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Posted: 3/19/2015 2:21:17 PM EDT
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Guy in the middle is going "it's beautiful man, it's beautiful". http://i.imgur.com/5BaGd0v.jpg I can't imagine stading right next to those things with no hearing protection. |
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Posted: 3/19/2015 2:27:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I can't imagine stading right next to those things with no hearing protection. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Guy in the middle is going "it's beautiful man, it's beautiful". http://i.imgur.com/5BaGd0v.jpg I can't imagine stading right next to those things with no hearing protection.  |
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Posted: 3/25/2015 3:24:10 PM EDT
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Probably only hurts for the first few rounds. Then you don't hear much.
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Posted: 3/28/2015 8:22:59 PM EDT
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Copying what I posted earlier in this thread...I want to know if Arfcom detectives can figure out who colorized this photo, and if they know about the rest of Robert Springs awesome photo collection....
Great thread. Is there more out there? I'm hooked. Oh, and I have an original of one of the WWII ones posted. Proof on the way. Let me fire up the scanner. It was taken by a Robert Spring. Spring was with the 59th Evacuation Hospital. Spring would put together souvenir packs of pictures for GI's passing through to buy or trade for. I have spoken to the son of a man that helped Spring with the taking and developing of the pictures, and that's how I came to know the story. I have one of those souvenir packs in an album of a GI that brought them home. I thought it was extremely interesting that of all the WWII photos ever taken, this was one that someone would take the time to colorize. Also, there's a treat-it was part of a 2 picture series of GI's following a tank. I wonder who colorized this one? Spring took amazing photos, I'd love to see what could be done with the whole collection! RIP to the GI in the foreground.  Check it out:
American soldiers, having lost one soldier, trying to cross the street under cover of Sherman tanks. Sniper fire is from the upper floors of buildings, Western Germany, 1945 
ETA: I notice the colorized one has a Signal Corps stamp, notice that mine do not. 
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Posted: 4/1/2015 2:38:11 PM EDT
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A group of bootblacks gather around an old Civil War veteran in Pennsylvania, 1935
A Finnish soldier and his dog, Hämeenlinna, Finland. February 1941 
Stuka dive-bombers fly over, Immola, July 2, 1944 
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Posted: 4/1/2015 2:49:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI work in Saratoga Springs and this is very recognizable even today. They've tried to retain a lot of the historic 'charm.' |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 3:40:20 PM EDT
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I went onto the artist's web site and found a few more:
VJ Day in Times Square, 1945: 
Polish victims of a Luftwaffe attack, 1939 (that is the little girl's mother. Welcome to the real world:) 
Soviet Prisoner staring down Himmler, probably 1941 
Rober E. Lee, 1869: 
American soldier shaving, battle of the Bulge, 1944: 
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Posted: 4/1/2015 3:52:15 PM EDT
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...as well as the most pants shitting-est photo you'll ever see: the Atomic blast at Bikini Atoll, 1946:
...as well as the next pants-shitting-est photo you'll ever see, the Vietnamese monk who burned himself to death, 1963 
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Posted: 4/1/2015 4:06:59 PM EDT
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...as well as the most pants shitting-est photo you'll ever see: the Atomic blast at Bikini Atoll, 1946: https://i.imgur.com/Ovqie.jpg Whoa. Does anyone else think the guy shaving in the last pic two posts up looks like a dead ringer for Tim Gutterson (Jason Pitts) from Justified? |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 4:30:14 PM EDT
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...as well as the most pants shitting-est photo you'll ever see: the Atomic blast at Bikini Atoll, 1946: https://i.imgur.com/Ovqie.jpg ...as well as the next pants-shitting-est photo you'll ever see, the Vietnamese monk who burned himself to death, 1963 https://theliteratelens.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dullaway3-copy1.jpg I believe the car is actually yellow, its in some museum in Vietnam now, I think.... |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 4:34:39 PM EDT
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Very cool pics!
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Posted: 4/1/2015 4:39:01 PM EDT
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wow. that is cool
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Posted: 4/1/2015 4:55:10 PM EDT
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"Unemployed? Doesn't matter, just got laid." Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:04:55 PM EDT
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Very cool thread!
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:11:55 PM EDT
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Thanks for posting all these pics. Very, very cool.
