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Post by Alan-P on Apr 19, 2017 14:37:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 19:08:24 GMT
Absolutely beautiful pictures.
Do want. Although it looks like they don't ship things to the United States.
Or am I wrong?
Edit: I found it, nevermind. Thanks for the link good sir!
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Post by forgotten in space on Apr 19, 2017 19:14:38 GMT
Excellent stuff and I understand the point completely of removing the remoteness by making it more palpable and something that could happen today.
The first sentence is clumsy and arguable though.
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 19, 2017 19:21:17 GMT
I'm so used to those faux colour prints, these look really good, really comes to life.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 19:23:58 GMT
Whenever I see color pictures of WW2 it makes me think about how terrible it must have been to be in wool uniforms for days/weeks/months at a time. A friend of mine participated in a Canadian reenactment group and told me the uniforms were annoying to wear because of how itchy and hot they were.
Imagine fighting in Northa Africa while wearing that. Christ.
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Post by Harvester on Apr 19, 2017 21:15:49 GMT
I love WWII stuff so this rocks!! GREAT post, amigo.
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Post by ford71V8 on Apr 20, 2017 0:44:22 GMT
Whats going on in the photo with the red partitions - makeshift recovery room or something?
Looks like a set for a play
Also that lady on the right with the bowsaw is not helping at all.
More effort or its back to black and white for you!
Pretty cool pics
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 0:51:07 GMT
Whats going on in the photo with the red partitions - makeshift recovery room or something? Looks like a set for a play Also that lady on the right with the bowsaw is not helping at all. More effort or its back to black and white for you! Pretty cool pics Maybe something propaganda photos? The whole thing looks thought out, especially that they are all matching. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 1:45:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 19:28:55 GMT
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Post by yepsure on Apr 22, 2017 5:00:46 GMT
I can't wait till my copy arrives. As a WW2 nerd, I live for this stuff.
BTW, the Imperial War Museums in London are incredible. The people that run them do great work.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 5:09:10 GMT
I can't wait till my copy arrives. As a WW2 nerd, I live for this stuff. BTW, the Imperial War Museums in London are incredible. The people that run them do great work. I've always wanted to visit there, as well as the Bovington tank museum. |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 22, 2017 7:32:28 GMT
I can't wait till my copy arrives. As a WW2 nerd, I live for this stuff. BTW, the Imperial War Museums in London are incredible. The people that run them do great work. There are lots of them around, You can take a flight in a Spitfire here www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford |
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Post by Engel on Apr 22, 2017 15:35:19 GMT
this is great. I teach WW2 every year. The photos really are excellent. Might have to arrange a trip to War museum as I suspect HoP will be out of the question now.
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 22, 2017 18:58:51 GMT
this is great. I teach WW2 every year. The photos really are excellent. Might have to arrange a trip to War museum as I suspect HoP will be out of the question now. There's a good one in Hendon too |
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Post by yepsure on Apr 22, 2017 21:59:27 GMT
Churchill's War Rooms are great to see too.
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 22, 2017 22:11:16 GMT
Where I live there are shit loads of pill boxes still in fields and along the coast  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 22:18:06 GMT
Where I live there are shit loads of pill boxes still in fields and along the coast Awesome! The only things like that around my area are in Delaware, they have a few lookout towers that were used to spot U-boats and a small fort.  The towers. |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 22, 2017 22:29:23 GMT
Awesome, if you walk east from here you can see the old Mauncell Towers, far in the distance  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 22:32:26 GMT
I would hate to be stationed there. Looks like something straight out of Waterworld.
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Post by Kimbo on Apr 22, 2017 23:06:01 GMT
Whenever I see color pictures of WW2 it makes me think about how terrible it must have been to be in wool uniforms for days/weeks/months at a time. A friend of mine participated in a Canadian reenactment group and told me the uniforms were annoying to wear because of how itchy and hot they were. Imagine fighting in Northa Africa while wearing that. Christ. Fucking hell it's itchy, had to wear a thick coat and stiff trousers like that for 35 hours straight each time I stood guard at the queens palaces. Try sleeping in that stuff or wearing it outside in 35 degrees Celsius |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 23:09:57 GMT
Whenever I see color pictures of WW2 it makes me think about how terrible it must have been to be in wool uniforms for days/weeks/months at a time. A friend of mine participated in a Canadian reenactment group and told me the uniforms were annoying to wear because of how itchy and hot they were. Imagine fighting in Northa Africa while wearing that. Christ. Fucking hell it's itchy, had to wear a thick coat and stiff trousers like that for 35 hours straight each time I stood guard at the queens palaces. Try sleeping in that stuff or wearing it outside in 35 degrees Celsius  No thanks.  Imagine being these poor Italian chaps sitting in Africa wearing that. No thank you. |
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Post by SicJes on Apr 22, 2017 23:48:34 GMT
Where I live there are shit loads of pill boxes still in fields and along the coast Can you just walk up to them and go inside? |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 23, 2017 7:36:43 GMT
Where I live there are shit loads of pill boxes still in fields and along the coast Can you just walk up to them and go inside? Yeah there's nothing stopping you going up to them. Doors might be caged up though. |
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Post by Kimbo on Apr 23, 2017 8:02:39 GMT
I have loads of stuff like that at the beach 30 min from where I live
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Post by General Smithers on Apr 23, 2017 8:17:16 GMT
I would hate to be stationed there. Looks like something straight out of Waterworld. SMOKERS!!! |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 23, 2017 12:23:31 GMT
Was watching WW2 Apocalypse on National Geo last night, I learnt a new thing called Holocaust by bullet... Made me sick to my stomach.
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Post by Kimbo on Apr 28, 2017 10:50:52 GMT
Was watching WW2 Apocalypse on National Geo last night, I learnt a new thing called Holocaust by bullet... Made me sick to my stomach. A German arrived alone on a motorcycle. He rode around the village. Everyone wondered why. It turned out, he was planning the site of what would become Rava Ruska's Jewish mass grave - Father Patrick Desbois, Catholic priest only 70 years ago |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 28, 2017 10:52:51 GMT
Was watching WW2 Apocalypse on National Geo last night, I learnt a new thing called Holocaust by bullet... Made me sick to my stomach. A German arrived alone on a motorcycle. He rode around the village. Everyone wondered why. It turned out, he was planning the site of what would become Rava Ruska's Jewish mass grave - Father Patrick Desbois, Catholic priest only 70 years ago Terrible state of affairs |
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Post by Alan-P on Apr 30, 2017 18:57:34 GMT
I went to the secret nuclear bunker today, where they would have taken the prime minister et al in the event of a nuclear war. An unassuming farm house near Brentwood in Essex.  What a depressing state of affairs that was. The installation goes 3 stories down into the hill side. When you go in you pick up a sort of phone that tells you about everything as you go through. As you enter you travel down a 100m tunnel that takes you 100 ft beneath the surface. When you get to the end the narrative on the "phone" tells you that the primary reason for the tunnel was to create a shooting gallery to easily make quick work of any survivors that may have forced entry into the farmhouse facade above.  The blast doors into the facility are just beyond the tunnel. Inside it was totally grim. Stale air and cramped conditions for all 600 personnel. They told you of how the people outside had zero chance of survival, and that anyone not dead the police were instructed to systematically execute them with hand guns. Even those inside, if they managed to survive the 3 months, minimum, before they ventured outdoors, they stockpiled cyanide in case the entrance had collapsed. Nothing about it seemed worth the effort, really quite an eye opening or rather horrifying day out... Some more here www.vice.com/en_uk/article/a-day-out-at-the-secret-nuclear-bunker-essex-591 |
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