Pictures of World War II

Llegué a la página de los archivos del gobierno de estados unidos desde un comentario de menéame, buscaba, fotos de guerra. Pero me encontré transcripciones, documentos desclasificados, fotos etc... De todo lo que he rebuscado, lo que más me ha llamado la atención han sido las fotos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hay alguna fuerte, manejar con cuidado.

Foto: Nº 178, galería: The Holocaust. "These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp." Pvt. H. Miller, Germany, April 16, 1945. 208-AA-206K-31. (ww2_178.jpg)

Pues bien, me llené de valor y he visto las 202 fotos. Estas son las que más me han gustado:

Foto: Nº3, galería: Leaders. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940. 242-EB-7-38.

Foto: Nº19, galería: The Home Front. "Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school." Howard R. Hollem, April 1942. 208-AA-352V-4.

Foto: Nº39, galería: Supply & Support. "Pfc Angelo B. Reina, 391st Inf. Regt., guards a lonely Oahu beach position. Kahuku, Oahu." Rosenberg, Hawaii, March 1945. 111-SC-221867. (ww2_39.jpg)

Foto: Nº48, galería: Rest & Relaxation. "A youngster, clutching his soldier father, gazes upward while the latter lifts his wife from the ground to wish her a `Merry Christmas.' The serviceman is one of those fortunate enough to be able to get home for the holidays." December 1944. 208-AA-2F-20. (ww2_48.jpg)

Foto: Nº52, galería: Aid & Comfort. "Transfer of wounded from USS BUNKER HILL to USS WILKES BARRE, who were injured during fire aboard carrier following Jap suicide dive bombing attack off Okinawa." PhoM3c. Kenneth E. Roberts, May 11, 1945. 80-G-328610. (ww2_52.jpg)

Foto: Nº57, galería: Navy & Naval Battles. "A PT marksman provides a striking camera study as he draws a bead with his 50 caliber machine gun on his boat off New Guinea." July 1943. 80-G-53871. (ww2_57.jpg)

Foto: Nº70, galería: Aviation. "Dynamic static. The motion of its props causes an `aura' to form around this F6F on USS YORKTOWN. Rotating with blades, halo moves aft, giving depth and perspective." November 1943. 80-G-204747A. (ww2_70.jpg)

Foto: Nº78, galería: German Aggression. "The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism by the `everlasting use' of ruthless force." Ca. 1938. 208-PP-10A-2. (ww2_78.jpg)

Foto: Nº87, galería: Battle of Britain. "Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made homeless by the random bombs of the Nazi night raiders, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home." September 1940. 306-NT-3163V.

Foto: Nº97, galería: North Africa, Sicily, Italy. "From Coast Guard-manned "sea-horse" landing craft, American troops leap forward to storm a North African beach during final amphibious maneuvers." James D. Rose, Jr., ca. 1944. 26-G-2326.

Foto: Nº99, galería: France. "Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat." CPhoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944. 26-G-2343.

Foto: Nº112, galería: The Low Countries. "A lanky GI, with hands clasped behind his head, leads a file of American prisoners marching along a road somewhere on the western front. Germans captured these American soldiers during the surprise enemy drive into Allied positions." Captured German photograph, December 1944. 111-SC-198240.

Foto: Nº117, galería: Germany. "I drew an assault boat to cross in--just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail." Crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at St. Goar. March 1945. 208-YE-132. (ww2_117.jpg)

Foto: Nº130, galería: Japan Attacks. "The March of Death. Along the March [on which] these prisoners were photographed, they have their hands tied behind their backs. The March of Death was about May 1942, from Bataan to Cabanatuan, the prison camp." 127-N-114541.

Foto: Nº144, galería: Island Campaigns. "A member of a Marine patrol on Saipan found this family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four children and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in that area." Cpl. Angus Robertson, June 21, 1944. 127-GR-113-83266.

Foto: Nº149, galería: Philippine Islands. "A line of Coast Guard landing barges, sweeping through the waters of Lingayen Gulf, carries the first wave of invaders to the beaches of Luzon, after a terrific naval bombardment of Jap shore positions on Jan. 9, 1945." PhoM1c. Ted Needham. 26-G-3856. (ww2_149.jpg)

Foto: Nº154, galería: Iwo Jima & Okinawa. "Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Jap positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positions inland on the tiny volcanic island." Ca. February 1945. 26-G-4122. (ww2_154.jpg)

Foto Nº164, galería: Japan. "The patient's skin is burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the explosion." Atomic bomb survivor. Ca. 1945. 77-MDH-6.55b.

Foto: Nº168, galería: Prisoners. "We were getting our second wind now and started flattening out that bulge. We took 50,000 prisoners in December alone." American soldier with captured Germans. Ca. 1944. 208-YE-105. (ww2_168.jpg)

Foto Nº178, galería: The Holocaust. "These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp." Pvt. H. Miller, Germany, April 16, 1945. 208-AA-206K-31. (ww2_178.jpg)

Foto: Nº185, galería: Death & Destruction. "Choked with debris, a bombed water intake of the Pegnitz River no longer supplies war factories in Nuremberg, vital Reich industrial city and festival center of the Nazi party, which was captured April 20, 1945, by troops of the U.S. Army." 208-AA- 207L-1.

Foto: Nº197, galería Victory & Peace. "New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square." Lt. Victor Jorgensen, August 14, 1945. 80-G-377094.

Posiblemente echarás de menos fotos como la de los marines poniendo la bandera sobre Iwo, o la del Enola Gay...

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