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This is an image from 1962 of a Female Impersonator, from the USA who went by the name of Robin Rogers and who appeared in the Nutrix publication "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 11". The original image on the left is a screen grab from a pdf of that publication which is available (along with other editions), freely, from The Digital Transgender Archive (www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/k3569438f). I used the open source AI upscaler and enhancer Upscayl (www.upscayl.org/) to enlarge and improve the image before I used white balance in the open source image editor GIMP (www.gimp.org/). The colourisation work is all my own.
The original image was 471x686 pixels which was upscaled by a factor of two to 942x1372 pixels.
The publication contains several other pictures of Robin of equally high standard. Robin states that she is 24 years of age, 5'6" and 152 pounds (10st 12ibs or approx 69kg). Astonishingly, she claims to have only started dressing for professional purposes, first attempting to gain work at Club 82 in New York, where she failed the audition, eventually getting work as an impersonator at The Jewel Box Revue. There is much online about both of those venues for those wishing to know more.
Personally, I think she is stunning and there is evidence of her still working as a Female Impersonator a good few years after this image was taken and she also appears in the 1969/70 publication "Female Impersonators #3" (again available at The Digital Transgender Archive www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/zg64tm02h ). As always, if anyone has any further information on Robin, I would love to hear from you.
I'll leave you with her letter that was published in "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 11".
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Dear Sir:
I have been reading your various publications on female impersonation and this prompts me to write to you about myself also. I got started on the whole idea of impersonating females when I first began working as a dishwasher at the famous 82 Club in New York City, which features female impersonators in the shows.
I was a soprano and baritone and had the desire to work in the Club 82 show, but there were no openings at that time. I was discouraged and left this Club for a better paying job working in a factory in New Jersey. A year and a half ago I auditioned for the Jewel Box Revue, which had popularized the female impersonators, and to my surprise, I made it !
Before this, I was not dressing up in female garb, but I wanted to learn all about female impersonation and did just that. Besides, I also learned a lot by reading your books on female impersonation.
After a while, I was being used as a show "girl" only, as the producers, Danny Brown and Doc Benner, had too many singers in the show already. But I really was yearning to be given a chance to sing in the show.
I had my real start when the Jewel Box Revue went on a tour. I was being used as a show girl and in a small spot as a singer. I was lucky enough to be a sort of a hit, as it was very difficult for out-of-town audiences to believe such a nice feminine voice belonged to a man.
I started learning the art of making up and dressing up, which was easy for me, and I began enjoying my interesting job. I soon began getting many compliments on my make-up and nice legs. But my trained singing voice got me a great deal farther.
Before I reveal myself as a man (with my baritone voice), people are amazed at my girlish voice and attractive shapely female appearance. They really believe that I am a woman,
But after I reveal myself as a man and then go back to my soprano voice, then the audiences realize that I am actually a male in female clothes! From the stage it is interesting to see the audiences t facial expressions when they realize that I am not a girl.
To go back to the very beginning, I had never been in female attire before and was very bad in the art of make-up. But with determination, I learned the art of make-up very well with the help of other members of the large cast of female impersonators.
I do not dress up except on the stage, although I am pretty sure I would not be detected by anybody, as I am a perfectionist at heart and realistic. I believe that the profession of female impersonation is a true art form.
Female impersonation is an integral part of show business and is not "degrading" as some blue-nosed critics would have society believe. I enjoy my work of being a femme mimic and wish that there were many more cities in the United States who would open up their theatre doors to travelling female impersonator shows, thus giving the public a chance to judge for themselves whether we performers give valid entertainment or it is just an excuse for men to wear women's s skirts.
I took the female name of "Robin" for my first name as it had the same initial as my male name of Roger. In fact, those who have heard me sing state that my voice is a pleasant sounding one, just like a robin' s.It has been a pleasure for me, working for the famous JEWEL BOX REVUE. Those who see our show in theatres or night clubs find it very entertaining, exciting and well worth double the price of admission or minimum charged. Like many of the other performers in this show, I have served our country in the Armed Forces and did a four-year hitch in the Navy.
