Random Cool Photo Thread

[Greg Gale]

I know, it's remarkable how scarred that landscape is but hardly surprising when you consider the intricate trench systems and the sheer amount of artillery bombardment that occurred.

I want to take a trip to the Somme but my wife does not - she says it will be too depressing. One of those things I'll have to do by myself or with a chum.

I want to lay a poppy in the sector where I know he fell.

I did a tour about 10 years ago or so. Ypres, Somme, Verdun...Very sobering. Those scars aren't going to disappear from the Earth for a very long time. At many of the battlefields you can only walk a narrow path, because the rest of the area still has unexploded shells. They keep sheep there to cut the grass and well...find the shells...BAAAA-mm

Lochnagar looks way bigger in person. I may be mistaken but there were 4 chambers filled with explosives, dug under the German lines. 2 of them exploded, in 1916, 2 didn't. One was hit by lightning in the 80s and exploded, it could be heard all the way from London. There's still one left somewhere, nobody knows exactly where, waiting for a lightning strike...

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

That was what I heard

 

[FlakMagnet]

Swedish Saab Viggen intercepting Soviet Submarine S-363 off swedish waters

 

[ZuZu]

 

[ZuZu]

 

[Emchisti]

Destroyed by thugs. And I wouldn't call photographs of the destruction of the city of Bakhmut 'cool', in any way.

 

[ZuZu]

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I see it as similar to the dancing children around the crocodile in Stalingrad- iconic and ironic- and posting it is no different than everybody reveling in the "coolness" of napalm exploding in Vietnam or mines going off in WW1. Strange and horrible and cool.

From an artist's perspective this photo is well composed and interesting (like the Stalingrad photo).

And BTW its Artemovsk now.

 

[ZuZu]

 

[ties70]

If having nightmares from fighting in Stalingrad and years of soviet „hospitality“ was „cool“…..yeah, then this guy had his share of „coolness“.

 

[ZuZu]

Nice little fellas!

Whats the correct translation for "cowboys" in Colombia? Gauchos?

Llanero.

 

[Pilot]

Lager Nr. 7851 was S.W.of Moscow in Chimki next to Klin.

 

[ties70]

Lager Nr. 7851 was S.W.of Moscow in Chimki next to Klin.

...so says a PDF on cia.gov

My grandfather was in different camps...No. 323 in Tula was another one.

 

[Pilot]

...so says a PDF on cia.gov

My grandfather was in different camps...No. 323 in Tula was another one.

Most probably Nr. 7851 was for NCO’s and CO’s only… so maybe a bit a better standard ( with all due respect..whatever “better “ could stand for ).
I hope he came back ..

 

[ties70]

Here is somebody cool.
Find the one guy not saluting Hitler on his visit at Hamburg's Blohm&Voss dockyards...

The guy is either August Landmesser or Gustav Wegert.

 

[B-Man2]

 

[Micawber]

Random..

 

[Micawber]

Cool.
One of the local pubs recently had this decorative plasterwork, or pargeting, carried out. The pub is called The Fox & Hounds.

 

[Pa12]

Random..

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just look at those beaming smiles

 

[tempusfugit]

Camouflaging a road from observations at an angle.

 

[ties70]

If having nightmares from fighting in Stalingrad and years of soviet „hospitality“ was „cool“…..yeah, then this guy had his share of „coolness“.

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This is the helmet he wore on September 1st, 1939: