Category: War

  • The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb – 65 years later

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in ,

    This is a photograph released by the U.S. government in 1960 that shows the Little Boy atom bomb, the type detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb was 29 inches in diameter, 126 inches long and weighed 9,700 pounds with a yield equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT explosive. (AP Photo) Full photoset…

  • Last American Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in , ,

    Lt. Col. Richard D. Heyward, left, and Sgt. Nick Wysong, right, keep watch as the Army’s 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the last formal U.S. military combat detachment to leave Iraq, crosses the southern desert lands of Iraq on August 17, 2010. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/MCT) Full photoset – HERE

  • Photos From Afghanistan (August 2010)

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in ,

    U.S. Marines carry a comrade wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) to a waiting medevac helicopter, near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province on August 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) 41 more incredible photos over at Big Picture – HERE

  • Business Proposal From A Soldier – Scam

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in ,

    Do people actually EVER fall for this crap? I searched google for a couple of lines from the letter and it seems that there are a lot of different “from” and “reply-to” email addresses used, which tells me it is likely used to verify working email addresses. I wonder if the actual Lawrence K. Wilson knows that…

  • Perspective Matching With WWII Photographs In Russia

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in ,

    Check out the full set of pictures – HERE Very interesting idea.  Seems like it would be pretty tough to get the perspective perfect unless you could somehow hook your camera up to your computer and have some sort of “live view” and overlay the historical picture with lots of transparency. There must be some programs…

  • Photos From Afghanistan (July 2010)

    —

    by

    ENDO-Mike
    in ,

    This combination photograph shows portraits of Afghan National Army soldiers following a patrol made on Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the United States Army’s Combat Outpost Ware, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, near Kandahar City, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) Check out the full Afghanistan July photoset – HERE Some especially graphic pictures in this…