Your favorite WWII Photographs

PearlJamNoCode · 27-02-2007, 02:14 AM

What are some of your personal favorite WWII photographs? If you can, please include it and maybe a little about why you like it so much, and what it means to you.

I like this picture for obvious reasons; the 101st battle-ready with their faces painted, meeting with the man in charge of it all.

I like this because it isn't about planes and tanks and infantry, just about peace for a world that had been through so much.

I like this photograph for artistic reasons, the darkness alludes to the terror that went on during the next few hours after this photograph was taken.

This one is just awe-inspiring to me. How proud some of these men must have felt.

Those are just a few of my favorites, I'm sure that all of them are easily recognized. Anyone have any other possibly less well-known favorites that they would like to share?

ErikH · 27-02-2007, 03:33 AM

spidge · 27-02-2007, 05:53 AM

This is one of the Australian 9th Division parading before General Alexander after the battle of El Alamein.

After being the dominant infantry division (with 18th brig-7th div) that held Tobruk for eight months, they were an integral part of the El Alamein battle
and received just recognition.

9th div after alamein032d.jpg

Kiwiwriter · 27-02-2007, 03:34 PM

There are so many....I think I like Joe Rosenthal's Iwo Jima photograph the most, I guess.

Cpl Rootes · 27-02-2007, 06:43 PM

These two are favorites of mine

Although both photos are probably staged, the look of joy on the soldiers faces is real and emotional.

27-02-2007, 02:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
PearlJamNoCode Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 139	Your favorite WWII Photographs What are some of your personal favorite WWII photographs? If you can, please include it and maybe a little about why you like it so much, and what it means to you. I like this picture for obvious reasons; the 101st battle-ready with their faces painted, meeting with the man in charge of it all. I like this because it isn't about planes and tanks and infantry, just about peace for a world that had been through so much. I like this photograph for artistic reasons, the darkness alludes to the terror that went on during the next few hours after this photograph was taken. This one is just awe-inspiring to me. How proud some of these men must have felt. Those are just a few of my favorites, I'm sure that all of them are easily recognized. Anyone have any other possibly less well-known favorites that they would like to share?

27-02-2007, 03:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
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27-02-2007, 05:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,026	Recognition This is one of the Australian 9th Division parading before General Alexander after the battle of El Alamein. After being the dominant infantry division (with 18th brig-7th div) that held Tobruk for eight months, they were an integral part of the El Alamein battle and received just recognition. 9th div after alamein032d.jpg __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

27-02-2007, 03:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	Favorite photos There are so many....I think I like Joe Rosenthal's Iwo Jima photograph the most, I guess. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

27-02-2007, 06:43 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cpl Rootes Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: With Puff the Magic Dragon, living by the sea Posts: 1,040	These two are favorites of mine Although both photos are probably staged, the look of joy on the soldiers faces is real and emotional. __________________ Regards, Alex http://rootsie.wordpress.com/

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