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Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:41 am
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:41 am
Warsaw after WWII
Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe is a chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France, built in 962 on a volcanic formation
Japanese orphan, standing at attention having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, Nagasaki, 1945
Berlin after WWII
Man tries to sell his car following the stock market crash, 1929
Baghdad, Iraq, 1965
A disabled First World War veteran begging on the streets of Berlin, 1923
London, shortly after WWII
People having a picnic in the middle of a highway in the US during the 1973 oil crisis.
New York City street during the sanitation workers’ garbage strike of 1968
A policeman rips the American flag away from 5-year-old Anthony Quinn, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965
Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe is a chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France, built in 962 on a volcanic formation
Japanese orphan, standing at attention having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, Nagasaki, 1945
Berlin after WWII
Man tries to sell his car following the stock market crash, 1929
Baghdad, Iraq, 1965
A disabled First World War veteran begging on the streets of Berlin, 1923
London, shortly after WWII
People having a picnic in the middle of a highway in the US during the 1973 oil crisis.
New York City street during the sanitation workers’ garbage strike of 1968
A policeman rips the American flag away from 5-year-old Anthony Quinn, Jackson, Mississippi, 1965
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Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:44 am to Alahunter
Good stuff
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:45 am to Alahunter
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I had seen movies and how badly cities were destroyed after WWII but I never actually believed it was that bad.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:45 am to Alahunter
I see pictures like this of all the burnt out cities after a major war and wonder why people go back to them. There is literally nothing left but rubble. Why not build on a new site that's clear with nothing to clean up?
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:03 am to Rebel Land Shark
quote:Not trying to horn in on Hunter's posts (which I love), but if you think the destruction in Europe was bad, look into Japan after the US firebombed Tokyo and other cities.
I had seen movies and how badly cities were destroyed after WWII but I never actually believed it was that bad.
In Europe, a good many of the structures were rock and stone. In Japan most were wood and the cities were nothing but tenderboxes.
This is a Tokyo neighborhood after a 1945 firebombing raid.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:31 am to PJinAtl
That's some fricking effect on target.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:36 am to Alahunter
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People having a picnic in the middle of a highway in the US during the 1973 oil crisis.
Wow.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:38 am to wadewilson
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That's some fricking effect on target.
They were devastatingly effective.
More Japanese died in one single fire raid (Operation Meetinghouse) than died in either of the atomic bombings.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:42 am to cokebottleag
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Why not build on a new site that's clear with nothing to clean up?
Sewers, streets, water lines, etc. They are already in place. Still easier to rebuild on the old site. Plus some sections of the city remain intact.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 10:43 am to JustGetItRight
I would imagine so. Napalm is possibly the most effective anti-personnel weapon our civilization has ever produced.
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