Random Cool Photo Thread

[Smithy]

German soldier chucking a handgrenade...

 

[Smithy]

German flamethrower, April 1917...

 

[Smithy]

British troops entering Lille in October 1918 after 4 years of German occupation...

 

[Pa12]

German flamethrower, April 1917...

Got to be one of the most brutal weapons invented.

 

[Smithy]

Got to be one of the most brutal weapons invented.

Absolutely terrifying. Using it in a trench there's absolutely no escape. Horrific.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Cutlass(es) on USS Intrepid CVS-11

 

[Skyranger]

 

[mulceber]

Great photo of him - basically just a kid.

 

[CK90]

Great photo of him - basically just a kid.

Yep, he looks fantastic in this one.

 

[mulceber]

Probably about 21 in that one. Still has that twinkle in his eye though. Wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him - unless I had to land an out-of-control plane. Then I’d trust him with my life.

 

[Enigma1938]

Absolutely terrifying. Using it in a trench there's absolutely no escape. Horrific.

I visited an bunker on Omaha beach a few years ago and the ceiling in the main room from where they observed and fought the allies landing was still black from American flame throwers.
It was terrifying to imagine what happened there back then...

 

[Pa12]

What jacket is that? Looks too shiny for a b-10

 

[Smithy]

What jacket is that? Looks too shiny for a b-10

It's a B-10, the shiny appearance is from the colorisation process that's been done.

 

[Pa12]

It's a B-10, the shiny appearance is from the colorisation process that's been done.

Ok. I know I’ve seen that picture before in black and white. In his biography I think.

 

[mulceber]

Yeah, I think I recall seeing it in there as well. The coloration really highlights his youth though.

 

[Pa12]

Probably about 21 in that one. Still has that twinkle in his eye though. Wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him - unless I had to land an out-of-control plane. Then I’d trust him with my life.

I remember reading somewhere that him and bob Hoover were doing mock dog fights during some training and they finally packed it in. Neither one could outdo the other.

 

[Pa12]

Yeah, I think I recall seeing it in there as well. The coloration really highlights his youth though.

And converts cloth to nylon

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Smithy]

"Pill box demolishers" being unloaded on the Western Front. These were damn big shells weighing 1,400 lbs (635kg). When they detonated their explosions made craters over 15 feet deep and 15 yards across...

 

[Smithy]

Highlanders wearing their trademark kilts on their way to the front 1916...