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#1 User is offline   32ndEPO 

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Posted March 18, 2009 - 12:34 AM

A place for photographs of soldiers on all fronts with the "thousand yard stare" or who just look exhausted from combat.

U.S. Marine after fighting on Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
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Posted March 18, 2009 - 01:03 PM

Not sure of the location for this photo, but the expression on their faces says a lot.
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Posted March 18, 2009 - 07:56 PM

The original "Thousand Yard Stare" by my favorite war artist, Tom Lea.

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Posted March 19, 2009 - 02:10 AM

32ndEPO said:

Not sure of the location for this photo, but the expression on their faces says a lot.
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It's been located in Stalingrad. Could be right..

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Posted March 19, 2009 - 11:47 PM

MikkoH said:


It's been located in Stalingrad. Could be right..


Thanks, that makes sense because I always thought they looked like they had been involved in some intense combat.

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Posted March 20, 2009 - 11:51 AM

12th Waffen SS machine gunner at Caen
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Posted March 20, 2009 - 04:40 PM

A Classic case of 1000 yd stare....A young landser eats a pilfered apple in a French Orchard...August 1944
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Strain.....A Machine gunner in Late Autumn of 1942, Stalingrad.Posted Image
Defeat.....German Garrison commander Cherbourg, France, as he surrendered his troops to the Allies.
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Anger.....Somewhere on the Eastern Front near Stalingrad. The Landser in the foreground........short of a look of rage.....his kameraden behind him, ALL have the 'stare.'
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Posted March 22, 2009 - 10:43 PM

Machine gunner, 12th Waffen SS in France I think
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Posted March 24, 2009 - 01:09 AM

Exhausted in Russia
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Posted March 25, 2009 - 12:08 AM

Exhausted German, not sure of location.
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Posted March 25, 2009 - 06:06 PM

32ndEPO said:

Machine gunner, 12th Waffen SS in France I think
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Most definably Normandy there are other photos taken at the same time and place.

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Posted March 25, 2009 - 11:41 PM

PanzerBob said:

32ndEPO said:

Machine gunner, 12th Waffen SS in France I think
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Most definably Normandy there are other photos taken at the same time and place.

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Posted March 26, 2009 - 02:50 PM

Thanks McCoy, Certainly shows there are still places in the ZONE I haven't made it to yet! AND yet people wonder whatever could be so interesting about WWII!!:D

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Posted March 28, 2009 - 03:04 PM

Can't see his eyes very well but can't think of another place this photo would belong.

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Posted April 05, 2009 - 01:26 AM

Marine on Saipan

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Posted April 07, 2009 - 01:06 AM

Captured Soviet

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Posted April 16, 2009 - 06:46 PM

Waffen SS in Russia

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Posted May 06, 2009 - 12:24 AM

Eastern Front

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Posted May 13, 2009 - 11:26 AM

These are amazing photos. Probably alot more out there too so post em if you have em - truly the face of war.

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Posted May 19, 2009 - 07:33 PM

German with the stare

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