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Topic: Neat color pics of WWII
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booger
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posted June 20, 2013 02:38 PM
Was just doing some surfing to round out my day and stumbled on this link on Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-ruins-of-normandy-1944-1371680207-slideshow/
Really cool color pics of the destruction in Normandy after the forces started moving east after D-Day.
My dad would be 92 if he would be alive today. He landed on Utah beach on June 6th, 1944, and happened to get hit by a mortar during the battle for St. Lo in July. Spent 6 months in a hospital in London. Came home in February of ’45, married my mom, and then spent another 9 months in a rehab hospital in California.
Some of the pics are of St. Lo which was almost entirely leveled by Allied bombers. It is on my bucket list to visit there someday.
[ June 20, 2013, 02:44 PM: Message edited by: booger ]
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JimM
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posted June 22, 2013 06:19 AM
I lived in Germany through the 60s and pops would take us all around to see the battlefields and we could still see bomb craters and a lot of the destruction even 18 years after the war.
We would stop into old stores and buy old German military helmets/iron crosses/hitler stuff/arm wraps etc, still have it all.
I was on the same beach in Iwo Jima where he stormed ashore in WWII, 2 years ago and it was very heart rendering standing there. My son was stationed in Okinawa and that's another place pops fought and seeing all those places he was at was very moving even though Sugar Loaf Hill and that entire area is under pavement & houses.
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Frank
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posted June 22, 2013 06:55 AM
Interesting.....my grandfather may have taken some of those pictures. Before he passed he used to tell me about taking color pictures in Europe during WWII but they were still classified. He said color photography was brand new at the time so not many pictures were taken in color.
I wonder if these might have been some that he took? BTW, is Adjutant General was none other than Ronald Regan. Small world sometimes.......
[ June 22, 2013, 06:58 AM: Message edited by: Frank ]
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