Arcs de postguerra / The old new bridge
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Foto feta amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1933; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm; pelicula Kodak Tri-X 400 revelada en Rodinal 1+100 durant 50 minuts.
El pont vell de Mora d'Ebre, amb petit autoretrat. Aquest pont originariament era de ferro, i només feia 8 anys quan fou volat just abans de la batalla del Ebre. Durant la batalla va restar enrunat, i no fou fins la postguerra que fou reconstruit, però amb arcs de ciment.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1933; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens; Kodak Tri-X 400 stand-developed in Rodinal for 50 minutes.
The old bridge at Mora d'Ebre, one of the main logistical hubs for the Republican army during the batle. This bridge was blown up before the battle by the then withdrawing Republican army. It was not used during the battle, and only rebuilt after the war. Before the war it was a steel bridge, but in the gloomy fascist postwar, steel was scarcer so concrete was used.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQZ_gKCHtk
Arcs de postguerra / The old new bridge
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Foto feta amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1933; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm; pelicula Kodak Tri-X 400 revelada en Rodinal 1+100 durant 50 minuts.
El pont vell de Mora d'Ebre, amb petit autoretrat. Aquest pont originariament era de ferro, i només feia 8 anys quan fou volat just abans de la batalla del Ebre. Durant la batalla va restar enrunat, i no fou fins la postguerra que fou reconstruit, però amb arcs de ciment.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
============================================
This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1933; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens; Kodak Tri-X 400 stand-developed in Rodinal for 50 minutes.
The old bridge at Mora d'Ebre, one of the main logistical hubs for the Republican army during the batle. This bridge was blown up before the battle by the then withdrawing Republican army. It was not used during the battle, and only rebuilt after the war. Before the war it was a steel bridge, but in the gloomy fascist postwar, steel was scarcer so concrete was used.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQZ_gKCHtk