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- Peko, on 06/06/2009, -3/+1175I've always wondered who was more scared. Is it the seasick Allied grunt who has to run up into hardened bunkers under heavy machinegun fire? Or the German in the bunker who can see attackers from one end of the horizon to the other - facing down an invasion representing the spear of the western front?
In any case, mad balls. War also sucks. - EpicSelekta, on 06/07/2009, -31/+656Man, I miss having wars that were completely justified.
- TobiasParker, on 06/07/2009, -10/+420Thank you for recognizing that the average German soldier was a person and not satan incarnate or a freaking zealot. Some were yes(Zealots, not Satan), and this is in no way a Nazi Sympathy post, however Douglas MacArthur wanted to nuke China...my point being we have crazies too. The difference being in a Democracy you are only stuck with them for 4 years (8 if they are *ahem* lucky).
http://facemelt.us/mo_82.jpg - eberbwes, on 06/07/2009, -13/+378If you really want to grasp the essence of that war watch the series "Band of Brothers." You realize that soldiers on both sides are essentially experiencing the same thing: supporting your country and brothers in combat. German soldiers didn't know what was going on. They didn't know what concentration camps were. They just knew they had to fight.
- hafniOum, on 06/06/2009, -12/+358We will never forget.
- jerstud56, on 06/07/2009, -10/+317This picture is older than the internet.
- skybark, on 06/07/2009, -1/+263I get what you're trying to say and I agree. But I wouldn't say I miss having wars.
- deathandtaverns, on 06/07/2009, -3/+233good lord, I don't know if I could have done that. If someone said "when this door opens, you jump into the watter and run towards that machine gun" I might have told them to go to hell. It is because of men like them I am reluctant to call myself a man at 26 years old. Pictures like this fill me with a terror that can only be a very small fraction of that that those men went through, and for that I am grateful and so sorry for what they had to go through,
- Oatlord, on 06/07/2009, -9/+234Humanizing Germans makes them far less fun to blast in WWII shooters.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -19/+230knock knock
whos there
9/11
9/11 who?
I thought you'd said you'd never forget. - firebhaal, on 06/07/2009, -2/+187"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead" - Lieutenant Spiers
- EpicSelekta, on 06/07/2009, -0/+145That quote doesn't mean what you think it means:
"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near." - Sun Tzu - theISABELfish, on 06/07/2009, -0/+143"The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment."
-Robert Capa
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/21/4772 ... - Syric, on 06/07/2009, -1/+142It's weird how cinematic that picture looks. Looks like it's from a movie, not from real life.
- Xaevier, on 06/07/2009, -4/+141Too many people act like every single German was a Nazi, they were just as much people as our own soldiers, even if their leader was completely insane.
- LibertyPrime, on 06/07/2009, -2/+127I wonder how long will it take till some one turns 9/11 into a mattress sale like memorial day.
- uzair21, on 06/07/2009, -5/+126You mean "Saving Private Ryan", Right?
- eraofk00l, on 06/07/2009, -1/+119gotta say, props to the guy who took the picture in that situation. simply mind blowing.
- justdbc, on 06/07/2009, -1/+118Yes, this is a great shot. But the shots of D-Day that knock me sober are the ones taken from the beach looking at the landing craft. There were something like 2 dozen press pool reporters and photogs in the landing craft. Some photogs (Capra was one, I think), carrying cameras, not rifles, slogged up the beach and *turned* *around* with their backs to the German machine guns, to capture news photos of soldiers getting off the landing boats. Those photogs had courage that puts us to shame, pure and simple.
Ever wonder why that clown Andy Rooney was given so much respect at CBS for no discernable reason? He paid his dues. He slogged up the beach at Normandy and into Berlin and later Buchenwald carrying a typewriter instead of a rifle. Ernest Hemingway was in the press pool. He couldn't bring himself to get off the landing craft.
When I was a kid, I knew a neighbor that had been one of the Marines that went up Omaha beach and made it home again. That man had a quiet, non-nonsense approach to everything he did. I never saw him fear anything. - archivedigger, on 06/06/2009, -1/+115Great shot.
- fiji5555, on 06/07/2009, -1/+111My father was there on Omaha beach that day. They lost 75% of their platoon. He sure didn't miss being in a war after it was all done with. He had frostbitten feet and never could walk correctly after spending his time in France during the winter. Ask him if he missed all the blood and carnage and death and the fact that he never would talk about it much at all. He shot several Germans and had medals to prove it but it haunted him all his life. There are no justified wars, just young boys sent off to kill and having to live with it the rest of their lives. The German soldiers thought they were on the correct side also you know :(
- krisdahl, on 06/07/2009, -0/+109More photos from the same collection:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/normand ... - retral, on 06/07/2009, -1/+95Some may say one is a man when he questions his manhood in comparison to the actions of another.
Don't measure yourself based on the actions of others (who happen to be regarded as some of the bravest most courageous men in history). Respect them for what they've done and try to live your life to its best knowing they helped create the decent world we live in today. - jarablue, on 06/07/2009, -3/+95I heard stories about soldiers who were shot knowing they were going to die and offered their limp bodies for cover for the advancing infantry. Talk about ***** heroes. I admire those who served. Imagine....their whole life..GONE. We are living and breathing typing on digg, while they are gone forever. Never to come back.
Heroes. - shervin123, on 06/07/2009, -3/+83Big men they were, big men.
- machocheese34, on 06/07/2009, -2/+80He's from Armenia.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -1/+74They knew it was big.
