maclaine
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In keeping with the personal archaeology theme that's going around these days, I came across this set on Flickr of one man's time in the service (I have no connection to this person in any way). It's mostly just snapshots of the man himself, but there are some cool pictures of a few different places, mostly Guam and El Paso, TX. Even if there's not a ton of artistic value to these, it's always neat to see moments from another era, if only to see how much has changed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelj/sets/72157624220644588/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelj/sets/72157624220644588/
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
Air Force with alot of time on his hand to have so many pictures taken. Thanks -
Very nice photographs.
That settles it- I have to scan in my Father's pictures from WW-II. I did a few for Nikki's Show and Tell in 2nd grade, for Veterans day. I finally found ONE of my Dad's B-29's that did not have a Naked Woman painted on the Nose. He survived a lot of crash landings, went through a number of planes.
That settles it- I have to scan in my Father's pictures from WW-II. I did a few for Nikki's Show and Tell in 2nd grade, for Veterans day. I finally found ONE of my Dad's B-29's that did not have a Naked Woman painted on the Nose. He survived a lot of crash landings, went through a number of planes.
maclaine
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charjohncarter
Veteran
One of the nice things about the military is they take care of you so you have plenty of time to take pictures. My most productive period was while I was in the US Army, just one, not a nice one:
robklurfield
eclipse
White Sands. The "Trinity Site" is located there. This is where the first atom bomb was tested.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
It takes some determination to get right through that flickr stream.
A hell of a lot of standing in front of the camera portraits, leaning on car portraits, arm around my buddy portraits ... interspersed with the occasional interesting pic.
As said ... they appear to have had a lot of spare time!
A hell of a lot of standing in front of the camera portraits, leaning on car portraits, arm around my buddy portraits ... interspersed with the occasional interesting pic.
As said ... they appear to have had a lot of spare time!
leica M2 fan
Veteran
Totally interesting shots.
bigeye
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That's what got me back to film... Dad was on Guam in B-29's for a month, then onto Saipan. 73rdBW/871BS/497Grp, plane was tail number "A square 53". Here's one of his shots of the first accomodations: Theater, tents and O-club, Guam
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