Photos The Humanity In War

[Bombardier]

I see thank . Great photos

 

[diman]

The first Chechen company

 

[diman]

Berlin 1945

 

[saiga]

An American soldier risking his life to save two Vietnamese children during a fight.

 

[saiga]

American soldiers carry Vietnamese children to safety.

 

[saiga]

An American nurse, Second Lieutenant Kathleen M. Sullivan treats a Vietnamese child.

 

[Bombardier]

Children are a powerful driving force, we would find ourselves doing the crazy things in any environment to protect them.

 

[saiga]

Children are a powerful driving force, we would find ourselves doing the crazy things in any environment to protect them.

Children and women I remember an IDF related story, I'll try to find it and post it here.

 

[saiga]

Australian soldiers of the 9th Division help a wounded German soldier after capturing a German strongpoint during a battle at El Alamein in Egypt, 1942.

 

[saiga]

Japanese soldiers rescuing a Chinese baby, Manchuria, 1937.

 

[saiga]

This is a very cool one. A German soldier lights the cigarette of a wounded British soldier at a British field hospital during the Battle of Épehy, 1918. (I remember this photograph from Imperial War Museum, taken by Lt. T. K. Aitken, war photographer).

 

[Bombardier]

The guy to the right looks like he is taking a leak.

 

[saiga]

The guy to the right looks like he is taking a leak.

Hahaha! Now I got coffee all over my keyboard...

 

[Bombardier]

Made me chuckle too

 

[saiga]

Robert Campbell's story, Christmas of 1914 and others http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/42...maraderie-between-British-and-German-soldiers

 

[saiga]

This is very rare. Is that a Waffen SS trooper?

 

[saiga]

Medic Corporal Roy C. Moore examining a wounded German prisoner in a field near the French town of Countances, 1944.

 

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A U.S. Army medic working alongside a captured German medic on a wounded German soldier in Anzio, 1944.

 

[saiga]

A Marine medic tends to a wounded child as his mother bows low in gratitude, Saipan, by W. Eugene Smith, 1944.

 

[Bombardier]

A Marine medic tends to a wounded child as his mother bows low in gratitude, Saipan, by W. Eugene Smith, 1944.

Consider the following

In Saipan there were two problems. First, there was the Japanese determination to resist to the death and to not allow the American occupiers to take either soldier or civilian alive: the greatest banzai charge of the war took place on Saipan and left over four thousand Japanese soldiers dead

A direct order was given by the Emperor Hirohito ordering civilians on the island to kill themselves rather than be taken alive. This order has, in the post-war period, been contested as a forgery, but the evidence seems to be in its favour.

And it makes this so much more of a miracle and rare sight