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Admiral William Halsey (1882/1959) shared Thanksgiving dinner with sailors aboard his flagship, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB 62) in the Pacific Ocean. Nov 30, 1944.
"If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough brute force." - mTk
War does not determine who is right, but it does determine who is left. - B.Russell
"Turn based games don't need a pause key". - mTk
"Overkill is underrated." - Col John "Hannibal" Smith
Senatus Populusque Romanus- SPQR - The Senate and People of Rome (circa 60 BC)
Dec 7, 1942, exactly one year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a Memorial Service was held aboard the sunken USS Arizona
These are the twins Leo and Rudolph Blitz, both born on April 9, 1921, in Nebraska.
Both were crew members of the USS Oklahoma when it was sunk on Dec 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including the Blitz twins, at age 20.
Detail at the bottom of the photo.
A shipyard worker inside a torpedo tube before it is installed in a Balao-class submarine at the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, 1943.
Sherman turret after testing in 1944.
When war seemed far away, yet...
Navy recruits at Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois pose for a picture in 1940.
A massive hole torn in the side of a B-17 by a German flak round in 1944.
Amazing that it made it back. I would not have wanted to be a waist gunner on that ship.
The Niland family from Tonawanda, New York, had four sons serving in WW2: Edward (Army Air Forces), Preston (101st Airborne), Robert (82nd Airborne), and Fritz (501st Parachute Infantry). In June 1944, during the D-Day invasion and aftermath, Preston was killed on Omaha Beach, Robert was reported missing and presumed dead near Sainte-Mère-Église, and Edward’s plane was shot down over Burma. Fritz, fighting nearby in Normandy, learned of his brothers’ fates and was pulled from the front lines under the new Sole Survivor Policy (inspired partly by stories like the Sullivan brothers). He survived the war, but the loss shattered the family. Their mother Agnes kept their photos on the mantle, saying, “They gave everything so others could come home.” Fritz later visited Normandy cemeteries, placing flowers at his brothers’ graves (Robert’s body was later found and buried beside Preston).
Salute.
1945, one year after D-Day, French children clamber over a disabled Sherman tank.
In Operation Cowboy, Task Force Andrew evacuated some of Europe's last remaining Lippanzaner horses away from the Hostau Military Stud farm in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) ahead of the advancing Red Army in April, 1945. German Heer pows, deserters from the 1st SS Cossack Calvary Division, and US soldiers combined forces to fight off 2 attacks by the Waffen-SS. This is one of two known times that Wehrmacht troops and US troops fought side by side against Waffen-SS in WW2.
At the end of war, an Avenger torpedo bomber sits in the hangar of USS Enterprise alongside soldiers returning home. 1945.
Here’s an all-time U.S. WWII classic: “Into the Jaws of Death” — U.S. troops pouring off a Coast Guard landing craft onto Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with men already hugging the surf under machine-gun fire. It was shot from the ramp at about 7:40 a.m. in the “Easy Red” sector by Coast Guard Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert F. Sargent, and it captures that brutal first minute when the invasion was still very much in doubt.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
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Here’s an all-time U.S. WWII classic: “Into the Jaws of Death”
Frequently attributed (wrongly) to Capa.