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Offline Brooke

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Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« on: August 28, 2011, 05:44:23 PM »
Definitely worth a look -- great pics:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ww2.html
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2011, 06:39:15 PM »
Thank you for posting.  :rock
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2011, 06:56:14 PM »
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2011, 07:10:28 PM »
Great pictures!  :aok
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 08:50:24 PM »
Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 09:10:14 PM »
Great find Brooke!  Thanks for posting!!
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 09:39:29 PM »
 :aok  Thanks
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 07:40:08 AM »
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2011, 07:43:39 AM »
Brooke you make my day! Great find  :aok
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2011, 08:38:44 PM »
very good pictures.. bookmarking that one case it will take some time.. TY for the link.
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2011, 09:26:08 PM »
"Before the war" #35 pic what type tank is that? 
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2011, 09:56:44 PM »
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2011, 10:16:52 PM »
This one irritates me.


White House reporters dash for the telephones on December 7, 1941, after they had been told by presidential press secretary Stephen T. Early that Japanese submarines and planes had just bombed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2011, 12:40:30 PM »
Quote from: grizz441 on August 29, 2011, 10:16:52 PM
This one irritates me.

I had the same thought because it looks like a couple of them are smiling in glee.  I thought, "What the !@#$!"
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Re: Excellent WWII pictorial in The Atlantic
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2011, 02:02:15 PM »
Quote from: Brooke on August 30, 2011, 12:40:30 PM
I had the same thought because it looks like a couple of them are smiling in glee.  I thought, "What the !@#$!"

me too, but then i stopped, reminding myself that these were *reporters* who just got a big honking scoop (the smiles as they race to be first to the phones.)

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