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>>2470797
That dude is bad pass!
>>2472476
underrated post
>>2472476
8-year-olds, dude.
>>2481944
thank you for the image, maybe try for high-resolution?..
>>2482375
Why is the blurry object on the left side of the page, 3/4 of the way toward the bottom, circled with a blue line? Do you have the original without the edit?
>>2487488
That's a water/mold spot. That's what happens when you store film or prints improperly. Film, and then printing onto photo paper is how we used to take "photographs" before the advent of digital photography.
>>2487488
must be a ufo, good find brother
>>2494760
Dat .50 with a shoulder stock.
>>2495055
That's an M1919 .30, bro. It's a Browning and looks much like Ma Deuce, but it's definitely a .30 cal.
The M2, "Ma Deuce" is actually just a sized up version of the M1919.
That man was a genius. The M2 will never be replaced.
>>2493148
>2493148
Does anyone know what it says on the sign? Is that the local brothel district? Note the naked kids on the left.
>>2495962
Google Translate gives 2 options:
>How casual dong Changde
>County Council often often merit protection
Take your pick. Could be both. But I would guess more toward the latter.
What a horrible fucking war. All those poor lads seeing their fathers going out in WW2 to save the world, the whole country working together to defend the evil axis, life or death. Will with this propoganda about the great American heroe's fresh in their mind they feel the need to protect the country like their fathers. And Bam they get down there and it's just a total shitstorm and the whole country hates em when they get back
poor fuckers
>>2498431
yup. and it been like that for pretty much every 'war' since... no clearly defined enemy. always trying to help the locals who don't even have the will to help themselves.
its always a loosing prospect.
>>2498431
Nice talk dude! This ware really an horrible war!
And everything was done in the name of the fight the communist in Vietnam and in the whole Southeast Asia.
The worst thing is the average age of the american soldier that was 19 years old, despite their fathers have had 23.
I was in Vietnam. The museum over there is called the 'American War Crimes Museum"
>>2499143
That was an American fault, but that was a war to consume the Soviet money! And US won for that!
>>2498476
HOW did the Vietnamese not have the will to help themselves? You're talking about the arabs.
>>2470797
>Immediately prior to apocalypse now . . .
Here you war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFD6Nuocf-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhp-6i3P4ao
>>2470783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
if you're not listening to this while looking at these pictures you're doin it wrong
will I ever be well again?
will I ever be whole?
If I grit my teeth
and stretch and strain
will I attain such a goal?
will I ever be strong again?
will I ever be brave?
If I set my face
and I raise my chin
will I dare to come out of the cave?
will I ever be useful again?
will I ever serve the cause I believe?
If I penitent crawl
and recant it all
will the powers yet grant a reprieve?
will I ever be normal again?
will I ever come close?
if I paint my face blank
and sing the same tune
will I strike a convincing pose?
will I ever belong again?
did I ever belong before?
we are born in the like
of the God spurned and killed
and our souls with each other still war
will I ever be real again?
no – not any more real than this
for I breathe in the atoms
of rocks and of waves
and the wind that stirred the abyss
>>2511911
fuck off
bump, awesome thread would love to see more color photos.
>>2498476
Most wars throughout history have been that way, WWII made us delusional
>>2517706
Most wars throughout history have lacked clearly defined enemies and been bogged down with helping locals? Can you site some examples?
From US history: Revolution- clear enemy
1812- clear enemy
Mexican-American War- clear enemy
Civil War- clear enemy
Spanish-American War- clear enemy
WWI- clear enemy
WWII- clear enemy
Even Korea, ugly as it was, had a clear enemy
It's only over the last half century that we've started fighting idiotic wars to which we're only half committed, with no clear victory to win even if we had the will to win it.
>>2498476
oh my, you delusional usfags. ww2 was all but over when you joined in, you didn't win it, you just helped finish it. and every "war" you have been in since then was an invasion, realy. when you pretend to bring "freedom and democracy" by brining death and destruction you can be very sure the locals will not like you, except for those that see an oportunity.
>>2517763
You do realize that there have been more conflicts than that right? Conflicts that have not involved America?
>>2517763
A good example would probably be the Spanish Civil War, since you had half-a-dozen different countries putting their hands into the same bowl.
Also, I don't think you can consider the War of 1812 having a clear enemy since the Americans were fighting several different factions including the British, Canadians, and Native Americans (from both sides of the border).
>>2517800
"All but over"
Uhhhh
>>2517800
Began Sept. 39, with nothing really happening until early 1940.
Shit gets real mid 1940
U.S. enters end of '41
Nazis in full retreat by winter '42
European war ends May '45, while Americans take on the Japs nearly alone (aide from Australians and New Zealanders)
Though it'd be accurate to say Russia did most of work, America's contribution can't be disregarded
>>2518371
>European war ends May '45, while Americans take on the Japs nearly alone
what is manchuria operation......
