Here’s an all-time U.S. WWII classic: “Into the Jaws of Death”
Frequently attributed (wrongly) to Capa.
I also thought that was a Capa pic. 🙄
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- George Orwell, Homage To Catalonia
President Harry S. Truman (1884/1972) receives a salute from officers and crew of USS Augusta as he steps ashore at the port of Antwerp. He was en route to Germany for the Potsdam Conference. July 15, 1945.
Sherman tanks advance along a dusty road toward Vire, Normandy, on 2 August 1944, as Allied forces pushed south following the breakout from the bocage. The drive on Vire was part of the wider effort to break into more open country and unhinge German defenses, turning a hard-fought attritional battle into a more mobile advance. 🪖
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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The Sherman Crab was a British mine-clearing tank developed under General Hobart as part of his “Funnies” for the Normandy landings. Built on the M4 Sherman chassis, it used a rotating drum with chains to beat and detonate mines ahead of the vehicle. Slow but highly effective, it played a key role in clearing paths through minefields for advancing troops in Northwest Europe. 🪖
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Actresses Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serve food to servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen in Los Angeles during WWII. The canteen, staffed largely by volunteers from the film industry, offered soldiers a place to relax, eat, and mingle with Hollywood stars while on leave. It became a symbol of the home front’s effort to support troop morale during the war. 🪖
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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This image captures a moment in time during World War II when actor and Private Mickey Rooney entertained American soldiers.
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Robert Capa (1913/1954)at an airfield at Arras, France just before taking part in a jump with paratroopers of the US 17th Airborne across the Rhine into Germany.
Lurching to the edge of the flight deck as a result of a near miss by a Japanese bomb, this U.S. plane finally halts just before plunging into a gun gallery of the Enterprise during the battle of Santa Cruz. Member of the crew has hit the deck in attempt to avoid the swerving wings of the plane.
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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The morning after the storm—Omaha Beach, 7 June 1944. With the sand still churned by battle and the cost of the previous day hanging in the air, American troops gather for Communion.
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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Wow, see this tank!!!. Preparations for the Iwo Jima operation began around the middle of November. Certain modifications to the tanks were started at this time. Among other things the driver’s hatches had a frame welded to them which was covered with chicken wire. The hatches on the turret and the area around them had ten-penny nails welded to them so they resembled a “bed of nails.”
The first "cope cages".
A nasty bit of field improvisation—crews turned the turret into a hedgehog to stop infantry climbing on, keep charges off the hatches, and protect the weak points; crude but effective, very much learned the hard way in the Pacific. 🪖
"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
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
USS Indiana returning to USA after the war. Image taken on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay on Sept 29, 1945.
On April 18, 1942, the USS Hornet launched the famous Doolittle Raid on the Japanese city of Tokyo.
A bit of history... Here you see an M7 "Priest," nicknamed "Super Rabbit," of the 40th Infantry Div, crossing the Batiano Bridge in Oton, Philippines, on March 18, 1945. It was taken by Lt. Robert Edwin Field, a photographer with the Signal Corps, who was killed by Japanese fire shortly afterward.
Yes, Lt. Field died on March 19, 1945, at the age of 27, from wounds sustained in the line of duty near Molo, on the island of Panay, Philippines. At the time of his death, Lieutenant Field commanded a photographic unit in the Army Signal Corps.
He had repeatedly risked his life to obtain a photographic record of the fighting on Guadalcanal, Rendova, Munda, and other battlefronts in the Pacific.
Below, Lieutenant Field.
Man, those binoc's might weigh more than a 60 mm mortar tube...just saying...
Colorized pic of the salvage of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), preparing the ship for refloating after it had been righted in 1943.
Photo was taken on May 1942 in Florida shows eleven WACs in a Jeep. This photo was later used in a well-known ad campaign and may have influenced the creation of the Twentieth Century Fox film "Four Jills in a Jeep".
