New colour WW1 Photos***warning***Please read the warning in thread***warning***

[Margaret]

Creepy..

 

[milkinc13]

Wow, the Quality of the pictures is pretty impressive considering the camera was on a battlefield.

i agree

 

[4T5]

I am glad you posted them.
Weird how so many suffered to give us our freedom but this current generation gives it away so easily.

There but for the grace of God go i.

 

[DELETED_36704]

Great pictures! thanks for posting them.

 

[Jimbo]

Amazing, thanks for posting them.

My great granddad was gassed at paschendale but lived, only for it to kill him some 30 or 40 years later. Horrible horrible war, I'm still some how fascinated by ww1, I don't know why.

 

[Mr_White]

Thanks for these pictures.

My great grandad fought in the battle of the somme.

 

[basmic]

Pictures 2 and 3 really hit home what these solders went through.

 

[molinari]

Amazing pictures.
It's strange to see colour pics of WW1, I'm so used to seeing everything from that period in time in black & white.

 

[Scarecrow]

Really shows what those guys went through in ww1. Was all trenches and shotguns.

 

[dustiestrat]

amazing really hit home a lot better than the black and white ones imo have to show them to my grandad he likes this sort ofthing.

 

[m3csl2004]

these are stunning

 

[Steedie]

That first ones really creepy :S

 

[Zefan]

I really urge anyone who can to go to some of the remaining trenches and graveyards in France, Beligum and Germany.

I went on a trip to the Somme in year 9 and it's something I will never forget.

 

[nin9abadga]

I am glad you posted them.
Weird how so many suffered to give us our freedom but this current generation gives it away so easily.

There but for the grace of God go i.

i don't think i've ever felt the need to agree so strongly with a post in all my forum going days.

funnily enough when i bought Company of Heroes for the PC, the first beach landing level really moved me for some reason so i started researching acts of galantry and battles and all sorts of things, mainly from WW2. (from wikipedia mainly)there is an account from an american soldier somewhere that reminds me of those images. knee deep mud full of decomposing bodies that couldn't be buried, so if you stumbled or fell in the mud it was likely that you'd get up with pockets full of maggots.

i'm not sure we can really comprehend the pure horror of that kind of situation? i'll try and find the account.

 

[Father Ted]

If you found those interesting there's a site that has lots more colour photographs from World War One.

Here's the link:http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

 

[R0B75]

Great Photos!

I watched the documentary about WW1 on the BBC last year and it was superb.

Also if you like Metal you really should listen to Paschendale by Iron Maiden, brilliant song and the lyrics are very powerful. Listened to at the right time it can bring a tear to your eye.

 

[R0B75]

Some more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passchendaele

 

[nin9abadga]

ok i got it wrong it was okinawa

By the end of May monsoon rains which turned contested slopes and roads into a morass exacerbated both the tactical and medical situations. The ground advance began to resemble a World War I battlefield as troops became mired in mud and flooded roads greatly inhibited evacuation of wounded to the rear. Troops lived on a field sodden by rain, part garbage dump and part graveyard. Unburied Japanese bodies decayed, sank in the mud, and became part of a noxious stew. Anyone sliding down the greasy slopes could easily find their pockets full of maggots at the end of the journey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa

 

[platypus]

Thanks for posting them. You can't begin to imagine what these people went through.

 

[Hessian]

This images seem so surreal, it looks like images from a film, you just can't ever imagine something like this actually happened, let alone imagine what it was like for the people that was involved.

Amazing images, thank you for sharing.