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Interesting vintage embroidery stitched by a man in the Coast Guard for his wife during WWII. Saw this in an antique shop in Connecticut while visiting the Sea Music Festival in Mystic.
Shop info: Boat House Antiques, 145c Water Street, Stonington, CT 06378.
World War II planes in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, some time in the 1940s during the second World War. Photo probably by Jack Cravens. If you are interested at all in the Alaska/Aleutian Islands front of the war, read more details about my grandfather's WWII experience. Please do NOT publish these photos online or in print or on a slide show or video without my written permission.
A WWII Veteran exercises his right to protest. Strobist info: Canon 580EXII with shoot-through umbrella camera left; YN560 camera right, behind subject for rim.
See more of his story at jasondietrich.zenfolio.com/blog/2012/8/a-wwii-veteran-exe...
Inscription on a WWII Japanese cannon on Managaha island in Saipan. Can you translate? Notice the Japan Navy's emblem in the center.
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40 Warhawk single-seat fighter airplane, taken on June 25, 1943 (Slide No. M 579B) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
A WWII Japanese pillbox at a beach in Saipan. This one housed a large gun but, given its location, it would have been among the first to be knocked out at the start of the battle of Saipan.
Snapshot of Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., wearing a bikini, sitting in a row boat on an unidentified body of water [either in North Carolina or Baltimore, Maryland] during World War II [printed in 1944].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of three friends sitting or leaning against the metal railing of a bridge over a river at an unidentified location around the time of World War II. Pictured are (left to right): a woman nicknamed Bet [probably for Betty]; a young man named Jimmie; and a young woman named Mary Jo. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the three, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook on the page labeled “Memories of a Wonderful Sunday !!” [with a drawing of a bottle labeled “White Lightning Mountain Corn Distilleries”]: “Bet-Jim-Mary Jo” (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Modeling an authentic WWII WAC Uniform. More about my retro/historical photography: vintagereveries.com/series/carondelet-historical-society-...
went to a trendy, yet slummy, section of the city...its where most demostrations are held....schanzenviertel or schanze for short...its where outsiders come in to protest or tag the walls of the neighborhood...mainly the people who live there are very anti_establishment people and who really do not mind the edgy neighborhood ...the buildings were from the late 1880s, but a tad run down...and the tons of garbage graffitti tags didnt help the look of the place. granted, there was some awesome graffiti and beautiful arty posters plastered all over the place too...dumb, useless tags are truely a blight
there was a little streat performance going on between a pair of young lovers...they looked really cool and mimed a couple's meet up in a movie to a relationship...it was kind of cool...though, the usa is sort of over mimes, at least there was no white makeúp...
there are many little boutiques and many little eateries on the first floor of the 4 to 6 story apartment buildings. there are scattering of cafes which probally sell more beer than cafe...there was one grocery store selling COLD BEER, but using the phrase ASS COLD which is a slang for 'extremely cold' in German, BIER ARSCHKANT 1 EURO...ASS COLD BEER 1 EURO..lol
there was some awesome graffiti and paste_up posters which were impossible to take down...you so know i would of done that...i didnt have my roll of clear packing tape, which is my secret for taking down a glued on poster. tape over the poster and gently pull off the wall.
someone did 3-D sculptures out of thick poster board...they were incredible...chamaleons, strange monsters, and assorted creatures...so, there was some very creative art work up....
the volunteer fire department had the whole building done with ROY LICTHCHENSTIEN type of drawings of firement, a woman screaming 'fire', and lots of flames....it was all professionally done, and with approval of the fire department....They spray painted the words in flames, 'FEUER UND FLAMME' in english 'FIRE AND FLAMES' which means being 'obsessed' ...quite clever...and the art work was incredible.
it was a fun walk around the trendy neighborhood, but i wouldn't want to live there, as they say.....speaking of neighborhoods, when we took the U-BAHN and S-BAHN train (U underground, S fast=direct) The conductor came on the speaker system and said, 'Eppendorfer Baum, If you want to live in a nice neighborhood, this is where you get off.' Everyone laughed. (During WWII, this is the area the British did NOT bomb during the raids, because of all the beautiful manisons. The British wanted to occupy those houses after the war. The Americans bombed the factories, not the neighborhoods.)
We did do a U-BAHN metro stop photo op...yes, we stopped at the SCHLUMP station...That brings a huge smile to any English speaker....SCHLUMP....lol..Though the state sponsored billboards , which ares 10 feet by 15 feet in the SCHLUMP metro station cause me to just break out laughing....it featured a stick drawing of a woman and man...the stick guy had his pants open while the woman stick figure was looking down them. 'PREMATURE EJACUATION? 1 out of 5 men experience it. Call for fast help to slow you down.'