- GawtMilk, on 06/07/2009, -7/+78Uhh, kingmaniac. It's the same story of demonization. Most kamikaze pilots weren't like, "I hate America. I will die for my country". They had to be dragged to their planes at gunpoint. Sure, there were a ton of Japanese who blew themselves up (especially on Iwo Jima), but I don't really think that you can call them inhumanly brutal monsters. They are people even if they are brainwashed.
It is not a human trait to want to fight in a war. Lead a war, sure. Win a war, definitely. Actually fight in one? Not at all; at least once the bravado balls of steel feeling wears off the second you see your best friend's face explode. - massivepanda, on 06/07/2009, -1/+66right now i have a container of sand from this same day my grandfather was one of the very last men to be alive from the first wave on omaha beach he died this january may he and all who have given their lives for this country rest in peace.
- Trailerboy531, on 06/07/2009, -2/+63These men truly were some of the bravest men this earth has ever seen. To charge into the true ugly face of battle in the name of stoping evil, those men had balls that I could only dream of having.
- sanguinekane, on 06/07/2009, -4/+63Jesus Christ, you're an ignorant prick.
Hundreds of countries made huge sacrifices during the war, not just the US. Do you know how many millions of Russians died? Compared to the Soviet Union, the US got off easy. In fact, if you really want to know the truth, it was the Russians who did some of the heaviest lifting during the war. Germany committed much more of its armed forces against the Soviets than they did for western or African theaters, the heaviest, bloodiest battles of the war were in Russian cities.
Not to mention all the other countries that together sacrificed untold millions of their own people, including Germany, Japan and Italy. So the next time you want to mouth off and act like a child, do it to a Russian or British or Italian or Polish or German or Indian or Canadian first. - _Caboose_, on 06/07/2009, -2/+61Slightly distasteful, but made me laugh out loud at 3 in the morning, so you get a digg from me :)
- LimeParrot, on 06/07/2009, -1/+56Saving Private Ryan totally captured the feel of this... amazing film.
- JkEw, on 06/07/2009, -1/+55 "A few hundred Brits, Canadians and Aussies"
More like 69,000 Brits, 24,000 Canadians 5,000 Aussies
That's more then a few hundred! - ABadPerson, on 06/07/2009, -2/+52Deception is how wars are fought, not why.Sometime there are good reasons.
- TobiasParker, on 06/07/2009, -0/+50Perhaps you mean, "a date which will live in infamy". Either way, that was about Pearl Harbor. So.... Fail Squared.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -2/+51I love it when the arm chair generals come out and postulate.
- laibixi, on 06/07/2009, -4/+52As a German i have to disagree with the idea of the German soldiers not knowing what concetration camps were! That is just wrong! Most Germans knew what was going, most Germans supported Hitler and many of them were anti-Semites. They did not notice that all their jewish neighbours were dissappearing? You can not kill more than 6 million people and nobody notices anything. The concentration camps and ghettos were all over Europe! That is why we still have debates about guilt and historical responsibilty over here.
- paloooz, on 06/07/2009, -3/+49Danke!
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 06/07/2009, -0/+46...what the *****.
- kingmanic, on 06/07/2009, -5/+50It's not the Kamikaze pilots I refer to. The fact that a lot of the atrocities the Japanese army committed in China came from the bottom while most of the atrocities committed by the Germans came from the top. Do the research. Read the notes at how the Japanese officers were disturbed by how far their subordinates would go with the Chinese peasantry but did nothing because it was "good for Morale". There is a reason why after WWII that every nation that Japan had invaded hated them so deeply and why it persisted even until today. It's well documented. Unit 731. The rape of Nanjing. Forced prostitution. Beheadings. Vivisections of a pregnant woman. etc...
It's PC to say they were just soldiers but their ARMY relished their brutality. - opticwind, on 06/07/2009, -0/+44I think the word hero is thrown around a bit too much, but men sacrificing themselves...*literally* saying "it's too late for me but use my not-dead-body to march up to machine guns"...is not a stretch for that particular diction.
- kkei08, on 06/07/2009, -2/+45Obligatory French joke/facepalm
- Exodin, on 06/07/2009, -0/+40I know it's been mentioned... but if you haven't seen Band of Brothers definitely check it out. Gets my vote for the best movie/tv miniseries ever made.
- Nateon, on 06/07/2009, -2/+40I don't know why you're getting dugg down, you're absolutely right. Many were just fighting for their country, family, and friends, performing their duties.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+38Sure you would. Because getting cleaved in half by a broadsword or impaled by an arrow is just your cup of tea, isn't it?
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -1/+38I am German, thank you for letting me live in a free democratic world with human rights, Americans. Our thoughts with everyone who fell in the fight of freedom and a better world.
- hljboss, on 06/07/2009, -5/+42Wow, that's an unsupported, borderline racist generalization if I ever saw one. If you think Japan's WWII troops were running gung-ho towards battle and fighting over who got to be the first one to brutalize some innocent Chinese peasant or whatever, then you really need to do a lot more study about the realities of what happened.
- TobiasParker, on 06/07/2009, -6/+43This reminds me of a ***** of soldiers sacrificing everything for the greater good...but if it reminds you of a movie, that is cool too.
- zigardne, on 06/07/2009, -1/+38you're currently at +5/-5 diggs.
+1 was you
+3 thought you were saying you'd piss your pants, finding self deprecating humor mixed with your admiration for their bravery
-5 thought you meant cum in your pants, finding sociopathic tendencies
+1 thought you meant cum in your pants, finding sociopathic tendencies -
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