Jerry19811
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Picture taken at the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit a French man who had collaborated with the Germans in Rennes, France on November 21, 1944.
The 2nd atomic bomb as it was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S. on August 9, 1945.
The remains of Hiroshima, Japan after US forces dropped the 1st atomic bomb immediately killing 80,000 which steadily increased to 140,000 days later due to radiation exposure.
August 6, 1945
French anti-aircraft fire during a Nazi raid on Algiers, 1943.
A British plane in Gibraltar preps for a flight to the UK as searchlights shine in the background (date unspecified).
Air Force bombers fly over Ploiești, Romania, following a raid on August 1, 1943.
There were 16 cameramen accompanying this mission, the one who took this photo was the only one to survive.
Jerry J. Jostwick/U.S. Air Force
https://allthatsinteresting.com/world-war-2-photos
Twosarcastic2care
Thank you for the historical photos. These are incredible, and frightening.
GnomeDeGuerre
9/11 on a bigger scale.
ColMouseturd
NoGunsNoCats
I live in Gibraltar!
zorb33
it only took one asshole to start the world war.
420username69
#1 he's going to be ok, right?
MacroManJr
All this death and destruction, just because some losers wanted to think they were the best around.
Tomkat53
Some of these pictures make me think... "When ONLY the bad guys have guns."
OliverClothesoff70
War is hell.
brucom
Those aren't Air Force planes, they are Army Air Corps. The USAF was established in 1947.
Felitaur
US Army Air Force at this point in time.
IHaveSomeLyricsForThat
Off we go into the wild blue yonder!
HasturShoggoth
Flying high, into the sun!
Britboy
No
TheFireFerret
Scary thing was those numbers are after the US dropped pamphlets days before telling the Japanese they were going to annihilate Hiroshima
TheFireFerret
President Truman was also not told of the civilian casualties till after the second bombe dropped and he wrote in his journal how America/
TheFireFerret
should be proud for never using atomic weapons on civilian targets
BitchySadElvenMermaid
war is fucked up
ThePhantomMenace
Seems like an awesome time to be alive.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
As long as you weren't in Europe, Asia or Africa.
DiceyBusiness
That Gibraltar photo is pure fucking art.
CoeusDarksoul
I'm not ENTIRELY sure I needed to see that first one without any preamble... at least it's not in color O.O
Frazzledragon
I don't really appreciate seeing somebody get shot on imgur. When I'm in the mood I'll go visit some different websites, you know the ones.
rambosmurf
I'm older than average imgurian, and I came late in my Dad's life. He originally maintained anti-aircraft search light equip. Considered >
rambosmurf
High-tech back then. But when we gained air superiority, they made him an infantry scout because of his shooting ability. We talked >
rambosmurf
For hours about his nearly 10 months fighting Germans. A German hand grenade put him in the hospital for nearly a year in Holland. /end
rambosmurf
PS: Funny twist, when my Dad retired he was working for a German textile mill. He actually worked with some men who may have been >
rambosmurf
On the opposite side during the same battle. I've even heard my Dad jokingly say to them: "Obviously I didnt shoot at you in the 1940s"
Raydeeo
I love how even in war photographers show immense creativity. The Gibraltar one is just amazing.
biggerhammertx
The runway at the Gibraltar airfield has a main road that runs across it. They stop traffic with gates when aircraft land or take off.
LenWeirdracin
#5 looks like a scene from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow!
PressToSelfDestruct
This really tickles my clit
Laylah77
More like “ManUnkind”
ElBivo
That song is definitely in the bottom quartile of Metallica quality.
Laylah77
I was referring to a poem by e.e. cummings, who coined the term first.
ISGLASS
I.... WANT.. MORE!
BOBNOBODY
That picture in Gibraltar looks amazing
igolem
It's eerily beautiful isn't it? The one of the tracer fire over Algiers I like alot as well.
BOBNOBODY
Yes, imagine being there and seeing it first hand!
igolem
I honestly think I'd be awestruck, I'd really understand what that word meant. The horrible beauty of it all.
BOBNOBODY
Definitely, awestruck would be it
andydicktracymorganfairchild
Look at the 2 guys just standing there lower right in the Nagasaki one
AgentMrQ
Sandra Bullock said it best in Speed, "I'm just glad it wasn't me".
ImADerpskiDog
I wonder if they were squinting
WeMistbornsNeedNotMakeSense
Guys could be bothered by the giant mushroom
Nightime98
Cant find them
0ssifrage
Probably still on their way to work.
Piornet
"Well...shit."
Ruhig
"I guess they weren't bluffing."
Jonnymarre
“Did you catch the game last night?”
loltard
"Nani!?"
souleater2847
Guy 1: looks like rain huh Paul - Guy 2: RUN MOTHERFUCKER!!!
wobblybobbly83
And the one across the road
Trustmebecausereasons
You think about it, they had never seen a bomb that powerful before. Might have thought they were at a safe distance.
Trustmebecausereasons
I mean, other than the first bomb, but even then not everyone saw it I’m sure.
copingcabana
"You think we should still go to work?"
thefkndoc
Three
Wretchedlust
I count 4, one opposite side by the pole, back to the camera
Saiphel
Let's make it five.
