Photos The Humanity In War

[Bombardier]

It is a shame though that the Muslim culture does not always show us the same respect and understanding that this female soldier is showing them.

In any case it is a great photo showing a side of war that the press are not interested in showing. The best news is always going to have a negative impact on somebody....tragic really

Interestingly I have just been adding some links to reddit to gain our little site some more exposure, lets see how we get on. For anybody reading this any sharing of links,photos,posts etc will be a massive benefit to MI.Net, it will ultimately draw more people here who may wish to engage with our Military antics.

 

[saiga]

Ukrainian Officer Becomes Internet Hero After Saving Russian Soldier's Life http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...ter-saving-russian-soldier-s-life/515165.html

"Tell your son that making a living by depriving other people of their lives is NOT good. May he return home and find other work," Chaban wrote. "May he live peacefully and not take sins on his soul."

 

[Bombardier]

An amazing story

 

[saiga]

Finnish troops tending wounded Soviet soldier.



A captured teenage Nazi is in tears as he holds out his wounded arm for a sympathetic American to examine as they wait for a medic in Cherbourg.



British soldier giving an wounded German soldier a smoke.

 

[saiga]

American and German medical personnel care for wounded paratroopers of both nations in the Hospice (505th Regtl Aid Sta #2) situated in the center of Sainte-Mère-Église.



Sgt Francis Daggertt has apprehended a 15-year old German soldier in the city of Kronach.



A pair of sleeping American Marines sharing their foxhole with an Okinawan boy after three days of nonstop battle in the Awacha pocket on Okinawa, July 1945.

 

[saiga]

A US army chaplain and a young German POW, 1918.



Germans and British soldiers attending to a wounded British soldier of the Great War.

 

[saiga]

A Marine in Vietnam plays with a child, Danang 1966.



An aged woman injured by a U.S.-Vietnamese air strike on a Buddhist monastery 40 miles southeast of Saigon is carried to a hospital by airborne private Carl Champ of Furgitsville, West Virginia, 1965.



GI’s often show a compassion for the enemy that springs from admiration of their dedication and bravery. This VC had a three-day-old stomach wound. He’d picked up his intestines and put them in an enamel cooking bowl (borrowed from a surprised farmer’s wife) and strapped it around his middle. As he was being carried to the headquarters company for interrogation, he indicated he was thirsty. “OK, him VC, him drink dirty water,” said the Vietnamese interpreter, pointing to the brown paddy-field. With real anger a GI told him to keep quiet, then mumbled, “Any soldier who can fight for three days with his insides out can drink from my canteen any time!”

 

[Bombardier]

“Any soldier who can fight for three days with his insides out can drink from my canteen any time!”

That is exactly how I like to believe I would have reacted. A lasting impression on that VC soldier I think

 

[diman]

Beslan...

 

[saiga]

Still remember the pictures of those kids. A nightmare. Poor parents. I don´t want to imagine what went through there.

 

[diman]

Beslan...

 

[Bombardier]

Beautiful little girl

 

[saiga]

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This is 10 years later? Beautiful. One of the best pictures I´ve seen lately in fact. You see happy endings so scarcely these days.

 

[Bombardier]

Read about this one years ago when I´ve stumbled upon a very nice painting which I couldn´t find now, but there´s a video on youtube about the Bf 109 pilot Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown's first meeting

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Here is a painting of this encounter

 

[Bombardier]

US Army medics treat injured french girl 1944

 

[ENGINEER]

I have read this about Dr Jolly
(During the Falklands War Richard Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer of 3 Commando Brigade RM. Interestingly and unusually he was one of few combat veterans to be decorated by both sides, with an OBE in the UK’s South Atlantic Honours List as well as an Argentinian appointment as an Officer in the Order of May, in recognition of his services to their wounded during the conflict).

I think I knew him from when I was in RAMC at Woolwich or Millbank.

 

[Smiffy]

Some amazing pics of the better side of humanity there, enjoyed going through them

 

[Bombardier]

 

[Head Shot]

I love this thread

Me too great idea

 

[Firefox]

1945: Captain J McMahon, of the U.S. 9th Army, carrying a child over a bombed bridge at the River Elbe, Tangemunde. The bridge was blown up by retreating German troops.