Images of war...

[advocatexxx 0]

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.  Post a photo of a war/conflict or a situation directly affected by it that you feel speaks out.  Post a short description of what it's about. I always felt photojournalism of this sort was very interesting as well as artistic.

Keep all images under 100Kb and no gruesome/mutilated ones either.

<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>I have pixelated the bottom portion of the image to obey forum rules</span>

THE VIETNAM WAR

1968

Welsh-born photographer Philip Jones Griffiths was traveling with a platoon two miles west of Saigon when the patrol captured this Vietcong fighter whose stomach had been blown out. Three days earlier, he had dumped his intestines into a washing bowl, placed a dish over the wound, wrapped his torso with a cloth, and continued fighting. Overcome by thirst, the dying man begged his captors for water. According to Griffiths, the South Vietnamese interpreter said, “Let him drink paddy water.†But the GI on the left responded, “Anybody who can fight like this for three days can drink out of my canteen anytime.â€

[Longinius 1]

Related to the above anecdote, isnt that also a scene from Apocalypse Now if I remember correctly? Except the guy offering his canteen is Kilgore...

[advocatexxx 0]

Yes it is. Francis Ford Coppola used it, apparently without prior conscent from the agency that copyrighted that photo. When the agency asked for some compensation from Coppola for using it in his movie he replied "sue me".

[FSPilot 0]

Sure would be funny if they did and put him out of business.

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"Vietnam....Specialist. 4 Richard Champion, squad leader, Company B, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, shouts instructions to his squad after receiving sniper fire while on patrol on Hill 56, 70 miles southeast of Chu Lai.

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[Cloney 0]

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He fought till the end. a Vietnamese machine gunner lies dead in his foxhole

with hundreds of spend shells, 45 miles northwest of Saigon at the Michelin Rubber Plantation.

Nov. 1965

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Marine PFC Jerry D. Goff examies his M-14 after being hit in the bore by a Viet Cong sniper at My Song, south of DaNang, April 25, 1965.

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The second picture had a profound impact on me. It looks like that Marine is about 16 years old. Not even old enough to shave.

[advocatexxx 0]

A Palestinian child throws rocks at a patrolling Israeli tank along the borders of West bank.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

[ran 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Russian KFOR soldiers decorated for rescuing wounded US soldier

Five Russian soldiers came to the rescue of a US soldier, who was severely wounded during a mine strike on 15 December 1999.<span id='postcolor'>

[VXR 9]

the one of Ran is a good one, ones they were enemys now they save each other.

[nolips71 0]

617 sqn dambusters

[Tex -USMC- 0]

"Death of Loyalist Militiaman Frederico Borrell Garcia, Cerro Muriano (Cordoba Front), 1936" Taken by Robert Capa

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus 0]

Machine gun Crew

Bellau Wood, September 1918

[Assault (CAN) 1]

British Troops on LSD

Such brave Guinea Pigs!

[Tovarish 0]

LMFAO They gave them LSD and then let them try to use a Rocket Launcher?!? Veeeeeery scientific

[Cloney 0]

ROFL that is like when me and my friends are playing paintball. Giving the other team the finger over the bunker. Other mishaps include charging while yelling "F********K!!!!"

Then randomly snickering behind bunkers while we are being sprayed with paint. We knew that the enemy was coming for us but we couldn't hold our guns.

It was hilarious.

[FSPilot 0]

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HAHAHAHAHAHHA

[OFPunk 0]

These are all pictures of Stalingrad in WWII, thats all I know.

[Col. Kurtz 0]

That last one wans't, that was Berlin, 1945.

That photo was actualy a staged shot.

The flag really was raised in that manner of the Reichstag, but there wasn't a photographer there at the time so it had to be redone with one.

[Tovarish 0]

"Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a 18-year-old schoolgirl from Moscow, voluntarily joined a partisan detachment in 1941, when Nazi forces invaded Russia and mounted an offensive in the direction of Moscow. The brutality of the Nazis accelerated with murder, violence and terror, and on the night of the 27 November 1941, Zoya, together with two comrades, set fire to a German stable near Moscow. Nazi officers quickly caught one of them - Wassilij Klubkow. Under interrogation he betrayed Zoya.

The Nazis arrested her immediately and brutally tortured her in order to get some information on the partisan detachment. Rape, torture, and mutilation could not break her, so they hanged her in public in Petrishchevo near Moscow on the 29th November 1941. Just before she was pushed off the platform with a loop about her neck she shouted to the Nazis: 'You cant hang all 190 million of us.'"

After the war Zoya became the symbol of Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation and she was posthumously decorated a Hero of the Soviet Union as was her brother, Shura, for his service in the Red Army tank corps.   

[theavonlady 2]

Oops! Wrong Button!

[OFPunk 0]

OMG lol, how the hell do you accidently shoot a sidewinder haha that is great.

[theavonlady 2]

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It's the #2 button on the joystick.

[cam0flage 0]

100 meter from enemy, about 5 km from Lemetti to north; 21 February 1940.

A Finnish machine-gun detachment guarding a blockade encirclement in the Lemetti district north-east of Ladoga on 21 February.

[hovmand 0]

Pictures of Danish freedomfighters.

I also have a picture of my granddad together with some other resistance forces, but no scanner

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

No more pictures of dead people or you get banned.

Mutilations, injuries etc. will get you banned as well.

Final warning.