re: Guy finds and processes film of never before seen photos from WW2

And I tossed out disposable Cameras cause the film "expired".

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Looks like a WW1 tank in the second pic.

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I think that is a French Char B

For the first few years of WWII the Germans were good at taking captured war materials and using them for their own needs. I think the Pz I or Pz II was built on captured Czech tank chassis.

French actually had better and stronger tanks but surrendered before many could see action.

It's a Renault FT
tank encyclopedia renault ft

I was thinking French for sure but you may be right on the Renault chassis

Designed late WWI they carried over to WWII and the Germans captured lots of them. I think the "honey" Stuart from the US was developed from this design and the Americanized version M1917. If memory serves they were made obsolete early on as they had a 37mm gun that could not penetrate the German armor once they got to the Pz III and Pz IV.

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Looks like a WW1 tank in the second pic.

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It is. That’s a captured French Renault FT that was introduced in WWI. It was the first full production tank to feature a fully rotating turret. It’s basically the great grandfather of all tanks we know today.

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Looks like a WW1 tank in the second pic.


I think that is a French Char B

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No. This is the Char B.

That’s incredible. My mom told me long ago that when my granddaddy came back from the war, he took all of his film to a place in Bessemer to have it developed. When he went to pick it up though, the developer had none of his film, absolutely nothing. She says that is one of the very few times that she ever saw him extremely angry. Even to this day, she still doesn’t know what really became of this film. My gut feeling is that the guy probably sold it. My grandfather was stationed in Europe and was present during the Nuremberg trials and didn’t return home until about 1947 I believe, so there is really no telling what could have been on that film. I do often wonder though when I see images like these if that’s pictures he took. I’m definitely going to check out this guy’s website. Maybe I’ll get lucky and come across some pics of my granddad.

I thought I had seen this before.

Rescued Film Project
Published on Jan 14, 2015


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Anyone here wish they could have fought in it?

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frick yeah. Some of the most important events in the history of the human race happened in the 7 year span.

I think if I had to pick a role to have had in WWII it would have been a B-17 pilot in the 8th Air Force

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if I had to pick a role to have had in WWII it would have been a B-17 pilot in the 8th Air Force

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got to be fast movers, baw!