Posted on 12/04/2010 7:42:18 PM PST by prisoner6
Isn't it amazing how a film could last so long in a camera without disintegrating?
Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago. Some of you will have to go to a museum to see what a Brownie camera looked like?
Here is a simple picture of what we are talking about. .
(Excerpt) Read more at beforeitsnews.com ...
PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA
Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker. And just recently taken to be developed. THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.
I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR! PEARL HARBOR December 7th, 1941
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AMAZING! THANKS!
This is an internet hoax that has been around about 4 years.
Amazing and sad. It is incredible that the film held up so long and the photo/optic quality is incredible.
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Good call
They are astounding pictures.
If it was ever really said, Japan did indeed “awake a sleeping bear.”
Had the current administration been at the wheel in 1941, we would all be speaking German and Japanese now.
By my math, December 1941 was 69 years ago.
>>Amazing and sad.
Its amazing and sad that this internet hoax has been circulating for so many years and it still shows up on FR about once a year.
I don’t know if you can fold this into your day by day history of WWII — super interesting (and, to me, disquieting)...
WOW!
This is amazing.
Thank you for posting this.
My heart goes out to these men and women ... what a horrific surprise that was. It reminds me of 9/11. 9/11 brings the horror of this home.
“Its amazing and sad that this internet hoax has been circulating for so many years and it still shows up on FR about once a year.”
Are you saying this is a hoax - the story about the pictures?
When I first looked at the photos I thought it odd that the "sailor" was able to roam all over Pearl Harbor in the middle of an attack - I would have thought he would have been too busy to take snap shots.
One of the comments at the link states that they are Naval archive photos.
I think it’s amazing how that little Brownie camera could shoot wide angle pics for some shots and telephoto pictures for others. I had no idea that Brownies had zoom lenses on them. Truly amazing.
Despite the fact the story is bogus and many of those pictures I have seen before, they still are valid photos and it is great to see them getting circulation.
Here is a link I have that might be of interest:
http://go.footnote.com/wwii/
These are not new pics.The ship that is capsized at her berth is the mine sweeper Ogalla if my memory is correct.I had a book on the attack with this very same picture.
Is this your comment on the website?
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 04, 2010 10:37Nice photos, but the pretense of the article is clearly dishonest. Not that the Pearl Harbor attack was a hoax, but that the pictures were found in a ‘foot locker’, ‘stored’ in a camera that clearly is not capable of the types of photos shown. Anybody with some experience as a photographer and who actually understands the concept of reality knows this instantly looking at the material.
Why do people have to make up som just-so story to present what is otherwise legitimate information? I guess to appeal to gullible old people who are amazed at what amazing things there are on the amazing internet. The 40,000 people (which is a miracle!) that found this interesting just prove that there are plenty of easily amazed people out there. I bet that there is one born every minute, in fact.
God must have really loved this brownie-toting photographer to give him such a wide selection of interchangeable lenses for that camera. There is telephoto, wide angle, and normal focal length. I used to own a brownie and don’t remember that option. And, for a brownie-toting photographer to have visited such diverse locations around the attack site during the hour or so of the attack, probably driving his car(?). Hope he didn’t run into much emergency traffic. Truly amazingly amazing.
Now, that would make an even better story: “God’s Miracle: Brownie Photographer gets a variety of interchangeable lenses for his camera!”
Is that what you mean by they hoax?
>>Its amazing and sad that this internet hoax has been circulating for so many years and it still shows up on FR about once a year.<<
Really? Oh jeeze I hate it when I have been had. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to vet every single historical article through Snopes :(
Homer Simpson’s most excellent ongoing day by day journal (with images of the newspapers of the time) exactly back 60 years ago is fascinating: to see the war unfold — with more information provided than one would suppose — has been both instructive and downright chilling.
I try to read it with the mind-set of “what if I was seeing this for the first time today?” It really makes for quite the historical ride!
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