There is a WWII Japanese spotter's overlook for their 140 mm cannons on the high cliffs of Naftan Peninsula in Saiapn. The overlook had an iron roof. An American bomb hit the spotter's overlook blowing the iron roof off the side of the cliff into the jungle far below where I found it upside down.
Submarine Museum, Groton, Connecticut. Model of a WWII fleet submarine.
I have a certain affinity for this class of submarine, since I served on the USS Picuda (SS-382) which was launched in 1943 and served in the Pacific ocean. It was the oldest commissioned sub in the US Navy when I was aboard it. It was decommissioned in 1972 and given to Spain as part of a deal that got the US a new lease on the Navy base in Rota.
Went to a WWII reenactment this weekend and purchased a few things for my collection.
The new M38 Leggings I bought at the reenactment. These are size 3R which fit me unlike the other ones I own which are 1R. (The 1R leggings was the first WWII militaria piece I had bought so it was a simple newbie-to-collecting error I made.)
Official U.S. Navy glass recognition training slide of a German Luftwaffe Heinkel HE 280 turbojet-powered fighter airplane, taken on July 1, 1944 (Slide No. M 3285) [Slide produced by: Three Dimension Company, Chicago, Illinois].
From U.S. Navy Recognition Training Slides, WWII 143, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
US Marine in Pacific battle uniform at Bovignton Tankfest 2010.
Had a nice chat to this guy, who told me about meeting Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
An example of German graphic design, typography, and printing. Cultural and information flyers and posters are everywhere!
Snapshot of a U.S. Army soldier named Clint from Morganton, N.C., with a wooden clothespin in his mouth, hanging his boxer shorts on the clothes line in-between the barrack buildings outside at Camp Gordon, Georgia, in September 1942 during World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew him, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Taylor wrote on the front of the image “Clint and His Drawers,” and drew marks in a circle around his boxers on the clothes line (September 1942).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
2011 WWII Reenactment Days at Midway Village, Rockford, IL. The largest in the country over 1,200 reenactors participated.
Cultybraggan in Perthshire was a WWII POW camp, holding Category A prisoners. It is remarkably well preserved having been used by the MoD up until 2004. Parts of the site have since been used by locals, including a series of garden allotments, various Nissen huts are being used for storage and one large hut is now a mushroom factory.
Snapshot of the Torengebouw van Antwerpen (or “Boerentoren”), the first skyscraper in Europe, in Antwerp, Belgium. Photograph taken while William L. Flournoy was stationed with the U.S. Army in Belgium in World War II (undated) [identification by Flournoy on the back of photograph as being in France is incorrect].
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of two teenager male members of the Morganton High School band named Carl and Ben, wearing their uniforms, sitting on the bumper of a car outside at an unidentified location. One of the boys is pictured holding a box camera. Photograph taken between 1939 and 1941 just before World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., was in the band with the two, and took or collected this photograph while she was living in the town. Photograph captioned in scrapbook: “Carl-Ben” [circa 1940] [Photograph printed by: Sebren Photo Co., Morganton, N.C.].
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
A couple WWII canteens and many other artifacts found at a forgotten WWII dump site in Saipan. When the war ended the American military bulldozed their supplies and other garbage into a large ravine and then tried to bury it with dump loads of dirt. Nearly 70 years later the dirt started washing away exposing what the military tried to dispose of decades ago.
Snapshot of an unidentified woman, wearing a winter coat and a headscarf, standing outside in the snow with snow-covered automobiles parked behind her in an unidentified town [believed to be in Morganton, N.C.] around the time of World War II. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Close-up snapshot of the Brabo Statue and Fountain near City Hall in Antwerp, Belgium, during World War II. Photograph taken or collected by William L. Flournoy while he was stationed there with the 280th Port Company, U.S. Army (undated).
From William L. Flournoy Sr. Papers, WWII 109, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Snapshot of two friends leaning against the metal railing of a bridge over a river at an unidentified location around the time of World War II. Pictured are (left to right) a young man named Jimmie, and a young woman named Mary Jo. Jacqueline E. Taylor of Morganton, N.C., knew the two, and collected this photograph while in her home town or while she was working as a hostess with the Charlotte Defense Recreation Committee in Charlotte, N.C. Photograph captioned in scrapbook on the page labeled “Memories of a Wonderful Sunday !!” [with a drawing of a bottle labeled “White Lightning Mountain Corn Distilleries”]: “Jimmie and Jo” [Mary Jo] (undated).
From Jacqueline E. Taylor Papers, WWII 154, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.