WWII General pictures and stories thread.
Share some stuff, /b. Maybe we'll meet our ancestors, too.
i have a few good ones
I see these pictures and I think of my two grandfathers. They were both there, both on the front. When a politician started talking about who needed invading and who needed to be brought to heel, that politician lost two votes. The both became close friends before they died, the first time either one of them actually spoke candidly about the war was after they met when my parents got married. Before that, nothing.
I guess you have to have been there to actually understand war and how horrible it actually is.
SS Soldier trains with the Bayonett
WWII was really the first well documented war due to the growth of journalism
German Luftwaffe Kampfbomber
I love german tds
war is censored these days, documenting a war was a mistake they learned in Vietnam were showing the images of the needless horrors of war brought the entire country to oppose the government, this is a mistake the US wont make again, WW2 and Vietnam are interesting in thay aspect
lets not forget the pacific vs the Japanese
>>684608543
>war is censored these days
on conventional media platforms it is, but it would be incorrect to say that there's less footage these days. i would say the ability to upload videos to site like youtube and liveleak more than make up for the censorship.
>>684608809
just finished rewatching the pacific.
too bad some scenes like the landing on peleliu were exaggerated or downright wrong
>>684609199
true, but you have to look harder to find it is what i was trying to say, i have seen some crazy stuff on vet's cellphones, but the say they could get in a lot of trouble for uploading it and getting caught
dumped all my webms in that thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8toHv2_xxg&feature=youtu.be
Fun Fact: Hitler in fact had no idea that Atomic Bombs were possible or were even a thing that could potentially exist. The group of scientists working on the "war" part of the war figured it out one late night that atomic attacks were in fact possible, and that they could essentially have one to two of them created and optional in at least four years.
One of the scientists went to his superior, who was in charge of the whole operation, and asked him if they should break the wonderful news to Hitler. His superior immediately said 'Please do not tell him. If you tell dafür that atomic bombs are possible, dafür will tell us that he expects them to be completed in exactly a year and a half. And that would be very very bad for you and me, and everybody working on the project".
So, they never told Hitler about the atomic bomb, and shortly after the scientists were captured by the Americans and were taken to America on asylum.
[source: personal interview with Ernst Rexer in the late 70's]
>>684609353
>but you have to look harder
maybe back in the day around 2003, 2005 when a lot footage that wasn't in line with the US government view was considered "anti-war."
nowadays it's much easier, since people are apathetic to the middle east.
>but the say they could get in a lot of trouble for uploading it and getting caught
i can respect OPSEC, at least when it's reasonable, like endangering operatives out in the field, and not just to protect the US from embarrassment.
mistakes happen, mistakes need to be acknowledged and corrected, and you can't do that if the stupid fucks in intel are hiding it.
>>684609762
Sounds about right. The transcripts from Operation Epsilon make it sound as if the scientists knew that it was distantly possible, but after thinking about it they were completely unable to build it. They needed time, they needed machines, they needed cooperation from a divided scientific community that were split on whether it was even possible. Some of the scientists went on to note that if they had built and used an atomic bomb, they'd have been hung as war criminals. They didn't think that the Americans would build one, let alone use two of them as they did at Hiroshima.
>>684609762
>yfw the german nuclear project was so underground it had to be financed by the fucking nazi post office department
>>684610258
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whoops
how do you get your fill of WW2?
CoH1 BK mod here
>>684610258
Indeed, the German scientists were put up in this high end hotel in America and they were put into big rooms for almost weeks at a time. They were given as much food as they wanted, to which they complained that due to such harsh rations on food back in Germany, they were getting fat! So stuck in these rooms for a few weeks and none of them had any idea that the Americans were recording their every word. One scientist asked another if he thought the Americans were recording them, to which he replied "Absolutely not, the Americans have much more important things to do than record us."
Anyway fast forward to when we actually sent out our first atomic bombs and used them in Japan, when the German Scientists found out about it, it was pretty much unanimous that most of them were absolutely relieved that someone else other than them had built (and used) them.
>>684611038
this thread is for Historical pics not for movie shit
haha my grand father was a Crimean Tartar he fought in the Turkestan legion in the German army. Kiling russians all day lol you mad russki?
allahsız gavur
my grandfather on my mom's side fought in north Africa against the Italians, he has stories about sailing the Mediterranean on a battleship which are pretty cool
>>684611353
speak english
>>684611457
shut up, turk power is everywhere!!!
>>684610779
War Thunder
>>684610779
CoH2 is my daily medicine! Was lucky enough to play CoH1 for a weekend or so. Really tempted to pick it up if it ever is on sale
sinking of the mighty battleship Tirpitz.
Grandmother and great grandmother i think in the same house as i live in now.
