Originally Posted by sp2c
what's that one about?
any story or article (more pictures of that series?)
The Battle for the Bridge at Karbala
another pic:
what's that one about?
any story or article (more pictures of that series?)
what's that one about?
any story or article (more pictures of that series?)
The Battle for the Bridge at Karbala
another pic:
Pte. Dave Partridge of Whitby, Ont., left, Sgt. Chad Garton, center, and Pte. Chris Brooks of Brampton, Ont., wait for orders in Panjwaii, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept 4, 2006, after hearing that one of their comrades died in a friendly fire incident nearby. Two U.S. warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others in southern Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Les Perreaux)
wtf that pic really scares me
Young girl grieves her parents killed by
US patrol, Tal Afar, Iraq, 18 January 2005
The Battle for the Bridge at Karbala
another pic:
Wrong. This battle was fought in Baghdad.
yeah i've seen the full length to, I'm not for sure but I believe it was informationclearinghouse that took the interview out of context for propaganda purposes.
Two completely different bridges. You can tell just by looking at it. Doesn't anyone check this stuff before posting?
The Battle for the Bridge at Karbala
another pic:
Grr, I can't find the link for this one but remember reading it awhile back. If I remember right, one soldier/marine was hit by a sniper in Iraq and another went back to get him. The rescuer was hit so another guy went in to try and recover them. As he was coming back with one of the guys on his back, he was shot and killed by the same sniper. Only one of them (I think the second guy that was hit) made it out alive.
A Shau Valley.
Operation "Oregon," a search and destroy mission conducted by an infantry platoon of Troop B, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile, three kilometers west of Duc Pho, Quang Ngai Province. An infantryman is lowered into a enemy tunnel by members of the reconnaissance platoon.
That's right. We can recognise a division patch on his left
That fella is a Korean soldier IIRC (in Vietnam)
shoulder.
He was in a Tiger division just like my uncle.
And it looks like a very first time in the Vietnam War cos he
got a M1 Garand rifle instead of M16.
At the first time to send S.Korean troops to the Vietnam, U.S
military didn't issued M16 rifle. So, inevitably S.Korean troops
had to use M1 Garand or M1A1 carbin and B.A.R.
The war was getting hotter and hotter, finally U.S military issued
M16 rifles and also S.Korea acquired to make M16 rifle under licenced
condition after the war.
I know the pic has been described as WW2 eastern front and as a Japanese soldier shooting a Korean. I dunno where the pic is from, but to answer the question of "why would a Japanese soldier do this?":
From killology.com LTC David Grossman:
"The Japanese were masters at using classical conditioning with their soldiers. Early in World War II, Chinese prisoners were placed in a ditch on their knees with their hands bound behind them. And one by one, a select few Japanese soldiers would go into the ditch and bayonet "their" prisoner to death. This is a horrific way to kill another human being. Up on the bank, countless other young soldiers would cheer them on in their violence. Comparatively few soldiers actually killed in these situations, but by making the others watch and cheer, the Japanese were able to use these kinds of atrocities to classically condition a very large audience to associate pleasure with human death and suffering. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who had been spectators were treated to sake, the best meal they had had in months, and so-called comfort girls. The result? They learned to associate committing violent acts with pleasure.
The Japanese found these kinds of techniques to be extraordinarily effective at quickly enabling very large numbers of soldiers to commit atrocities in the years to come. Operant conditioning (which we will look at shortly) teaches you to kill, but classical conditioning is a subtle but powerful mechanism that teaches you to like it."
Dark psychology at work! It's scary how something like this could become formalized training.
Sorry to threadjack. I love the pictures on this thread.
There's are not an Okinawa Children. I strongly assumed that they
are Korean kids. The evidence is their shoes. We called it for 'go-mu-shin(rubber shoes)"
I think that photo has been taken during 1950~1953.
that just brings tears to my eyes. They can do amazing things these days with plastic surgery, but to make real progress with wound like that will takes many years. Thank god that he had a girl at his side who stayed with him. I hope they'll have a bright future, because they deserve it!I read about this man in a german magazine and i was quite moved.
Marine Sergeant Ty Ziegel already had his life planned out, he would marry his girlfriend Renee Kline upon returning from his second tour of duty in Iraq.
But one fateful day a suicide bomber hit his truck, tearing apart his body and making him among the 20,000 soldiers that have been wounded in Iraq. He was blind in one eye, had a shattered skull, and most of his skin was burned off. Renee lived with Ty at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas for a year and a half, sharing Ty's every hope and fear. Their relationship became stronger than ever, and Ty and Renee moved back to their hometown in Illinois in July 2006, and got married in shortly thereafter.
Here you can see the rest of the pics:
http://archive.reduxpictures.com/Pro...1&pgid=6415897
f*ck me that is one of the very few pictures that scares the sh*t out of me
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