pipedreams Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 A United States Marine gives an interned child candy through barbed wire. Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. 1944. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia (1895-1918) in her uniform of the 3rd Elizavetgradski Hussars regiment, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia (1897-1918), wearing her uniform of the 8th Voznesenski Uhlans regiment. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 B-24 Liberators in flight 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Men of the US 7th Infantry Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japanese from a block house on Kwajalein Island, fellow troops wait with rifles and bayonets ready in case they come out. February 4th 1944. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 A sniper from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch, takes position in a ruined building in Gennep, The Netherlands. 14th February 1945 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Borg warner Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 On 1/26/2019 at 12:19 PM, pipedreams said: What was really a challenge was getting them to look like that after running the obstacle course. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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C_Hallbert Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 B-24 Liberators in flight My Uncle, Lt. Warren E. Sonner, USAAF (Copilot) was killed by a German 88mm Shell in a B24 (Sierra Blanca) over Siracourt, France on a bombing mission to take out a German V1 Launch Sight. The aircraft and remaining crew returned to England. My family was unsure of the circumstances surrounding his death. I found a picture of him with the aircraft and crew and an excerpt in a book written by the aircraft’s Waist Gunner who described the incident in which an anti-aircraft shell passed through the floor of the cockpit, through the seat on the left side of his body, exited next to his neck, finally leaving the aircraft through the top of the cockpit. Fortunately for the rest of the crew, it failed to detonate. Lt. Sonner was in control of the aircraft when struck and he fell over the yoke pushing the B24 into steep dive. The Waist Gunner (who wrote the account) came forward and helped pull him off the yoke allowing the Pilot in Command to recover the aircraft. The writer stated,”Sonner never new he was hit.” His Grandfather was a German citizen who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine and his Grandmother was the daughter of an Austrian Master Machinist (Last Name, Huber). Lt. Sonner was a Tool and Die Maker (deferred from service) who enlisted after his younger brother (Richard) was drafted, attended Army O.C.S. and then sent to Flight School becoming a DC3 Pilot. Richard (Dick) flew in Pacific operations in New Guinea and ‘The Hump’ between China and India. He lost a lot of friends in those mountain passes, some to Japanese Fighters and some to bad weather and mountainous terrain. After his service in the Army Air Force, Dick flew his entire career with Eastern Airlines retiring a a Senior Captain at age 66. He was a character! He loved beer and scotch. One night (with a hurricane close off shore) Dick asked me if I wanted to go body surfing on the shore of Long Island, NY. I accepted the challenge. It was ‘pitch assed dark’ the shore break was enormous and the rip was so fast that we got out over two miles from where we went in. My Aunt and my girlfriend at the time were worried because they couldn’t see us and we didn’t hear or answer their calls. My Aunt told my girl that there was nothing to do but go back to their Beach House and hope for the best. I was 18 then, but my Uncle was in his middle 40s. The family said Warren could do a handstand while driving a Harley Davidson......He died before I was born in 1947. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Arthur White outside the Manhart Store and Sedalia Post Office, Plum Avenue, Sedlia, Colorado, 1885 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Avenue de l'Opéra, Opéra de Paris, 1925 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Stuck in a mudhole in Utah while riding cross-country, 1916. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Cowboys and Indians.....innocent times eh. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Tourists on Parthenon, Athens, Greece, circa 1860 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Revolutionary War veteran Jonathan Smith 1854. Born in 1761, this photo taken when he was 93. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 From 1956, Lassie and friends. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 The Messerschmitt Me 262 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 1909 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Soldiers of the US Army 7th Division moving a 37 mm M3 anti-tank gun on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Early February 1944 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 This is the Fritz X ..the first guided bomb is history ..on 9 September 1943 it also became the first such bomb to sink a ship in combat – the Italian battleship Roma which as a great accomplishment in the year 1943.. it really goes to show how advanced the Germans were at that time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Rue du Fouarre, de la rue Galande. Paris, 1866. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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