>>2470797
Is that M1?
Why didnt they gave them the old m14s at least?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY In case you're not in the mood yet
>>2518412
August Storm is a real example of entering after it's all over.
Despite the masterful execution of deep battle/operations, it was the Red Army at the height of its power vs. a bunch of 14 and 50 year olds. The best of the Japanese Army was either stuck in China or had starved to death in the Pacific.
>>2495060
True.
the shit was getting closer,
viet cong guerrilla, u.s. embassy, south vietnamese government buildings, saigon
Hovering US Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a Vietcong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, in March 1965
Bodies of US paratroopers lie near a command post during the battle of An Ninh, 18 September 1965. The paratroopers, of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, were hit by heavy fire from guerrillas that began as soon as the first elements of the unit landed. The dead and wounded were later evacuated to An Khe, where the 101st was based.
A US paratrooper, wounded in the battle for Hamburger Hill, grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation at base camp near the Laotian border on 19 May 1969
The body of a US paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter
As fellow troopers aid wounded comrades, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guides a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue in April 1968
>>2493146
I like how the mode of the picture changes after the black dude walks in.
>>2470783
hue
Happy Chirstmas!
>>2545232
Thank you
Great powerfull pictures.
Thanks for all of you.
I lost many of these in my last HD.
>>2470790
I worked on this photo a little bit with this program https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur to get more detail out of it and here's the result.
>>2495962
>google translate
>Mountain people of Thuong Duc
this little brat was renamed “Little Tiger,” rumored to have killed two “Vietcong women cadre”—his mother and teacher. Vietnam, 1968
>>2493148
>Is that the local brothel district? Note the naked kids on the left.
fuck you're retarded
The Americans still owe Vietnam reparations for this war.
>>2474109
w2c boots?
>>2558532
huh?
>>2560600
That is my uncle Larry. He passed away in 1985
>>2561261
Read up on him after seeing your post. He died pretty young, sorry for your loss
>>2561261
prove it
>>2493147
Where’ s that tape?
>losing the war against commie farmers
you can't make this shit up
>>2563467
2/10 attempt
>>2495550
Chop chop chop chop chop!
>>2570138
How to pop start a chopper
>>2517763
How do any of the wars you've cited have a 'clear' enemy? UIS Civil War? You serious nigga?
No war has a 'clear' enemy. What you must have is a 'clear' objective and the will to win. It's not that hard to understand - not withstanding the hoards of the ignorant, but it is remarkably hard to achieve. Leadership is vaguely related if I recall correctly.
>>2531964
Wrong description. This is a US Ranger paradiving into a hot LZ near the Laos border. A .50 Browning and ammo was deployed shortly before the pic was taken.
Subsequent body count tallied 18 VC KIA.
>>2517763
Idiots like you have murdered millions. Please study the military art before spouting off.
Unbelievable.
>>2550535
>blurred it horribly and increased the file size by 1.4mb using a deblurring tool for no perceptible gain
lolwut
>>2502272
>HOW did the Vietnamese not have the will to help themselves?
Government was corrupt and run by the army so for most people there was no reason to fight. For many peasants the communists were an improvement
>>2484704
>OperationHueCity1967wounded.jpg
gotta feed the Hog!
>>2493180
and their JB's are shined!
>>2574085
>Vietnam_War_Fall_Of_Saigon.jpg
the original is correct,as per'Life' I need to make this clear, the kids here won't get the humour. I served in the 2nd Ranger Battalion so I can appreciate your description.
>>2584165
something like 80% of the population would have voted for the communists if given the chance, with the dictator of 'south vietnam' being a nut who murdered his own people. (which wasn't supposed to be a country in the first place, vietnam was arbitrarily bisected between the colonial french interests and the communist grassroots pending an election that never came)
>>2576116
those legs
another angle
>>2514726
no, but your mom is
>>2590000
Quads don't lie
>>2592073
>Quads don't lie
that aint 'Nam though
>>2592086
It is called the nation of Vietnam, not Nam you degrading piece of stinking cowboy dung, you guys lost and still you think you have the guts to call them goons and Nam....baka this is why America ALWAYS!! is the loser...*spitting on your grave*
Historcal fact, without the communists aka Stalin the Germans would have obliterated the US teen soldiers.
Vietnam was just a highschool for LSD teenage hippies, not soldiers ever fought in Vietnam.
Now you have Crazybeak Mccain as a reminder.
STFU child of a loser.
>>2592326
Correcting myself so you can understand, you will only understand english ofcourse:
>> Historical
>> no (t) soldiers ever fought....
