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theworldatwar · 2 months
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US Marines pose with their War Dogs - Bougainville, Solomon Islands 1943
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dronescapesvideos · 4 months
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U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of Marine Scouting Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) in flight over Midway
➤➤ BATTLE OF MIDWAY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/joqaga0tpyg
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carbone14 · 30 days
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Porte-avions USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) attaqué par l'aviation japonaise pendant le raid sur Rabaul – Bombardement de Rabaul – Guerre du Pacifique – Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée – 11 novembre 1943
Photographe : W. Eugene Smith
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ghostwarriorrrr · 8 months
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Chasseurs Curtiss P-40 Warhawk des Tigres Volants (1st American Volunteer Group) en formation au-dessus de la rivière Salouen (Salween River) à la frontière sino-birmane – Campagne de Birmanie – Guerre du Pacifique – 28 mai 1942 Photographe : R. T. Smith ©San Diego Air & Space Museum
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usafphantom2 · 4 days
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A TBM-3 Avenger from Torpedo Squadron 82 (VT-82, “Devils Diplomats) returning after having another Avenger - hit by flack over Chichi Jima 父島 - strike his aircraft damaging the port wing tip and cracking the fuselage, 4 March 1945. Pilot had to ditch in the water.
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a-4skyhawk · 5 months
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11th Air Force B-25s skip bomb Japanese vessels.
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glowingcritter · 9 months
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Veteran Ira Hamilton Hayes/Chief Falling Cloud, of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. He was one of the six iconic flag raisers on Iwo Jima. Peter LaFarge’s song “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” is based on his life.
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conformi · 10 months
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Joe Rosenthal, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, 23 February 1945 VS Gemma Augustea, 1st century AD
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rickchung · 4 months
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Nerdstalgic x "How Two Iconic Directors Handled the Same War".
Christopher Nolan and Hayao Miyazaki are two filmmakers that work under the unifying theme of obsession. Though Oppenheimer and The Wind Rises were released almost 10 years apart, the themes of war, obsession, and consequence run through both films.
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redarmyscreaming · 7 months
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With the conquest of Malay and the Netherlands East Indies, Japanese forces captured at least eight Brewster B-339 and Buffalo aircraft intact, in addition to numerous wrecked aircraft. Several of these were painted in Japanese markings and evaluated in Japan, while others were displayed as war trophies.
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fulda-gap-express · 9 months
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IJN battleship Nagato in 1946.
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theworldatwar · 4 months
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US Marines prepare to raise the American flag for the now iconic photograph - Iwo Jima - 23rd Feb 1945
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dronescapesvideos · 5 months
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F6F Hellcats warming up on the deck of USS Lexington CV-16, en route near New Guinea, early April 1944
VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/15HLOfODKGo
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carbone14 · 8 months
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Réarmement d'un bombardier B-29 Superfortress du 882e Escadron de bombardement du 500e Groupe de bombardement – Guerre du Pacifique – Isley Field – Saipan – Iles Mariannes – Juillet 1945
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sekisho-seiichi · 1 month
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春日神社、芝山
Inscription on memorial to the war dead at Kasuga Shrine, Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, donated to the shrine by Ishii Shiro.
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I think I might get the dubious honour of being the first person to post about this in English. The small town of Shibayama, literally next door to Tokyo's Narita Airport, under its former name of Kamo was the hometown of Ishii Shiro and his family, and during the war years he recruited a large number of people from the village to work at Unit 731 in the interests of maintaining loyalty and secrecy. Today little trace of that history remains, unsurprisingly, but at a small local Shinto shrine named Kasuga Shrine we find one piece of literal hard evidence, in this inscription on a memorial stone for war victims which clearly states it wad donated to the shrine by Ishii Shiro.
The big text reads 忠魂碑, approximately "for the consolation of the loyal spirits", and then in the smaller text on the left we clearly see 醫學博士石井四郎, "professor/doctor of medicine Ishii Shiro" (the first two characters are unsimplified forms of 医学, this was almost certainly erected long before the end of ww2.).
Photos are mine from when I went to have a look around immediately after arriving into Narita Airport one day.
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usafphantom2 · 4 days
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Battle for the Solomons - Task Force 50 to Rabaul
Artist: John D. Shaw
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