Images of War

Roadkill · 11-24-2005, 08:17 PM

I, as do many here, spend an unexcusable amount of time in browsing at images of past conflicts. In what most likely will be an unsuccessful attempt to liven up the evening a little, let's try something. I will post an image from a period of war. Whoever can correctly identify the conflict, correct time frame, location, and if possible the photographer will post the next photo.
The identifier's information reference the photo must however be substantiated. Here's mine:

any takers?

Edward Tinker · 11-24-2005, 09:16 PM

If I remember correctly this is from the Franco war, just before WW2, taken in Spain.

Good idea Glen,

Ed

Ron Smith · 11-24-2005, 09:22 PM

A Spanish Militiaman during the Spanish civil war, circa 1936? Photograph by Capa.

Ron

Roadkill · 11-24-2005, 10:10 PM

Absoultely right. 1936, Robert Capa, death of a Loyalist soldier in an assault. Ed, I'll have that item you sent me finished tomorrow. Ron, you were the closest. Your turn to post one. Here is the provenance:

CapaÃ¢??s 1936 photograph of a Spanish Republican (Loyalist) militiaman collapsing into death, the so-called Falling Soldier. (Its proper title is "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936."

rk

Ron Smith · 11-24-2005, 10:23 PM

Okay, ya'll get a break on this one. Photographer is not identified.

Roadkill · 11-24-2005, 10:36 PM

Spanish America War, Rough Riders, preparation for charge up
San Juan Hill, July 1st 1898

Ron Smith · 11-24-2005, 10:49 PM

BINGO!! From page 59 "The Krag Rifle Story". The 16th Infantry armed with model 1892 Krag rifles.

Roadkill · 11-24-2005, 11:14 PM

This is it for me tonight, have to get up at 0400 to get another deer. Will check back in then

rk

Ron Smith · 11-25-2005, 09:38 AM

Well , I'm taking a WAG here.

1st Marines landing on Peleiu 1944.

Edward Tinker · 11-25-2005, 12:49 PM

Iwo Jima, 1945

Although it could have been many islands. I see the end of a carbine, can't tell by the helmets or other gear

ed

Roadkill · 11-25-2005, 07:37 PM

Inchon

The Lt with the carbine rec'd the Congressional Medal Of Honor shortly after this photo was taken:

Assault on Red Beach, 5th Marines, 9/15/50
Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez.

First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez charges over the sea-wall at Red Beach, and soon after sacrificed his life for his comrades.

Lt. Lopez was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Edward Tinker · 11-25-2005, 08:47 PM

The Korean War book East of Chosin is very fascinating, really makes you think how those poor guys made it.

ed

I know that we both didn't get it right, but here is one:

Photographer Andrei Freidmann, famously known by his working name Robert Capa, was one the greatest contributors of World War II imagery. His picture of the D-Day invasion is one of 11 remaining pictures captured from the historic battle-- four film rolls were destroyed after a darkroom employee overheated the negatives in the drying cabinet. Life magazine published the photos anyway, telling readers that the surviving images were out of focus.

Ron Smith · 11-25-2005, 11:08 PM

Omaha Beach , June 6, 1944. D-Day invasion.

Edward Tinker · 11-26-2005, 12:07 AM

Correct:
Photographer Andrei Freidmann, famously known by his working name Robert Capa, was one of the greatest contributors of World War II imagery. His picture of the D-Day invasion is one of 11 remaining pictures captured from the historic battle-- four film rolls were destroyed after a darkroom employee overheated the negatives in the drying cabinet. Life magazine published the photos anyway, telling readers that the surviving images were out of focus.

Steinar · 11-26-2005, 08:35 AM

..people make computer games recreating D-Day, with as realistic sound as possible. So that kids/teenagers can "experience" it and have fun.. developers make their money, without respect for those who fought and died.

Always grateful.

Ron Smith · 11-26-2005, 10:30 AM

Roadkill · 11-28-2005, 04:38 PM

Terrain looks like Tarawa, pillbox reduction, Nov 1943, USMC, could also be Pelieu.

Ron Smith · 11-28-2005, 05:35 PM

Make a discision, which is it ? Vanna can sell you a vowel

Roadkill · 11-28-2005, 06:12 PM

Can't really tell. The sand is white so its isn't Iwo Jima, Bougainville was in the swamps and low lands as was Guadalcanal plus they have M1s instead of 03A3s, most Tarawa photos are of the seawall. Okinawa is more plains and forests, this is on a beach with rather steep terrain. I'll go with inland fighting at Tarawa.

rk

Ron Smith · 11-28-2005, 06:38 PM

Page 37 "U.S. Navy War Photographs"

" The Marines inch forward against suicidal resistance on Peleliu Island."

Photo by Pfc John Smith USMCR.

I'll let you have it.

