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Anybody recognize this building or location?

ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
I'm trying to ID this location for a friend. WWII three brothers. It maybe a War memorial or I think outside a train station. Maybe someone will recognize the carved birds behind the men.

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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I have no idea but,those brothers sure look happy to be together!
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Not many clues here. TinEye image search came up empty.

    The eagles have upswept wings similar to National Recovery Act eagles on the 1930's. But the eagle's head faces the wrong way.

    I do not believe the eagles to be Nazi Germany, the wings are wrong.
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  • bigcitybillbigcitybill Member Posts: 4,914 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If those are supposed to be eagles, the sculptor failed miserably.

    Identifying the bird might provide a clue.
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They're geese, and the heads alternate to the left and right.

    Second clue.....tomorrow night.
    [}:)]
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will have to post a picture of my FIL and his brothers. All five of them were in the Marine Corp, at the same time, during the Korean war. His one brother from Georgia, was a drill sergeant for 30+ years in the Marines. One bad dude. They were all from Lancaster, PA. Parents were not happy when all the boys came home to the farm that day to tell their parents, that they ALL Joined the Marine Corps and were leaving for basic. Their mother, Donna's grandmother, died a few years ago at 99 years old and told me how proud she was o her sons. [:)]
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigcitybill
    If those are supposed to be eagles, the sculptor failed miserably.

    Identifying the bird might provide a clue.


    They are Geese. Geese were used as guard animals in Europe and they are prized and honored in many forms with such art.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought some kind of art deco WPA project trains station or WWI memorial.Even the uniforms don't give any clues...no unit insignia, or even collar brass.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Well, that makes better sense then ...

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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
    I thought some kind of art deco WPA project trains station or WWI memorial.


    I scrolled through hundreds and saw nothing like it. Hopefully someone here with some personal knowledge will enlighten us.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
    I thought some kind of art deco WPA project trains station or WWI memorial.Even the uniforms don't give any clues...no unit insignia, or even collar brass.


    I think you're on the right track.
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  • bigcitybillbigcitybill Member Posts: 4,914 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Could they have been entertainers?
    Like USO maybe?
    If that's an amateur photo, it's a pretty good one.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The man on the left looks exactly like George Koval, an important
    atomic bomb spy.
    If you can find a copy of Smithsonian May 2009, there's a big expose
    on how he went to Russia prewar, slipped back to the USA and joined the Army, working into the atom bomb project, spying for Russia and escaping back to Russia.
    He was more important than the executed Rosenbergs.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by v35
    The man on the left looks exactly like George Koval, an important
    atomic bomb spy.
    If you can find a copy of Smithsonian May 2009, there's a big expose
    on how he went to Russia prewar, slipped back to the USA and joined the Army, working into the atom bomb project, spying for Russia and escaping back to Russia.
    He was more important than the executed Rosenbergs.


    They look like identical triplets to me.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Three brothers from Albany, New York. It was supposedly taken at the end of the war, but I don't get the lack of collar brass and insignia.
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Guy On the Left looks Like a GunBroker Member[;)]
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is it in france?
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am with ITCDOTY The uniforms and shoes don't even look U.S. military
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Supposedly they never left the U.S., saw service in Syracuse, N.Y. and New Jersey. That's all the info the guy who owns photo has.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I also thought maybe USO entertainers..I'll ask the guy if talent runs in his family..[:)]
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  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    Gig line on the dude on the right is off by a mile. Makes me think USO.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WW2 era belt buckles and jacket.
    CIC , CID , reporters, wore no insignia when I was in, just US on each collar.
    I still say it's George Kowal, the spy on the left.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    The Chanin building in NYC?
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