[img]http://www.yurock.net/wp-content/gallery/2viet/92.jpg[/img]
Chinook helicopter landing over what appears to be a firebase on top of a hill during the Vietnam War.
[img]http://www.yurock.net/wp-content/gallery/2viet/109.jpg[/img]
John Kerry being applauded during the Anti Vietnam War hearing.
[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Obama_Gun.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]2nd February 2013[/editline]
In case anyone didn't understand, that's Obama firing a shotgun.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SayYmX9.jpg[/IMG]
John McCain being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi-1967
[QUOTE=Griffster26;39450886][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SayYmX9.jpg[/IMG]
John McCain being captured by Vietnamese civilians in Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi-1967[/QUOTE]
[quote]In mid-1968, John S. McCain, Jr. was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the North Vietnamese offered McCain early release because they wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes, and also to show other POWs that elite prisoners were willing to be treated preferentially. McCain turned down the offer; he would only accept repatriation if every man taken in before him was released as well. Such early release was prohibited by the POW's interpretation of the military Code of Conduct: To prevent the enemy from using prisoners for propaganda, officers were to agree to be released in the order in which they were captured.
In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, stopped by guards. Eventually, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession".He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he later wrote, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine." Many American POWs were tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements; virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors. McCain subsequently received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.
McCain refused to meet with various anti-war groups seeking peace in Hanoi, wanting to give neither them nor the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory From late 1969 onward, treatment of McCain and many of the other POWs became more tolerable, while McCain continued actively to resist the camp authorities. McCain and other prisoners cheered the U.S. "Christmas Bombing" campaign of December 1972, viewing it as a forceful measure to push North Vietnam to terms.
Altogether, McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. He was released on March 14, 1973. His wartime injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head.[/quote]
five and a half years
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Pavlov%27s_House.jpg[/img]
The famous building dubbed 'Pavlov's House.'
Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and an understrength platoon took positions inside the building and managed to hold off countless German assaults. The building was supposedly marked as a fortress on German maps
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;39462949][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Pavlov%27s_House.jpg[/img]
The famous building dubbed 'Pavlov's House.'
Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and an understrength platoon took positions inside the building and managed to hold off countless German assaults. The building was supposedly marked as a fortress on German maps[/QUOTE]
The battle of Stalingrad had many houses a lot like that one. They'd have mortars, snipers, and anti tank rifles stationed on the top floor or roofs, MG's on every floor of the building, with anti tank cannons in the basement or bottom floor. The Russians and Germans would constantly capture and recapture these fortresses. Supposedly there was one of these fortresses that was captured and recaptured [i]16[/i] times. I can't prove or disprove that so take it with a grain of salt.
My mother is in the hospital at the moment so I can't dig for content right now, I'll try and dig up some Stalingrad or Bastogne picture later next week. For now, have this
[img]http://i.imgur.com/psbVEdK.jpg[/img]
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/92e3ef7a86e70b099982968fd0cf72ea/tumblr_mh9j6zaYKl1r28jzgo1_1280.png[/img]
[img]http://www.battlespaceonline.org/stefan-zaklin/soldier-killed-in-fallujah-iraq-2004.jpg[/img]
[B]Captain Sean P. Sims, died in Fallujah having volunteered to clear a house so his men could rest.[/B]
[url]http://www.battlespaceonline.org/stefan-zaklin/soldier-killed-in-fallujah-iraq-2004.shtml[/url]
[url]http://www.fallenheroesmemorial.com/oif/profiles/simsseanp.html[/url]
[url]http://militarytimes.com/valor/army-capt-sean-p-sims/508085[/url]
A female samurai or "Onna-Bugeisha" in weaboo speak
[img]http://i.imgur.com/nwDYoFL.jpg[/img]
apparently from the late 1800's.
[editline]12th February 2013[/editline]
I got more, I ain't lettin this thread die, dammit
[img]http://i.imgur.com/mpCGVM2.jpg[/img]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/fX1tiAA.jpg[/t]
B-17 missing a chunk of it's wing after it was strafed by an ME-262 or a ME-163
The survival storied of B-17's never cease to amaze me. Those fuckers wouldn't die
[QUOTE=altern;39565572]The survival storied of B-17's never cease to amaze me. Those fuckers wouldn't die[/QUOTE]putting the "fortress" in "flying fortress"
Modern 1,000 yard stare, after a 72 hour fire fight
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ZYYujMl.jpg[/img]
[editline]13th February 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Joazzz;39573087]putting the "fortress" in "flying fortress"[/QUOTE]
They were tough to kill but they had a higher casualty rate than infantry did.
