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jbilly90
Wow this is a history filled photo
Thunderchief1
"And year by year, their numbers grow fewer, soon no one will march there at all"
copingcabana
Some people spend their whole lives wondering if they made a difference. These guys don't have that problem.
ADDMEONPOKEGO
Hero's, all of them.
Theoriginalrubii
?
fiddlewheelx
"Oh no, not again!"
Albedo1980
Sitting across from themselves = to each one in the right side (B&W), correspknds their older self (in colour) in the left.
bocaj727
Plot twist: they dropped ‘em again
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DubaiShort
Mhmmm
StaalTheNotQuiteSoUndefeatedAnymoreButNevermind
It's mad to think that in my lifetime, and not too far into the future, there will be no one left alive who was alive during WW2
Shekelboy
Yes, as the grandson of Holocaust survivors and the grandson of fighters in the Soviet and American armies is a sad thought
Plasticjesus
♫ They wore a RAAAAASPBERRY BERET. The kind you get from the second World War ♫
snakeoilsalesman
Haters will say it's Photoshopped.
anmoo
Had to be hard for them to get back in that plane
LRidge
Lest we forget the ravages of time?
everythingisalieexceptthestuffthatisnt
3rd kid back...is legit a child. Still got baby fat in his face. Just woah
Cr1spyEvergr33n
Did anyone else do a head count on each side?
Bumbleflarts
Lest we forget. Dank je wel
numnut1987
101st airborne, eindhoven. my grandparents still remember.
numnut1987
well i do aswell but you know :)
chonkywayner
How did they get a picture of them in the past and present in one picture?
ElSuperbeasto
War... War never changes.
seco4800
Wooooooooow that's unbelievable
TheFrozenNorwegian
"where are we dropping guys?"
greasyweiner
are they going to be dropped again?
senorsurlyman
You. You, I like.
TheAngryBear
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HighlevelCavernousDikkops-size_restricted.gif
SupMelloMike
Yes, for old times sake.
PornhubsFirstTree
Break me off a piece of that kit Kat bar
Snowerti
They also have a bunch of germans ready to shoot them, you know for old times sake
iojvan
On the 6th of august 1944 ;)
jtreid14
Do you mean June?
iojvan
If nobody die it must be august ;)
garmagor
I think most people already forgot what that was about and this kind of post promotes that kind of mentality. What exactly will you forget?
jmrex
That whatever millennials are facing now ain't shit.
kojenk
Bulshit,there were kids sitting in the lap of luxury bk then& there are 21 year old female medics being shot dead rite now. Every gen has it
jmrex
Where is your perspective? Enlisting is a choice today. In WWII, over 10,000,000 were drafted. Your anecdotal exceptions are laughable.
WigglyCherry
This reminds me of a really sad post I saw quite a while back. They had an annual event for their veterans who served in WW2 but one 1/2
WigglyCherry
Platoon only had one person left one year so he walked down the parade in years and alone
AxelTenveils
In my hometown we had a few veterans that walked in front of the regular parade, they always opened it. As the years passed they were less.
InternetPeasantry
This one? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/last-surviving-wwii-veteran-marches-alone-in-memorial-day-parade/
phera777
No. This really happened and the man was obviously much older. The background didn’t fuckin look like Russia
tabletopcheese
Whoa. Clam down.
phera777
Thanku thanku idk whatt came over me
NickBlight
Crazy how one whole side of the plane survived. No seriously, like the odds of that must be ridiculous
supersomatic
Its basically zero, which implies that the caption is likely to not be entirely true
HiddenSanity
Then no suicides, etc.
HeadbuttingAnts
Well, at least half...
Vaeevictiss
And managed to still be alive
dietderpsy
Half of everything is luck, and the other half is fate.
Surely
Or the text below the picture is just bullshit and they just randomly took two photos and mashed them together.
CaptDadBod
Glad someone here has some sense
rebmcr
Fuckin Thanos...
MultiplePersonalitiesProfile
The plane landed on its right side, after said side was hid by flack.
weeshful
if the chances are 1:1000...but there are a thousand planes dropping people, the odds become pretty good
NickBlight
None of them got sick, none of them committed suicide, none just got too old AND the war didn't take any of em. Crazy odds
K8lyn8654
Well I mean, we actually dropped into normandy and landed over sevral days. There was much more than the initial assault going there
BottlelessGet
How did they decide who’s going on the first day or the subsequent days? Fuck being the first assault.
ITellPeopleWhatToPaint
Women and children first?
fredhrick
"Were going in with the first wave, means more bugs to kill"
K8lyn8654
And yes, those days were called "d day" as well. much more than just june 6th. Some veterans are very sure to say "I was on d day 2, really"
K8lyn8654
Do I know anything about this specific pic? Not at all, just giving a possible reason. Im more impressed theyve all lived thus long to take
K8lyn8654
a second pic
coolwaterNJ
War kills some. Age kills all. -Jayden Smith probably
ElBakko
And not everyone has a combat role. They might have been mechanics fixing broken tank tracks whole day - well behind the front. who knows
DemiGuy
Being airdropped at the very start may have been nearly as life threatening odds as landing on a beach on D-day. Later days less likely?
ElBakko
still slim odds - just given how old they all must be
K8lyn8654
I didnt really think about maybe op comment meant its impressive theyve all lived this long after the war until halfway through my spiel tbh
ilavalamp
Honestly both are impressive. Few casualties to an absolutely deadly war, but also to age and disease.