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WW2EU1_170604_006.JPG: "We will not capitulate -- no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us -- a world in flames."
-- Adolf Hitler, March 1945
WW2EU1_170604_008.JPG: "Together with other free peoples, we are now fighting to maintain our right to live among our world neighbors in freedom, in common decency, without fear of assault."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
WW2EU1_170604_010.JPG: Stalin
WW2EU1_170604_017.JPG: Churchill
WW2EU1_170604_023.JPG: Roosevelt
WW2EU1_170604_026.JPG: Hitler
WW2EU1_170604_031.JPG: Mussolini
WW2EU1_170604_036.JPG: The Road to Berlin
"Germany First"
WW2EU1_170604_043.JPG: Strategic Alliances
WW2EU1_170604_045.JPG: Allied Commanders
WW2EU1_170604_046.JPG: Dwight D. Eisenhower
WW2EU1_170604_049.JPG: Bernard L. Montgomery
WW2EU1_170604_052.JPG: Ernest J. King
WW2EU1_170604_055.JPG: Harold Alexander
WW2EU1_170604_057.JPG: Omar N. Bradley
WW2EU1_170604_059.JPG: Georgi Zhukov
WW2EU1_170604_061.JPG: Henry Arnold
WW2EU1_170604_063.JPG: George C. Marshall
WW2EU1_170604_067.JPG: Alan Brooke
WW2EU1_170604_070.JPG: The Road to Berlin
A Strategist's Nightmare
WW2EU1_170604_076.JPG: Axis Commanders
WW2EU1_170604_078.JPG: Wilhelm Keitel
WW2EU1_170604_084.JPG: Hermann Goering
WW2EU1_170604_087.JPG: Heinrich Himmler
WW2EU1_170604_095.JPG: Gerd von Rundstedt
WW2EU1_170604_098.JPG: Albert Kesselring
WW2EU1_170604_101.JPG: Ugo Cavallero
WW2EU1_170604_104.JPG: Karl Doenitz
WW2EU1_170604_106.JPG: Erwin Rommel
WW2EU1_170604_110.JPG: Friedrich Paulus
WW2EU1_170604_114.JPG: Deadly Instruments of War
WW2EU1_170604_120.JPG: M2A1 105mm Howitzer
WW2EU1_170604_123.JPG: The Desert War
North Africa: Stemming the Nazi Tide
WW2EU1_170604_145.JPG: Learning to Fight the Enemy
WW2EU1_170604_148.JPG: Operation Torch
WW2EU1_170604_156.JPG: Bitter Setback at Kasserine Pass
WW2EU1_170604_160.JPG: Lessons Learned
Tactical Focus:
Tanks in the Desert
WW2EU1_170604_167.JPG: German soldiers in a captured American half-track get a congratulatory visit from Rommel after the Axis victory at Kasserine Pass.
WW2EU1_170604_170.JPG: John Waters
WW2EU1_170604_175.JPG: Jeep
WW2EU1_170604_177.JPG: Advance into Tunisia
WW2EU1_170604_181.JPG: Battle of El Guettar
The Importance of Victory
WW2EU1_170604_192.JPG: Invasion of Sicily
Storming Mussolini's Outpost
WW2EU1_170604_216.JPG: Invasion of Sicily
Operation Husky
WW2EU1_170604_218.JPG: 48-star US Flag
This American flag flew from vessels commanded by Ted. R. Chrischilles during the war. Ensign Chrischilles, USNR, participated in the invasion of Sicily, earned the Silver Star for bravery under fire during the invasion of Salerno, and later landed on Utah Beach in Normandy.
WW2EU1_170604_225.JPG: Invasion Plans from Operation Husky
WW2EU1_170604_227.JPG: Invasion Plans from Operation Husky
WW2EU1_170604_234.JPG: "Friendly Fire"
WW2EU1_170604_238.JPG: Race to Messina
WW2EU1_170604_242.JPG: Taking Palermo
WW2EU1_170604_246.JPG: George S. Patton, Jr.
