World War II: After the War
commanderkai @ Sat Mar 02, 2013 8:39 pm
I know there are a lot of people on this site who study, and enjoy their history, so I decided to share a link I found on a blog I look at, showing a lot of different images from after the war, with a large number of them I don't think I've ever seen before. Some deal with the immediate effects after the war, the rise of consumerism and suburbia in the United States, and the start of the Korean War. Hope you guys appreciate the history.
Not all are for the faint of heart, since there are a few dealing with victims of the Holocaust, Japanese POW camps, Hiroshima survivors, and images before hangings/firing squads.
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Many of Germany's captured new and experimental aircraft were displayed in an exhibition as part of London's Thanksgiving week on September 14, 1945. Among the aircraft are a number of jet and rocket propelled planes. Here, a side view of the Heinkel He-162 "Volksjaeger", propelled by a turbo-jet unit mounted above the fuselage, in Hyde park, in London.
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Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in the Japanese capital on October 2, 1946. Homeless Japanese who hauled the buses into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families.
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U.S. General George S. Patton acknowledges the cheers of thousands during a parade through downtown Los Angeles, California, on June 9, 1945. Shortly thereafter, Patton returned to Germany and controversy, as he advocated the employment of ex-Nazis in administrative positions in Bavaria; he was relieved of command of the 3rd Army and died of injuries from a traffic accident in December, after his return home. Joe Rosenthal's famous Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph is visible on the war bonds billboard.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011 ... ar/100180/
Strutz @ Sat Mar 02, 2013 8:56 pm
Thanks for sharing that link.
Some amazing photos there that I know I've never seen before.