They could hear the air raid sirens and rushed down to the basement. They could hear the bombs drop and everything.
>>684612359
Grandmother and great grandmother i think lived in the same house as i live in now.*
god damn im autistic
>>684612423
What country/city/town did they live in, if I may be so bold to ask?
>>684612615
They lived in Tromsø, Norway. I still live in the same house.
Tirpitz sank right outside an island called håkøya.
starting to contribute now
got some cool nam stuff too
i actually prefer ww2 but if theres interest im gonna bump nam too
>>684612615
definitely not dresden
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>>684613162
isn't that ww1?
looks like a m1916 stalhelm but the uniform looks like post-ww1.
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>>684612423
my grandfather was too young to fight, he was in the hitlerjugend tho.
he used to have 7 brothers, they all died in war. 4 of them used to be in the SS, one even Waffen SS.
I still got that HJ fahrtendolch, the dagger they all got.
Unfortunately i dont have any uniforms or weapons left...
Friend of mine got 2 iron crosses of his graddads, 1 for shooting a russian tank and one for dieing at the front.
>>684613504
yep its ww1
>>684612942
Amazing!
>>684613631
My honor for your brave grandfathers
>>684613631
most stuff i have left is colored
>>684613504
Oh dude im sorry that was fatal. just looked at the thumbnail and it was in my ww2 folder.
Sorry mate didnt try to mess it up
Guess i should keep posting hitler, cant do nothing wrong with that lel
>>684613820
names were fun
>one was called Ambross
>>684606946
Bootin
Great grandfathers on my fathers side were in the Royal Navy and the highlanders. Served in NA and Italy then onto Germany. My great grandfather on my mothers side trained gurkhas in india and burma
>>684614078
i dont like these recolored pics so much, but at the time i started saving ww2 pics again it was kind of hyped...
>>684614243
was looking for this pic for a bit, its shot from a plane while bombing a japanese naval base
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>>684613973
s'all right mate, shit can get pretty confusing.
you want a real head turner, check this pic out
>>684614116
i appreciate
Listening to these old folks telling about the war and the time after is just fucking interesting.
Could listen to my granddad for hours.
Most stuff he tells is after war era, starving and how he managed to get his education and his own buisness done.
Fuck everytime i think about these ppl manage to get through this i start thinking about myself.
The shit i consider trouble. And they went throu fucking hell and back and lost most of the ppl they once knew on the way along.
my grand father fought near Dunkirk in 1940 during what we called in France, la Débacle, the Rout.
He saved his company officer and got awarded for that. my dad keep this medal with great proud for him. He defended the pocket of Dunkirk until he tried his way to the ships with few fellow comrades.
He told my dad that the brits aboard the ships used their baionets and knives to prevent them to board.
He then was taken prisoner as many french were, and had to literraly walk hundreds of miles to a prison camp in Silesia. Germans shot a few of them during the march.
Krauts, as France has fallen, threatened their families if they dared to escape the camp. So he stayed the entire war in the camp. He met my grandmother once back in France and passed away years later.
Ever since my dad told me his story during ww2 , i loathe with all my guts the fucking british propaganda. I mean, yes, the battle of britain is a heroic moment in british history, but they easily cover up their campaign in France blaming the french. And so goes the 'white flag' meme.
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>>684612615
Guy who lives near where tirpitz sank here.
my great grand father was from austria and faught for the germans.
I dont know if this is fact, but after what i've heard he was captured and taken as a prisoner by the germans for helping the russians.
>>684613225
mini maus
>>684614492
now im confused
>>684614622
haha
>>684614596
here's some more shit to get angry at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir
Robert Thomas Paulsen - SGM and my grandfather. Was scheduled to deploy to Wilhelmshaven for bombings, but coincidentally fell ill the night before his deployment and never left American soil.
here is a picture i like, it's of russian refugees, the germans over took their town so the russian army burned all there homes to destroy the town rather then let the germans capture it
>>684615002
nothing to be confused at
>>684615069
kek try to tell your Gruppenführer you feel sick
>>684615105
they did the same here in norway up in Finnmark. They destroyed the whole town and then burried their belongings
>>684614595
yeah I wish I could have met them. My great grandfather who trained gurkhas, he served in France during WW1 and he suffered psychologically after the war and has respiratory problems later in life from a gas attack while in the trenches. Somehow he managed to secure a place in the armed forces when WW2 broke out.
I'm the same as well I think my lifes tough at time then think about 18 year olds storming the normandy beaches and remember how easy my life is
>>684615262
I think it was an ear infection or something. Or maybe pink eye. Something really incredibly stupid but it makes for a good story I guess!
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>>684612615
Here is a steelplate from Tirptiz made into a mermorial.
