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This one got me when I was a kid. I thought that just awhile before they were living humans, together; they knew each other, teased each other, laughed and cried together, now they lie together.
It was the first photo of dead Americans in WWII. These men fell on Buna Beach in New Guinea.
Take a rugged soldiers combat uniform off and dress him in jeans and t shirt; he’s just a teenage kid. These three were kids not long out of high school.
**NOT TO BE COPIED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. SHARING IS OKAY. I’VE HAD TOO MANY OF MY ANSWERS STOLEN. RJ Holland. **
I’m including a few others-
Another one that struck me was these bone weary Canadian tankers in the Netherlands in WWII.
She is made of steel
And cannot talk
But she must have had some feeling
For she never made me walk.
Below, American tanker Julian Patrick from Kentucky, member of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division, killed in action inside his tank, March 6, 1945.
I would rather lose my life here,
Fighting for what I believe
Than have the enemy cross the ocean
To the country, where I live.
Below, US Marine giving a wounded Japanese soldier a puff of a cigarette on Iwo Jima
Below, GIs having some chow during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944.
Below, tired British soldier nicknamed a Tommy, WWII
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot- Rudyard Kipling
War is hell. It’s not pretty. It’s hard to look at but it needs looking at. WWII should never be forgotten.
WORLD WAR TWO, a war that really had to be fought.