Link here.
31 October 2012
Concentration Camp by Libera
A concentration camp made of legos... Interesting artwork by Zbigniew Libera and sponsored by Lego.
Link here.
Link here.
30 October 2012
Propaganda special
29 October 2012
Strange towers of the Third Reich
These concrete towers were unique Air Raid Shelters of Nazi
Germany, built to withstand the destructive power of WWII bombs and
heavy artillery. Their cone shape caused bombs to slide down the walls
and detonate only at a heavily fortified base.
Link here.
Link here.
Wehrmacht polar bear picture, some explanations
Finally found some explanations about the famous picture of the Wehrmacht guys with the weird looking polar bear!
Link here.
Link here.
28 October 2012
Big Things Ahead
The October 1944 issue of Science and Mechanics looked at what
technological advancements Americans might expect after WWII.
Link here.
Link here.
27 October 2012
25 October 2012
Timeline World War 2
An WW2 app features an interactive
timeline. Over 100 films from the archives of British Pathé and US broadcasters, additional commentary by
Dan Snow,
over 600 still images and 1500 written entries.
Link here.
Link here.
24 October 2012
My Top 10 war movies
Just for fun, this is my Top10 Top13 favourite 19th century wars movies. Wasn't easy to make, but I think I made a pretty good list. If you haven't seen one of those, you're missing something... What's your Top10?
1. Come and See, 1985
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.
2. Patton, 1970
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted.
3. Apocalypse Now, 1979
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
4. Jarhead, 2005
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
5. Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
6. Paths of Glory, 1957
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.
7. The Longest Day, 1962
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
8. The Tin Drum, 1979
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy.
9. Hurt Locker, 2008
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
10. Underground, 1995
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations.
11. Great escape, 1963
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
12. Full metal Jacket, 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.
13. The Thin Red Line, 1998
Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
1. Come and See, 1985
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.
2. Patton, 1970
The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted.
3. Apocalypse Now, 1979
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
4. Jarhead, 2005
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
5. Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
6. Paths of Glory, 1957
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.
7. The Longest Day, 1962
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
8. The Tin Drum, 1979
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy.
9. Hurt Locker, 2008
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
10. Underground, 1995
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations.
11. Great escape, 1963
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
12. Full metal Jacket, 1987
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.
13. The Thin Red Line, 1998
Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Vietnam war stories
22 October 2012
3D-prints a gun
Seems like a Smithsonian special tonight... Here's another article from them; It's all fun and games until someone 3D-prints a gun.
Link here.
Link here.
Cuba invasion
Never before seen photos taken 50 years ago during the preparations for the Cuba invasion.
Link here.
Link here.
20 October 2012
The 489th in Corsica
Some guys of the 489th Bombardment Squadron messing around with WW2 German stuff on the island of Corsica.
Link here.
Link here.
Reference guide for 1933-1945 German helmets
This complete the first post I made about German helmets... So here's another site with more information.
Link here.
Link here.
Canadian Reenactment Guide
The Perth Regiment made this reenacting handbook. This is a mine full of information and pictures about the Perth equipments, uniforms, weapons, etc. It's also very useful to anyone who want to recreate a WW2 Canadian impression, as the issued stuff was pretty much the same in all regiment.
Link here.
Link here.
19 October 2012
Rust in Peace
Second World War soldier had pound of shrapnel in his leg for 68 years! This guy was tough.
Link here.
Link here.
17 October 2012
The "Victory Bond" of the week goes to...
This (scary) picture with a lots of people with gas mask... Can't date it, maybe during First World War Russian people in the '30. Note the two children playing with the machine gun (bottom left corner).
The Donkey War
Ok. As I was doing research for this blog, I come across what I think is the most undercover story of World War Two. Something buried deep into archives and documents, kept secret by high command. Until today... The Donkey War.
After the V2 and V3, the German command comes with this idea to win the war. The German armed donkey.
Pretty deadly weapons and as you know, well use by Rommel in North-Africa. So, for now, it's not a big deal, and you probably seen those around the web... But where things start to be pretty interesting, it's the Allied answer to that.