[editline]13th February 2013[/editline]
If you want to read a good book about American B-17's, check out [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Air-Americas-Against-Germany/dp/0743235452"]Masters of the Air[/URL]
Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated
[img]http://i.imgur.com/vfX5IxZ.jpg[/img]
(their assassination started WWI)
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Sherman_railroad_destroy_noborder.jpg[/img]
[img_thumb]https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/31007/files/469055/preview[/img_thumb]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/s_c45_0080119M.jpg[/img]
Top: Maj. General Sherman's soldiers tearing up a railroad near Atlanta Georgia
Mid: Photo of one of the destroyed railroads with the steel rails curved, dubbed Sherman's necktie
Bottom: A locomotive turntable in Atlanta with the rails surrounding it and everything else destroyed.
[editline]14th February 2013[/editline]
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/civilwar020812/c32_0003350b.jpg[/img]
A colored Union soldier resting in front of a slave auction house in a recently captured Atlanta, Georgia
Cool.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;39273537]What we would have done would have been far worse. A full scale invasion of the island with a projected 1.25 million casualties or so on our side in just the first 3 months. Just about every civilian would have fought back in some way. It would have been a complete genocide, we would have wiped out most of the population from Japan. While I hate that we used nukes, what would have happened if we didn't would have been worse.[/QUOTE]
also we sort of created the Mutually Assured Destruction with that, saving more lives than an unprecedented nuclear war without any other war time use. This atrocity prevented others
though twice was overkill
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_16/w19_06081275.jpg[/img]
Smoke billowing from one of the higgins boat during D-Day. Machinegun fire has set off a soldier's handgrenade causing it to detonate in the boat.
[img]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_16/w20_03933277.jpg[/img]
Canadian soldiers landing on Courselles Beach in Normandy during D-Day
I think this might be fitting here. That Russian meteor that hit today.
[IMG]http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2013/02/15/1226579/002088-russian-meteor.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;39593087]also we sort of created the Mutually Assured Destruction with that, saving more lives than an unprecedented nuclear war without any other war time use. This atrocity prevented others
though twice was overkill[/QUOTE]
Saddly and regrettably, it was necessary. The Japanese still showed no sign of surrender even after one of their major cities had been turned to dust, while many other cities were still burning from fire bombings and their civilians starving because of no food imports. The deaths of several hundred thousand saved the lives of millions.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;39591235]War of Northern Aggression Photos[/QUOTE]
Sherman was an asshole. Trust me, living in Virginia, you will never here a good thing about him here at all.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;39598790]
Smoke billowing from one of the higgins boat during D-Day. Machinegun fire has set off a soldier's handgrenade causing it to detonate in the boat.
[/QUOTE]
Holy shit that is some serious bad luck.
[QUOTE=Moustacheman;39605029]Sherman was an asshole. Trust me, living in Virginia, you will never here a good thing about him here at all.[/QUOTE]
As a Georgia born southerner with ancestors who fought for the South in the civil war, Sherman was an asshole but a god damn genius.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;39605770]As a Georgia born southerner with ancestors who fought for the South in the civil war, Sherman was an asshole but a god damn genius.[/QUOTE]
He studied "Napoleonic" tactics, Napoleonic in quotes because his tactic was more based off the Russian "Scorched Earth," policy, but fitted for offence instead of defense.
[t]http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/collections/russian-art-gallery/Ilya-Repin-xx-Ivan-the-Terrible-and-His-Son-Ivan-on-16-November-1581-1885-xx-The-State-Tretyakov-Gallery.jpg[/t]
Not so much a picture, but instead a painting.
This is a painting of the infamous Russian Tsar, 'Ivan the Terrible', seen here clutching his son after striking him with a sword and killing him.
The amount of expression in this painting, as Ivan's face just screams "it's over."
he bashed him in the head with his cane/staff, not a sword
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Sir_Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart_by_Sir_William_Orpen.jpg[/t]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart"]Adrian Carton de Wiart[/URL]
They don't make them like they used to.
Dear lord, did a time traveler gave him a history book so he could be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
This picture was taken and edited by the same person who photographed and edited "Red flag above the Reichstag"
[img]http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/yk003398.jpg?w=700[/img]
The deer in the photo was real, but the planes and explosions were edited in later to make the picture more striking.
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