Military Pictures & Info

[Peanut]

Found neat photos on the naval historical command website.

First up are ww2 navy divers.

Divers standing in front of a decompression chamber, while they were working to salvage ships sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor
Catalog #: NH 63921

Description: Divers emerging from a gas-filled compartment aboard one of the ships undergoing salvage, after the 7 December 1941 Japanese raid. Note oily conditions, and face masks worn by the men. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 63919

 

[Peanut]

Title: Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam

Description: Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance. Photographed by Ernie Filtz. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: K-31466

Title: Inshore patrol craft (CF -71)
Caption: Cua Lon River, Republic of Vietnam … A U.S. Navy inshore patrol craft (PCF - 71), with an underwater demolition team embarked, returns to the sea float base after a patrol. Date July 1969

Catalog #: USN 1142661

 

[Peanut]

Title: Navy SEALS

Caption: Get a chance for some extra target practice as their converted "Mike" boat carries them back to home base at Nha Be following a search-and-destroy operation conducted in the jungle along one of the Mekong Delta's small waterways in the Republic of Vietnam, September 1967.

Catalog #: K-40663

Title: View of an airstrike
Caption: Two members of Underwater Demolition Team Eleven watch an airstrike against the Viet Cong from the deck of the amphibious transport dock USS OGDEN (LPD-5). Photo taken on 18 June 1967, by Chief Journalist Chuck H. Nelson.

Catalog #: USN 1123771

 

[Bacpacker]

Title: Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam

Description: Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance. Photographed by Ernie Filtz. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: K-31466

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Title: Inshore patrol craft (CF -71)
Caption: Cua Lon River, Republic of Vietnam … A U.S. Navy inshore patrol craft (PCF - 71), with an underwater demolition team embarked, returns to the sea float base after a patrol. Date July 1969

Catalog #: USN 1142661

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That first pic, April 1966, was taken shortly after my dad was killed. KIA 4/1/1966

 

[Peanut]

That first pic, April 1966, was taken shortly after my dad was killed. KIA 4/1/1966

Thank you for your family's sacrifice. I thought of your dad when i found the vietnam pics. Seems you told us the date before, i remembered is was early in the war. Saw these were early photos.

 

[Bacpacker]

Thanks for posting them Peanut. I'm always on the lookout for stuff I haven't ran across before. Navy stuff is one of the biggest hole i have for stuff like that.

I've got a good story to add to the thread when I get on the laptop. It ran on our local news this week about our latest Medal of Honor recipient.

 

[Peanut]

@Bacpacker Here are a couple of interesting websites. I haven't explored the army website but i get lots of photos from the navy site.

https://www.history.navy.mil/

https://www.history.army.mil/

 

[Bacpacker]

@Bacpacker Here are a couple of interesting websites. I haven't explored the army website but i get lots of photos from the navy site.

https://www.history.navy.mil/

https://www.history.army.mil/

Thanks for the link Peanut. Looks like a great site

 

[Biobacon33]

Been doing a lot of Wargames since I've been around. Building, Painting, and playing.

 

[Biobacon33]

Some more pictures

 

[Peanut]

Female munitions workers guide 6-inch howitzer shells at a shell filling factory.
Nottinghamshire, England. July 1917

What was fired each week? found this on the net...

During the first two weeks of the Battle of Passchendaele the British, Australian and Canadian guns fired 4,283,550 shells at the German defences. It is estimated that throughout the First World War the Allies used 5,000,000 tons of artillery shells against enemy positions. The Central Powers used a similar amount of shells in their effort to win the war.

 

[Peanut]

1959 Willys Super Mule... i researched it. It was a prototype never accepted by our military.

 

[Peanut]

Found another odd vehicle. Clearly ww1 and british. It was labeled 'Rolls Royce' armored car, probably some general's car.

 

[Peanut]

William L. Sherman, Jr., 3rd son of Staff Sgt William Sherman saluting American troops from Fort Sam Houston, going off to war as they march through Alamo Plaza. On the way, they're passing Joske's Department Store in Downtown San Antonio, Texas on 1 July 1942 (someone colorized it)

 

[Dani]

 

[Peanut]

Found a couple vehicles...

1942 Dodge WC12 4x4

 

[Peanut]

1943 Willys Jeep Model MB

 

[Peanut]

1963 Volvo Laplander L3314

 

[Peanut]

A German soldier with a saw tooth bayonet stands in a dugout wearing his brow plate slid down to his neck, World War I

 

[Peanut]

An Australian soldier wearing a captured German pickelhaube helmet talking to a French Army Medic in Pozières, France on 23 July 1916.

 

[Peanut]

A woman posts a letter in a postbox amongst destroyed buildings and rubble caused by German air raids during World War II. Photograph taken in London, United Kingdom in 1940.

 

[Bacpacker]

A woman posts a letter in a postbox amongst destroyed buildings and rubble caused by German air raids during World War II. Photograph taken in London, United Kingdom in 1940.

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And well dressed while she drops it off

 

[Peanut]

11 Nov. 1921: Escorted by 30 holders of the Medal of Honor, the "Unknown Soldier" is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) Pres. Warren G. Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (2) President Harding with the remains of WWI unknown soldier before interment in the tomb. (3) Interment ceremony for the WWI unknown soldier.

 

[Peanut]

British soldier, Sergeant William Knapp during the Crimean War in c. 1855 shown here with his equipment and uniform.

 

[Peanut]

A Confederate Army veteran and a Union Army veteran shake hands at the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion which marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

 

[Peanut]

RDML John Dahlgren: Nov. 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870 “Father of modern naval ordnance”

Founded US Navy Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in naval gunnery — primarily the Dahlgren rifled naval gun.

Dahlgren, from Philadelphia, was the preeminent American naval ordnance designer of his day.

Civil War commandant of Washington Navy Yard. In 1863 he commanded South Atlantic Blockade Squadron, helping William Sherman secure Savannah, Georgia.

Dahlgren’s son, Ulrich, a Union officer famous for reconnaissance in Gettysburg campaign, was killed in an unsuccessful raid to liberate Union prisoners in Richmond in 1864.

Dahlgren’s brother, Brigadier-general Charles Dahlgren, served for the Confederate States, commanding a brigade of Mississippi militia.

— CP

RDML Dahlgren aboard USS Pawnee in 1865

 

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The USS Tulsa LCS-16. Pearl Harbor, 2022.

 

[Peanut]

Men of the Seaforth Highlanders resting with a dog in a trench, near La Gorgue, France in August 1915

 

[Peanut]

Soldiers and Police Officers from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) watch the construction of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz on the 13/14 August 1961.

 

[Peanut]

US Army soldier, PFC Fred Gonsalves, sitting by a straw stack on a farm with a small Italian child and a farm dog in Acciarella, Italy on the 1 February 1944.