Bang! After D-Day, a whole section of Donkey was landed on Omaha, ready to take down Hitler... And they did, all across Europe, Africa, Italia...
And as my research goes by, I think I undercover the phase II of this plan, The V4 caribou... Simply amazing.
After the V2 and V3, the German command comes with this idea to win the war. The German armed donkey.
Pretty deadly weapons and as you know, well use by Rommel in North-Africa. So, for now, it's not a big deal, and you probably seen those around the web... But where things start to be pretty interesting, it's the Allied answer to that.
Bang! After D-Day, a whole section of Donkey was landed on Omaha, ready to take down Hitler... And they did, all across Europe, Africa, Italia...
And as my research goes by, I think I undercover the phase II of this plan, The V4 caribou... Simply amazing.
15 October 2012
The Ghosts of World War II
13 October 2012
The Hate Belt
After posting my "Souvenir Belt" I did some research and I found that this was a custom going back to the WWI.
But this kind of trench art had a morbid side... Originally the soldier would take one of the tunic buttons from each enemy soldier he killed and add it to his leather belt. I doubt that mine was made in that way, Steven (the veteran) told me he stole this stuff in some Nazi office in Berlin in 1945. But we never know...
Link here.
But this kind of trench art had a morbid side... Originally the soldier would take one of the tunic buttons from each enemy soldier he killed and add it to his leather belt. I doubt that mine was made in that way, Steven (the veteran) told me he stole this stuff in some Nazi office in Berlin in 1945. But we never know...
Link here.
10 October 2012
Where travelers go to pay their respects
Hiroshima, Gettysburg, Ground Zero... The Smithsonian explore where travelers go to pay tribute to tragedies.
Link here.
Link here.
WW2 souvenir
Directly from my collection, a German officer belt that was bring back by Stephen Gaudet, a soldier in "Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal", a Montréal (Québec, Canada) regiment. A pretty nice souvenir.
9 October 2012
8 October 2012
The Tin Noses Shop
Wounded tommies facetiously called it "The Tin Noses Shop." Its proper name was the "Masks
for Facial Disfigurement Department"; either way, it represented one of
the many acts of desperate improvisation borne of the Great War, which
had overwhelmed all conventional strategies for dealing with trauma to
body, mind and soul...L
ink here and here. (second one in French)
ink here and here. (second one in French)
A telegram by Ho Chi Minh
6 October 2012
The Times Square kiss
3 October 2012
Dinosaur casualties of the First World War
In 1916, a German naval crew destroyed a Canadian merchant ship... But the interesting fact is that the ship was carrying a set of 75-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons! So, we can add a dinosaur skeleton to the WW1 casualties.
Link here.
Link here.
Camouflage Timeline
Interesting picture about camouflage in time, a little simple. I'll try to find or make one better soon. But until then...
2 October 2012
1 October 2012
The Big Picture
The Big Picture of the Boston.com is a daily rendez-vous for me. For those who doesn't know this blog, it's news stories in photographs. So, here I put together a "Years Later" compilation. Enjoy.
Pearl Harbor, 70 years later
Hiroshima, 64 years later
Korean War, 60 years later
Vietnam War, 35 years later.
Pearl Harbor, 70 years later
Hiroshima, 64 years later
Korean War, 60 years later
Vietnam War, 35 years later.
Body armor between medieval knights and modernity
Pictures of some World War One armors... Personally, I don't think that was really useful; Heavy, uncomfortable, 18th century look, etc.
But at least, you'll certainly scare the shit of the enemies... Imagine someone running with this at night in the No man's land.
Link here.
But at least, you'll certainly scare the shit of the enemies... Imagine someone running with this at night in the No man's land.
Link here.
Pompeii of the WW1
When I was young I wanted to be an archaeologist. Finding buried stuff that lied there for years, finding stories that haven't been told yet, layers after layers... This amazed me then and that still amaze me now.
So here it goes, some archaeologists find the bodies of 21 German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell.
Link here.
So here it goes, some archaeologists find the bodies of 21 German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell.
Link here.
Post-War New World Map
Interesting map (1942) of what is suppose to be the New World Moral Order... For permanent peace, freedom, justice, security and world reconstruction.
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