have you got a war face

I sure we're all familiar with the drill sergeant's comment to the us marine recruit 'show us your war face'

I was thinking and this is my opinion if there was ever a picture that captured Britain’s war face it would be this one; though ironically you can’t see his war face.

ALONE BRITISH SOLDIER IS FIRING HIS RIFLE AT A DIVING STUKA


Are there any pictures that you think singularly capture a nation's war face during WW2.

 

My favourit German "warface" 1945.

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Regards
Kruska

 

"Winter war"... Frozen Red Army soldiers...the other a famous pic of the "Colossus" fighting back and winning the war ( Barbarossa )...

 

I want to salute Kruska but I don't know how!

Please reply!

Bob Guercio

 

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This Japanese girls speaks to me....

 

I think these pictures really portray what the children thought of this painful, seemingly never ending war.

 

Jag,

Excellent pics my friend. They capture the war and this time to the tee!

Mark

 

Thanks for the salutes guys

And Bob, if you are able to salute people at this point (you might not be) there should be a button that looks like this in the bottom right hand corner of each post.

 

This section sort of explains the "salute" option pretty well

http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-forums-news/26441-salutes-thank-your-fellow-rogues.html

I think as soon as you yourself have a certain number of posts, you are able to "salute" your fellows. I could be wrong, since I didn't see that listed in the "rules", but I have finally figured out that on;y three in any 24 hour period (for me at least) are allowed.

That section might explain both how to do a "salute", and how they are applied to those you "salute".

 

Great thread. Though I don't have links to pics but-you all know of that one where the German Grenadier who is smoking a fag during the Battle of the Bulge-his look says it all.

Another favorite of mine was taken of a German Officer during the Battle of Stalingrad. This shows a man who has see it all and the look on his face certainly reflects it. This picture is on the cover to Jason Marks excellent book: "Island of Fire. For years and years it had not been known who this officer was-untill sometime recently and is explained in Jason Marks excellent book. There are more photos of him-I think with his Wife?) that are published in this book.

That German officer is: Oberleutnant Friedrich Winkler of Gren Rgmt 577 of the 305th Inf Div. Sadly, he died between Feb 8-10 @ Beketovka PoW Camp.Still another that comes to mind I THINK is published in Guy Sajers book: Forgotten Soldier. This pic shows a German soldier wearing ahelmet-looks completely exausted and is resting his helmet against a tree.

 

A few more faces I feel embody the full spectrum of the war.

 

Three shots that 'speak' to me are 'after the battle' shots from D-Day ...

Defeat ... Relief ... Concern. In that order.

 

So let’s get this right, I'm the person who starts the thread and gets no salute but a guy who adds a picture gets a salute! Now I know what a WW2 Russian veteran feels like...do all the donkey work and get no credit, bloody typical.

Yet I feel this picture is an all time great - an opinion guys - so let’s not get those keyboard fingers twitching just yet. I’m drawn to this picture because we know what happens to them (well not specifically these two guys) and they seem confident in their posture...of their own invisibility.

 

Don't take it personnel komrade ... Jeff got the salute because I felt the same way as he did regarding that scene from SPR. It all comes to he who waits.

 

If we are talking movies I would have to say this scene from "Come and See" touches me the most. Incredible film.

 

hey komrade, that is a great pic, i might be mistaken but i think Carl (one of the guys on this form) actually owns the original photo of this

- its 2 nco's in street fighting in stalingrad

 

Here are two photos I would like to share as war faces, with some personal interest in both.

This is a picture taken by Virgil D. Haynes, a local photographer while he was stationed in England with a USA medical group (I'd have to dig into my files to find with whom). Boys trying to be men? Boys robbed of childhood by war? Your call.





This one is a drawing of my uncle, T4 Harry Renick who was with the 551st Parachute Infantry Brigade. This picture was on the cover of a WWII periodical, but I'm not sure which one. I always thought it was Stars and Stripes but as I've seen copies of those, that was more of a newspaper than a magazine, so I'm not sure. Still trying to figure that out. Mom had a copy of the original, but I fear that is lost and my cousin doesn't know either. Anyway, the editors seemed to think it fit some bill for the "war face" of that issue.

 

Doc,

Thank you for sharing these pictures. In the first pic... the young man third from the left,,, is he smoking a cigarette?? Second pic is an amazing drawing of your Uncle... his face depicting a time in history.

Mark