WW2EU1_170604_253.JPG: Italian Flag
WW2EU1_170604_257.JPG: The Italian Campaign
A Long, Bloody Slog
WW2EU1_170604_283.JPG: Salerno
WW2EU1_170604_288.JPG: German Occupation
WW2EU1_170604_293.JPG: Nazi Flag captured by SS Cornelius Harnett
WW2EU1_170604_303.JPG: Ernie Pyle
WW2EU1_170604_305.JPG: Monte Cassino
WW2EU1_170604_308.JPG: The historic abbey at Monte Cassino lies in ruins after Allied bombings. The abbey was restored in the 1950s.
WW2EU1_170604_312.JPG: Japanese American Soldiers
WW2EU1_170604_315.JPG: Fighting up the Peninsula
WW2EU1_170604_322.JPG: Congressional Gold Medal
WW2EU1_170604_328.JPG: Zippo Lighter
A gift to Reed Switzer from Ernie Pyle
WW2EU1_170604_334.JPG: Landing at Anzio
WW2EU1_170604_339.JPG: Special Operations
WW2EU1_170604_345.JPG: US Army-Issue Portable Altar
WW2EU1_170604_352.JPG: 4.2-inch Mortar
WW2EU1_170604_360.JPG: Liberation of Rome
WW2EU1_170604_364.JPG: Fight for the Gothic Line
WW2EU1_170604_371.JPG: The Air War
Strategy
WW2EU1_170604_382.JPG: First Strikes
WW2EU1_170604_385.JPG: The Air War
Prevailing in the Skies
WW2EU1_170604_407.JPG: "We had braved the enemy in his own skies and were alive to tell about it."
-- Paul Tibbets, Pilot, US Army Air Forces
WW2EU2_170604_006.JPG: AN6519-1 Type B4 "Mae West" Life Jacket
Life jackets were standard issue for aircrews flying over water, including bomber crews flying over Europe. Although several designs were adopted during the war, they were collectively known as "Mae Wests" after the iconic American star. The label was credited to flyers of the British Royal Air Force, to whom an amused Mae West wrote, "I have just seen that RAF flyers have a life-saving jacket they call a 'Mae West' because it bulges in all the 'right places.' Well, I consider it a swell honor to have such great guys wrapped up in me, know what I mean?"
WW2EU2_170604_020.JPG: Preparing for Overlord
WW2EU2_170604_028.JPG: "Hell's Angels"
Boeing B-17F
WW2EU2_170604_031.JPG: The Air War
Air Superiority
WW2EU2_170604_038.JPG: A B-17 falls victim to a German Me-262 jet fighter over Germany. The Me-262 outperformed every Allied aircraft then flying, but was produced in limited numbers and arrived too late to alter the war's outcome.
WW2EU2_170604_040.JPG: After the introduction of longer ranger fighter escorts, bomber losses plummeted to as low as 1%.
WW2EU2_170604_050.JPG: Ration Ticket:
American Red Cross ration ticket, good for 5 cents at a snack bar in Italy.
WW2EU2_170604_055.JPG: 91st Service Squadron Sign
WW2EU2_170604_077.JPG: The Air War
A Heavy Price
WW2EU2_170604_080.JPG: Deadly Defenses
WW2EU2_170604_083.JPG: William Clark Gable
WW2EU2_170604_086.JPG: "It had been horrendous. I turned white-headed at the age of twenty-two."
-- John H. Luckadoo, Pilot, US Army Air Forces
WW2EU2_170604_089.JPG: A Long Thin Line of Anguish
WW2EU2_170604_095.JPG: Winston Churchill
WW2EU2_170604_097.JPG: Dwight Eisenhower
WW2EU2_170604_100.JPG: Anne Frank, June 6 Diary Entry:
" 'This is D-Day,' the BBC announced at twelve. 'This is the day.' The invasion has begun.
