Images of the Second World War - Possibly NSFW

BlackEdelweiss

Cheers for that,
I bought a few from ebay the other day to see how I got on, 9 photos for €20. I know they could be fakes but it wont break the bank if they are, as you say it is a good way to get to know what is what. I will have a look through the links tomorrow.

marcsignal

Entrance


Unfinished


Transport Shaft


Transport Shaft


Quote


Operating Theatre


Operating Theatre


Operating Theatre


Magazines


Communications Centre


Mine Warning Sign


Entrance/Exit


Stopped Clock


Stairwell


1st of 25KM of Tunnel System

Morlar

Cool photos of Jersey.

There is another site here about collecting photos & albums that might be useful :

http://www.herveus.com

Collecting -
Themes-Albums

This one gives a good baseline guide to album and single picture prices for rarer pictures ;

http://www.historical-media.com

There is also a photo forum here but it seems to be down at the moment :
http://www.colorwarphotos.com/

Steyr

Anybody want to take a Stab at what Magazines they are ? Im guessing Bren? Look familiar.

marcsignal

Steyr wrote: »

Anybody want to take a Stab at what Magazines they are ? Im guessing Bren? Look familiar.

I was wondering that too, but are they curved enough for bren mags ?

bren mags

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7788/dscn5756pd5.jpg

could they be fg 42 mags ?

http://www.paladinarmory.com/Photos%20for%20PA%20website/FG42.jpg

colorwarphotos

Hi guys.
I just wanted to let you know I have restored my site after the disastrous server crash 1 week ago.

I know there are still buckets of errors on the site. But I will be repairing these this week.

Enjoy the site and best wishes.
Ian

www.colorwarphotos.com

Morlar

Here are a few I posted in the militaria forum :

Here are a few photographs from a set I picked up recently.

It's a collection of original unpublished photographs showing SS Polizei in Norway. Featured are a Winter sports event at Skeikampen (possibly April 14 to April 20 1942).

Other locations include Hemsedal, Ullensvang & Vikersund.

Featured are police General August Meyzsner who at that time was BdO (Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei) in Norway, members of the SS (Schutzstaffel) and SD (Sicherheitsdienst) in Norway & the notorious Reichskomissar Josef Terboven & SS-Gruf. Wilhelm Rediess. Also included in this set are Schutzpolizei.

Skeikampen Norway SS Polizei sporting event


SS Polizei building Skeikampen Norway 1942



Police general August Meyzsner who at that time was BdO (Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei) in Norway & unknown SD (Sicherheitsdienst) Hauptsturmfuhrer.



Josef Terboven (centre) Reichskommissar Norway attending SS Polizei winter sport event at Skeikampen, Norway. 3rd from right Police general August Meyzsner, 2nd from right SS-Gruf. Wilhelm Rediess, HSSPF Nord (wearing the Kreuz von Danzig I. Klasse and Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP)



Josef Terboven Reichskommissar Norway attending SS Polizei winter sport event at Skeikampen, Norway




SS Polizei Winter sports event at Skeikampen, Norway (possibly April 14 to April 20 1942)



The rest of the pictures are here if anyone wants to check them out.

colorwarphotos

these are really brilliant.
can you add them in my new ww2 photo forum also ?
I would love to have them there for discussion.
I have a lot of my best photo collector friends that can help you.
Thanks.
Ian

www.colorwarphotos.com

marcsignal

My mother (80) brought these to my attention today, going through some old family pics. They are post war pics of her brother, (my uncle) Joe (died 1985), an aeronautical engineer, working on Aircraft at a company called Skyways in Surrey, England. July 1948.

Lancaster sky trainer


Looks like a Wellington bomber ?

colorwarphotos

marc if i was a little terrrorist i would just copy and paste these amazing photos onto my war photo forum but instead i am going to politely ask you to add them.
I know there are many military photo collectors that would love to see your stuff !

Thanks and best wishes.
Ian

marcsignal

sure Ian, will do, glad you like em. I have a few others, like this example below.



My aunt Doreen (died 2006) in the WAFS 1944. My uncle met her serving in the RAF. Her fiance, a Canadian, was killed in an air raid over Germany in November 1944, after which she met my uncle Joe. He settled in Surrey when they got married after the war.

FiSe

marcsignal wrote: »

Looks like a Wellington bomber ?

I think that both photographs are of Lancasters. The 2nd one has bomb bay converted to a passanger cabin and hence the windows. I don't think I have seen such a picture before, but, hands up, post-war ex-RAF isn't really my thing.
Wellington was much smaller and covered with fabric.

tricky D

Underbelly on the second looks too low and too curved for a lanc imho.

marcsignal

not sure myself, the only thing i noticed was that thing sticking up from the fuselage in the hangar window, you'll see the part i'm talking about here on the top of the pic

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49085000/jpg/_49085969_wellington_bomber_624x490_2.jpg

Spooky-Vinny

Just wanted to say thanks for all the photos guys!
never been able to find this many till i was wondering around boards one day!
Thankin' you!
-Vinny xXx

FiSe

tricky D wrote: »

Underbelly on the second looks too low and too curved for a lanc imho.

Well, close enough: Avro York, delivered from Lancaster

Tabnabs

Apparently a rare image, this is how the German's recovered seaplanes in coastal areas. They could also be catapulted from these ships. Photo taken near Bergen, Norway.

Tabnabs

Some more from Norway. These are sketches done by German soldiers billeted in a school in Norway. (They were removed from the walls and are in a private collection now as the school was refurbished).

marcsignal

FiSe wrote: »

Well, close enough: Avro York, delivered from Lancaster

think you may have nailed it there FiSe

those round windows, and the flaps look bloody close to the pic i posted


Those pics from Norway are great Diflyn !! excellent find

Morlar

Dyflin wrote: »

Apparently a rare image, this is how the German's recovered seaplanes in coastal areas. They could also be catapulted from these ships. Photo taken near Bergen, Norway.

