[QUOTE=OwnedByTheDog;36206586]*Last known photos of people*[/QUOTE]
Fitting in with this theme, here's the last photo of Tchaikovsky before he died of what was possibly a suicide:
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_62U6SRw_72o/TSzDDok60zI/AAAAAAAACGQ/aiRnYFLmcnk/s1600/LastPhoto_Tchaik.jpg[/img]
[B](It seems odd but it's the actual time of the invasion as of an hour ago in France)[/B]
68 Years ago Today, June 6th, 1944, on Omaha beach, Operation Overlord has begun, spelling the end for the Nazi Occupation of France
[img]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/f000001/f052406.jpg[/img]
[B]Aircraft photo of the invasion in progress[/B]
[img]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/d00001/d02349.jpg[/img]
[img]http://padresteve.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/d-day-landing-june-1944-omaha-beach-in-normandy-france.jpg[/img]
[B]Landing Boats[/B]
[img]http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/d-day/beach2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.universe-galaxies-stars.com/British-Soldiers-Assault-Normandy-Beach.jpg[/img]
[B]British Troops[/B]
[img]http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fileadmin/historyLearningSite/overlord.jpg[/img]
[B][U]The Command Team[/U][/B]
I wonder on what the beach looked like after the assault
The Allied soldiers at D-day must have felt like cannon fodder.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36210892][B](It seems odd but it's the actual time of the invasion as of an hour ago in France)[/B]
68 Years ago Today, June 6th, 1944, on Omaha beach, Operation Overlord has begun, spelling the end for the Nazi Occupation of France
[img]http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/f000001/f052406.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I think you got your facts wrong. It's June 5th 8p.m. in France right now.
There was actually a bunch more photographs and recordings of the landing itself but they were lost when someone dropped them in the sea.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRohPHLHeLI[/media]
[QUOTE=Matrix374;36211237]I wonder on what the beach looked like after the assault[/QUOTE]
Apparently if you visit the beach today, its reccommended you [I]don't[/I] bring a metal detector, because of all the shells, shrapnel, guns and unexploded...explosives that may be there.
[editline]5th June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=_Axel;36211437]I think you got your facts wrong. It's June 5th 8p.m. in France right now.[/QUOTE]
It was organized at 7:15 PM, the invasion began in the morning :eng101:
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36213909]Apparently if you visit the beach today, its reccommended you [I]don't[/I] bring a metal detector, because of all the shells, shrapnel, guns and unexploded...explosives that may be there.
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I'm talking about right after the assault as in after they managed to take the beach from the germans.
If theres still shells,guns and unexploded explosives there'd be people digging constantly trying to find it. People dig in the woods of beligum and etc from battle maps trying to find bunkers or holes made by troops back then to find w/e they can to sell
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-klaTalED3vc/T8zhUEV328I/AAAAAAAA5eM/kPYEPoEeB7k/s1600/13.jpg[/img]
A line of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother's hand to reach out for his father.
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2sB4MlaejIM/T8zhXswBxMI/AAAAAAAA5eU/zcjDBkZrM5o/s1600/14.jpg[/img]
Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ng7Uu_xnhUU/T8zhN0iHzYI/AAAAAAAA5d8/674gZCEUZ8Y/s640/11.jpg[/img]
A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;36213909]Apparently if you visit the beach today, its reccommended you [I]don't[/I] bring a metal detector, because of all the shells, shrapnel, guns and unexploded...explosives that may be there.[/QUOTE]
Really? I went to Normandy a year or two ago, saw Omaha, Utah, Sword, all the beaches, and they just looked like normal beaches with people suntanning and umbrellas and shit. Actually really nice beaches, too. Would they really let people on them if there was still live, albeit old, shit lying around? I can understand scraps of tank traps and old guns, but like land mines or whatever they had? Seems unlikely. Not to mention I doubt the Allies would have left all that explosive just lying around as they were unloading shit on the beaches after the invasion. But maybe.
Is it true that the sand on Omaha has a bit of a red tinge because of all the blood that was spilled there, or was I lied to?
[QUOTE=Amerigo;36214577]Really? I went to Normandy a year or two ago, saw Omaha, Utah, Sword, all the beaches, and they just looked like normal beaches with people suntanning and umbrellas and shit. Actually really nice beaches, too. Would they really let people on them if there was still live, albeit old, shit lying around? I can understand scraps of tank traps and old guns, but like land mines or whatever they had? Seems unlikely. Not to mention I doubt the Allies would have left all that explosive just lying around as they were unloading shit on the beaches after the invasion. But maybe.[/QUOTE]
Maybe they cleaned it up now, I don't know, I haven't heard about it in so long.
