Picture of the day. (3 Viewers)

[Capt. Vick]

And the first thought when you run over there is take a picture?

 

[Njaco]

Magazines scattered among the rubble of the heavily bombed town of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France, summer 1944

 

[N4521U]

Hard to imagine coming home to that.
Wonder what it looks like now?

 

[GrauGeist]

I've always wondered what may have been lost in WWI and WWII. I know that my family has always passed down heirlooms from generation to generation, some items being from way back in old Europe.

So what precious books, artifacts and other things may have been lost forever, that may have had historical significance, in those wars...

 

[nuuumannn]

Have you seen the film The Monuments Men, a bit of an overdramatisation, but interesting nonetheless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments,_Fine_Arts,_and_Archives_program

 

[GrauGeist]

I haven't had a chance, though I have read the stories about the real guys.

But those were known artifacts they were after. I am talking about a family perhaps, that has lived in a little house in a little French town since medieval times, that has family heirlooms passed down for countless generations. Or a house in a town in Germany that had a Roman sword that's been passed down for centuries. Things that would be known to the people who lived there, but not to the outside world...so when the bombs fell and the tanks battled, those unknown, but priceless objects were lost to history forever without ever being known.

 

[GrauGeist]

This is the "Picture of the Day" thread, not "Picture of the Week" or "Picture of the Month"...c'mon ya' slackers!!

Here's a little "gun porn":

 

[nuuumannn]

That is very cool! The noise must have been tremendous!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Ear protection? What ear protection? You have two hands don't ya? Here, hold my cigarette while I apply this asbestos...

Welcome to the 1940's son!

 

[Capt. Vick]

Speaking of ear protection...

...the guy in the bottom left is giving you the finger! Seriously, I love this picture. So much atmosphere, detail and hope(?) as this was the last chance for Jack's dream. Plus I always wondered what happened to the guy on the right.

 

[Njaco]

Messerschmitt Bf-109 production line.

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[Glider]

The one thing that jumps out for me is the total lack of any women on the production line. It wouldn't happen anywhere else

 

[Shinpachi]

Disarmament. Cutting a 40cm (15.7inch) barrel from Mutsu or Nagato class battleship at Kannonzaki, Kanagawa Prefecture in November 1948. Photo by Robert L. Steele

 

[fastmongrel]

Brilliant picture it shows very well the wire winding of the barrel. The miles upon miles of flat ribbon wires that stopped the barrel bursting when it was fired.

 

[Njaco]

Winston Churchill inspects RAF personnel following a tour of a cave complex in North Africa in August 1942.

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[Bernhart]

Is that Gibraltar?

 

[vikingBerserker]

Based on the natives, I would guess not.

 

[fubar57]

Looks like the officer in the background may have stepped in something that once belonged to Churchill.

Geo

 

[fastmongrel]

Wimpy fuselages ready for skinning.

 

[fastmongrel]