During my first year in the Navy, I had to serve in the galley as a messboy. I was always fond of boats as a youngster, which was why I enlisted in the U. S. Navy. I could never figure why I had to serve food to the hungry Navy personnel for over fourteen months before being transferred to a ship !
Finally, I got on a real ship after being on shore duty following the finishing of boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center located in Waukegan,
I am twenty-four years old and weigh 152 pounds which, for my height of five feet, six inches, in low heels is fairly well distributed on my girlish figure.
Most of the other femme mimics in the show range from twenty-one years of age and up, to one who admits to being sixty-four years of age! We usually play from three to four weeks at an engagement, except when we reach a very large city, such as New York, where we usually play an average of six months or more.
The original revue, which started in Miami, Florida, ran for many years before going on tour, I was informed. The most amazing and unique feature of the JEWEL BOX REVUE is the fact that the only "man" in the show turns out to really be a woman ! This idea helps keep the audience guessing as to who is the woman and they usually guess wrong, selecting me or my co-worker Jene Chandler, or Bobbie Dale as the woman. Our svelte bodies seem more feminine to them than actual females.
I would not advise any aspiring young amateur female impersonators to apply for auditions for our show unless they are exceptionally talented and had theatrical experience as the waiting list is extremely long. They should be able to sing and dance well.
Thanks for letting me post for your readers and hope they like my photos.
Sincerely,
ROBN ROGERS.
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Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work, plus (in this case) use of AI enhancement. Any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my partial copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
7ª calle Poniente (ahora Calle Arce) y la 1ª avenida Sur.e primer plano a la derecha el almacén de tela fina de Guillermo Levy, un judío inglés
que además poseía la agencia de la compañía de vapores Kosmos en El Salvador, edifico que fue consumido por un incendio a principios de los 60's y el famoso almacén Meardi que comercializaba productos Europeos y las lociones mas finas de la época en una escena de una mañana de 1944.
Referente Histórico: webquery.ujmd.edu.sv/siab/bvirtual/BIBLIOTECA%20VIRTUAL/T...
Foto Digital: Alexseander R. Antonio. .
Mannequins have sometimes been used by artists in place of a model, perhaps particulary apt when the subject has been a child. This late 19th century example, known as ‘Roberson Child 98’ after the supplier and issue number, is thought to have been used by Millais for his famous work ‘Sleeping’, circa 1865. The mannequin was scanned for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, using clinical computed tomography (CT) with data then undergoing a novel metal artefact reduction (Medal Deletion Technique), 3D volume rendering and colourisation. Here we see the three main layers: outer textile (left), an internal wood skeleton (middle) and it’s metal skeletal framework (right). Its remarkable internal anatomy has been revealed without the need for invasive analysis or deconstruction, showing the detail and design that evolved in these mannequins, which have become of artistic value in their own right. Clinical CT scanning of artefacts and artwork is becoming an important investigative tool, with the British Museum now installing their own machine. Using Metal Deletion Technique significantly improved the quality of the imaging, demonstrating the value that it could have for the imaging of patients with metallic or even robotic implants.
Adolf Hitler hands General Erwin Rommel his Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Berlin, 20 February 1941. The excess of contemporary admiration torwards Rommel and his depiction as apolitical and critical to the III Reich is known as "Rommel myth". The myth is, however, not contemporary, as it was created as early as 1941, in order to justify the Allied faliure in North Africa, praising Rommel's role instead of accepting a defeat. After the war, the Allied Staff depicted Rommel as a good German but not Nazi soldier -'our friend Rommel'-, in an anticipation to the "Clean Wehrmacht myth". These falacies were used by West German in order to rearm during the Cold War. Nowadays, Rommel is still a hard figure to sort out, but his relations with National-Socialism are indisputable.