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:23:11 PM EDT
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Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) Quote HistoryQuoted:
Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) It's like ghosts from another time and another era are reaching out through the years to us in some spooky existential way. They're no longer dusty images in a history book; these are PEOPLE! Very sobering. Any word on the woman sitting behind him? She is almost certainly his wife. |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:25:20 PM EDT
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It's like ghosts from another time and another era are reaching out through the years to us in some spooky existential way. They're no longer dusty images in a history book; these are PEOPLE! Very sobering. Any word on the woman sitting behind him? She is almost certainly his wife. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) It's like ghosts from another time and another era are reaching out through the years to us in some spooky existential way. They're no longer dusty images in a history book; these are PEOPLE! Very sobering. Any word on the woman sitting behind him? She is almost certainly his wife. She's stunning, in any time. If you look closely, she's holding a cigarette in the hand near her face. Of course, cigarettes were sold at the candy counter back then. No one knew they killed everything they touch. |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:33:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) And he's been voting Democrat ever since! |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:34:03 PM EDT
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Is that a satellite dish? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Is that a satellite dish? Windmill. |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:35:29 PM EDT
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I like how well everbody dressed back then. Not a bunch of fat lard asses either.
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:50:15 PM EDT
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Here's what I've seen on the pic...
http://selvedgeyard.com/2009/12/06/photography-of-dorothea-lange-an-american-archive-hard-times/ Also, lots of cool pics of various things on that site 
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:54:32 PM EDT
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Whoa. Does anyone else think the guy shaving in the last pic two posts up looks like a dead ringer for Tim Gutterson (Jason Pitts) from Justified? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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...as well as the most pants shitting-est photo you'll ever see: the Atomic blast at Bikini Atoll, 1946: https://i.imgur.com/Ovqie.jpg Whoa. Does anyone else think the guy shaving in the last pic two posts up looks like a dead ringer for Tim Gutterson (Jason Pitts) from Justified? I thought the same thing!
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Posted: 4/1/2015 5:57:52 PM EDT
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It's hard to imagine how all these lives and the fates they were dealt came together to put us where we are today.
And what will people 100 years from now think when they look back on us. |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 6:52:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Really awesome pics. In my youth I always thought WWII was all black and white - the first time I saw color(rized) pics it blew my young mind.  |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 7:19:04 PM EDT
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The only thing that makes the present better is technology. America was so better off "back in the day".
Oh yeah, and that whole slavery thing. Besides that. |
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Posted: 4/1/2015 11:06:12 PM EDT
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The only thing that makes the present better is technology. America was so better off "back in the day". Oh yeah, and that whole slavery thing. Besides that. Recently freed southern slaves, probably 1864: 
A freed slave's scar from being whipped throughout the years, date unknown: (but he is wearing Federal uniform pants) 
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Posted: 4/2/2015 1:02:18 AM EDT
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keep 'em coming! More photos please
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Posted: 4/2/2015 2:37:40 AM EDT
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Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) Quote HistoryQuoted:
Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) I think it 535-07-5248 
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Posted: 4/2/2015 3:16:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a single land whale.  A few of those girls are cute. ETA: One of the neat things is how almost every woman in those pics, no matter where they are, or their social standing, or their current activity... they all look classy. Most of the men, too. Incredible difference from then and now. Still don't think I'd rather be in any other time of human history though, unless I could spend a few years in the 50's (having to deal with the threat of getting nuked though) or back to the 90's for a while Everything sucks, but it's OUR suck |
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Posted: 4/2/2015 6:59:45 AM EDT
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As I was looking at this photo, it blew me away when I realized this isn't just a bunch of crewmembers clowning around on a cart; they were showing what duties they had on the bomber. The two guys pulling the cart are the pilot and copilot, the guy with the brick is the bombardier, the guy in the hat pointing forward is the navigator, the guy with the headphones is the radio operator, the man with his eyes covered is the lookout who sat at the top of the plane, and the ones with the sticks and the slingshot are the gunners. The one in the back of the cart specifically being the tail gunner. Now that it's colorized this brings that whole world alive in ways that you just can't say in words. Does anyone know what significance the guy watching the light bulb would have on a B-29? Flight technician, maybe? Rest In Peace, Waddy's Wagon. Every single one of you is a hero in my book.. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8588/16025410364_c5882e5a05_k.jpg I'm thinking flight engineer possibly. |
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Posted: 4/2/2015 7:28:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) Quote HistoryQuoted:
Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) To me it looks like 535 not 555 |
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Posted: 4/2/2015 7:34:24 AM EDT
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To me it looks like 535 not 555 Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Tattoo says "SSN 555-07-5248" US Social Security Death Index HARRY T BENHAM 555-07-5248 December 19, 1908 August 19, 1987 78 years CA 90241 (Downey, Los Angeles County) To me it looks like 535 not 555 It is... http://selvedgeyard.com/2009/12/06/photography-of-dorothea-lange-an-american-archive-hard-times/ |
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