Pictures Of War.

On 11th March 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. The legislation gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the powers to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers.
Lend-Lease was the most visible sign of wartime cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union. About $11 billion in war matériel was sent to the Soviet Union under that program. The program started 3 months after the German invasion of USSR in June, 1941.

Additional assistance came from U.S. Russian War Relief (a private, nonprofit organization) and the Red Cross. About seventy percent of the aid reached the Soviet Union via the Persian Gulf through Iran; the remainder went across the Pacific to Vladivostok and across the North Atlantic to Murmansk. Lend- Lease to the Soviet Union officially ended in September 1945.


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I realise that the link is to a website with current photos of the towers, but the history of them is also available. So I hope these are acceptable here.




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I never got the chance to post, but here. :)

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...new here.

this place is dead. here are a few pics. sorry if you've seen them already.

I just found your community. I have lots of misc. WWII photographs here.

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The Nazi Party: 1918-1947

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I am very much a visual learner, and I thought I would share some cool clips I have come across

I recomend that you use "Save As" to see these clips, and to have DivX
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Onto The show: .....

PPSh-41 (71 round drum-one long burst! Oh yeah!)

PPSh-41(feminine touch-short bursts)

PPSh-41(watch the vertical spent brass ejection)
AK-47 (75 round drum-another long burst!)

MP 40 (Burp Gun)

MP44 and footage of German soldiers

Tank Battle, Watch some Combat footage of Panther tank burning

Triumph of the Will - 10 min. Clip... Real Player

Best viewed using Windows Media Player. I have had problems with RealAudio not playing these mpegs properly.
Download Media Player here

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A new website has opened up, Its an archive of unreleased photos from RAF planes in the European Theatre in WWII

http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/

I have included some nifty shots in this post below the cut. The website doesn't seem to be working, my guess is it recived too many hits so they have shut it down for the time being.

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Last November I completed another leg of my WWII History tour in Japan. The next couple are all from Hiroshima. You can browse all the pics from Hiroshima here.
Let me just tell you, Hiroshima is the most depressing place I have ever been in my life. I left feeling very sad, but conflicted. The Peace Museum there preaches the evils of Nuclear warfare, using the most disgusting things I've ever seen. There were mutated body parts encased in lucite on display. None of those are in the pictures I took. Its bad enough they are in burned in my memory (no pun intended)

abomb dome
memorial to mobilized students
memorial arch with bomb in the distance
a watch stopped in time

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