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Must see WWII pics declassified...
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good collection of pics. I don't think that any of them are newly declassified though. I have seen most or all since the 1970's and they weren't "new" then.
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I have some original low level strikes from a B-25 pilot. They were printed with captions that named the target and squadron. Most have the target name cut out from them.
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Those are great pics. I have a piece of a clay Buddhist temple that was destroyed in the Hiroshima blast. It was given to me by Sgt. Gillen T. Nicely, a B-29 tail gunner from Elizabethtown, KY. "Straight Flush" was the name of the plane he was on and one of three bombers that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as a weather reconnaissance plane and flew over the city before the attack to determine if conditions were favorable for a visual drop. Nicely had an Army buddy who was assigned to access the damage to the city after the bombing and he collected the tile as a souvenir. Nicely gave the roof tile to me after I interviewed him during a WW II 50th anniversary feature story series we ran in the paper I worked for at the time. |
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There's also an interesting comparison between Hiroshima and Detroit before and after the war.
Hiroshima and Detroit -- 65 Years after the A-Bomb |
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Thanks for sharing. A lot of interesting pictures.
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Those were amazing,to see what our fathers and grandfathers went through to insure our freedom is truly humbling. Thanks for posting those.
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Back when war wasn"t fought with a joystick. Not that there aren't still troops on the ground, but war was pretty damn personal back hen.
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