Orginial: Krakow-Warsaw Press Publishing / NAC Archive
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Sergeant Joseph Levin of the American Army Chemical Warfare Service testing a gas mask with his horse “Buddy”, Governor's Island, New York, 1928. This picture has long been credited as a Frenchman during the Battle of Verdun (something incredibly thoughtless because of many indications). More ironically, and what hurts me the most, is that Getty Images credits it as being an early 1930s picture and then, in another shot of the same man and day, as a 1917 picture. After I took some research, I discovered a similar photograph taken the same day in the Popular Science issue of October 1928. It is sad that a corporation as Getty, which charges colossal fees to its photographs doesn’t even bother to make a five-minutes research. I’ve transcribed you the original article: “ARMY DEMONSTRATES A NEW GAS MASK FOR WAR HORSES / Buddy, an Army horse stationed at Governor's Island, New York, is shown wearing the latest mask designed to protect war horses and mules during gas attacks. The bag of the mask fits tightly over the nostrils of the animal and is held in place by straps buckled over its head. Buddy demonstrated the effectiveness of the new protection recently when he carried Sergeant Joseph Levin of the Chemical Warfare Service, through a deadly screen of poison gas without suffering ill effects. Levin is seen wearing the newest equipment developed by Army experts to protect soldiers.” The American Chemical Corps was and still is one of the many branches in which the United States Army is divided. It was created the 28 June 1918, few months before the First World War ended, named the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service (CWS). After the Second World War, its name was changed to the current Chemical Corps. For most of its history, the Chemical Corps was tasked with delivering chemical weapons rather than defending against them.
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WW2 - A US Marine gives a young Japanese child some chocolate - coloured for you by Billyfish Photographic Art.
Our Daily Challenge ... in the kitchen
I take a lot of photos in the kitchen and when it's the challenge topic I am totally uninspired, so I did a bit of a make-over on the best of a boring selection of shots.
Sliders Sunday ... HSS
Soviet ski troops advancing to the front line of Leningrad in the current Hermitage Museum, 1943. The Siege of Leningrad took place in the current Saint Petersburg, Russia. The siege, directed by German forces supported by Finish, Spanish, and Italian units, encircled the whole city and cut every road to the city. The siege lasted 872 days, more than two years, the longest siege in the 20th century.
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75 years ago today, soldiers of the 250th Infantry Blue Division march through a route near the village of Krasny Bor, Leningrad Region, January-February 1943.
The Battle of Krasny Bor was part of a large Russian offensive against German positions, which intended to create pincer attack near Leningrad, releasing the siege and encircling the German 18th Army, which would have had to surrender. The first day of the battle was a success for the Soviet troops, but the Francoist forces from the Blue Division, reinforced with an SS Police Division could dig in, losing over 70% of their members. Russian casualties were, however, higher, with more than 20,000 casualties, including wounded. The 13th, observing that it would be useless to attack the sector, the Soviets decided to cease the offensive.
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So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you?
Wanted to give colourisation a whirl. So here it is, a greyscale image I've colourised. I listened to my Frank Sinatra vinyl while I took this. His voice is so suave.
And that's a dress I'm in the process of making! I fell in love with the fabric while I was buying fabric for an upcoming photo.
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M4A1 Sherman tanks ashore during the Battle of Cape Gloucester; picture taken from a LST, December 1943. This comes from a collection of photos taken by US Navy official photographer Elmo Jones using a Grafflex. The Battle of Cape Gloucester was the main battle during the first steps of the New Britain Campaign. Fought between 26 December 1943 and 22 April 1944, was a total success for the U.S. forces, since they had moved the Japanese defences from Cape Gloucester with the Battle of Arawe taking place as a distraction. It was the second World War II landing of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, after Guadalcanal. Many units declared that the place was infested by mosquitos and fauna worse than those on Guadalcanal.
12/1943, Elmo Jones
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With the rock said by the Arabs to be that which Moses struck. Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, from a Drawing made on the spot by Major Feliz.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.
Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828. He travelled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London (Wikipedia).
German NCO Heins Sarhander after falling asleep, Holland, September 1940. During the Second World War, soldiers would sleep in trenches, in very uncomfortable positions. In the rearguard, companies would be deployed in tents or distributed in the homes of the occupied population.