Kennytarmac
Those guys 2 seconds later
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WantDownvotes
They ded..
Ivajl
Most likely, the photo is more than 70 years old now..
AllTheEbola
There was a man that survived both the atomic bombs. Can't remember his name right now but damn... talk about bad week.
GoodGuyGonzo
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
AllTheEbola
Thank you!
impayshunz
hmmm, bottom pic looks like British Lancaster bombers.
oxpoleon
Definitely B-24 Liberators.
impayshunz
So they are! Had to look at both to see the differences.
oxpoleon
The vertical stabilisers are a big giveaway that they're not British planes. These are big and ovalised, RAF models were smaller and squat.
oxpoleon
Other clues: the Lanc and early Halifax had in-line engines, these are radials. The late model Halifax had radials but square stabilisers.
iRewind
I never knew this album cover was a historical photo. You always learn something new.
iRewind
https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/I/I'm%20In%20A%20Coffin/One%20Final%20Action/One%20Final%20Action.jpg
CheeseborgarSoop
Rarely seen because we don't want to watch people die.
RedditsFilingCabinet
Speak for yourself.
CheeseborgarSoop
You're on the wrong site, then.
CrypticRuin
#1 fuck that guy, traitor, #2 fuck Japan for starting shit, #3 fuck Japan again for not realizing we are done with thier shit...
jonanoski
Here’s the attention you craved.
CatOnTheRoof
#4 Fuck Japan for hunting whales
MindOfMobius
Yeah fuck those civilians who had nothing to do with the actions of the military
MindOfMobius
when you drop a bomb, then for shits and gigs you do it again
MindOfMobius
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
CatOnTheRoof
No. For science.
MindOfMobius
when you want to believe it was justified so hard XD
MindOfMobius
https://apjjf.org/-tsuyoshi-hasegawa/2501/article.html
Falkornn
It was shitty, but if there ever was a time and a place to drop those things it was on Japan to end WWII.
MindOfMobius
maybe not
MindOfMobius
https://apjjf.org/-tsuyoshi-hasegawa/2501/article.html
Falkornn
We get that you disagree.
MindOfMobius
did you read any of the links I posted? and do you think anyone else did? Because i feel like y'all dismissed it outright.
MindOfMobius
i don't necessarily disagree more than im interested that all of you are so adamant that the bombs were completely justified
Falkornn
I don't believe anyone said "completely" justified. I read two of the articles you linked. I agree with the widely accepted justification.
Syralight
The best among shitty options.
NERDRAGEohacat
I'm reading it right now, but initial impression is that your own link proves the Japanese military was opposed to surrendering even 1/?
GoodDadJokes
No. We dropped the bombs because the estimated combined death toll of both sides from invading mainland Japan was astronomical.
MindOfMobius
https://qz.com/472146/its-clear-the-us-should-not-have-bombed-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
GnomeDeGuerre
That excuse gets a bit thin.
MindOfMobius
The soviet invasion of Manchuria essentially meant the Japanese were going to lose. on top of that, we could have bombed 1/2
MindOfMobius
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/14/historians-soviet-offensive-key-japans-wwii-surrender-eclipsed-bombs.html
MerToo
lawl like anyone in the US gave a fuck in those days how many Japanese might be killed. Classic revisionism.
Falkornn
Death toll on BOTH sides. The US was expecting 2-4 million casualties with up to 800k deaths with estimates of up to 10 million civilians.
MerToo
Riiiiiight, after the US had lost 2-4 million casualties fighting their way across the entire Pacific, another 2-4 million seems believable.
Falkornn
Clearing the mainland was going to be a much different fight than island hopping. Imagine taking Tokyo room by room, building by building.
MindOfMobius
although that is the conventional justification, I'm not sure how well it holds up today.
RustyMcKraken
How well it holds up today? Planning on changing history?
MindOfMobius
https://apjjf.org/-tsuyoshi-hasegawa/2501/article.html
MindOfMobius
history doesn't change, only our understanding of it.
MindOfMobius
a target in tokyo bay or some other open area without any human casualties to demonstrate the threat of destruction. 2/2
Syralight
A demonstration was considered, but it would only have shown them that we lacked the will to use it.
NERDRAGEohacat
From what I recall, the US literally only had three bombs. One was used in the test, the other two were deployed with absolutely no idea 1/3
NERDRAGEohacat
if they'd even work. Had they told Japan to look out to the sea and either of the bombs failed to detonate, that would have proved the 2/3
GodEmperor0fMankind
We dropped a nuke directly on their city and they didn't give up. What makes you think dropping one in the ocean would have had any effect?
MindOfMobius
we dropped a nuke on a civilian center that wasn't even close to their capitol so nobody even got to witness it.
MindOfMobius
*nobody important or with any decision making authority saw it.
MindOfMobius
if we'd dropped it in the bay for them all to see, i think the second one would've been unnecessary.
GodEmperor0fMankind
I can't tell if you're just a bad troll or actually this fucking dumb, but either way I'm done trying to scream at a wall. Good day, sir.
OutrageousKageous
This. Their emperor just said "that all you got?" Nope. Boom. We even dropped flyers to tell them we were bombing them and to leave.
MindOfMobius
considering he didn't even get to witness it, makes sense.