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Vivid new Battle of the Bulge photos offer never-before-seen look....
Dailymail ^ | 12-17-11

Posted on 12/17/2011 5:48:40 PM PST by InvisibleChurch

Breath taking pics...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: battleofthebulge
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To: InvisibleChurch

God bless these GI Joes forever.


21 posted on 12/17/2011 6:05:00 PM PST by TEXOKIE (... and Merry Christmas to all FREEPERS EVERYWHERE!)
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To: InvisibleChurch; Kathy in Alaska

Kathyinalaska, I thought you might like to alert the canteen folks to this!


22 posted on 12/17/2011 6:07:28 PM PST by TEXOKIE (... and Merry Christmas to all FREEPERS EVERYWHERE!)
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To: svcw

agreed. Devastating photo.

Battle of the Bulge photos are quite rare. In color - I’ve never seen any. Color was available at the time but you just rarely ever see them. They are not common at all.


23 posted on 12/17/2011 6:08:15 PM PST by warsaw44
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To: InvisibleChurch
Thanks for posting the pictures.

With regard to the picture with Hitler in it, the man on the far right standing and pointing at the map looks like Heinz Guderian.

24 posted on 12/17/2011 6:08:52 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: svcw

Those tears were tears of relief


25 posted on 12/17/2011 6:09:04 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: InvisibleChurch

There’s a photo there captioned “Exhausted...shows signs of fatigue.”

He doesn’t look fatigued to me. He looks highly dangerous!


26 posted on 12/17/2011 6:09:28 PM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: InvisibleChurch

Bookmark, Thanks for the thread.


27 posted on 12/17/2011 6:09:54 PM PST by moose07 (The truth will out, one day. +Merry Christmas to ALL FReepers.)
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To: momtothree

My grandfather lost one of his toes to frostbite and the hearing in one ear to German 88 mm fire in the Ardennes.


28 posted on 12/17/2011 6:10:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
/bump

Those pictures are incredible.

29 posted on 12/17/2011 6:10:54 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: JosephMama
That picture really reminds me of those Hitler parody on YouTube. Like this one: Hitler finds out that Rush Limbaugh won the Judge Dance Contest
31 posted on 12/17/2011 6:19:25 PM PST by paudio (0bama is like a bad mechanic who couldn't fix your car - he just makes it worse. Get somebody else!)
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To: InvisibleChurch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge


32 posted on 12/17/2011 6:19:30 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: InvisibleChurch; ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000

Amazing pictures, thank you for posting. I always feel a ‘silence’ in my heart when I view these old war photos.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075565/Vivid-new-Battle-Bulge-photos-offer-seen-look-war-weary-soldiers-braving-frigid-weather-fight-Nazi-Germanys-major-offensive-World-War-II.html


33 posted on 12/17/2011 6:19:42 PM PST by potlatch (*snip*~ Having the right to be angry does not give one the right to be cruel. ~*snip*)
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To: InvisibleChurch

The Greatest Generation


34 posted on 12/17/2011 6:21:14 PM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: central_va
That tank looks like an M26 Pershing heavy tank—definitely NOT a Sherman.
35 posted on 12/17/2011 6:21:47 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Having A Communist Joke In The White House Takes Graveyard Humor To New Heights.")
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To: InvisibleChurch
Different theater of war....but a must read is...

Unbroken..by Laura Hillenbrand

My dad was in the CBI (China/Burma/India)

36 posted on 12/17/2011 6:23:38 PM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: MaxMax

The day before I left for USAF basic training in 1960, my uncle came by the house. He’d never said anything about his war experiences before, but that afternoon he told me that he’d been in Belgium and France during that time with First Army Ordnance. Must’ve been pretty grim.


37 posted on 12/17/2011 6:23:50 PM PST by Ax
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To: Happy Rain

Definitely not Shermans.


38 posted on 12/17/2011 6:24:43 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

correct


39 posted on 12/17/2011 6:26:13 PM PST by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: InvisibleChurch; Homer_J_Simpson; CougarGA7
Outstanding pictures!
40 posted on 12/17/2011 6:28:12 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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