Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

cleaning spare parts

 

[flyincowboy]

A bomb dump E

ngland

 

[flyincowboy]

DO WE GO TO THE MOON ?

,

 

[flyincowboy]

RAF 149 SQN Short Stirling being loaded

 

[flyincowboy]

wing nap

 

[flyincowboy]

A20 engine swap

 

[flyincowboy]

Shaving italy 1944

 

[flyincowboy]

v2 loading poland 1944

 

[flyincowboy]

v2 lauching

 

[Silver Surfer]

US Marine sliding down the banister in Saddam's palace in Tikrit, Iraq, 14 April 2003.

Uh, watch out for that stopper at the bottom. Hear tell it’s a ball buster

 

[Smithy]

Uh, watch out for that stopper at the bottom. Hear tell it’s a ball buster

Because he was such a nice guy Vic, Saddam installed razorblades on the things

 

[Smithy]

An American F-105 shot down with the pilot ejecting (note his parachute) taken by North Vietnamese photograper Mai Nam, September 1966 near Vinh Phuc, north of Hanoi. Amazing photo.

 

[ES335]

Incredible photos. Thank you gentlemen!

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Spot on mate, it was the cover photo for the April 16 1965 issue of Life Couchy.

This picture in particular and a few from that photo essay are vividly etched in my memory since my childhood. My dad used to have a LIFE magazine subscription and I remember coming across the above-pictured issue. I must have been 6-7 years old at the time. Such vivid, crude pictures deeply impressed me. I remember well the cover picture, but also this one, of the gunner in the cover picture, after landing:

The entire photo essay by Larry Burrows, titled "One ride with Yanke Papa 13", is here:

'One Ride With Yankee Papa 13': A Classic Photo Essay From Vietnam

A searing portrait of young men fighting for their lives in Vietnam in 1965, when America was ramping up involvement in Southeast Asia.

www.life.com

Well worth a read/look.

From the text in the photo essay: "Six years after “Yankee Papa 13” ran in LIFE, Burrows was killed, along with three other journalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto when a helicopter in which they were flying was shot down over Laos in February, 1971. He was 44 years old."

L. Burrows took outstanding images of the conflict, many of which have come to symbolise the Vietnam War:

Vietnam War: Looking Again at Larry Burrows' Photo, 'Reaching Out'

LIFE.com revisits one of the most searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam: Larry Burrows' 'Reaching Out'

www.life.com

You may recognise a few.

 

[Micawber]

Goodbye, Old Man.

A painting commissioned by the Blue Cross in 1916 to raise money to help horses on active service.

The artist is Fortunino Matania

 

[Smithy]

This picture in particular and a few from that photo essay are vividly etched in my memory since my childhood. My dad used to have a LIFE magazine subscription and I remember coming across the above-pictured issue. I must have been 6-7 years old at the time. Such vivid, crude pictures deeply impressed me. I remember well the cover picture, but also this one, of the gunner in the cover picture, after landing:






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The entire photo essay by Larry Burrows, titled "One ride with Yanke Papa 13", is here:

'One Ride With Yankee Papa 13': A Classic Photo Essay From Vietnam

A searing portrait of young men fighting for their lives in Vietnam in 1965, when America was ramping up involvement in Southeast Asia.

www.life.com

Well worth a read/look.

From the text in the photo essay: "Six years after “Yankee Papa 13” ran in LIFE, Burrows was killed, along with three other journalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto when a helicopter in which they were flying was shot down over Laos in February, 1971. He was 44 years old."

L. Burrows took outstanding images of the conflict, many of which have come to symbolise the Vietnam War:

Vietnam War: Looking Again at Larry Burrows' Photo, 'Reaching Out'

LIFE.com revisits one of the most searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam: Larry Burrows' 'Reaching Out'

www.life.com

You may recognise a few.

The entire article is really wrenching, even now. Back in the 60s it was revolutionary.

Very affecting journalism.

 

[Micawber]

Warrant Officer Antoni Markiewicz of No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron and his bride Yvonne Munday inspecting what was left of their wedding presents after the wedding reception house was bombed while they were getting married at a church somewhere in Southern England, 29 July 1944.

 

[Smithy]

Huey gunner firing a minigun on enemy positions, 1971 Vietnam.

Good view of his Tropical Combat Boots or more colloquially, jungle boots too.

 

[ZuZu]

Goodbye, Old Man.

A painting commissioned by the Blue Cross in 1916 to raise money to help horses on active service.

The artist is Fortunino Matania

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Wow. That's a pretty antiwar painting for 1916! Maybe animals got by the propaganda machine.

 

[ZuZu]

This picture in particular and a few from that photo essay are vividly etched in my memory since my childhood. My dad used to have a LIFE magazine subscription and I remember coming across the above-pictured issue. I must have been 6-7 years old at the time. Such vivid, crude pictures deeply impressed me. I remember well the cover picture, but also this one, of the gunner in the cover picture, after landing:






View attachment 88747

The entire photo essay by Larry Burrows, titled "One ride with Yanke Papa 13", is here:

'One Ride With Yankee Papa 13': A Classic Photo Essay From Vietnam

A searing portrait of young men fighting for their lives in Vietnam in 1965, when America was ramping up involvement in Southeast Asia.

www.life.com

Well worth a read/look.

From the text in the photo essay: "Six years after “Yankee Papa 13” ran in LIFE, Burrows was killed, along with three other journalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto when a helicopter in which they were flying was shot down over Laos in February, 1971. He was 44 years old."

L. Burrows took outstanding images of the conflict, many of which have come to symbolise the Vietnam War:

Vietnam War: Looking Again at Larry Burrows' Photo, 'Reaching Out'

LIFE.com revisits one of the most searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam: Larry Burrows' 'Reaching Out'

www.life.com

You may recognise a few.

There won't be a war covered in mass media like Vietnam ever again, The military and the powers that be found out that uncontrolled access made people hate war. No more "Vietnam Syndrome" for us!
You can still find all the horror of war on the internet but you have to look for it. The Google Youtube etc. algorithms are far more controlled now in 2022 than in say 2012. The internet is being scrubbed inexorably...