• Auxiliary Pics
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/UzBLh.jpg[/img] Cologne Cathedral, some time during WWII. Cologne, at one point, was hit by a 1,000 bomber raid.
it looks relatively intact. did they order them to "bomb everything but the church"? [editline]12th October 2013[/editline] here's another angle of the same scene [img]http://de.evangelischer-widerstand.de/pictures/documents/D5305/D5305-1.jpg[/img] [editline]12th October 2013[/editline] Dresden got hit so bad it's almost surreal. if you've ever wondered what a real life version of the scenery in Fallout or Warhammer or the Terminator future war battlegrounds would look like, here's as close as you get [img]http://1x1.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hist_us_20_ww2_pic_dresden_streetcar.jpg[/img]
[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/94398052c829953e176f1fe67a5588d2/tumblr_mtpjvtaslD1rphtnfo1_500.png[/img] they did this in the 30s to provide babies in apartment buildings with ample sunlight
They're now doing it to scare the shit out of people (around the 2 minute mark) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTUCNNCaYic[/media]
it'd be great if that thing was made to drop a few inches or shudder just to really scare everyone
Probably late but [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y8ngxwcO1qg39ewo1_500.gif[/IMG]
some clone troopers i found on Deviantart [img]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2011/284/7/3/star_wars_clonetrooper_concept_by_jubjubjedi-dq4b9x.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=CaptainHijacks;42497990]Probably late but [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y8ngxwcO1qg39ewo1_500.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] Either that's super saturated, or wherever that is is the most colorful place ever. Any idea where it is?
While we're talking about bombed cities [img]http://questionsconcerningreligion.org/images/228.jpg[/img] Ypres before and after WW1
I've been to Ypres, helped repaint a memorial and found a dud hand grenade in a field.
[QUOTE=Rents;42498841]I've been to Ypres, helped repaint a memorial and found a dud hand grenade in a field.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1914-1918_files/arras-loos-ypres_missing/ypres/menin-gate-2.jpg[/img] Don't forget about the menin gate [QUOTE]Its large Hall of Memory contains names on stone panels of 54,896 Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Salient but whose bodies have never been identified or found.[/QUOTE]
I was at that too, that photo makes it look small. [t]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4145/5088751089_0a4781cf38_o.jpg[/t][t]http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/assets/0901/0000/0156/dscf0349_mid.jpg[/t][t]http://www.aldenham.com/uploads2/1/Menin_Gate_DSC0298_large.JPG[/t][t]http://www.euro-t-guide.com/See_Photo/Belgium/NW_Ypres/Ypres_Menin_Gate_Memorial_2011_10.jpg[/t][t]http://www.battlefield-tours.com.au/lightbox-ypres/data/images1/menin-gate-ypres-interior-2.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Rents;42499212][t]http://www.battlefield-tours.com.au/lightbox-ypres/data/images1/menin-gate-ypres-interior-2.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] What is this type of ceiling called? The subway station here all have them like that.
I've been to Ypres too. We also went to the place where Canadian soldier John McCrae allegedly wrote his poem "In Flanders Fields".