>>2592326
Is this irony?
>>2592368
has to be
>>2592326
>>2592332
>thinking all posters are american and only speak english
>the qualities of the Wehrmacht during WWII are relevant to the qualities of Vietnam War US troops
>using a popular abbreviation is degrading
>pulling out because your populace doesnt support the war is Losing
>*spitting on your grave*
if i had a grave for you to spit on, i wouldnt care since i would be, well, dead.
and if you feel the need to shitpost, at least contribute with a picture
>responding to bait
>>2495550
Until energy weapons become more common.
Does anyone have pictures of Da Nang aroung '69-'70? Possibly including helicopter mechanics or just in general? My grandpa was a helicopter mechanic with the Jolly Green Giants from 69-71 at the Da Nang airfield. He doesn't talk about it. I'm just trying to track down pictures of the area he was in or what he had to deal with there.
>>2596488
>>2538933
Guy on the left holding a Stoner 63 LMG with drum mag.
>>2601400
Isn't that the guy who took out a VC general, and spent days crawling across a field to do so? Can't remember his name.
>>2602563
You mean Carlos Hathcock? Hathcock was a Marine. The guy in the photo is with the 25th Infantry Division
>>2470788
We so totally could have won this war, we just didn't have the balls to do what was necessary. Never again.
>>2603173
That's right. I remember seeing a picture of him with a rifle similar to the one in that photo. The guy he killed was also NVA, not VC. It's been a long time since I read about him.
>>2494760
So, who's the Buddy Holly expy posing there?
Anybody have this torrent or at least some of the pictures?
>>2426075
>>2607765
i have a few, like 8000ish but many aren't big enough for /hr/
Sorry if repeat
>>2609429
PLEASE post them to MEGA or something. Or a magnet link or something
>>2545232
Carton of pall malls
>>2610151
>in a body bag
members of the 121st Military Hospital of the 9th Military Region (PAVN) treat soldiers in U Minh Forest
>>2615632
this pic is insanely fascinating
>>2508992
Fucking faggots. Fuckers were spitting in my dad's face when he came back. Now they're corrupting their grandchildren with their hippy dippy bullshit. Someone ought to kick their faces in.
>>2517800
LOL. So what you mean is that is TWICE the US had to come save Europe.
>>2592326
The NVA was completely decimated and near capitulation when we pulled out. We did so for political reasons, not militaristic. Even to most conservative estimates admit that while the US lost ~50,000 troops, the NVA and VC lost somewhere around 2 million. That is a staggering difference, hardly a "loss".
The mere fact that the US became DISINTERESTED in those shit-box countries does not qualify it as a loss.
>>2603479
This president was an evil bastard, right?
These are great photo's. Thank you. All give a sad feeling, because the suffering and death war brings.
Any pics with Vietnam citizens...?
>>2498476
Talk about pussy Syrian refugees..
>>2620830
EXACTLY
WE WON
pussies hate to admit it though..
>>2621119
You lost, like everything else....you see in war everyone loses, again and again and again and again...
>>2620830
>> Define troops...and political conquest.
Troops US were conscripts, NVA and VC partisane, guerilla. Just some US boys and very young men to kill mainly civilians in the jungle...the US covertly invaded a country, called in by the french colonials to eradicate a socialist partly supported by the vietnamese people that could be an ally for the cccp and the cold war, fueling parts of the well oiled US warindustry aka weaponshows ( jets and napalm)...fighting for a so called shadow aka fantasy and a money swindle...it shows how utterly disrespectful and how utterly stupid americans always have been. (On repeat)
(racist too...)
>>2522336
He's ARVN, USA provided a shit ton of m1s to them.
So before we have an idiot shit up the thread even more, have an actual photo.
>>2624335
So what? No info about americans murdering civilians??
>>2624513
war is hell
>>2620830
>US lost ~50,000 troops
It doesn't matter. Those were troops you could not afford to lose. It cost too much in public opinion.
The NVA/VC didn't have to "win," they just had to resist and survive long enough for the war to become unpalatable for the American public.
It's the exact same way the British "lost" the American revolution btw. The British public would no longer support the war because it was costly and unpalatable, so the British pulled out and let the Americans win. It was all decided in the British parliament. The Brits didn't want to pour more money and lives into a pointless conflict with people they did not believe to be truly enemies.
But that may not even be the point. The whole American involvement in Vietnam may have simply been a show of force, to make the deterrent of America's military a credible deterrent. Also make the USSR spend a bunch of money on a useless client state.
Like why even hop in the thread if you hate war?