Original picture from Europeana
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After the Battle of Guadalajara, the Nationalist troops gave up in the attack to Madrid. In the meantime, the North, Asturias, Cantabria, and Bilbao, in the Basque Country, one of the most industrialized and modern regions of the country, had prepared an impregnable line of defence so that the coup forces could not occupy it. On 26 April 1937, several planes from the Nazi Germany ‘Condor Legion’ dropped thousands of incendiary bombs over the unoccupied city of Guernica uninterruptedly for three hours, killing up to 1,500 civilians in what is believed to be the first air attack targeting only civilians. The operation was totally acknowledged by Franco and the Nationalists, who later led a propaganda campaign to appease the international media claiming they didn’t know nothing. And then, Alejandro Goicoechea deserted. Goicoechea was the engineer who had planned the whole defence of the North. With this information in the hands of the Nationalist, the line was useless. To distract the enemy, the Government led the Battle of Brunete, which ended with an indecisive result, with higher casualties in the Republican side. Then, the Nationalists attacked further North, occupying Zaragoza in the East -approaching Catalonia-, being eventually stopped in the city of Belchite, which was destroyed to the grounds. By the end of 1937, the North was practically conquered. With the occupation of Northern Valencia in the first half of 1938, only Madrid, Catalonia, La Mancha, the island of Menorca, and the Eastern regions were still controlled by the Republicans. The Spanish colonies had also been defeated and were now in Nationalist hands. Without foreign reinforcements, and with the professional troops used by the Rebels, the war would end very soon.
Caption: The ruins of the destroyed city of Guernica, 1937. Bodies can be seen.
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Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland from the Charge of the Light Brigade...colourisation from the black and white image
A native Papuan soldier holding a Mk. VII Bren receives militia training by Australian forces in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, 15 July 1943. 45,000 indigenous people of New Guinea and Papua were conscripted into the Australian army to work as stretcher bearers. Called 'Fuzzy Wuzzies' because of their characteristic frizzy hair, they became a welcome sight for the embattled Australian soldiers on the Trail.
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IMPORTANT: I am deeply keen on the Australian campaign over Papua and New Guinea, especially New Britain. If you have any militaria, item, or photographs of this period, please contact me or let me know in the comments.
15/07/1943
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An Italian Alpini looks at the front somewhere in the mountain coves of the Austrian Front, c. 1917. The Alpini were and are an elite mountain subdivision of the Italian Army. The first Alpini appeared in 1872, therefore being the oldest active mountain infantry in the world. Their original mission was to protect Italy's northern mountain border with France and Austria, which was exactly what they did after the breaking of World War I, as they fought a three-year campaign on the Alps against Austro-Hungarian Kaiserjäger and the German Alpenkorps in what has since become known as the "War in snow and ice". In this kind of warfare, whoever occupied the higher ground first was almost impossible to dislodge, so both sides turned to drilling tunnels under mountain peaks, filling them up with explosives and then detonating the whole mountain to pieces, including its defenders. The remains of these soldiers are still being uncovered today.
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Well, my dear old Dad made it through to his 90th birthday (last week, with celebrations last weekend). A long way to have come since 1925! Here he is in younger days - middle figure in the background. (My colourisation).
It’s a little of that red car mentality. When you want something to really stand out than paint it red.
This is a very famous picture taken in 1936 during the American Great Depression. I think is is one of my favourite pictures of all time – it is so powerful.
I thought I would have a go at colouring it and make it as realistic as I could. I must say that, while not perfect, I am very pleased with it.
Photo source: Wikimedia
Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother". The Library of Congress caption reads: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California." In the 1930s, the FSA employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great Depression on the population of America. Many of the photographs can also be seen as propaganda images to support the U.S. government's policy distributing support to the worst affected, poorer areas of the country. Lange's image of a supposed migrant pea picker, Florence Owens Thompson, and her family has become an icon of resilience in the face of adversity. However, it is not universally accepted that Florence Thompson was a migrant pea picker. In the book Photographing Farmworkers in California (Stanford University Press, 2004), author Richard Steven Street asserts that some scholars believe Lange's description of the print was "either vague or demonstrably inaccurate" and that Thompson was not a farmworker, but a Dust Bowl migrant. Nevertheless, if she was a "Dust Bowl migrant", she would have left a farm as most potential Dust Bowl migrants typically did and then began her life as such. Thus any potential inaccuracy is virtually irrelevant. The child to the viewer's right was Thompson's daughter, Katherine (later Katherine McIntosh), 4 years old (Leonard, Tom, "Woman whose plight defined Great Depression warns tragedy will happen again ", article, The Daily Telegraph, December 4, 2008) Lange took this photograph with a Graflex camera on large format (4"x5") negative film.[1]
My first attempt at colourisation of an old sepia photograph. I wasn't aiming for complete realism - that's going to take time to master and I'd prefer to work on better photos for that.
