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Favourite WW2 Photo
What is(are) your favourite(s) WW2 photo(s)?
Tell us why it is one of your favourite, maybe even a little story?
You may leave comment, more photos and much more..
SS soldiers playing with a little kitten..
This is one of my favourite.. More coming
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
Patton at the Rhine
... yeah, he's doing what it looks like he's doing.
-whatever
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
This photo,
You can see the emotion of this young German Soldier: Argentan 1944
He has seen death, many destruction, lost many comrades..
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
The "real" SS
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Close Combat Training
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
Not WW2, but my ultimate favorite photo,
SPANISH LOYALIST AT THE INSTANT OF DEATH
by Robert Capra, 1936
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
I don't have a copy of it but my favorite pic of WWII shows the five MArines and one Navy Corpsman, who are raising Old Glory on top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. The photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal-now, and sadly, deceased. :-((
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
You mean this one:
Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes.
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
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Originally Posted by Sturmkreuz
You mean this one:
Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes.
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Danke! and also thanks for posting their names. I was about to go look for their names to post here before I leave to go to a Wedding.
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No Problem. I'm here for helping! Sehr Schön 
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This is just an eerie looking picture. It's my all time favorite of WWII.
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wow that was bigger than I thought lol
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
Well, I don't think is as much my 'favorite' photo as it is my most interesting one! Its truly surreal, and I don't know the background story at all. :S
There are too many pictures to choose from to find a favorite! Or maybe it is the second one? Similar but silly!
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
The picture above with the gun on the boy´s head is from a Russian movie actually. Very documentary like, unfortunately don´t recall the name right now.
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Ah hah! So the Germans created the Yetti in an attempt to create an Ultimate Soldier that could combat the Russians during the winter!
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The picture above with the gun on the boy´s head is from a Russian movie actually. Very documentary like, unfortunately don´t recall the name right now.
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Ah! So it isn't a 'real' photo after all? 
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This is from the 1985 Russian film "Come and See" (Иди и смотри) from a scene where the Germans have just ransacked a village and decide to use the lead character for a posed photo.
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
And to anybody who hasn't yet seen it.
See it!
Remarkable film.
Cheers,
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
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Originally Posted by WotNoChad?
Like a lot of modern Russian cinema it's stark and quite dark with a lot of metaphorical despair, but to my mind it's one of the most realistic portrayals of events on the Eastern Front.
To avoid derailing this thread with all things cinematic I think my current favourite photo's are the "This man is your friend" series of posters...
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You forgot my favorite! The Russian!
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Re: Favourite WW2 Photo
What's with the bear? I like the first photo of the Estonian volunteers.
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