Man & Nature in War
The photograph below is a composite of two photos taken by famous Soviet combat photographer Yevgeny Khaldei that he titled "Reindeer Yasha beyond the Arctic Circle," World War II, Murmansk…
The Shingle at Omaha
I took these photos in September 2006 in the Fox Green Sector, Omaha Beach, Normandy, to provide a visual reference for the term "shingle" when encountered in reading about that…
The Summer of ’45
November 18, 2023 would've been my Dad's 100th Birthday. In the photo below, taken on August 1, 1945, he's age 22, in the woods just south of the former Luftwaffe…
WW II Photo Quiz No. 2
What am looking at and what was it used for? Answer by commenting.
Practicing to Deceive
Photos taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and their British counterparts in Spring 1944 of fake vehicles and other equipment designed to trick the Germans into believing that the…
Chow Report
A 1942 postcard with a "Quickie War Food Report" that a soldier could fill out to ensure Mom and Dad that he was still getting three square meals a day…
The Saluting Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9Si28k0Fk
A Walk In The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grz-2KNqjMw It was just a little walk/In the warm Italian sun/But it wasn't an easy thing/And poets are writing the tale of that fight/And songs for children to sing/Let them…
Meet Rupert!
Most commonly fashioned from burlap, stuffed with straw, and weighted with sand, para-dummies, nicknamed Ruperts,served as a diversion during the airborne phases of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.…
The 2000 Yard Stare
“The 2000 Yard Stare” by artist/war correspondent Thomas Lea depicts a nameless real-life U.S. Marine at the Battle of Peleliu in 1944. The two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase used to…