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***April 2025 Image and Video Thread***
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RuleOfThirds
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Last post of this off topic part: The liberation of our part of the Netherlands was called
Amherst (click) on this site there is also a page about this execution. My photo I posted is near where the farm was. On the execution site there is a bigger memorial. Here an article about what happened.
PJD
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Three images from 80 years plus two weeks ago (in late March 1945) ...
My father (a "T3" surgical technician) and his U.S. Army 290th Engineer Combat Battalion were in Weingarten, Germany, heading east to Mannheim. Refer to page 30 in the "History of the 290th ECB".
He snapped an indoor photo of 3 of his buddies illuminated by a wood fire. Visible in the background are multi-pane arched windows. I discovered this photo two weeks ago (!) at the bottom of a large box of family photos.
For a few days, my Dad and his fellow medics were (literally) operating in an abandoned factory. On March 31, 1945 he sent a "V-Mail" message to his fiancé (his future wife, and my mother to be) consisting of a drawing of the factory, with its multi-pane arched windows, chimney, railroad tracks, and Allied artillery firing in the background.
He captured a nighttime photo of the muzzle flash of one of the Allies' 105mm cannons. What appear to be railroad tracks are visible in the foreground. I found this photo, and the V-Mail message, 2-3 years ago.
Until I found the indoor fire-light photo, I didn't know for sure how the images were connected.
P.S.: The soldiers in the fire-light photo survived the war.
P.P.S.: My family & I have now donated all my father's WWII photos and artifacts to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
My father (a "T3" surgical technician) and his U.S. Army 290th Engineer Combat Battalion were in Weingarten, Germany, heading east to Mannheim. Refer to page 30 in the "History of the 290th ECB".
He snapped an indoor photo of 3 of his buddies illuminated by a wood fire. Visible in the background are multi-pane arched windows. I discovered this photo two weeks ago (!) at the bottom of a large box of family photos.
For a few days, my Dad and his fellow medics were (literally) operating in an abandoned factory. On March 31, 1945 he sent a "V-Mail" message to his fiancé (his future wife, and my mother to be) consisting of a drawing of the factory, with its multi-pane arched windows, chimney, railroad tracks, and Allied artillery firing in the background.
He captured a nighttime photo of the muzzle flash of one of the Allies' 105mm cannons. What appear to be railroad tracks are visible in the foreground. I found this photo, and the V-Mail message, 2-3 years ago.
Until I found the indoor fire-light photo, I didn't know for sure how the images were connected.
P.S.: The soldiers in the fire-light photo survived the war.
P.P.S.: My family & I have now donated all my father's WWII photos and artifacts to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
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PJD
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Apologies for a not-an-L-mount photo. This is of several "DJI Mini 4K" drone shots I snapped this morning to illustrate how the (not yet complete) HI-LO Trail goes under a new bridge across Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Taking photographs on a beautiful, relatively warm Spring day is a good way to keep one's sanity. Cheers.