>>684613631
they one that got the iron cross for shooting a tank got captured by russians in 44 i think, stayed at a russian camp for half a year and, at least thats the official story, stole a gun, shot a guard and walked all the way back to germany as the war was over.
im almost out of pictures now
>>684615584
pic is shutty cause of an old shitty phone.
here are some parts of what i believe is from Tirpitz
>>684615422
>My great grandfather who trained gurkhas
>he served in France during WW1 and he suffered psychologically after the war
fucking gurkhas man
>>684615684
forgot the pic
The last Great War. Much love and respect for all who fought for the awful, awful freedoms we enjoy.
>>684615104
That ammo box actually contained a telephone so that the infantry could communicate with the tank crew.
The brother of my grandfather went missing in stalingrad. My great grandmother saved thousands of articles about missing soldiers but he never turned up... she told us that, when she brought him to the train station, he kept on crying and didn't want to go back to the front and that was the last time she saw him. He was just 18
My grandmother almost got deported to sibiria but the train was stopped last minute so she just had to do some labour for the polish
>>684615796
heard that before +1
>>684615472
didnt try to piss you off
>>684615796
Which alot of crews ripped out in order to stop soft, squidgy infantrymen standing where they shouldn't.
>>684616112
Frauenkirche
>>684615749
haha yeah he always said if he had to have someone cover his back it would be a gurkha. A few years back there was a bounty on a taliban HVT and one day a gurkha came back to base camp, entered his COs tent and dumped the HVTs severed head on the table and asked for his reward.
原爆はすごく悪かったです。日本人は原爆を大嫌いでした。
>>684609199
>them katyushas
>>684615791
>The last Great War
no war is great anon.
>>684616112
fuck thats rough
so sad i thought i had the pics of the guys dropping the nuclear bombs
>>684610779
war thunder all day, my man
>>684615007
both french and english are to blame in this tragic episode imo
>>684616626
>that little crying bitch
lmao the kids younger than him were stoic
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>>684616112
thats really sad...
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>>684612192
secret german wonder weapon: the magnetic helmet
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>>684610779
War Thunder
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>>684606946
I really like these threads, thanks anon ! :)
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>>684610779
i still play rising storm/red orchestra time to time
frequently arma 3
could i please get the nigger captcha back, this fucks me up so bad.
>>684616930
ant genocide when?
>>684616917
you know, say what you want, but i would definitely not want to be a kid in germany during and after ww2.
you read about the shit like the volkssturm conscription, the rape of berlin, and you really have to admire germans for getting back on their feet afterwards.
>>684610779
CoH WaW and War Thunder when I can
>>684617416
yep. Its easy to talk shit on the internet
WWII is the end of the world for me. Everything afterwords is some bizarre postscript that shouldn't have happened. It feels like we're living in an alternate reality where Germany was defeated just so we can see what things become.
In the real world, Germany won and pulverized the very degenerate ideas that run amok across the world today. What we're experiencing now is just a dream.
Nevertheless, I get my WWII fill through playing RO2 every once in a while, doing my best to defeat the Russian.
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>>684616512
She looks a lot like the russian girl in the movie Stalingrad
>>684617416
the male kids got off easily during that conflict, if they were girls the soviets would have raped them but since they were boys probably nothing bad happened to them, compared to everyone else since the older guys got killed or sent to camps, the older women were mostly raped or shot
and they only got back on their feet in western germany since the allies gave them loans to rebuild and got them in the international trade, eastern germany is still much less wealthy even after hundreds of billions from the western side after the wall fell
>>684617593
yep it's hard to be actually educated on the subject too
>>684617367
acutally a proper one.
waiting for the time pics to ruin it a while now tho
got nthing left for now to contr
>>684617830
not if youve been to school in germany...
>>684617830
very true even in school we only touched on the basics and most of it was the home front
>>684618005
alright shit's getting a little too pessimistic for me.
let's cheer up a bit!
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>>684606946
The Airborne were first in Bastogne
>>684617888
LIFE not time...the fuck is wrong with me
>>684618346
I have a fun story.
>be me
>going in debt
>running out of yen fast
>wife tells me she's gonna move out
>taking the kids with her
>i punch her in the nose
>fuck.avi
>luckily it's legal so it's okay
>she takes the kids and leaves
>im alone
>bills keep piling up
>stop buying food to save money
>eventually i pick up a opium addiction
>go to a really deep underground den every night
>one day i decide to go really early
>almost nobody there except my nigga chen
>chen is a hardcore addict
>sold his house for opium money
>during a toke i tell him about my plight
>he feels for me
>we toke together
>suddenly we hear a loud bang outside
>we wait in for an hour before coming out
>nuclear wasteland outside
>mfw i survive hiroshima by hiding in an underground opium den
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>>684618362
probably means first of patton's 3rd Army to break the encirclement
>>684618362
OP here, good to see this thread is alive still.
