WW2: Loot and Ruins: Leipzig

 

I am like wow, so much happening in this photo. Its taken from the final months of WW2. Pretty typical around that time the allied troops pushing back the Nazi and recovering their treasures and spoils! If this is in Leipzig what are the Statues supposed to be for? We can the place has been bombed, roof gone? Looks like a storage facility judging by the number of boxes in the background. Allied troops would send whatever they could find back home by Army post. 

Brooke Shields: American Royalty

It's not always War photos! occasionally I have posted famous icons from the Movies, Brooke Shields being the latest. I watched an excellent program on Brooke this week "Who Do they think You are?" Her family history is rather amazing it has to be said a direct descendant of the King of France Henry IV and of course his more famous grandson Louis XIV. Worth a watch on the Iplayer if you have time.

Brooke of course has been in lots of movies and TV hows but I think she is more famous for being Brooke! if that makes sense :) and no I wont put a photo up from the blue lagoon.

WW2 Rounding up Nazis

Rounding up Dutch Nazi's, sympathisers and fraternisers April 1945. This is a really interesting photo that tells us so much about the war. Very common scene for people who favoured the Nazis during the war to be rounded up once the country/city/area was occupied by the Allies. Women as above would have their head shaved, paraded on the streets, houses looted/burnt. I know this is in Holland but is the man in the centre wearing clogs?

WW2: Waldenburg Destruction

Allied troops making their way through a somewhat destroyed city of Waldenburg Germany. This was 1945, towards the end of the war. You can see from the smoke and steam raising up its pretty fresh.

War Horse: The Movie & History

I was pleased to see this movie come out. Not too fussed about the actual movie plot itself but more the fact it brought to peoples attention the role horses had in various wars. As recent as WW1 horses played a huge role in the war effort.

Not sure if this is a setup pose with the horse but its from  the American Civil war. I do hope it was not a tactic often used to cover behind the horse.

A great example of the horses ability to pull through artillery through muddy fields in WW1. This is from Ypres where the mud was so deep without wooden planks most of the fields were impassable. Horses were still used by the Cavalry in WW1 where weapons were not as sophisticated or ranged as WW2.

WW1 Propaganda Poster: Funny

I have posted about 20+ WW1 & WW2 posters on this blog, there are plenty more to find and view but they are all pretty much standard like the one above. The funny thing about this is that it states there is 'Room for you' but to me the train looks a little packed. Absolutely no chance others will be getting on that one!

WW2 Easter Egg Bombs

Black American troops getting the bombs ready for Easter with suitable messages. I would guess this is from around 1945. This type of thing where they put "words" on large bombs was rather common. I have seen 3-4 other ones with "Up Yours Hitler".

Potholes on Iwo Jima WW2

February 1945: The booted feet of a dead Japanese soldier, foreground, protrude from beneath a mound of earth on Iwo Jima during the American invasion of the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold in World War II. U.S. Marines can be seen nearby in foxholes. Having watched the "Pacific" mini series this photo looks very familiar. Soldiers dug into craters, holes, side of the hill etc. Dead bodies everywhere.