Best WW2 Action Shot

Discussion in 'General' started by KriegsmarineFreak, Aug 13, 2007.

  1. KriegsmarineFreak

    KriegsmarineFreak Senior Member

    What's the best action WW2 picture you guys have found on the web? It can be anything from soldiers in combat, attacks or a ship sinking. Or it could be just a cool WW2 picture. If you guys have any cool shots could you please, post them on this thread? Thanks! Here are some actions shot I've come across on the web:

    1) Blücher sinking in Norway on April 9, 1940


    2) Wilhelm Gustloff passes by Artillerieschulfschiff Brummer sometime in 1938 or 1939.
     

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  2. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

  3. KriegsmarineFreak

    KriegsmarineFreak Senior Member

    I can see the first two shots, Slipdigist but for some reason I can't see the rest. I click on the attachments and it says they're invalid. I don't know if its something wrong with my computer or who knows? I'd like to see them, they sound pretty cool.
     
  4. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Don't know what happened, I can see them. I'll repost tomorrow. I need to crawl between the kivvers.
     
  5. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Don't know what happened, I can see them. I'll repost tomorrow. I need to crawl between the kivvers.

    Onc't they was a little boy wouldn't say his prayers,—
    So when he went to bed at night, away upstairs,
    His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl
    An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all!
     
  6. KriegsmarineFreak

    KriegsmarineFreak Senior Member

    Thanks, Slipdigit! Sorry for the hassle.
     
  7. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    A Hurricane Scramble of the BoB Hurricane scramble.jpg

    Mosquito aircraft heading out on Ops mosquito20aircraft1ex2.jpg

    And a Spitfire turning a V1 bomb spit & V1.jpg
     
  8. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Reposted pics
    Battleship Row 7 Dec 1941 Burnng Waterline View.jpg
    Battleship row Pearl Harbor
    German Soldats Advance in the Ardenne 1944.jpg
    Germans advancing in the Ardenne
    HMS Barham - Explodes.jpg
    HMS Braham Exploding
    USS Enterprise CV-6 - Bomb hit on deck.jpg
    USS Enterprise bomb exploding on deck
    View attachment 10142
    USS Franklin Crew running following exposion
    View attachment 10143
    USS White Plains about to be struck by Kamikaze
     
  9. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    pic won't post
     
  10. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    British Sherman DD tanks of 'B' Squadron, 13 of 18th Royal Hussars, and men of No 4 Commando advancing.

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/general/6534d1187124340-best-ww2-action-shot-british-sherman-dd-tanks-b-squadron-13-18th-royal-hussars

    A beauty Jeff.
    (hope that worked?)
     
  11. Kyt

    Kyt Very Senior Member

  12. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    That's it Poop, Good job

    Iwo Jima - 2nd Flag Cropped.jpg
    My favorite, for obvious reasons. This is one of the first pics from the war I can remember seeing. I thought at the time the "army men" were trying to hold the flag up to keep it from falling. I was about 3 or 4.
    F6F Hellcat - Burning on Carrier Deck.jpg
    The sailor climbing up onto the plane has one large set of kahunas. Look at what he is standing on.
    British 75mm Pack Howitzer - at Arnhem.jpg
    British pack 75 at Arnhem. I wonder if these men made back.
     
  13. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Kyt, the bottom pics reminds me of a bunch of yellow jackets giving an animal all it can stand.
     
  14. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    This is my favourite.
    After all isn't war 99% boredom?
    Hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait.
    Or am I not playing this game properly? ;)
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    A universal carrier crew of 4th Wiltshire Regiment's anti-tank platoon, 43rd (Wessex) Division, 21 September 1944.
     
  15. NickFenton

    NickFenton Well-Known Member

    Not photo's but great treasures.

    Nick
     

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  16. KriegsmarineFreak

    KriegsmarineFreak Senior Member

    Great shots!!!
     
  17. Andy in West Oz

    Andy in West Oz Senior Member

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    Phhhhwwwooooaaaarrrrrrrr!
     
  18. Andy in West Oz

    Andy in West Oz Senior Member

    Not photo's but great treasures.

    Nick

    Beautiful sketches, Nick. What's their story?
     
  19. KriegsmarineFreak

    KriegsmarineFreak Senior Member

    Whoever drew them was a talented artist.
     
  20. Kitty

    Kitty Very Senior Member

    Nick were those drawn by your dad?

    Phhhhwwwooooaaaarrrrrrrr!

    Right with you there mate!

    A Grandslam bomb about to be dropped grandsl_s.jpg

    A Lanc firing up for takeoff at night (My current desktop on a black background) p_lancbomber3.jpg

    And a convoy under attack in EBoat Alley. convoy attack.jpg
     

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