Picture of the day

purple said:
The USMC runs one of the most successful public relations operations in history. ;) We could take some lessons from that.

Its been said that the picture of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi ensured that there would be a Marine Corps for the next
1000 years and there's still magic in it. Some years ago I attended a commemoration of the flag raising run by a USMC reserve unit in Oregon. Mt Suribachi was a big gravel pile and the young troops were suited up in replica WW2 vintage uniforms and carrying M1 Garands, and the crowd really lapped it up. Good on them.:cheers:
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The attention to detail at the Marine Museum is jaw dropping from the diorama of the LVT clawing its way over the sea wall at Tarawa in the lobby to the Korean war display with the temp dailed way down to Viet Nam wing that you enter , not by a door, by walking down the rear ramp of a Chinook...............and the heat is cranked up in. Personally I think the CWM is just to full of itself and being Canadians we do love to accept mediocrity, so they tend to get a pass on putting much effort forth.
 
As pointed out in Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers", the much publicized flag raising was a re-enactment of the first Iwo Jima flag raising with a larger flag that could be seen from all over the island. When fact and myth conflict - go with the myth. The public prefers it.
 
^ If you care to see the flag it is on display, with its very own dedicated attendant at the Marine Museum. As for the second (and more famous) flag raising I hardy think it was a "reenactment" .

Interesting correction to the historic event and a Canadian was involved in rewriting USMC history, friends of mine in Virginia told me at the time of the investigation it was done at the highest levels of the USMC and a seismic realignment in Marine history being corrected.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...tity-mixup-in-iconic-american-photo-1.3659655
 
OK - it was the 2nd Iwo Jima flag raising, which puts it in the same category as any other posed war photograph. There are all kinds of such photographs which nonetheless have become iconic, poignant moments.
 
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The Mohawk will always be weird, but I love it.
 
Sharps '74 said:
OK - it was the 2nd Iwo Jima flag raising, which puts it in the same category as any other posed war photograph. There are all kinds of such photographs which nonetheless have become iconic, poignant moments.
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Yeah, some "posed picture" considering that three of the five marines/one navy corpman in the second flag rising where killed in action within a few days. Rosenthal (the photographer) just happened to go along with the group tasked to replace the first flag as he thought he could get some great pictures of the battle from the mountain not knowing he would be recording a moment in history.


 
All true, but do we know the fates of the people in any other iconic war photos? How many of them were killed in the next moment or battle?

What is significant about the Iwo Jima picture is that the 2nd flag could be seen all over the island, particularly by those fighting to take the airfield. It was a morale booster and a propaganda dream come true.
 
Sharps '74 said:
All true, but do we know the fates of the people in any other iconic war photos? How many of them were killed in the next moment or battle?

What is significant about the Iwo Jima picture is that the 2nd flag could be seen all over the island, particularly by those fighting to take the airfield. It was a morale booster and a propaganda dream come true.
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The fellow talking to the man in the white shirt on the left side of the pic was awarded the Victoria Cross and went on to live a long and full life, his VC made the news as of late. The German talking to the CSM from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada with the bayonet fixed LE....................vanished, and was never seen again. Years later his mother saw that picture and asked the Canadian government to explain where her son ended up.

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Posted this a week ago in the wrong thread. Hope you like.

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My dad served in HMRN during WWII. He was on a sea fort, one of 4 commissioned, and destroyers. He was a Chief Petty Officer Ordnance Artificer. He told a few wild stories about the goings on.

My brother showed me this picture this month of his 'ship'. I'd been away and had never seen it. It is the 'Rough's Fort', about 15miles off of the coast of the Thames estuary. Numbers vary between 100-300 men.

Here is a link to everything about the forts' role, specification, deployment, armament, on-going usage and decommissioning.

http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/CityReunion/FortFanatics.html#roughs

(it says in there that a structure was used by SAS training in recovery of an oil rig)
 
Bubba Yugga said:
I heard you could pull some stupid G with her. That true?
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I flew in both the IR and SLAR equipped Mohawks while performing mission profiles, so the pilots weren't pushing the performance envelopes of the aircraft. It was a pretty agile aircraft with unparalleled visual observation in addition to what was provided by the various sensors and imagery. The pilots were very enthusiastic about it. It was different to be sitting in ejection seats in a prop driven aircraft.:eek:
 
That's a classic, that one. Nice colourizing on it.

Goebbel's goblins had a heyday with that image. Much about "the gangster Churchill"...

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Dark Alley Dan said:
This kid ate his Wheaties that morning...
That's about 66 pounds worth of Thompsons. And if he scratches them, the RSM will have his balls for bookends.
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That was a pretty common statement used by numerous RSM’s over the years.

There could be a sub thread listing some the better phrases used by a RSM, CSM, SWO, BWO, etc over the years. Having ones balls for bookends is probably the most used one though. I remember one SWO who liked to say “If you lie to me I’ll throw you so far into the digger, they will have to pump air to you to breathe.
 
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