Your right, I know. But the tanks look cool lol
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>>684618362
i can tell thats true because of band of brothers
>>684614492
Finnish Armed Forces. They used military equipment from both British and German military surplus. They received most of it during the Winter War against Russia.
3 things won WW2 1. Hitler tried to take way to much to fast 2. the soviets fought like hell 3. the allied forces took advantage of Hitlers stupid decisions and attacked at the right moment.
Patton's terrier William on the day of Patton's death / assassination.
>>684618883
oh yes the lee enfield so sexy
>>684618566
Yeah, Patton's 3rd Army did break the encirclement and pretty much claimed the victory, problem is that just around the time Patton's 3rd Army arrived the USAF arrived as well, providing support for the Airborne. But in a way yes, you are right.
>>684614078
this is fake shit
>>684610286
wow
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>>684618571
The tank is fucking beautiful OP fucking beautiful!
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>>684618883
interesting theory
but that's the irish defense forces during the emergency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlhelm#Stahlhelm_use_in_other_countries
they used some kind of stalhelm instead of the
>>684610258
didnt the nazis dump barrels of basically hard water at the bottom of some mountain lake in holland or something? To try and hide them from the allies?
>>684618362
Nah, they didn't arrive until the 19th. 2nd & 99th Infantry and ummm 7th(?) Armoured had been pounded pretty flat by then.
>>684619319
>instead of the brodie helmet
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>>684614492
irish
My grandfather drove a jeep in Germany shitfaced, he crashed into a tree and walked like Frankenstein.
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>>684610779
HOI 3
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>>684612670
they dropped prematurly? Bomb sliced off wing?, the shadow there...
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>>684612866
ww1
>>684616112
my grandfather shot his own leg so he does not have to go to war. during war they saved political enemies. as the americans came, some of them looted us, but nevertheless, they were kind of nice people to civilians. my grandmother always tells how they gave bubble gum and chocolate to children and cigarette to adults, wich was awesome for the hungry and nearly starving people around my village (near remagen). later, as the french took over the leading of our zone, they send only their nig nog colonial soldiers. because we are a small village with tradition many of the people where in groups that used to drink (burschenschaften). as the nig nogs saw there was alcohol, they stole it and went ape shit, shooting half of my grandmothers girlfriends and raping the shit out of them. french were the worst, not as bad as the sovjet, but still pretty fucked up.
the grandpa of my best friend was in stalingrad, too. he went into a prison in sibiria and lived like a "king" there. he was able to use a crane and excavators, so they could use him pretty well, wich was why he got more food and even an own room to sleep in. came back like a caveman tho, but at least he didnt starve there and was used as human recources.
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>>684612866
grandgrandfather was a veteran.
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>>684620591
really wish i had the time to get into grand-strategy.
is HOI one of those games i can leave running while i write papers and shit? as in, no need to constantly micromanage?
>>684621100
checked
at least that's not a completely sad story
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>>684621499
I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR THIS ON MY COMPUTER
thanks i probably didn't have it anyway, at least on this current one
>>684621709
no problem bud
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3 pics to image limit
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>>684622123
and /thread
Anyone up for part 2?
Because I'm continuing
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>>684621478
well the sad story was the time during the hitler regime. we lived in a street with a synagogue and a lot of jews. my grandmother said the nazis just looted their homes and everything they couldnt steal was thrown on the street and burned, because like sleeping on their matress was considered to be dirty. later they were put on a truck by gunsight and brought to a place in our town where the nazis told they are going to "go to work in better conditions than before". they were never seen again and the synagogue was soon the be brunt by an "accidental fire". the fireworkers came only when the neighbors building caught fire, too.
she said it was sad to see what happens to friends and neighbors and always told, that people who say "we didnt know about the holocaust" just deny that they were helpless and griefing, but they had to cheer, because otherwise that same fate would have happened to you.
but yes. war is hell. we have a 5000 people town and in our church there is a a book of all the townsman who died, jews, communists, resistancefighters, soldiers, civilians... its such a big book. what is kind of sad that nobody has a grave. there is only that book. no jew was given the privilege to be buried, no soldier will be remembered by a grave, no parents can grief their children in a seperate grave and everyone who is alive is doomed. you cannot and mustnt tell about what you did. you are a veteran (probably everyone is, because of "wunderwaffe volkssturm") but everyone hates you, if you tell. its a lost generation with lost souls. i can only imagine how bad they still can sleep at night.
>>684609762
dafür !? its der führer !
>>684615688
awww m22 locust!
