Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Eat Uranium]

A Canadian Battalion in a Bayonet Charge on the Somme, [ca. 1918]
Unknown photographer

[VonMudra]

American troops returning fire on Filipino guerrillas in 1899.

[Invincible]

WARNING: This post might be graphic for some people, so if you don't like too see it go back now!!

You sure about that? his hand is larger than the skull. I know they would be smaller w/o the flesh and carnage, but still.. that seems smaller than  normal.. whatever though.

Remember dead body's swallow up after a while. his other hand looks less big.
more odd is the distance between head and body, for a neck it should be too far from his shoulders.
The might did ad a skull later for propaganda reasons, and placed the arm in front of the neck so you don't see it's fake. but moving a limb of a dead person is very hard! it stiffs up so you might need to brake it.

It's not the first picture I have seen with a full visible skull.

for example this one:

I understand in a muddy dirty conditions with rats everywhere a body might rot quicker, but that fast?
Maybe gas helps rotting it faster?


This photo however looks more like a body that is rotting, although in a strange way?

edit: After google-ing:




The corpse of a German soldier killed during the Allies' Somme offensive, face stripped to the bone by rats, lying in a trench near the village of Beaumont Hamel, late 1916.



Rats it is...

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

Not skeletal North Vietnamese with RPG-2



More NVA. Something about troops marching in formation, always an attention getter...



Edit: That's peculiar, for a moment there only one photo was showing but when I went to the "modify" screen both <img> urls were showing.

[Invincible]

You take a large stick with a million hooks on it, and just hang them? Cant really see a different way you could do that, unless the picture is turned 90°. And by looking at the flames i am not sure witch one, could have been turned.

It's definately turned 90 degrees.

Is it?

A bird flies off a cache of illegal fire arms stacked in preparation to be burnt in Nairobi, March 24, 2010 as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the centre of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some 1 billion USD, or 10-20% of the global trade, with illicit weapons across Africa coming from virtually every major arms producing country in the world, according to Arms sales and Arms management monitoring programmes in the US and South Africa.

Christmastree Afrikan style

[Battlefieldfan45 (CroPanzer)]

A Croatian T-34 during the war in Croatia

[Rawhide]

Major Colin Morrison from the First Mentoring Task Force, patrols the green zone of Sajawul on his 33rd birthday.

[silian]

Australian SAS in South Vietnam, weapons, from left to right:

M16A1 w/ M203, L2A1 Automatic Rifle w/ XM148, two AR-15s w/ XM148.

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

Autobots vs. Decepticons: Oh no, Nighthawkticon, you're out of gas and can't escape!

[Herc]

beautiful photo 

[Tolga<3]

Low flying, Aegean. If I had a nickle for everytime TuAF penetrated Greek airspace, I would have gotten 30 nickles since yesterday.

[ZeG]

A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey aircraft takes off from Forward Operating Base Cafferata in Afghanistan March 9, 2010.

[silian]

French Hotchkiss M201 jeep and Armée de l'Air Crotale SAM systems on transporters, the Gulf 1990.

[Eat Uranium]

An Australian Lewis gun position in Péronne, France, 2 September 1918.

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

From near the current day, following Russia's fall after the cold war:



Nuclear Submarine K-118 in its final resting place next to an Aircraft Carrier mooring in Russia. I don't know the condition of the reactor and fuel supply.