Pictures of Battle of the Bulge

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/war2.html ^

[navysealdad]

Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.

[FrdmLvr]

Thank you. My dad was there.

[GreyFriar]

Thanks for the Battle of the Bulge photographs.

[mware]

On one of those bitter cold winter nights I recall my father saying, "At least it is not as cold at it was at the Bulge."

Dad had trouble with his feet, till the day he died. In '44 he got trench foot while in the artillery at Cassino. If not for pencillin he would have lost his feet

[null and void]

We can’t post Getty images. They are very pissy about copyrights.

[KC Burke]

My dad had a story of his time on the edge of the Bulge. He was near the Colmar Pocket I believe it was called.

He was standing in a long chow line one day and as it wound past a truck that was parked in the area a few dozen yards from the chow line, some guys in line lifted the back flap to see what was in the truck. It was stacked with bodies of GIs. My dad said, “like cord wood…” and his voice would trail off as he repeated that.

[SkyDancer]

Figures. They should have filmed it in Norway or Alaska.

[Popman]

One of my students actually asked me if back in World War II, was everything in black and white.

I find that sadly not surprising...

[SkyDancer]

I’m thinking Pearl Harbor of late was really really bad.

[Karl Spooner]

Never forget the prayer that was ordered by General Patton. It was no done deal by our men alone.

[jmacusa]

To my late Uncle Fred*, 84th. Infantry Division, 335th. Infantry Regiment, 3rd. Battalion , I Company. Marche, Belgium,Dec. 23-31,1944. Wounded in action Jan.3, 1945, Soy, Belgium. To them all. Thank you for my freedom.*(went to be with our Lord 10-29-2012).

[dfwgator]

The attack scenes in Pearl Harbor were ok, the rest stunk on ice.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah like slanted carrier decks, the captain calling for full speed ahead and as the camera panned back the bow anchor chain was down.

[SampleMan]

I’m what sense did you find it good?

[SampleMan]

The Teli Savalis ride was an M18 Hellcat

[jmacusa]

Brother-in-law of mine was a teacher some years back.(high school) Had a student ask him, “WW2’’. Is that the one where we fought Hitler?’’ Like I say,the longer some kids are school the dumber they get.

[jmacusa]

No it wasn’t. It was an M-24 Chaffe.

[mware]

Not as bad as when we took the students to Arlington.

One of the students wanted to know why they did not bury the people in alphabetical order.

[ro_dreaming]

Ping for later

[mware]

Mind you I teach 12 year olds but the most bizarre comment I ever got from a student was again at Arlington.

We were walking up the hills towards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier when one of the kids stopped dead in their tracks and exclaimed, "So, that is where he is buried! I always wondered about that".

I looked around to see what famous person she was talking about, and there was a single word on the headstone, MOSES.

[RedMDer]

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