Excellent pictures. I think 'maritime aviation' is one part of ww2 not very well known. Many people do not know that late war u-boats had (what were effectively) one man helicopters :





Or about the Jap sub that was also an aircraft carrier :



On a related note a fellow collector recently lent me a ww2 german photo album to photograph which includes pictures taken from the window of a seaplane coming in to land. Then pictures of it half submerged after it crashed on landing. I will post them on this thread when I get them online.

killerking

German infantryman.



Russian infantryman.



British infantryman.



American infantryman.

killerking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFjt0qmoNSA

marcsignal

My Grandfather (2nd from left, standing beside the Oriental bloke with the trilby hat) on the deck of the SS Severn Leigh in 1937 somewhere in the Far East.



A pic of his Discharge Book showing his time on the SS Severn Leigh.
(First Entry)



The Fate of the SS Severn Leigh in 1940 below.

http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?14971

@ colorwarphotos : I haven't forgotten about uploading these on your site, I'll get to in over the next few weeks.

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citizen_p

just posted this in the photos that shook the world thread, seems apropriate here to

Battle of the Bulge
it certainly shocked the allies and was the last big offensive of the germans in the west.

Poteau Ambush
on December 18, 1944 the 14th US Cavalry Group, was ambushed by Kampfgruppe Hansen.
the photos and films that follow were captured by the americans from a Waffen-SS war correspondent. the shots were posed for after the ambush, but seem to have been just hours after.

a US newsreel
this is from the time and not a modern documentery.
3:45 to 4.35 is the ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6FIlexpsE

Poteau Ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22UGMjpQx8

Another film from after the ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9EkaeaX7E8

Aerial shot of the ambush
Numbers correspond to the following images


1. the standing soldier is wearing a captured US coat

2.A famous shot, he can be seen in the third video above also

3.

4. same soldier as image 2, notice also the captured pistol

5.

6. sodier on the right has a captured m1 carbine, seen again below

7.

8. burning jeeps


Cameraman filming

Captured Rifle m1 carbine

Smoking

Another famous shot of the ambush

Resting

Jagdpanzer IV


limited to 15 images so a few had to be cut

jonniebgood1

After battle shots of German soldiers on the eastern front;

FiSe

Those shots of frozen bodies are from the 'collection point' ater Stalingrad. I believe.
On the 1st one, in the top right corner, you can see German POWs gathering around lorry, probably after another 'dump'. You can see how the bodies are pilled up - one pile, one load.
And, although, there are WH soldiers clearly visible on the last two photographs, soldiers from all sides would be gathered and burried in mass graves.


....just thinking, maybe they were left as they were.

marcsignal

FiSe wrote: »

Those shots of frozen bodies are from the 'collection point' ater Stalingrad. I believe.

I remember seeing them before in relation to Stalingrad. They're particularlly horrific.

In the top one you mentioned, at the bottom of the pic, left of centre, a pair of legs can be clearly seen standing up on their own, without a body attached :eek:

The sheer scale of the slaughter is difficult to properly comprehend.. very very sad to see.

marcsignal

My sister married a German in 1984. She has lived in Munich since 1972. His Father "Willi" was in the HJ and was a highly decorated member of the Waffen SS Divisions Wiking, Nordland, and Germania. Like many other waffen SS members, he was interred in KZ Dachau at wars end, and later released. He was originally from what is now Poland (Then Germany) Luckily his wife "Charlotte" and child escaped the Russians at wars end and made it to the West.

"Willi" and "Charlotte" settled in the district around Dachau after his release because they had nothing, no money, no home, no posessions. Years later my Brother in Law was born, who met my sister and they consequently married.

Despite the image of the SS, Willi was a very nice old man, who spoke frankly about the war and never tried to play down his wartime service in the Waffen SS. I had many long conversations with him about this, but never felt I had to judge him for anything he may, or may not have done. He always maintained that in joining up, he made the decision that he believed was right at the time, for himself and his wife and family.

I have ommited his family name from this post for the purposes of privacy, and am simply posting these pics for posters perusal.

I also realise there are posters on this forum who may have strong negative feelings about the SS. However I would ask, that if you don't approve, please don't bollock me out of it, or post any derogatory replies, as a result of my sharing these pictures.

Willi died in 2007.

HJ ID Card




Willi on leave from the front with his Mother and Friend (year unknown)


Willi on leave from the front with his Mother and Father (year unknown)


Willi and Charlottes wedding (year unknown)


Unknown friend of Willi


Willi RHS (year and location unknown)


Willi (possibly in Bad Tolz)


Willi with his Dad, a WW1 Veteran


Arbeitsdienst, year and location unknown.


Arbeitsdienst, year and location unknown.


Arbeitsdienst, year and location unknown.






Yours truly with Willi in 2005.
He was awarded all of the decorations attached to the framed pic for his service during the war.


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marcsignal

Willi in 2005 R.I.P.


A portrait of Willi in uniform, painted by his son shortly after his death.


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Morlar

That's very interesting and I am sure he had some interesting stories to tell. Quite highly decorated too - it's hard to make out but looks like an Infantry Assault Badge, Iron Cross 2nd Class, Winterschlacht im Osten, Anschluss and possibly a KVK. Also the Wound badge in Black (from the painting) and in one of the other photos what I guess is his fathers Hindenburg/Front fighters cross for WW1 Veterans.