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re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)
Posted on 1/25/13 at 8:58 pm to Duckie
Posted on 1/25/13 at 8:58 pm to Duckie
Hitler youth honor an unknown soldier by forming a swastika symbol on Aug. 27, 1933 in Germany.
America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump on August 11, 1936, after defeating Nazi Germany's Lutz Long, right, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Naoto Tajima of Japan, left, placed third. Owens triumphed in the track and field competition by winning four gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, long jump and 400-meter relay. He was the first athlete to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
Jimmy Stewart, former movie star, is sworn in as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Corps by Lt. E.L. Reid, personnel officer of the west coast training center at Moffett Field, California, on January 1, 1941. Stewart was one of Hollywood's most popular actors before he was inducted into the Army in 1941.
Captured Japanese photograph taken during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In the distance, the smoke rises from Hickam Field.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, eight miles from Pearl Harbor, shrapnel from a Japanese bomb riddled this car and killed three civilians in the attack of December 7, 1941. Two of the victims can be seen in the front seat. The Navy reported there was no nearby military target.
ETA - Did a little more research on this photo, and there were actually four civilians in the car that were killed. The Adams and McCabe families had attended Catholic Mass at St. Ann Church in Kaneohe that Sunday morning and were on their way home when they saw the Japanese bombing Kaneohe Bay Bay Naval Air Station. They thought it was just a drill. Then, they heard the announcement on the radio that all Pearl Harbor Shipyard workers should report to work. So, Joseph Kanehoa Adams (Age 50), his son, John Kalauwae Adams (Age 18), Joseph's brother-in-law, Joseph McCabe, Sr. (Age 43), and Joseph McCabe's nephew David Kahookele (Age 23), got into the same car and took Pali Highway to get to Pearl Harbor. On Judd Street, near Iholena Street, an anti-aircraft shell hit their car and killed all four men. Nearby, Matilda Kaliko Faufata (Age 12), was standing in the doorway of her family's house. Shrapnel from the car explosion hit her in the chest. She died before she reached the operating table. Joseph Kanehoa and Joseph McCabe were active in their parish. Joseph McCabe was the athletic director for St. Ann's Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). St. Ann's CYO, along with his Shop 72 co-workers at Pearl Harbor, helped pay for his tombstone at St. Ann Cemetery. The words "Remember Pearl Harbor" are inscribed on the tombstone. Following their funeral in St. Ann Church, all four were buried in this cemetery.
The terrible damage done to Tokyo by American bombers can be seen in what was once a residential district in the Japanese capital, viewed months later, on September 10, 1945. Only large well constructed buildings remain intact.
Across the Channel, Britain was being struck by continual bombardment by thousands of V-1 and V-2 bombs launched from German-controlled territory. This photo, taken from a fleet street roof-top, shows a V-1 flying bomb "buzzbomb" plunging toward central London. The distinctive sky-line of London's law-courts clearly locates the scene of the incident. Falling on a side road off Drury Lane, this bomb blasted several buildings, including the office of the Daily Herald. The last enemy action of British soil was a V-1 attack that struck Datchworth in Hertfordshire, on March 29 1945.
One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near "Omaha" Beach, on May 28, 1945.
This post was edited on 1/26/13 at 9:49 am
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Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:08 pm to MaroonWhite
At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States.
The earthquake itself only lasted about 45 seconds, but it was estimated to have been between 7.8 and 8.3 on the Richter scale, which wasn't invented until 1935. When the earth stopped shaking, few people realized that San Francisco's cataclysm had only just begun. Almost immediately, downed power lines, broken gas lines, and damaged chimneys ignited widespread fires. Worse, the quake had cracked the city's massive clay water mains, leaving firefighters virtually without water.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:11 pm to MaroonWhite
Jimmy Stewart did more than serve. He started his own flying school and trained many of the pilots who flew the first missions for the US in WW II. He stayed in the reserves after the war, serving in Korea, IIRC, and retired as a general.
Suck it, Sean Penn.
Suck it, Sean Penn.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:23 pm to MaroonWhite
Cuban Missile Crisis Photos
President John F. Kennedy tells the American people that the U.S. is setting up a naval blockade against Cuba, during a television and radio address, on October 22, 1962, from the White House.
The president also said the U.S. would wreak "a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" if any nuclear missile is fired on any nation in this hemisphere."
Cuban President Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy's naval blockade via Cuban radio and television, on October 23, 1962.
A map of Cuba annotated by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, displayed for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2005.
Former President Kennedy wrote "Missile Sites" on the map and marked them with an X when he was first briefed by the CIA on the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 16, 1962.
Two soldiers sit in a sandy dugout beside a machine gun hold position on a beach on Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
President John F. Kennedy tells the American people that the U.S. is setting up a naval blockade against Cuba, during a television and radio address, on October 22, 1962, from the White House.
The president also said the U.S. would wreak "a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" if any nuclear missile is fired on any nation in this hemisphere."
Cuban President Fidel Castro replies to President Kennedy's naval blockade via Cuban radio and television, on October 23, 1962.
A map of Cuba annotated by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, displayed for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 13, 2005.
Former President Kennedy wrote "Missile Sites" on the map and marked them with an X when he was first briefed by the CIA on the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 16, 1962.
Two soldiers sit in a sandy dugout beside a machine gun hold position on a beach on Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:25 pm to MaroonWhite
These pictures of WWII will make you stop and think about how spoiled we are today and lucky that so far, we haven't had to witness that type of destruction and loss of life. Much respect to the men who fought for our country in that hellhole :use:
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