WWII on Flickr
Being one of those folks who has a camera pretty much surgically attached to my hand, I’m always on the look out for interesting old photos. I was digging around on Flickr yesterday and ran across this set of images uploaded by a New Orleans man. All the photos are of his grandfather during World War II.
While at the same time that it’s frustrating not to know all the stories or put names to the men in the photos, it’s heartwarming to see a shirtless group of young boys cutting up with some kind of tropical fronds or to see a freshly scrubbed GI standing crisply at attention with his rifle.
As I was flipping through the photos I notice that they belong to a World War II Vintage Photo Pool. Oh. My. God. Be prepared to waste a considerable amount of time on these images. They’re from everywhere and they include everything from sweetly nostalgic images like the ones above to holocaust photos.
Flickr is one of those sites where you can get lost anyway. If you scroll to the bottom of the intial pool page you can browse out to the photo sets of the pool’s major contributors or look at the top five group tags — which gets you to a whole new host of images. Beware — you may look up and realize you’ve spent an hour or more combing through the photos. I did.
photos, vintage, nostalgia, WWII
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