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A view from the Eggishorn (Swiss Alps).
Location: Top of Eggishorn, Aletsch-Arena, Valais, Switzerland.
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It was over 30 degrees Celsius and I could not believe the dancers' energy. I always loved Pow-Wows. I only have a one lens for wildlife photography and was unable to rent one for that day. I am glad I did not as there was so much dust around. So the Point and Shoot was a better choice in the end but so slow to focus though.
German POW's could expect nothing but the harshest of treatment from the Soviets. Made to carry out hard labor for long hours often extreme weather conditions.
Many died as a result of lack of food and disease.
A normal days food ration(based on work productivity) was a bowl of Gruel and 1lb of bread.
Rusty Nissen huts at Snape Farm Prisoner of War camp, Weston. This site has now been cleared and replaced by housing.
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While going through some older shots today, I came across this photo that was taken while visiting Jordan, Kassandra, August and the soon to be born Hollis in Guam. I took many shots of, and in the Japanese bunkers scattered around the island…all are very creepy and considered to be haunted with spirits who can attach to you. I didn’t go very far into any of them…not due to the possibility of a spirit attaching, but the reality that they were made for a much smaller man who needed to crawl across the lava rock for survival. I was blessed with just a bit better looking legs than your average picnic table and desire to keep them that way! The good news is that they didn’t provide the expected protection once Yamamoto’s “Sleeping Giant” came ashore in 1944.
I will never forget taking this shot. It is of a wall of an outdoor theater constructed by Japanese POWs in 1945-46. I stood and stared at the wall, read a bit from the historical marker located next to it and then back to the wall again. The care and craftmanship displayed in this 73-year-old wall caught me totaly off guard. I cannot imagine surviving the American bombardment and the horrors of jungle warfare, only to be taken captive and forced to build a place for your enemy’s entertainment. I wonder if they thought we were going to kill them, making the craftmanship an attempt to create their opus.
As my camera achieved focus, I knew this capture was going to black and white. The differing coloration due to the lichen and mosses distracted from symmetry, reminding me of a beehive.
Adventure before dementia.
Si no se acuerda no pasó, ese es su lema
Trajo una botella para ahogar las penas
Su amiguita pa' to's lados la acompaña
Hace tiempo que por hombres no se raya
Se puso pa' la vuelta cuando la noche cayó
Baby, ahora no digas que no
Que tú ya sabes quiénes somos
Ya cayó la noche
Las gatas se bajaron del coche, ahora toca pecar
Hace que no me conoce
Y me la imagino en mil poses al verla bailar
Por eso cuando lo hacemos ella se viene y rápido se va
Quiere estar conmigo y a la misma vez no estar amarra'
Writing by a German prisoner of war, some of words read:
25.5 Prisoner of War
1945 Bis (or 31S) 2508205
Lt Mombarg
It appears that Lt. Mombarg carved this on May 25, 1945.
In 1942, War Department needed to house POWs to learn strategic information on weaponry. Interrogation sites were set up at Ft. Hunt, VA and Byron Hot Springs, CA. Ft. Hunt could not handle the interrogation demands and the Camp Michaux was selected as a second site. Thousands of prisoners (possibly as many as 7,000) were interrogated here during the course of the war including Japanese prisoners toward the end of the war.
This writing is located on the side of small stone bridge on the Michaux Road.