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WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online
aquarium writes "The Guardian Unlimited reports that unique aerial photographs of some of the key events of the Second World War are to be made available for the first time over the internet. The photographs are being made available through a website created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA) at Keele University - an official place of deposit for the National Archives at Kew, West London. The entire archive of more than five million aerial reconnaissance photographs, shot by the RAF over Western Europe during the conflict, is going online starting Monday. They include American troops landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, the seizure of the Pegasus bridge by British paratroops, the aftermath of the first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, and the German battleship Bismarck as the Royal Navy hunted her down. The multiple photographs taken by the high resolution cameras meant they were able to create 3-D images through an instrument called a "stereoscope". The technique was used to construct a detailed picture of the Normandy terrain ahead of the D-Day landings."
Not all of them where heroic. Can you spell war crimes.
Look at war today also, its still there. rape, looting, brutality, murder.
Do not glorify war.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Have you no respect for those that died for your freedoms in the 2nd world war - or are you just brutally retarded?
STFU. This isn't funny, in the slightest, you have to be a real sick puppy to try laugh about people giving their lives for you, yes, YOU, so simply shut up if you have nothing good to say.
Any joke made should be modded down.
--- any post that takes longer than 20 seconds to write, isn't worth writing
See, Dresden was not a stategic military target, but the U.S. decided to bomb our city anyway in order to destroy the morale of the general civilian population. In other words, the U.S. engaged in terrorism because terrorism works.
U.S. hypocrisy won't allow the bombing of my city or Japan's to be called terrorism however. Officially it's only terrorism when a powerless group does it.
Just to go along this line of thought:
Adv. For Sale: WW2 French rifles - never fired and only dropped once. (teehee)
Remember, we were the GOOD ones. If we did look bad, it meant the commies were the good ones, so that simply had to go.
This is all very convenient for you self-loathing types, you stomp around as much as you want.
Personally, I'll remember only that we WERE the good guys. Does that mean that we didn't do anything bad? No, and anyone who thinks it does is frankly pretty stupid. War sucks completely. Completely. But there is such a thing as a good and bad side to things nevertheless.
You say that "If we did look bad, it meant the commies were the good ones, so that simply had to go." - either you're confusing Nazis with Commies, or you're really talking about Communists, which is totally a different track but whatever.
So you draw moral parallels between the Allies and the
a) Nazis with their engineered DEATH camps, or
b) the Soviets, whose armies basically raped everything female in Berlin and other conquered German soil?
If you can't see a difference between "them" and "us" then you are a pretty sad individual.
For those of us who have fought in war, it doesn't matter for crap WHY you're killing that human over there. You ARE, and you will live with that fact the rest of your life.
But, I ask you to look carefully and imagine a world in which the Nazis had won. Was it worth doing just about anything - including killing helpless civilians, yes, even children - to end that?
I'd imagine the ash-piles of Auschwitz alone would say yes.
-Styopa