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Armor/AFV: Allied - WWII
Armor and ground forces of the Allied forces during World War II.
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Awesome color photo's during WW-2
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 09:29 AM UTC
These are Photo's all in color from the Library of Comgress website. Most were taken state side during WW-2 . There are 967 pic's to go thru , most of these are civilian but there is a lot on Armed forces pic's to! Just brilliant pictures. This is the Link to the site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html
Here is a couple of sample pic's.





Hope you enjoy!

Garry
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:29 AM UTC
Garry:

Those pictures are just great! I'll make sure to check out the rest of them at the site you provided.

Thanks for the heads up!



John
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 12:41 PM UTC
And along came wittmann and knocked them all out :-)
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 09:39 PM UTC

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And along came wittmann and knocked them all out :-)


Hello Karl,
these tanks and the men operating them went to war after these pic's were taken. A lot of these Men did not come back home. Thats what make these photo's so special.

Best regards,

Garry
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 09:43 PM UTC
Howdy Garry,

Many thx for the superb link! When I get some extra time I will definitely be spending some time looking through the pics......

I just love the cast hull Grant/Lee (3rd one back) with the yellow stipe and star...

Tread.
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 09:52 PM UTC
Hhhhmm I must have missed this post


indeed some truely brilliant pics in them. I will bookmark him as soon as I get back home.

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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:28 PM UTC

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And along came wittmann and knocked them all out :-)


Talking about knocked out tank, could you please tell me whose Tiger does this belong to ? :


No hard feeling

Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:28 PM UTC
wow talk about hiting the jack pot,
these pictures are great thanks for telling us
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armorguy
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:39 PM UTC
Garry,

Thanks for the pics and the link. I'll have to do some looking around there. The pic of the Lee you posted is perfect for me. I'm finishing one up right now.
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 11:15 PM UTC
Thanks Garry. These are incredible pics. Very usefull.
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 11:23 PM UTC

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And along came wittmann and knocked them all out :-)

I think Wittman put more Tommys in the grave than G.I.s. Thanks for being so uninformed!

Garry, thanks for the link!
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Posted: Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 11:39 PM UTC
Working in a foundry, I actually enjoyed all of the steel foundry pictures. Great link.

Thank you,

Shaun
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Posted: Friday, September 10, 2004 - 01:55 AM UTC
Thanks for the link!
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Posted: Friday, September 10, 2004 - 02:09 AM UTC
My Gosh...
I think I'm in heaven...Not too many oportunities to view so many excellent color stills from WWll!!!
There is also a video set from the History Channel, three volumes, of some excellent color footage of WWll, including D-DAY!!!. Look them up at your local Public Library... Thanks for the excellent link, Gary, good work.

Sincerely,
Gunny

How about a three beer cheer???
garrybeebe
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Posted: Friday, September 10, 2004 - 08:07 AM UTC

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My Gosh...
I think I'm in heaven...Not too many oportunities to view so many excellent color stills from WWll!!!
There is also a video set from the History Channel, three volumes, of some excellent color footage of WWll, including D-DAY!!!. Look them up at your local Public Library... Thanks for the excellent link, Gary, good work.

Sincerely,
Gunny

How about a three beer cheer???


I had'nt noticed the vidios Mark, thanks for catching that! Me thinks me better go to the library!

Cheers,

Garry
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Posted: Friday, September 10, 2004 - 08:47 AM UTC

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Thanks for being so uninformed!

I think wittmann targeted cromwells more that shermans, and most of his victories were on the eastern front(?), but I think TigerIV was just joking, not stating a fact, so relax and let him get away with a yellow card!! :-) :-) :-)
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