[ARCHIVED THREAD] - We need a WWII Picture Thread! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/31/2012 11:48:57 AM EDT
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That smoke break thread got me thinkin', pics are always good! I'll steal some from my Eastern Front thread I did to start.                               |
    COAST GUARD BARGES HIT FRENCH COAST - From Coast Guard landing barges hitting the French Coast with the first waves of invaders, American fighting men wade ashore under heavy machine gun fire form Nazi beach nests. This dramatic D-Day picture, taken from a landing barge by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer, shows the soldiers waist deep as they spring forward to the attack. The landing barges will disgorge their loads and dash back to thier Coast Guard assault transport for more fighters. This shuttle, under the hail of enemy fire, continued through D-Day.  "INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH" - Down the ramp of the Coast Guard landing barge, Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft. |
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Para-frag bombs fall toward a camouflaged Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21, "Sally", during an attack by the US Army Fifth Air Force against Old Namlea airport on Buru Island, Dutch East Indies, on October 15, 1944. A few seconds after this picture was taken the aircraft was engulfed in flames. The design of the para-frag bomb enabled low flying bombing attacks to be carried out with higher accuracy. (AP Photo)
ETA: Bunch of pictures here: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/pages/ww2/ |
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http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img007-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img008-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img009-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img012.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img010-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img011-1.jpg Are those Navy B-25's? (PBJ-1's)..... markings are not what I'm used to seeing, and, although they are B&W pics, it looks like three tone cammo on them. Wow. |
My Uncle as part of the crew of "Ole Blood - N - Guts", B-17G, 603rd Squadron, 398th BG (Heavy), Nuthampstead, Engalnd. Picture was taken Nov. 1944. The crew completed 31 missions.
My avatar is the squadron insignia for the 603rd. Another Disney creation for the war effort. |
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I stumbled on this last night looking for pictures, it's a great read if you have the time:
Vere "Tarzan" Williams |
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http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img007-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img008-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img009-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img012.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img010-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img011-1.jpg Are those Navy B-25's? (PBJ-1's)..... markings are not what I'm used to seeing, and, although they are B&W pics, it looks like three tone cammo on them. Wow. Wife's Grandfather, first on left in first photo, was a Marine side gunner in the pacific. The flying pics are I believe pics he took while training stateside. We have his flight journal also but I need to scan it and we have his gun from that pic. We lost him 3 years ago, he was a great man. |
| Awesome thread. I have my Granfather's pictures from the Phillippines. I don't have the stories to go with them though. He didn't talk about it much. He told some things right before he died. From what he did talk about, he saw some serious death and destruction. |
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My grandfather on Enewetak Atoll, as part of Navy CASU35, servicing PB4Ys. http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss222/rcsg_2009/war%20souvenirs/grouppicture.jpg He is front left. AWESOME! My Dad JUST gave me all his WWII pics last weekend: he was a waist gunner on a PB4Y-2, VPB-117. I need to scan them ASAP, but will need to get many retouched/restored. Even cooler, I found and contacted his now 94 YO pilot a few months ago, and they talked for the first time since 1945! GREAT THREAD! |
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http://i41.tinypic.com/2livmg6.jpg (Right Click) http://i43.tinypic.com/25t7ocp.jpg http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8537/789xv2.jpg Note the pilot or crewman by the cockpit. 
