Incredible WWII photographs

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:05 pm

Some really good photographs. Mostly all Pacific stuff. Would like to see that movie too, if it's anything like BOB, it'll be great.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... -theaters/

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:46 pm

There are two other photo pages there also down at the bottom in case you didn't see them. Vietnam and D-Day.

WhisperFan · Post by **WhisperFan** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:50 pm

When people talk about the "Old Corps" .... that's pretty much what they mean

Semper Fi Marines

Hush · Post by **Hush** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:55 pm

Never forget.

The_Kid · Post by **The_Kid** » Mon May 03, 2010 12:09 am

amazing photos.

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Mon May 03, 2010 4:26 am

The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?

continuity · Post by **continuity** » Mon May 03, 2010 4:58 am

Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?

There are those that believe the US eastern pacific involvement in blockading Japanese raw material shipping traffic had something to do with the attack on Pearl.

ick · Post by **ick** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:01 am

Wow, what must it have been like at the time to be there and experience that?

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Mon May 03, 2010 4:16 pm

continuity wrote:
Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?
There are those that believe the US eastern pacific involvement in blockading Japanese raw material shipping traffic had something to do with the attack on Pearl.

The more I know.

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Tue May 04, 2010 10:43 pm

continuity wrote:
Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?
There are those that believe the US eastern pacific involvement in blockading Japanese raw material shipping traffic had something to do with the attack on Pearl.

I read a really good book about it all, that pretty much explains it all very clearly.

In the end, they were only doing what they thought we were doing. Remember, at the time, the East wanted everything like the West, they ate it up, dress, mannerisms etc...

They saw what they thought (and may have been right), signs of American imperialism. And also thought we were snapping up the pacific islands. So they were only going after "their share."

We basically told them they can't do that. It's OK for us, but not for you.

That pissed 'em off and from there things went from bad to worse.

Makes perfect sense when you read the book. Sorry I don't recall the name.

What struck me in some of the photos was the density of the jungles. I'd hate to fight in something like that.

bakerjw · Post by **bakerjw** » Wed May 05, 2010 6:43 am

As I look at these pictures it makes me wonder if any of them might have been my uncles. Two of them fought in Guadalcanal.

Hush · Post by **Hush** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:54 am

If your interested in the history of what lead up to the war to Japan go to http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html
There are many people at that time who also believe Roosevelt wanted war and ordered a small boat into Japanese waters to agitate Japan trying to start a war, one now defunct out door magazine had the story and the name of the boat involved, its hard to find information on this story without knowing the name of the boat, which is long forgotten on my part but maybe someone else here remembers it.

silverbulletexpress · Post by **silverbulletexpress** » Wed May 05, 2010 9:46 am

MicroGuy wrote:
continuity wrote:
Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?
There are those that believe the US eastern pacific involvement in blockading Japanese raw material shipping traffic had something to do with the attack on Pearl.
I read a really good book about it all, that pretty much explains it all very clearly.

In the end, they were only doing what they thought we were doing. Remember, at the time, the East wanted everything like the West, they ate it up, dress, mannerisms etc...

They saw what they thought (and may have been right), signs of American imperialism. And also thought we were snapping up the pacific islands. So they were only going after "their share."

We basically told them they can't do that. It's OK for us, but not for you.

That pissed 'em off and from there things went from bad to worse.

Makes perfect sense when you read the book. Sorry I don't recall the name.

What struck me in some of the photos was the density of the jungles. I'd hate to fight in something like that.

Micro Guy I respectfully recommend you read some other books as well. That one sounds like it was written from a revisionist point of view to say the least. It reminds be of the books that now say we were wrong to drop the bombs and end the war early. Anyway at the time Japan was on a rampage. They were worried that we would stop them from getting the oil they needed to continue their wars so they gambled on attacking Pearl and lost.

RE Roosevelt wanting to start a war and sending a ship for sacrifice, those are those who believe Bush sent those planes into the twin towers too. Sixty years from now people will read those books and wonder.

rjs1000 · Post by **rjs1000** » Wed May 05, 2010 10:44 am

Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?

Are you ever gonna say anything stupid?

Tyris · Post by **Tyris** » Wed May 05, 2010 7:47 pm

silverbulletexpress wrote:
RE Roosevelt wanting to start a war and sending a ship for sacrifice, those are those who believe Bush sent those planes into the twin towers too. Sixty years from now people will read those books and wonder.

Not commenting directly on WW2 or twin towers, but the US has conducted or been complicit in false flag attacks to start s--t.

USS liberty and gulf of tonkin spring to mind.

-T

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Sun May 16, 2010 1:22 am

rjs1000 wrote:
Twinsen wrote:The Japs ever have to publicly apologize to us? They openly admit they attacked us just so they could take over the world?
Are you ever gonna say anything stupid?

I try to keep it under several thousand times a day.

Russian · Post by **Russian** » Sun May 16, 2010 2:12 am

Tyris · Post by **Tyris** » Sun May 16, 2010 5:40 am

Russian wrote:
Tyris wrote:Not commenting directly on WW2 or twin towers, but the US has conducted or been complicit in false flag attacks to start s--t.

USS liberty and gulf of tonkin spring to mind.

-T
How is the USS Liberty a false flag? Are you suggesting the US was trying to proke war with Israel during the 6 Day War? I've heard a few theories on what happened, but never anything like that.

No, it was supposed to look like Egypt was the dirty party. Problem was that a soviet boat saw what was happening.

-T

Hush · Post by **Hush** » Sun May 16, 2010 6:56 am

I had a hard time getting to sleep last night so I watched a program about the 10th Mtn. division, it was interesting with them learning to fight in ice and snow with temps around minus 35 degrees or so.
They first saw action against the japs on some islands near Alaska, they didn't know the japs pulled out and they wound up fighting themselves in heavy fog, 18 died, after that they gave a good showing of themselves in the mountains of Italy.

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Sun May 16, 2010 11:52 am

silverbulletexpress wrote:
Micro Guy I respectfully recommend you read some other books as well. That one sounds like it was written from a revisionist point of view to say the least. It reminds be of the books that now say we were wrong to drop the bombs and end the war early. Anyway at the time Japan was on a rampage. They were worried that we would stop them from getting the oil they needed to continue their wars so they gambled on attacking Pearl and lost.

RE Roosevelt wanting to start a war and sending a ship for sacrifice, those are those who believe Bush sent those planes into the twin towers too. Sixty years from now people will read those books and wonder.

I think you have mis-read, or misunderstood what I wrote, or at least the timeline I was talking about. I've read other books, and that one didn't "revise" anything. It simply gave an underlying, pre-war, mentality about the whole aspect. That's WHY they were after oil basically, they were expanding their Empire, just as they thought we were trying to do.

It's not like the sole reason for the war, it's sort of one of many lines leading up to the war.

If you look at the history of Japan, after the isolation had been broken, they were fascinated by and wanted all things "western." They changed from a more traditional dress to a style more western. Started acting more western, etc....

They looked at us, and saw Hawaii and the Philippines and a few other places, and wrongly assumed we were expanding our "empire" as England done year before in places such as the middle east and India. They saw that and said to themselves (basically) "Hey, we can do that too!"

So they started expanding. But they knew there would be a problem in doing so. The US wouldn't just stand by and watch them. And that created some resentment (another facet). Why can the US do it, But they can't?

There's nothing revisionist about it. Just another mind set, among several, for doing what they were doing.

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