"Is this really the beginning of the long awaited liberation? The liberation we've all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? Will this year, 1944, bring us victory? We don't know yet. But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."
WW2EU2_170604_102.JPG: "Here in a jumbled row for mile on mile are soldiers' packs. Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand grenades... Here are toothbrushes and razors, and snapshots of families back home staring up at you from the sand."
-- Ernie Pyle
WW2EU2_170604_104.JPG: Northwestern Europe
Invasion and Liberation
WW2EU2_170604_120.JPG: Northwestern Europe
D-Day
WW2EU2_170604_124.JPG: Costly Victory
Beyond the Beachhead
WW2EU2_170604_134.JPG: Crystal Radio Receiver, Handmade
In occupied France, Marie Louise Levi-Menard used this crystal radio receiver, handmade by her cousin, to listen illegally to BBC radio broadcasts.
WW2EU2_170604_138.JPG: Marie Louise Levi-Menard
WW2EU2_170604_142.JPG: German Hermes Typewriter
WW2EU2_170604_145.JPG: Operation Dragoon
WW2EU2_170604_148.JPG: The Lost Battalion
WW2EU2_170604_154.JPG: Life of a G.I.
WW2EU2_170604_161.JPG: On the Front Lines
WW2EU2_170604_163.JPG: Northwestern Europe
Race Across France
WW2EU2_170604_170.JPG: Northwestern Europe
Liberation
WW2EU2_170604_174.JPG: Liberation of Paris
WW2EU2_170604_178.JPG: Mortain
WW2EU2_170604_182.JPG: George Stevens
WW2EU2_170604_186.JPG: Red Ball Express Patch:
Patch authorized for Red Ball Express personnel, with initials for Transportation Corps, Motor Transport Service.
WW2EU2_170604_191.JPG: Bill Mauldin
WW2EU2_170604_194.JPG: Northwestern Europe
No End in Sight
WW2EU2_170604_200.JPG: Large areas of Antwerp, Belgium, lie cratered and shattered after being struck by a horrific new German weapon, the V-2 missile. The Germans launched over 3,000 V-2s, most targeting Antwerp and London.
WW2EU2_170604_202.JPG: Germany's Weapons of Desperation
WW2EU2_170604_204.JPG: Red Ball Express
WW2EU2_170604_206.JPG: Market Garden
WW2EU2_170604_211.JPG: Advance Into Germany
WW2EU2_170604_219.JPG: Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's Last Gamble
WW2EU2_170604_238.JPG: Battle of the Bulge
Surprise Attack
WW2EU2_170604_242.JPG: Malmedy Massacre
WW2EU2_170604_249.JPG: Kurt Vonnegut
WW2EU2_170604_251.JPG: German Pattern of 1944 Winter Uniform:
This army-pattern camouflage uniform consisted of a jacket and matching trousers. It has an attached wool lining and second silk lining, making for a very warm garment. Most front line German troops wore this type of uniform.
WW2EU2_170604_253.JPG: Souvenir Nazi Flag
WW2EU2_170604_258.JPG: German Gas Can:
This Wehrmacht "jerry can" was used to hold gasoline. Desperate for fuel and relying increasingly on horse-drawn transport, German commanders knew that their Ardennes offensive would require the capture of Allied fuel supplies.
WW2EU2_170604_263.JPG: Battle of the Bulge
The North Shoulder
WW2EU2_170604_266.JPG: American GIs line up for food. Hot meals were hard to come by on the front lines during the battle.
WW2EU2_170604_268.JPG: Winter Weather
WW2EU2_170604_280.JPG: Soldier's Friend
WW2EU2_170604_288.JPG: Battle of the Bulge
Siege of Bastogne
WW2EU2_170604_294.JPG: Battle of the Bulge
American Counterattack
WW2EU2_170604_296.JPG: A crewman of the 761st Tank Battalion, US Army, peers out of the hatch of an M4 Sherman medium tank. The African American unit, attached to the 87th Infantry Division, helped relieve Bastogne.
