is an example of the awesome in war. Horrifying, mesmerizing, beautiful in its terrifying way. Great photo.

 

[Micawber]

Continuing to back the trend....

Civil Defence on the home front in the UK during the Second World War is another interest of mine....

 

[JonnyCrow]

Original wartime caption: Working in leather jackets and woollen caps as protection against the stinging winds of North-East Yorkshire, men of an R.A.F. Works Squadron transformed muddy grassland into part of an airfield in a few weeks. They tackle any airfield construction job in the shortest time, working long hours to break records and increase the Allied air striking power. Here they extended a runway by 300 yards so that it could be used by four-engine as well as two-engine bombers, and to make a new perimeter track around it. The land was first levelled and drained. Then the huge concrete mixer got busy dealing with more than three thousand tons of material each day. In twelve hours fifty men had laid two thousand square yards of concrete six inches thick. The Works Flight with its bulldozer, concrete mixer, tractors and giant trenching machine is part of an Airfield Construction Wing. There are many such Wings working all over Britain speeding up the building and improvement of airfields. Picture (issued 1943) shows - Planning the job, the officer in charge of the project, Warrant Officer A.E. Fisk, of Swansea [second from left] talking with Sergeant E.P. Howell, of Leeds, and Corporal G.L. Dundas of Sheffield, who are on his left.

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I can vouch for that Steve, raised on the coast of North East Yorkshire, Hull, your bloody nithered in the winter, temperature can go to minus 14 I remember this one winter 2010

 

[JonnyCrow]