Historic Photos.

[LightSpectra]

Apparently, Lloyd Fredendall (commander of the US II Corps in North Africa that was dismissed after Kasserine Pass and succeeded by George S. Patton) used an entire engineer corps specifically to build him his headquarters, and then used an entire anti-aircraft battalion to defend it. Such was the waste of resources in making this complex that Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower were both so appalled that they considered dismissing Fredendall on the spot.

Any photos of this thing exist? I'm really curious as to what it looks like.

 

[bombshoo]

Apparently, Lloyd Fredendall (commander of the US II Corps in North Africa that was dismissed after Kasserine Pass and succeeded by George S. Patton) used an entire engineer corps specifically to build him his headquarters, and then used an entire anti-aircraft battalion to defend it. Such was the waste of resources in making this complex that Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower were both so appalled that they considered dismissing Fredendall on the spot.

Any photos of this thing exist? I'm really curious as to what it looks like.

I remember him from a magazine pullout on Operation Torch. A quick Google search of it brought this up.

 

[Squonk]

18 may 1944, polish forces capture Monte Cassino.

 

[Traitorfish]

The New Zealand Māori Battalion performs a haka in Egypt, July 1941.

 

[Kyriakos]

King Constantine and PM Venizelos, during the Balkan wars:

 

[frekk]

WW2, Nazi soldier in Russia:



WW2, Australian and British soldiers pose for a photo at the Great Pyramid in Egypt:



Best wartime photograph ever (Iraq? Don't know where this is):



VE Day in Canada:



Senegalese marines, WW1:



Before Dieppe:



After Dieppe:



Apartheid in South Africa:



Prague Spring:



Canadian soldiers in the Medak Pocket:

 

[Ajidica]

According to my Euro textbook, the Prague Spring picture is actualy of the French Student Riots in 1968. Plus the writing looks French.

 

[BuckyRea]

Best wartime photograph ever (Iraq? Don't know where this is):

Funny, but sadly a shop job. Or maybe it's "fortunately" a shop job, considering what might've happened to the kid's parents had that actually happened. Other versions of that same photo went to effort of shopping in an American flag on the soldier's helmet, just in case people were too thick to get the point.



Speaking of shop jobs...






And now let's get away from the military stuff and go for sheer awesomeness...



The trick is in how fast you get off the motorcycle after you bring it to a stop.

 

[Bugfatty300]

other versions of that same photo went to effort of shopping in an American flag on the soldier's helmet, just in case people were too thick to get the point

Pretty pointless gesture considering that he clearly isn't an American soldier.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

The lion makes this photo awesome.

 

[madviking]

General Marshall and Mao, after WWII

 

[Lord Baal]

General Marshall and Mao, after WWII

When was that? Just after the Japanese surrendered and before the Communists and Nationalists resumed their open warfare?

 

[madviking]

When was that? Just after the Japanese surrendered and before the Communists and Nationalists resumed their open warfare?

It was during the Marshall Mission, 1945-47.

 

[bombshoo]

I feel like gravity should have bent around this photograph. There is probably at least three periodic elements named for the people in this photo. Warning, large image.

Spoiler :

 

[NKVD]

that is the picture i would have post. Can you get better than this! only Newton is missing. That is truly the most Epic picture ever. Much of all we have today are due to those men ( and Marie).

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Probably the wrong forum, but anyone know of any naval blueprints of the monitors that fought the Konigsberg in E. Africa in WWI? I'd also like to see an overhead of the Konigsberg if anyone has a link.

 

[wolfigor]

Spoiler :

Soldiers resting after taking over the Wailing wall.


Israeli Paratroopers at the Wailing wall


Tank battles in Sinai.



Destroyed Egyptian plane.





WW2 vintage halftracks used by Israel




An IDF Halftrack passing through Egyptian wreckage.

 

[bombshoo]

Some historical get-togethers...

Spoiler :

Stalin and Mao


Nehru and Mao


Che and Mao


The Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama and Mao


Mao and Kim Il Sung


Ho Chi Minh and Mao


Mao and Nixon


Mao and Khrushchev


Tito and JFK


Khrushchev and JFK


Gandhi and Nehru


Gandhi and Jinnah


Che and Khrushchev


Castro and Khrushchev


Eisenhower and Nehru (apologize for the size on this one, accidentally saved the thumbnail.


Kennedy and Hoover


Lindbergh and Hoover


Lindbergh and Goring


Eisenhower and Franco


Hitler and Franco


Carter and Kim Il Sung


Nixon, Ford and Carter


Johnson, Nixon and Samuel Rayburn


Kim Il Sung and little Kim Jung Il

 

[GoodGame]

Nixon, Ford, Carter is one of the more interesting ones.


Mark IV Tank troubles:




captured!

 

[Tee Kay]

Continuing bombshoo's theme of historical meets:


Marshal Tito and President Nasser having a quiet chat.



Urdu-speaking Jawaharlal Nehru and Gujarati-speaking M.A. Jinnah



Emperor Hirohito, with the Kangde Emperor (Puyi). Hirohito hung on to the throne after the fall of his Empire, his puppet met a different fate.



Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) with Greek PM Venizelos, et al.



Looking east: Ataturk with Amanullah of Afghanistan



Zahir Shah of Afghanistan with his cousin Daoud Khan. Daoud would depose Zahir Shah in 1973, inadvertently beginning the country's slide towards thirty years of war.



King Zog of Albania, and Count Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister. Two years later Italy would invade and annex the country.