http://life.time.com/history/before-and-after-d-day-in-color/#1
these pictorials in color from WW2 always amaze me.
these pictorials in color from WW2 always amaze me.
My Maternal Grandfather went ashore 13-June-1944 at Omaha with the 30th ID,and was KIA 25-July-1944 in Operation Cobra,the Break Out of St.Lo
My mother was born 6-Feb-44 and as he had already shipped to England,he never saw her.
Excellent photos.
One of my uncles fought in Italy and brought back a German helmet and flag for my Dad. We still have the swastika flag.
Another uncle was lost aboard the Arizona.
My great grandfather side went in to the British army as a boy soldier in 1914 and made it out, he then lied about his age saying he was younger so he could go back into combat in WW2. Got out of both of them unscathed and died in his late 90s though I was too young to really get to know him before he died.
The other one was a life time soldier and spent 48 hours standing in the channel at Dunkirk before he was picked up. Pretty sure he was involved in the Normany landings in some capacity too. I never met him and apparently when he got out of the army he hit the bottle hard and had to pawn his medals for booze money :(
One of my favourite parts about Christmas is listening to my gran talking about what it was like to be a little girl during the war.
Damn, that's rough.
My dad smuggled home a bunch of stuff. Three rifles, binoculars, an iron cross and such. Those Mauser 98s are some wicked guns.
Thanks for sharing these, Mark.
One of the photos is of a group of Germans captured by the Allied troops. That photo really struck me. My father was about that age during the war. He served in the German army and was captured by the British. Getting captured saved his life.
Very cool photos.
Amazingly, to my knowledge, none of my relatives fought in WWII. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWI, and my Dad fought in Korea - but no WWII vets in the family line.
Grandfather on my dad's side was in the Phillipines. He survived the Bataan Death March. He would never speak of the war, unless he had a lot of booze in him. Then it was lookout cuz grampa is drunk and angry.