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Website with 57000 historical clips - Weasel - 06-15-2016

Found this website that states to have 57000 combat camera clips.  The link here is taken by VC and new to me. Also has over 7 million pictures too.

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675043140_Viet-Cong-soldiers_fire-rifles_cross-paddy-fields_debris-of-burnt-camp-area

If you click on the browse tab you can narrow the films by decade and then by year.

RE: Website with 57000 historical clips - Sgt Jasper - 06-15-2016

(06-15-2016, 06:01 AM)Weasel Wrote: Found this website that states to have 57000 combat camera clips.  The link here is taken by VC and new to me. Also has over 7 million pictures too.

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675043140_Viet-Cong-soldiers_fire-rifles_cross-paddy-fields_debris-of-burnt-camp-area

If you click on the browse tab  you can narrow the films by decade and then by year.

I can't find it on the site again, but this picture from there is my childhood best buddy's dad, Lt. Charles R. Sanders, on the deck of the USS Tinosa submarine. Probably 1944.

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RE: Website with 57000 historical clips - Weasel - 06-16-2016

That is interesting.  Quite a difference between being on watch in the Pacific and the Atlantic.  I met this guy when I was stationed in Kingston, famous photo at least in Canada.

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RE: Website with 57000 historical clips - Sgt Jasper - 06-16-2016

I've seen this one before, too. Quite a difference, for sure. (Don't see many sandbags on subs, for one thing.) Once I asked Mr. Sanders if he'd ever been depth-bombed. "Yeah." "What was it like?" "It was rough!" That's all I ever could get him to say about the war. I gathered he had a tough time - he went to his grave hating the Japanese.