WW2EU2_170604_299.JPG: January Fighting
WW2EU2_170604_309.JPG: Opel Sedan
WW2EU2_170604_315.JPG: Patton's Christmas Greeting / Prayer Card
William DeFrates and other soldiers of the 10th Armored Division, Third Army, received this Christmas Greeting / Prayer Card in a convoy of supplies delivered during the fighting near Bastogne. According to folklore, the prayer was written due to the bad weather the Americans faced during the Battle of the Bulge. The Chief Chaplain of the Third Army, who wrote the prayer, has said that it was in fact composed prior to the beginning of the battle. The delivery of these cards to the troops, and the clear weather that closely followed, has forever linked this prayer with the Battle of the Bulge.
WW2EU2_170604_340.JPG: Into the German Homeland
The Fall of the Third Reich
WW2EU2_170604_360.JPG: "One cannot go to war and come back normal."
-- Richard Proulx, Infantryman, US Army
WW2EU2_170604_370.JPG: Overcoming Hitler's West Wall
WW2EU2_170604_373.JPG: Into the German Homeland
Breaching the Siegfried Line
WW2EU2_170604_380.JPG: Final Assault
WW2EU2_170604_385.JPG: Operation Varsity
WW2EU2_170604_387.JPG: Hamburg
WW2EU2_170604_393.JPG: Fall of the Third Reich
WW2EU2_170604_395.JPG: Death Throes of Nazism
WW2EU2_170604_404.JPG: Teapot, Teacup and Saucer, Creamer and Egg Cups
These china pieces are marked with the national eagle emblem of Nazi Germany, with "D" and "R" (short for Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft, the German State Railway) flanking the swastika in the eagle's talons. The number "231" is painted on the bottom, and represents a railcar used by a member of the Nazi party. These items were taken from a train, although it is unclear which party official used the car designated "231."
WW2EU2_170604_407.JPG: Silver Teapot (stamped with Hitler's initials "AH")
WW2EU2_170604_420.JPG: Fork, Dessert Knife, Dinner Knife, and Spoon
Stamped with Hitler's "AH" initials.
WW2EU2_170604_422.JPG: "AH" initials
WW2EU2_170604_428.JPG: Dresden
WW2EU2_170604_432.JPG: "No other war in history has so definitely lines up the forces of arbitrary oppression and dictatorship against those of human rights and individual liberty."
-- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 1943, letter to his son John
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Wikipedia Description: National World War II Museum
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The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins and Magazine Street. It focuses on the United States contribution to victory in World War II, and the Battle of Normandy in particular. It has been designated by the U.S. Congress as "America's National World War II Museum".
Museum Description:
The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day. The museum has a large lobby where aircraft and other items are suspended from the ceiling. Visitors pay admission fees at the desk in the center of the lobby and then visitors' tickets are separated from the ticket stub by veterans of D-Day. Admission prices during the summer of 2005 were marked at $14, with discounts offered to children, students, military members and their families, veterans, and senior citizens. The building is several stories high; elevators are available but the stairs are more accessible and are quicker. Visitors begin their self-guided tour of the museum on the top floor and work their way down toward the ground floor. The museum goes in chronological order; that is, the top floor assesses the political, social, and economic conditions that led up to World War II and D-Day. For example, the museum compares the relative military strengths of major nations entering the war. Later visitors see a model of the beaches of Normandy with the relative positions of the number of aircraft and amphibious vehicles. However, the museum does not solely discuss the invasion; visitors may also view an electronic map of the Pacific Ocean that lights up to illustrate the Allied strategy of island hopping, culminating with nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Visitors to the museum are encouraged to allocate roughly 2 1/2 to 3 hours to tour the m ...More...
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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