This is my great great grandmother - Mary Ann Rees (nee Evans) with her daughter Mary Hannah Griffiths (back centre). The young girls either side of her are Mary Hannah's daughters and in front is her son. I don't know who the two ladies standing at the back are.
Richard was born in 1908 so this was probably taken before 1923 when she travelled to the USA to be with her husband in Pennsylvania.
The photo was put on Ancestry this month, by one of Mary Hannah's descendants - and therefore a distant cousin of mine.
Apparently this was taken when Mary Hannah was visiting from the USA where she had emigrated.
Violet Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis purpurata f. chlorophylla) with no anthocyanin on the North Downs, Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB, Kent England
We originally discovered this plant back in 2015, and we are so glad it made another appearance after missing it in 2016 due to predation. There are many opinions on this specimen but with the help of a few experts it is believed to be a Violet Helleborine (Epipactis purpurata) which is lacking anthocyanin, the colour pigments which make up the normal colourisation of these plants.
We are open to other interpretations if you care to share, but here are a few of the reasons for the ID. There are no other helleborines, specifically the other possibility being the Broad-leaved Helleborine, growing in this heavily canopied and dark woodland. It also grows alongside many other VH orchids, of which there were over 100 in this wood,
From a postcard in my collection, my second attempt at colourisation, following a couple of youtube tutorials, and then a lot of trial and error! This is the result of a few evenings work.
Subject is a Royal Army Medical Corps orderly, marked on the back of the postcard -
May 19th 1917
'Somewhere in France'
Lee X
A kind looking R.A.M.C. Medical Orderly. What sights this chap must have seen helping wounded Tommies ...
Of note are the 'cross over' style of doing up putties.
He wears a leather '14 Pattern belt. The '14 Pattern leather equipment was introduced when it was realised they couldn't make enough of the more modern looking 1908 Pattern Mills Web equipment for the rapidly expanding army. In an age where horse transport was still king, there was no shortage of saddleries that could churn out the older stye leather equipment in the quantities needed. The '14 Pattern is associated with Kitcheners 'New Army' volunteers.
Is it possible to judge someones character by a photograph? He looks utterly reliable, unflappable, a good chap to have around in a tight spot, pipe help firmly between teeth...
Southern Ireland. August 7th 2008 morning of Athlone Town v Sunderland AFC. Final score 6-0 to Sunderland
Finnish Soldiers during the Winter War using a slingshot to lob grenades at the Soviets. The Winter War began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939. This attack was considered illegal for The League of Nations and therefore, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League. The Soviet Union, which had before claimed sovereignty on some areas of Finnish territory, demanded concessions of several lands in the Leningrad area claiming security reasons. Finland refused and the USSR invaded the country. Numerically superior, the Soviets, though the whole invasion of Finland would be an easy job. Nevertheless, the Finnish forces repelled Soviet attacks for several months, far much longer than the Soviets expected. Hostilities ceased in March 1940 with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty, as the Red Army had been gaining land and Finland ceded territory representing 11% of its land area and 13% of its economy. The poor performance of the Red Army encouraged Hitler to think that an attack on the Soviet Union would be successful and reconfirmed negative Western opinions of Soviet military. 25,904 Finnish soldiers perished in the war, in front of c. 140,000 Soviets.
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Motorcycle units of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler division, also in Russia. The Waffen-SS was divided in 38 different divisions (plus the Panzer Division Kempf -a temporary unit of mixed Heer and SS-Verfügungstruppe components- and the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division). The one with the maximum manpower was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS with 22,000 men in 1944, followed by the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend with 21,482 soldiers in 1943, followed by 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, with a total amount of 21,120 troops, followed by close by the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar with 21,065 units. The division with less men was the 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama with just nearly 2,199 units in 1944.
