Random Cool Photo Thread

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Smithy]

Capt Ross Smith and his observer Lt Ernest Mustard of 1 Sqn AFC in their Biff immediately after landing from a patrol (note the oil on Smith's face)...

 

[Smithy]

WWI trench system at Beaumont-Hamel, France today. This was an area which was unsuccessfully attacked on the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. Anything Somme tugs at my heart-strings a bit as one of my family was lost on that first morning assault and to this day has no-known grave.

Sobering that the scars of over a 100 years ago are still visible in the landscape...

 

[Pa12]

WWI trench system at Beaumont-Hamel, France today. This was an area which was unsuccessfully attacked on the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. Anything Somme tugs at my heart-strings a bit as one of my family was lost on that first morning assault and to this day has no-known grave.

Sobering that the scars of over a 100 years ago are still visible in the landscape...

Amazing

 

[Smithy]

Amazing

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.

 

[Enigma1938]

WWI trench system at Beaumont-Hamel, France today. This was an area which was unsuccessfully attacked on the 1st July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. Anything Somme tugs at my heart-strings a bit as one of my family was lost on that first morning assault and to this day has no-known grave.

Sobering that the scars of over a 100 years ago are still visible in the landscape...

Also pretty impressive from ww1: Lochnagar

 

[Smithy]

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Also pretty impressive from ww1: Lochnagar

That top one is from the Battle of Messines I think. Lots of large artificial lakes/ponds on the Western Front created by the landscaping skills of the underground mine-laying boys on both sides.

 

[ZuZu]

 

[Micawber]

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Only just catching up with the recent posts in here, this one caught my eye but I don't really know why.

 

[Pa12]

Only just catching up with the recent posts in here, this one caught my eye but I don't really know why.

Oh me thinks me knows why

 

[Silver Surfer]

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oh my