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Here's some stuff of my dad's that I just scanned in. My dad was in the Navy and arrived in the Solomons in mid 1942, while the campaign was still going on. He was a radar and radio tech and was on Guadalcanal and Mono Island at various times. He got wounded by shrapnel during a banzai charge through their camp one time, and eased the hurt by rummaging through the dead and collecting some nice souvenirs, some with blood on them. He didn't like to talk about that part of the war. My sister has the only photo of him taken during that time, him and some guys horsing around on Guadalcanal. They were all wearing nothing but boondockers and cutoff dungaree shorts - too hot for anything else. They all looked like Bataan death march survivors. Later in 1945 he was attached to a utility squadron based at Henderson Field. These are some representative shots out of the little "cruise book" they made for the squadron. Getting ready to fly out to Guadalcanal  A visit by Bob Hope and Jerry Collona, with other USO types  Some of America's hired killer airmen walking around strapped  The mess kitchen, stirring up some Mystery Meat or something  Boy, I'm getting hungry now!  I think the guy on the right was the saucier, who got off the boat  Danged kids and their loud pipes!  This Old Quonset crew posing after rehabbing a squalid hut. Damned renters!  We can fix anything  Good ol' boys hangin' at the general store  "Yeah, we lost your paperwork. So what?"  Some sweaty dit dit dah dit in the radio shack  Probably sorting out the porn  We can fix it better than new, for free, while you wait  The pharmacy. Look at all those unsecured drugs!  "Hold still, this won't hurt. Fooled you!"  Rebuilding aircraft carburetors to get maximum fuel mileage  A Seabee's work is never done  This is where you shave and wash up at the communal troughs  Not for the shy, and someone always takes the last TP, bastards!  Urban squalor   Building more damn Quonset huts. A Seabee's work is never done.  Looks like some high muckety-muck lives here. Snooty bastids!  Working on some Grumman TBMs. We can fix anything.  Enlisted mess hall - "You want flies with that?"  Officers' mess hall - "Oh, boy ........ hey you, boy ............ there's a flyspeck on this spoon!"  My dad's stained, dirty pith helmet and old scraggly boondockers were a natural part of my childhood  This looks hot and sweaty to me  Utility Squadron Ten  My dad, showing some attitude with that cover   |
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Here is my meager contribution. I might post more. I spend pretty much all of my reading time studying the air war in WWII. Focus on Europe and the Eastern Front. USAAF and Luftwaffe.
Pic of some 4th fighter group pilots during a briefing in 1943. Love this pic. A copy will one day grace the wall of my home office. Steve Pisanos (the Flying Greek) is seated on the right. AMAZING story. 
Four of the top aces of the 357th. From left to right, Peterson, Carson, England, and Anderson. I swear, Carson looks like David Schwimmer. All of them, larger than life. 
My favorite pilot, Gunther Rall (center). His story is as amazing as Pisanos'. Was supposed to meet him as a kid but his flight was delayed and he couldn't make it. Always smiling, excellent leader, said to be the best shot in the Luftwaffe he is number 3 on the list with 275 victories. Never received the diamonds to his Ritterkreuz though. Hitler found out his wife helped some Jewish friends escape Germany. 
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My grandfather on Enewetak Atoll, as part of Navy CASU35, servicing PB4Ys. http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss222/rcsg_2009/war%20souvenirs/grouppicture.jpg He is front left. AWESOME! My Dad JUST gave me all his WWII pics last weekend: he was a waist gunner on a PB4Y-2, VPB-117. I need to scan them ASAP, but will need to get many retouched/restored. Even cooler, I found and contacted his now 94 YO pilot a few months ago, and they talked for the first time since 1945! GREAT THREAD! Turns out my grandfather's brother was a turret gunner Tech Sgt on USAAF B-24s in the SWP (XIIIth AF/5thBG/394th Bombardment Sqdrn(H)), so they both ended up working with the B-24 airframe in the same theatre. I never met my greatuncle, but I've been told he was deeply affected by his experiences overseas. |
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My dad was part of the 77 TH infantry division of WWII.
They went to the Pacific theater and fought on several islands then finalized the war in Japan as the occupation forces were set up. Here is a liberty ship troop carrier carrying him away and another happier photo with Japanese children bouncing on him. He says to have seen in person were one of the bombs were dropped. He taught me every thing about the M1. He loved that rifle, but hated the 1911 as he couldn't hit shit with it. He died 16 years ago of cancer. 
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Uncle before he went over to Europe.
He was an MP and would stop traffic at intersections, escorting convoys across the country. Then landed D-Day +4, went into Austria in a mortar unit. Got shelled in Austria, got every truck but his. After the war ended, he guarded "Nazi Scientists" on the top of a mountain that designed high altitude cameras for recon planes. 
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