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Mitsubishi A6M2 (left) and A6M5 Zero naval fighters (known to the Allies as 'Zeke’) flying in formation during their evaluation. The A6M5's cockpit survives today at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Japanese aircraft taken over by the Allies in Malaya were tested and evaluated by Japanese naval pilots under the supervision of Royal Air Force officers. The Technical Air Intelligence Units were joint Allied military intelligence units created in order to recover Japanese aircraft to obtain data regarding their technical and tactical capabilities.
c. 1945
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Last Saturday saw a rare bout of decedence for the wife and me as we forked out to ride the modern day 'Blue Pullman' from the frozen wastes of the north down to the sun drenched shores of the English Riviera at Torquay.
During our brief stay there we had sufficient time to walk from the station into the town centre via the harbour. Needless to say, though I didn't burden the Mrs with it, my mid wandered back to times when the place echoed to the sounds of AEC and Leyland products.
Back in 1976 I'd been on holiday thereabouts and with my borrowed camera had taken as many photos as pocket money would allow. Here outside the old Pavillion Theatre I'd encountered freshly re-painted (and probably freshly converted) open top AEC Regent 507 RUO looking pristine in this fetching variant of NBC 'Poppy'. My original image was in monochrome, this offering being one of my colourisations, I couldn't afford colour film back then!
Whilst the Regent may still exist, I believe the Pavillion Theatre closed the same year I took the original photo. Since then its been a skating rink and a shopping arcade . . . a far cry from the Eric Sykes show advertised on the billboard here. Although a listed building, its been semi derelict due to the poor condition of its structure since 2020.
Two female Russian snipers shooting from a trench somewhere in the Eastern Front, 1943. Sniper’s baits were common in the Second World War, and were supposedly born during World War One, with even whole mannequins portraying infantry soldiers. Here depicted, a helmet bait, that would trigger the enemy soldier to shoot from the other trench and therefore to be within range of the allied sniper.
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A different approach on this image. The original is on the left (180 by 540 pixels). Using an open source AI enhancer and upscaler (called Upscayl www.upscayl.org/) the original image was upscaled by 3 times and cleaned up into a crisp greyscale image which I then colourised (on the right 540 by 1620 pixels). The results are quite amazing bringing this image back to life. AI has enlarged and cleaned the image which enabled me to add colourisation to a beautifully clean image. I'm particularly impressed how her Cuban heel stockings have been brought back to life. What do you think?
The model here is Brigitte Dior a female impersonator from the late 1960s. My research indicates that she at least worked at Club 82 in New York City but unfortunately there is little else to go by although it seems she did go by the name "Brigette D'Or", which would make far more sense for this golden girl. As always, if anyone has further information I would welcome it.
Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work, plus (in this case) use of AI enhancement. Any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my partial copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
Pigg Lane peek, through the frame of a Moulton TSR2 belt drive model. The perfect bike for a cobbled street with supple suspension. © JAS 2022 And yes the colourisation is deliberate. Pigg Lane is off Quayside in Norwich.
Australian troops retreating from the Battle of Rabaul after the successful attack by Japanese forces, Warangoi River, New Britain, January 1942. This is the point where at least two parties of retreating Australian troops crossed the Adler River. It was taken in late January 1942 and shows some of the men of Sergeant L. I. H. (Les) Robbins’ party fording the river as they make their way south of the island.
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Members of the Grenadier division "Grossdeutschland" in a street fight in Rostov-on-Don (USSR), in July 1942. The Waffen-SS was divided in 38 different divisions (plus the Panzer Division Kempf -a temporary unit of mixed Heer and SS-Verfügungstruppe components- and the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division). The one with the maximum manpower was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS with 22,000 men in 1944, followed by the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend with 21,482 soldiers in 1943, followed by 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, with a total amount of 21,120 troops, followed by close by the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar with 21,065 units. The division with less men was the 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama with just nearly 2,199 units in 1944.
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