Ron

11-24-2005, 08:17 PM	#1
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Images of War I, as do many here, spend an unexcusable amount of time in browsing at images of past conflicts. In what most likely will be an unsuccessful attempt to liven up the evening a little, let's try something. I will post an image from a period of war. Whoever can correctly identify the conflict, correct time frame, location, and if possible the photographer will post the next photo. The identifier's information reference the photo must however be substantiated. Here's mine: any takers?

11-24-2005, 09:16 PM	#2
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,935 Thanks: 2,033 Thanked 4,533 Times in 2,093 Posts	If I remember correctly this is from the Franco war, just before WW2, taken in Spain. Good idea Glen, Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

11-24-2005, 09:22 PM	#3
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	A Spanish Militiaman during the Spanish civil war, circa 1936? Photograph by Capa. Ron __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-24-2005, 10:23 PM	#5
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Okay, ya'll get a break on this one. Photographer is not identified. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-24-2005, 10:49 PM	#7
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	BINGO!! From page 59 "The Krag Rifle Story". The 16th Infantry armed with model 1892 Krag rifles. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-24-2005, 10:10 PM	#4
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Absoultely right. 1936, Robert Capa, death of a Loyalist soldier in an assault. Ed, I'll have that item you sent me finished tomorrow. Ron, you were the closest. Your turn to post one. Here is the provenance: CapaÃ¢??s 1936 photograph of a Spanish Republican (Loyalist) militiaman collapsing into death, the so-called Falling Soldier. (Its proper title is "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936." rk

11-24-2005, 10:36 PM	#6
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Spanish America War, Rough Riders, preparation for charge up San Juan Hill, July 1st 1898

11-24-2005, 11:14 PM	#8
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	This is it for me tonight, have to get up at 0400 to get another deer. Will check back in then rk

11-25-2005, 09:38 AM	#9
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Well , I'm taking a WAG here. 1st Marines landing on Peleiu 1944. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-25-2005, 12:49 PM	#10
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,935 Thanks: 2,033 Thanked 4,533 Times in 2,093 Posts	Iwo Jima, 1945 Although it could have been many islands. I see the end of a carbine, can't tell by the helmets or other gear ed

11-25-2005, 07:37 PM	#11
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Inchon The Lt with the carbine rec'd the Congressional Medal Of Honor shortly after this photo was taken: Assault on Red Beach, 5th Marines, 9/15/50 Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez. First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez charges over the sea-wall at Red Beach, and soon after sacrificed his life for his comrades. Lt. Lopez was awarded the Medal of Honor.

11-25-2005, 08:47 PM	#12
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,935 Thanks: 2,033 Thanked 4,533 Times in 2,093 Posts	The Korean War book East of Chosin is very fascinating, really makes you think how those poor guys made it. ed I know that we both didn't get it right, but here is one: Photographer Andrei Freidmann, famously known by his working name Robert Capa, was one the greatest contributors of World War II imagery. His picture of the D-Day invasion is one of 11 remaining pictures captured from the historic battle-- four film rolls were destroyed after a darkroom employee overheated the negatives in the drying cabinet. Life magazine published the photos anyway, telling readers that the surviving images were out of focus.

11-25-2005, 11:08 PM	#13
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Omaha Beach , June 6, 1944. D-Day invasion. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-26-2005, 12:07 AM	#14
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,935 Thanks: 2,033 Thanked 4,533 Times in 2,093 Posts	Correct: Photographer Andrei Freidmann, famously known by his working name Robert Capa, was one of the greatest contributors of World War II imagery. His picture of the D-Day invasion is one of 11 remaining pictures captured from the historic battle-- four film rolls were destroyed after a darkroom employee overheated the negatives in the drying cabinet. Life magazine published the photos anyway, telling readers that the surviving images were out of focus.

11-26-2005, 08:35 AM	#15
Steinar User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,538 Thanks: 18 Thanked 36 Times in 21 Posts	..people make computer games recreating D-Day, with as realistic sound as possible. So that kids/teenagers can "experience" it and have fun.. developers make their money, without respect for those who fought and died. Always grateful. __________________ Previously known as Morgan Kane

11-26-2005, 10:30 AM	#16
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	__________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-28-2005, 04:38 PM	#17
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Terrain looks like Tarawa, pillbox reduction, Nov 1943, USMC, could also be Pelieu.

11-28-2005, 05:35 PM	#18
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Make a discision, which is it ? Vanna can sell you a vowel __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

11-28-2005, 06:12 PM	#19
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Can't really tell. The sand is white so its isn't Iwo Jima, Bougainville was in the swamps and low lands as was Guadalcanal plus they have M1s instead of 03A3s, most Tarawa photos are of the seawall. Okinawa is more plains and forests, this is on a beach with rather steep terrain. I'll go with inland fighting at Tarawa. rk

11-28-2005, 06:38 PM	#20
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Page 37 "U.S. Navy War Photographs" " The Marines inch forward against suicidal resistance on Peleliu Island." Photo by Pfc John Smith USMCR. I'll let you have it. Ron __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

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