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Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II
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| Michael Ballaban
Posted on 07/01/2013 9:04:57 AM PDT by virgil283
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...1944-U.S.A. M4 Medium Tank (105
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posted on
07/01/2013 9:04:57 AM PDT
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virgil283
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07/01/2013 9:07:13 AM PDT
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BobinIL
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Wonder how well it would fire paint shells like Oddballs with the piece of pipe on the end?
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07/01/2013 9:11:29 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: BobinIL
IIRC, this version of the Sherman tank was appropriately nicknamed “Jumbo.”
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07/01/2013 9:13:54 AM PDT
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Captain Rhino
(Determined effort Today forges Tomorrow)
To: BobinIL
That pic at the top of the article looks very much like a screen capture from a video game. It does not look authentic. maybe my eyes are getting old. But I don’t think so.
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07/01/2013 9:19:07 AM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Tactical Awareness. Use your brain. Then bring the pain.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
...Happy 4th Patriot
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07/01/2013 9:22:39 AM PDT
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virgil283
( ... """" With God all things are possible."''''''' ....)
To: BobinIL
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18gr904xm597qjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
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07/01/2013 9:24:59 AM PDT
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virgil283
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To: virgil283
It is hard to imagine that steam locomotives were still being manufactured during the war.
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Thanks for posting...pretty sure that’s an M4 sitting in front of the Molloy Rd reserve center in Mattydale NY.
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07/01/2013 9:28:36 AM PDT
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exPBRrat
To: virgil283
The pictures look so good that they seem faked. I’m so conditioned to perceive everything prior to 1960 as black and white that these photos just don’t seem real to me.
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posted on
07/01/2013 9:34:47 AM PDT
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bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: virgil283
“Berlin Sleeper II” was the first B-17 to complete 100 missions..and was returned to the States for training purposes..
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posted on
07/01/2013 9:48:03 AM PDT
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ken5050
(Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The top title page photo is a CGI, maybe from a game based on the N. Africa campaign (the Medium M3 Lee Tank was pretty common in that part of the war) but the rest in the body of the link seem to be authentic. And the color saturation of the photos is amazing.
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07/01/2013 10:01:51 AM PDT
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katana
(Just my opinions)
To: ken5050
My late uncle Lloyd received the DFC and Silver Star for his heroics aboard a B-17 coming back from a raid over Germany.
After the war, he came home to Toledo, went to work for the Post Office and delivered mail and did plumbing until his last years...
To: virgil283
What is this crap? I’ve seen enough WW2 movies and documentaries to know that the entire war was in black and white.
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07/01/2013 10:31:08 AM PDT
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BobL
(To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
To: The Great RJ
Actually for some time after the war the made steamers...my gandfather was a boiler maker at the Southern Pacific shops in Sacramento...we used to call him Gampa Huh? His hearing was totally gone from years of working around the shops.
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07/01/2013 11:36:12 AM PDT
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stratboy
To: BobL
I always have a hard time imagining it is color.
I was sent to Guam and remember sitting there on the beaches that I had seen in movies(in B/W) and trying to correlate the color with what I saw in the movies.
It is interesting how hard it is to imagine real color while watching old war documentary films.
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07/01/2013 11:47:49 AM PDT
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BookaT
To: BobL
At Fort Lee Va. There is a war film library there that has graphic colored as well has black and white moves and photos of WWII. Don't eat before seeing them if you can enter the site. Also Kodachrome film was manufactured starting in 1935. So it was available during WWII. And used K14 Processing that had 17 steps to develop the film. As a amateurs I used the E4 kit to process Ektachrome 64 film in about 6 steps for develop the film into slides. This film was developed in the 1940âs. I got a lot of slides by home developing using Ektachrome 64. Has better speed then Kodachrome. Note - National Geographic, used it extensively for color photographs for decades in settings where Kodachrome was too slow. Also note - If you can get the military channel on cable. They show actual combat of WWII in color.
Don
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07/01/2013 12:32:51 PM PDT
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Don_Ret_USAF
("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People.")
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