Blast from the past

[ozcopper]

Thanks to MLP...

PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA

Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker. and just recently
taken to be developed.

THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.

I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!

PEARL HARBOR

December 7th, 1941

 

[ozcopper]

Pearl Harbor

On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island , where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States .)

In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu , he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which st ruck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.


At 075 3 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
When it was over, the U.S. Losses were:

Casualties
US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
US MarineCorp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.

TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
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Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-4 4) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
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Cruisers
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..
USS San Francisco (CA-38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..
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Destroyers
USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD -3 7 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.
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Minelayer
USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Seaplane Tender
USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Repair Ship
USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Harbor Tug
USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)

 

[ozcopper]

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[ozcopper]

Rare photographs of Afghanistan from the 1950s and 1960s

 

[ozcopper]

Vintage photos capture everyday life in Iran before the Islamic Revolution, 1960s-1970s

 

[ozcopper]

The mining town of Gold Hill, just south of Virginia City, Nevada, in 1867.

 

[ozcopper]

A wheatfield in the heart of Manhattan, 1982

Before the high-rises, condos and financial centers of Battery Park City, the area behind the Twin Towers was a landfill. In 1982, artist Agnes Denes was commissioned by the Public Art Fund to create one of the most significant pieces of public work Manhattan has ever seen.

Instead of a sculpture, Denes planted a beautiful golden wheat field, right next to the gleaming silver towers of the World Trade. The land was created using dirt excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center, and would later become what we now know as the modern neighborhood of Battery Park City.

Denes believed that her ?decision to plant a wheatfield in Manhattan, instead of designing just another public sculpture, grew out of a long-standing concern and need to call attention to our misplaced priorities and deteriorating human values?. Her mission, in part, was to make people rethink their priorities.

 

[ozcopper]

A Russian survivor liberated by the U.S. Army in Buchenwald camp in Germany identified a former guard who was brutally beating prisoners. April 14, 1945. Colorized version.

 

[ozcopper]

Sleeping with the enemy: Collaborator girls of the German-occupied Europe, 1940-1944

 

[Silver Soul]

^^^ sad days back then. My mother was one  of them  luring nazi  officers to their doom. I never asked how many she offed due to her state of mind today. War is discussing. 

 

[Administrator]

^^^ sad days back then. My mother was one  of them  luring nazi  officers to their doom. I never asked how many she offed due to her state of mind today. War is discussing.

Exactly. Sometimes when my grandmother was drinking she'd tell us some of the stuff she saw. She lived in Europe during WW2 under German occupation.

 

[ozcopper]

A nostalgic glance at American shopping malls of the late 1980s

 

[ozcopper]

When Advertisers Used Women in Miniskirts to Promote Computer Systems, 1960s-1980s

 

[ozcopper]

Flying first class in the 1960s

 

[ozcopper]

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City?s subway system was one of the most dangerous places a person could be.

Lucky for those of us who never had the chance to see it, Swiss photographer Willy Spiller was there, and the dark and atmospheric series of photos he took has now come to be known as Hell On Wheels.

These photographs are a joyous and soulful trip in the bygone era of the New York subway system. The photographer Willy Spiller, living in New York at the time, documented his underground travels with the curiosity of a foreigner, fascinated by the rush and the madness of its time.

It?s the period of the first rap music, graffiti, The Warriors in the cinema, Guardian Angels on the trains, and Ed Koch in charge of a broke and crime-riddled city.

Willy Spiller?s images are as much a visual document of this incomparable realm as they are a syncopated, colorful poem to the city of New York and its people.

 

[ozcopper]

The first ?strongwomen? appeared in the 19th century but were almost unheard of until much later. The appearance of strong women became more prevalent in sporting events and was also a common attraction in circuses where they would showcase their superhuman strength. This in turn paved the way for other rule-breaking girls such as female wrestlers and bodybuilders.

 

[Shlomo Goldberg]

https://youtu.be/YFtl603V9m0

Not the usual black & white marvels, but a future blast from the past

 

[ozcopper]

Remembering the hysteria over Windows 95 launch, 1995

On Aug. 24, 1995, Microsoft?at that time a tech company with around $6 billion in sales and 17,800 employees?introduced their newest operating system, a product the New York Times at that time called ?the splashiest, most frenzied, most expensive introduction of a computer product in the industry?s history.?

Windows 95 had a few notable add-ons, not least being the now-famous Start menu, a feature so significant that the company dedicated its launch ad to it. In addition to the Start button, Windows 95 introduced the taskbar, and added support for filenames up to 250 characters (a thrilling feature at the time) and ?Plug and Play? support for installing new hardware.

The launch was hyped by a $300 million marketing campaign, including a ?cyber sitcom? showing off the new features. Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry made cameos. In 1995, computers were still mostly for the office and productivity. But Windows 95 brought with it a word that consumers understood: ?Start.? Start what? Start anything.

There was also built-in, broad support for multimedia, which helped propel an explosion of CD-ROM titles. Gates and Microsoft designed Windows to be as consumer-friendly as possible (for the time) and made sure the launch event had crossover appeal ? a first for a tech event.

 

[ozcopper]

The freaky high school fashion of the hippie era seen through rare photos, 1969

 

[Administrator]

https://youtu.be/RFPpETHiltY