I had yet to see these…seems like I get an email every few years with some previously unseen photos.
Those are great… Thanks.
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Those are great… Thanks.
Makes you wonder how many rolls of film/pics are stored away in attics throughout the world with timeless stories on them. As the number of WWII vets dwindles rapidly I’m sure they get discovered when going through personal items.
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I just finished Studs Terkel’s “The Good War,” which I highly recommend. Very cool to see all of these photos with that book freshly on my mind.
I had seen most of those photo already. A lot of them were official US Navy photographs taken by the group led by the famed photographer Edward Steichen.
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Those are great… Thanks.
Makes you wonder how many rolls of film/pics are stored away in attics throughout the world with timeless stories on them. As the number of WWII vets dwindles rapidly I’m sure they get discovered when going through personal items.
My dad was a WWII vet who served on a B-24 crew in the Pacific and was also part of the occupying force after the war ended where he was primarily a radio operator. He took quite a few pictures of post-war Tokyo that he only shared with us during the last few years of his life, including one he took of Gen. MacArthur as he was leaving a building, which I now have. Luckily for us, he started to give these away to us and tell the stories of his time there ( good and bad) before he passed away last year so that we could have a better understanding what it was like.
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Those are great… Thanks.
Makes you wonder how many rolls of film/pics are stored away in attics throughout the world with timeless stories on them. As the number of WWII vets dwindles rapidly I’m sure they get discovered when going through personal items.
My dad was a WWII vet who served on a B-24 crew in the Pacific and was also part of the occupying force after the war ended where he was primarily a radio operator. He took quite a few pictures of post-war Tokyo that he only shared with us during the last few years of his life, including one he took of Gen. MacArthur as he was leaving a building, which I now have. Luckily for us, he started to give these away to us and tell the stories of his time there ( good and bad) before he passed away last year so that we could have a better understanding what it was like.
Wow powerful. From me to you and yours thanks to your pops for his service. I had posted some time ago on a Veterans Day how I’d bought a cup of coffee for an old salty Navy dawg at Starbucks. We sat down and he regaled me for about twenty minutes about his time in the Pacific theater…was a rewarding and memorable experience to listen to him. He was probably 90 or close to it, sharp as a tack.
moving photo’s for sure.
IMO, there is so much unknown about the pacific theater. The logistics of all those landing invasions just amazes me. So much of that part of the war was orchestrated from the sea and ships. Just amazing.