BGuthrie Photos: WW2 -- Band of Brothers tour

WW2 -- Band of Brothers tour:

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Description of Pictures: The Veteran's Day Tribute 2002 was a military convention held in Washington DC. Sponsored by World War II Magazine and the Primedia group, it honored the 82nd, 101st, and 17th Airborne divisions in World War II. While sparsely attended, it offered a chance to meet and talk to a number of participants (most of whom had written books and several of whom had been featured in Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" book) in the major airborne campaigns of World War II. We got to hear about drops into Sicily and France as well as the Market Garden campaign from people who actually participated in it. Several of the stories--including shooting Russian soldiers who were looting from refugee trains including yanking teeth for their gold--were amazing.

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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

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5. BAND_021109_054.JPG: Chris Anderson (editor of World War II magazine)
6. BAND_021109_059.JPG: Left-to-right: Buck Compton, George Koskimaki, and Bart Hagerman (author of "Granddaddy Was Airborne", etc)
7. BAND_021109_087.JPG: Williamson Murray (co-author of "A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945")
8. BAND_021109_107.JPG: T. Moffatt Burriss (author of "Strike and Hold")
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2002 photos: This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free! Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day.
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