Classified Photo's from WW2

TooBig

Like you_fve never seen it_c.Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, McArthur landing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki_cits all here_c.


These photographs were classified during WWll.


Many of us have not seen photography like this before. Beautiful, stark black and white pictures, about 110 of them,


of historical significance in this collection. At the end of the pics there are some interesting comments.


For many of us, our fathers and/or grandfathers participated in this action...


World War II: The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters.






http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/#more-1547

Grasshopper

Grim realities of war--Thanks for the pics-

CoolhandLuke

Very interesting, thanks.

Irish 8802

I believe the warships in photo #6 are Destroyers..

Junkballer

Sadly, I'm not sure if our country has the will power to do that now [:(] too much in-fighting going on now.

kimi

I really enjoyed looking at the old pictures. Thanks!

p3skyking

Outstanding collection of photographs. Many I had not seen before. Besides Attu, Kiska was also occupied by Japanese forces too, but they abandoned it before they had to be removed.

allen griggs

Great pics. Grim.
Thanks for posting.

discusdad

the #2 pic is what some say is torpedoes from a midget sub that had entered the harbor undetected. look at the 2 lines headed to the battleship broadside. altho that sub was located outside the harbor later and sent to the bottom as scrap recovered after the attack, it may be the answer to one of the last questions about the attack.

MMOMEQ-55

Thanks for the post. Love these old photos. I have hundreds of old WW I and WW II pics. None of these so I will add these to my collection.

gruntled

The pictures of the Atomic Bomb explosion were classified for some time after the war. I went to an event at Wright Patterson & they had a booth where you could view the pictures. They were not on open display but in some kind of viewer.

nunn

Picture #16 depicts a Marine going ashore carrying a Thompson submachine gun with a drum magazine. (?) Probably a 1928A1, and I had no idea the military ever used the drums.

Dad served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during WWII. He was already in service when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, having joined up in the 30s to escape the harsh reality of life during the Depression.

Dad never spoke much of his service. I asked him once if he had killed anyone in the war, and he said, "Yes, I helped kill a great many, but they were a long way off." (He served on a big cruiser.)

He said that service in the Navy was better than being a ground-pounder. He said that he always had a bunk to sleep in, and always had hot food to eat, unless the ship was under General Quarters.

Beyond that, he didn't say much, but he did come away from the war with a deep hatred for the Japanese and the British.