[QUOTE=Amerigo;36214577]Really? I went to Normandy a year or two ago, saw Omaha, Utah, Sword, all the beaches, and they just looked like normal beaches with people suntanning and umbrellas and shit. Actually really nice beaches, too. Would they really let people on them if there was still live, albeit old, shit lying around? I can understand scraps of tank traps and old guns, but like land mines or whatever they had? Seems unlikely. Not to mention I doubt the Allies would have left all that explosive just lying around as they were unloading shit on the beaches after the invasion. But maybe.[/QUOTE]
Well of course they are going to look normal, a lot of the debris left over has been buried under the sand by the tide over the course of sixty something years. There still could be small amount of unexploded shells and mines under beach but probably not close enough to the surface to be set off so they were most likely forget and not worried about, for example at Calshot in southern England there were mines left over from the war under the beach but people still used it as the mines were buried quite deep under a lot of shingle and forgotten. It was only till a few years ago that the mines were found and removed.
[QUOTE=Hamburgers;36214389][img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A53XWrL8IiI/T8ziKfetgvI/AAAAAAAA5gU/rlZuJYwhlfk/s1600/29.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Call me a noob if you want, but I still don't know anything about that. I remember seeing it in The Watchmen, but they fucking shoot them in the movie.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;36221275]Is it true that the sand on Omaha has a bit of a red tinge because of all the blood that was spilled there, or was I lied to?[/QUOTE]
68 years later I would think that blood would be all washed out by now by the tides.
Common sense is amazing to have :v:
I'd love to find some working or at least bearable conditioned WWII weapon.
Yet they couldn't give their own troops enough
In the early days. Then they started making millions.
[QUOTE=InstantKill;36138682]
[IMG]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/5/29/16/enhanced-buzz-wide-5453-1338324597-25.jpg[/IMG]
A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.
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thanks for making me cry bitch
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;36222021]Call me a noob if you want, but I still don't know anything about that. I remember seeing it in The Watchmen, but they fucking shoot them in the movie.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir[/url]
[QUOTE=LordLoss;36226933]In the early days. Then they started making millions.[/QUOTE]
I know, dam media perpetuation
[QUOTE=proch;36226395]I'd love to find some working or at least bearable conditioned WWII weapon.[/QUOTE]
From what I saw in that old treasure hunting/metal detector thread, basically anything left outside would have all the wood rotted off by now, just leaving the barrel and parts. Finding something more durable would be neat though, or something kept indoors.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/crQLd.jpg[/img]
wow
Vietnam was, in my opinion, the most hellish war for both sides ever fought.
[QUOTE=Desert Rat;36229018]Vietnam was, in my opinion, the most hellish war for both sides ever fought.[/QUOTE]
My grandparent's house was one of the three houses in their neighborhood to not have been bombed. They shared it with around 40+ people.
[QUOTE=Desert Rat;36229018]Vietnam was, in my opinion, the most hellish war for both sides ever fought.[/QUOTE]
I have a least 4 uncles who fought in Vietnam, and none of them have ever talked about it. I know one of my uncles saw his friend get hit by a mortar, and another one of my uncles stepped on a bouncing betty as he was getting off a Huey, I never knew either of them though.
[QUOTE=jaredop;36230564]I have a least 4 uncles who fought in Vietnam, and none of them have ever talked about it. I know one of my uncles saw his friend get hit by a mortar, and another one of my uncles stepped on a bouncing betty as he was getting off a Huey, I never knew either of them though.[/QUOTE]
My father was tapped to give his stories for a book that was to be written for Congress.
I've never seen the man cry so hard in his life, or fight to choke back tears like that.
You see, he served in the navy for a good five years before being discharged, and the way he sees it is that it was five years of pure hell. His job consisted of waiting to go over a target, putting his sights on it, and then pulling the big metal lever that dropped either conventional bombs or napalm on the target. The targets changed from things as understandable as munitions depots and train stations to fucking villages.
He was shot down three times, once over enemy territory, and left many good friends dead in Vietcong territory. There are things he still can't tell me because he could go to prison, and the most disturbing thing he's ever said to me was this: " I can't tell you anything about what I did in my service because there are still people out there, and there are still pieces in play".
[editline]7th June 2012[/editline]
He also apparently flew into enemy territory to pick up agents, move troops, and airlift the wounded. There were instances in which they had to literally crash-land in order to make an extraction, which I never quite understood because I thought a crashlanding consisted of the destruction or at least partial destruction of the plane.
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