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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: wipfel on May 28, 2014, 02:19:09 PM

Title: WWII Relics
Post by: wipfel on May 28, 2014, 02:19:09 PM

Found this video on liveleak.  Seeing some of these wrecks and relics gives me a headache when I think of how unimportant they are now as rusting hulks but how life-changing important they were to someone when they were working, viable machines.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30f_1401154732 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30f_1401154732)

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: Gsun on May 28, 2014, 07:35:30 PM

Wow....

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: VirginiaJim on May 31, 2014, 05:59:39 AM

While not a WWII relic...some pictures of the the aftermath of the Great War ......   WWI....

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/europe-landscape-still-scarred-world-war-i-180951430/?no-ist (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/europe-landscape-still-scarred-world-war-i-180951430/?no-ist)

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: cmoore on June 01, 2014, 04:35:44 AM

Those are some fascinating photographs. Very well done. I would like to see those old trenches and no mans land some day.

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: Furbo on June 01, 2014, 06:40:29 AM

One of my favorite riding/recreation areas was on the front lines of the Italian Campaigns of WWI along the high plain of Asiago (Alto Piano) in the area between Monte Grappa and Monte Passubio.

You cant walk in the woods without finding deritius from that time, metal, shoe soles, trenches, etc.

Ironically, we owe some of the best riding in the world to the supply routes on both sides in the Dolomites.   

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: VirginiaJim on June 01, 2014, 06:50:35 AM

Quote from: cmoore on June 01, 2014, 04:35:44 AM

Those are some fascinating photographs. Very well done. I would like to see those old trenches and no mans land some day.

Not me..photos are enough.  For some reason, I get very emotional on battlefields.  Maybe in a past life I was killed on one.  I couldn't even make it through the Yorktown Victory center in Yorktown, VA.

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: VirginiaJim on June 04, 2014, 07:00:54 AM

WWII Then and now photographs..

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/jun/01/d-day-landings-scenes-in-1944-and-now-interactive)

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: Sly on June 04, 2014, 07:24:43 AM

I visited the Memorial in Verdun France (my twin is Canadian career military) and it was to say the least, very moving and emotional, freedom isn’t free and it doesn’t come cheap! Nice thread, thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: WWII Relics
Post by: cmoore on June 05, 2014, 05:22:27 AM

More good photos, thanks for posting. I understand about the emotions. I tip my hat to all of those brave men. I was lucky that history and events didn't put me in the middle of a war.