>>2626020
because being a smartass and using highschool tier hindsight knowledge displays your superiority on this anonymous forum of rejects and outcasts
>>2554741
Damn, I would have loved to be a soldier at that age. All that ignorance about true combat with all the fun in the world killing people and shooting shit. It would have been heaven. Being a child soldier has got to be one of the coolest things. It'd be like playing with your action figures, except now you're your own figure and doing all the awesome shit you'd make your little heroes do.
>>2626772
And if you die, you go straight to heaven!
>>2626056
>when they ask us to pretend their past mistakes didn't happen...
But they don't. America has been obsessed with the negative aspects of the Vietnam war since it happened. The only reason you know enough about it to be critical is because of American journalism at the time and American films later. The sad fact is that...
>...and then go on to blithely repeat them.
...America doesn't need you to pretend anything.
>>2626816
I don't know. . . I guess you have a point but a significant portion of American conservatives think that the war was perfectly justified and perfectly well conducted, and if weren't for those hippie traitors kicking up such a fuss it would have went fine. I don't even buy into all the anti-American memes surrounding Vietnam but it is frustrating to see regime change operation follow intervention follow clientage etc etc ad infinitum.
I know plenty about Americas recent history, I could name half a dozen brutal client arrangements the Americans set up but none of them went quite so badly as South Vietnam. At least not in magnitude. I mean the Philippines were pretty bad but how many American schoolchildren could even point out those islands on a map? Let alone remember the war there? That's where the Americans discovered waterboarding btw.
>>2626851
And yet the US - almost single handedly - won the cold war. And why did it remain mostly a 'cold' war? Better if you answer that for yourself.
Look, the US does a lot of retarded shit. Much of it is cleaning up after euro imperialism. It would be nice if someone else could pitch in and give more than token support instead of sniping from the sidelines.
>>2626856
Hey, tens of thousands of my countrymen volunteered to fight in Vietnam for the Americans. You're welcome.
>>2517869
The "War" of 1812 was complete bullshit. That was no war. We would have kick the British asses if we really wanted to.
>>2626856
Well that's just the thing, most U.S. allies don't have the capacity or desire to pitch in, and simply like to rely on the U.S. for everything military related while complaining about the U.S. for being a military nation.
It's the U.S. military that guards the trade routes of the world and it's the U.S. military that kept the Russians from taking over Europe and other parts of Asia, yet as a nation all we get is shit from the 1st world because other countries are all too willing to forget what happened when their leaders also had armies.
Hell I'll be one of the first people to say that the U.S. government has done some super sketchy shit, and has subsequently used the military for questionable purposes, but it's not like anyone else is able or willing to step up to the plate, especially most first world countries.
In fact that's originally what the European Union was for, a way to keep Germany and France from having strong militaries so another great European war didn't happen again, in the form of the European Coal and Steel Community which neutered the capacity for either nation to supply themselves with the raw materials most commonly needed for war at the time.
And for countries in other parts of the world the issue lies in the fact that they don't have economies strong enough to support a military large enough to defend themselves against most large foreign powers, with many countries in South America and South-east Asia being good examples of this.
>>2627351
Sure. Like when the Brits kicked your asses and occupied Washington in 1814 and the government (including the President) ran away to Maryland. Only thing that saved the US government that day was a freak thunderstorm.
>>2627351
You realize the war of 1812 was a war started on principle, not any actual military strength, and that the only reason the British government decided to leave us alone was because their merchants were complaining they didn't have that juicy American trade anymore?
>>2517800
Don't ever argue with Americans. It will lead to nothing. You can't talk to generations of 'we VS them'-indoctrination and misinformation. Definitely the most brainwashed population in the Western world, perhaps worldwide even, if you take out North Korea and such.
>>2498382
why the fuck would they make camp out on a ridgeline like that?
it creates perfect silhouettes for snipers and spotters for mortars
>>2627904
Because that's an artillery position.
>>2627864
Faggotry coming out of your ears on this one.
I need some help. A few months ago there was a thread that was about a year old that had pics of a construction project at the Chernobyl power plant site.
I'm pretty sure it was on this board but could have been on wallpapers. I checked in on the thread over a period of months but now it's gone and I'm not sure what board it was on.
Any help on finding it would be cool. Thanks for any help you can give Anons.
I've got this thread bookmarked and will be checking on it everyday or so until 404s.
>>2628184
thread was here and was about the Chernobyl sarcophagus but it is no longer archived.
>>2628184
The thread was on this board and if I recall correctly it's a yearly thing, so if you wait around until later this year there should be another update from the anon that works in/around the construction site.
>>2628184
pho/t/o anon here
I saved those images.
It's only about 200 or so pics.
You still here anon?
Nice to see so many of my pics posted here.
This one reminds me of the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
>>2628184
anon?
>>2629963
Charlie don't surf.
>>2499143
Relevant name I guess