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[QUOTE=Joazzz;42497504]it looks relatively intact. did they order them to "bomb everything but the church"? [/QUOTE] One of the reasons is that mostly incendiary bombs were used, burning everything who were able to burn. The cathedral survived because she was made of stone, who can't be taken into flames. That's also why the buildings still have walls.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;42497504]it looks relatively intact. did they order them to "bomb everything but the church"? [/quote] They would leave large churches and cathedrals like that intact because they make excellent landmarks. The church still sustained around 14 hits throughout the war though, and was still standing. [QUOTE=Joazzz;42497504] here's another angle of the same scene [img]http://de.evangelischer-widerstand.de/pictures/documents/D5305/D5305-1.jpg[/img] [editline]12th October 2013[/editline] Dresden got hit so bad it's almost surreal. if you've ever wondered what a real life version of the scenery in Fallout or Warhammer or the Terminator future war battlegrounds would look like, here's as close as you get [img]http://1x1.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hist_us_20_ww2_pic_dresden_streetcar.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The firebombing of Dresden was really nasty. Some claim the death toll was higher than Hiroshima and Nagisaki combined, but realistically it was less than that. There were so many bodies because of the fire bombing, that they couldn't dig holes deep enough for mass graves. They had to bring in troops with flamethrowers to burn all the bodies. [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250358&p=39923472&viewfull=1#post39923472"]I made a post about this before, but I'll link cause it's a little nsfw. [/URL]
Here's some photos of the liberation of Eindhoven: Here's a WW2 photo combined with a photo from now of 101st Airborne soldiers walking through a street. [img]http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/copyrightWrapper/watermark.php?display=true&image=http://bp4.uuuploads.com/ghosts-of-war-jo-hedwig-teeuwisse/ghosts-of-war-jo-hedwig-teeuwisse-12.jpg[/img] And here they are celebrating the liberation of Eindhoven with dem leddies [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/24/article-2207812-152D76C3000005DC-493_640x478.jpg[/IMG] And with a baby. [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/24/article-2207812-152D7A69000005DC-948_640x386.jpg[/IMG] [editline]12th October 2013[/editline] And also some random landscape: [IMG]http://wallpicshd.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Landscape-04-HD-Wallpaper-1024x640.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=kirby2112;42499378]What is this type of ceiling called? The subway station here all have them like that.[/QUOTE] Murder holes [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder-hole[/url]
[QUOTE=oskutin;42503428]Murder holes [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder-hole[/url][/QUOTE] No, those are used in castles and such for defense. One used for illumination, like that, is an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus]oculus[/url].
Are there any more of those WWII pictures combined with what that place looks like in the present?
[QUOTE=Blazyd;42504312]Are there any more of those WWII pictures combined with what that place looks like in the present?[/QUOTE] There were a few of the U.S. 79th ID in Cherbourg and some other ones in France, can't show them right now though, because I'm away from my PC. [editline]13th October 2013[/editline] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/18/article-2219584-158F1886000005DC-682_964x610.jpg[/img] Here's one. US 79th ID soldiers running down a street in Cherbourg. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/18/article-2219584-158F18B7000005DC-632_964x602.jpg[/img] More 79th soldiers with German POWs. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/18/article-2219584-158F177B000005DC-385_964x796.jpg[/img] 2nd Armored Division soldiers with German POWs.
I love images like that, showing then and today. Not just in war, either.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/C7WcX6t.jpg[/IMG] Sick of war pics in this thread.
Sorry to annoy you even more: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2005-0003%2C_Rotterdam%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rungen.jpg[/IMG] The bombing of Rotterdam. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Rotterdam.jpg[/IMG] The aftermath. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/HerdenkingVuurgrensRotterdam1940_2007_edit1.jpg[/IMG] 67 years later. Almost 1000 people died in the bombing and 30000 people lost their homes. But the bombing did result in one good thing. It allowed the centre of the city to be rebuilt, with modern architecture. I've been there and it looked just like what people expected the future to look like 30 years ago.
Do those cool spotlights symbolize anything or are they just for effect?
Well, that picture was taken on 14 may 2007, exactly 67 years later. It's to memorialise the bombing. The worst part about the bombing is that the Netherlands was neutral and signed a peace treaty with the Germans. The German bombers were on their way the UK, but turned around above the North Sea and proceeded to their actual target, Rotterdam. The UK had a policy of only bombing military targets and infrastructure, but they abandoned this policy on the 15th of May, 1940.
basically the only reason Rotterdam got bombed was due to bad communication, as the signal to cancel the bombardment came in after the bombers where already unleashing hell down below.
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[QUOTE=scratch (nl);42510692]basically the only reason Rotterdam got bombed was due to bad communication, as the signal to cancel the bombardment came in after the bombers where already unleashing hell down below.[/QUOTE] Well, it wasn't exactly a signal to cancel the bombardment, just to postpone it by 3 hours.
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