Photos- Then & Now

[solcarlus]

Bonjour gwb123

 

My French is a little rusty, but I believe that reads as "German Central Telephone (exchange) on the road to Wionville". One wonders what happened to the Iron Cross?

 

 

The center is located outside the village of Montsec at the foot of the hill. Nothing remains of the cross. but other entries still exists

 

@+ sol.

 

 

[Wailuna]

This crossroads is located in the town of Zweifall Hürtgenwald (50°43'4.98"N 6°15'32.23"E), which changed hands more than once during the early part of the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in late 1944. According to the caption, the officer is carrying Christmas parcels, but neither he nor his units is further identified.

 

[Greg Sebring]

The small B & W photo shows a small dairy residence my dad was billeted at near Becco, Holland during the Bulge. It was Masson family and dad stayed there several days. The family sort of adopted dad and the other few soldiers with him.

 

The colored photo was taken last year by an area resident that belongs to another forum and saw my original posting. He took it upon himself to go looking for the location and found it. He took this current picture standing close to the spot the original was taken from. Needless to say my dad enjoyed seeing what the place looks like today after 64 years. The garage floor is still covered with red tiles and a drain trough where the dozen or so cows were kept. Dad said the cows were kept in the close end, the milking parlour was in the middle, and the living quarters were in the far end.

 

Greg

[Teamski]

[Greg Sebring]

Here is a photo taken in 1945 at the Ludwigslust airfield. The G.I.'s were ordered to do some glider training more or less to keep them occupied. The second photo was taken of the same area in 2008. A school teacher from mid Michigan takes a group of High School students over each year to Ludwigslust to help the local citizens learn about WWII history and the Wobbelin Concentration camp. This being a Russian occupied area after the war, the residents were never given a factual account of what units were in the area.

 

Greg

[Greg Sebring]

These pix show the hanger which still stands, though quite dilapidated.

 

Greg

[1stDivVet]

Here's the one I posted in the other thread mentioned earlier. This is Telefofo Bay in Fiji in 1945 and again around 2005. The sunken Japanese ship is just a brown blur now.

Fins.

[Wailuna]

...This is Telefofo Bay in Fiji...

Talofofo Bay is in Guam. The Japanese naval transport Aratama Maru was sunk there in 1944.

[kiaiokalewa]

Here's the one I posted in the other thread mentioned earlier. This is Telefofo Bay in Fiji in 1945 and again around 2005. The sunken Japanese ship is just a brown blur now.

Fins.

 

As Wailuna points out, this is Talofofo Bay, Guam and the masthead belongs to the ship Aratama Maru. On Saturday April 8, 1944 the SS304 (USS Seahorse) attacked a convoy of 2 destroyers, the Asakaze and Akikaze; Gunboat Mifuku Maru and the Aratama Maru a converted Sub-Tender servicing as Ammunition Cargo Ship. The SS304 successfully torpedoed the Aratama Maru 7 miles of the East side of Guam which resulted in a crippling explosion that also effected the escorting Asakaza. The Aratama Maru drifts burning into the entrance of Talafofo Bay the same day where it explodes again and sinks the next day. Locals use to tell me that for years after WWII the Navy used the ship as target pratice which reduced the ship further into the bay. The masthead seen in the earlier photo was wiped out by Typhoon Karen in 1962 and now it is protected under the underwater historical registery. Both photos where taken at the tourist viewing point on the north top side of Talafofo Bay at the in the intersection of Rt. 4 and Rt. 4A which leads into the Village of Talafofo. The south side of the Talofofo Bay's entrance is called Matala and a place that I use to lobster and surf as a kid from 1983-1997. The Bay itself is a black sand beach park that is a popular surf spot on the southern side of the Island.

[swag]

This is a great site with excellent then and now photos.

 

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

[gwb123]

This is a great site with excellent then and now photos.

 

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

 

 

One of the links on there is for former German military bases, most of the having been converted to use by the US Forces. I've been to a couple of these, but most of mine were further west (Baumholder, Bad Kreuznach, etc.)

 

Actually it was kind of funny, or not, that while we were occupying buildings built in the 1930's or earlier, our Bundeswehr counterparts were living much more comfortably in modern climate controlled buildings that had built in the 1970's and 1980's. We borrowed a couple of their barracks one time, and were shocked to find how much better they were living than we were!

[camonick]

As Wailuna points out, this is Talofofo Bay, Guam and the masthead belongs to the ship Aratama Maru. On Saturday April 8, 1944 the SS304 (USS Seahorse) attacked a convoy of 2 destroyers, the Asakaze and Akikaze; Gunboat Mifuku Maru and the Aratama Maru.......

 

Here is another picture from a different angle of the Aratama Maru. (Source: BATTLESTATIONS!-American Warships of WWII by Veronico and Veronico, pg. 106) The caption next to the photo reads: "Aratama Maru, a converted sub tender of 6,784 tons, was sunk at the entrance to Talafoll Bay, Guam. April 8 was a productive day for Cmdr. Slade Cutter and the crew of Seahorse (SS-304). After sending Aratama Maru to the bottom, Cutter sank Kizugawa Maru, a 1,915-ton cargo ship, and the following day put the 4,467-ton freighter Bisaku Maru on the bottom as well. (National Archives / 80GK-4092)"

 

Note: the authors have the spelling as Talafoll Bay.

 

 

Here is a link to another good photo: Aratama Maru

Nick

[AndrewA74]

Some cool Civil War pictures here.

Andrew

 

http://yourehistory.wordpress.com/2008/07/...s-then-and-now/

[VeeVee]

Here's one...



referenced from this thread in this site:
http://corregidor.proboards79.com/index.cg...&thread=249

[General Apathy]

Hi Forum Readers, I have just posted some ' then and now' photographs of St Mere Eglise on my reports from Normandy thread, if you would like to take a look. I have about another twelve shots to show in the next few days, given time to do so.

 

There are other ' then and now' shots dotted through the post on the thread.

 

 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/ind...mp;#entry300194

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

[dogface44]

Brignoles - Southern France - 3rd ID

[MFortney]

The following photos are of the town of Loket, Czechoslovakia circa 1945 and present day. The originals were taken by my Grandfather during his service with the 9th Armored Division in WW2. I was fortunate enough to ID the photos through some extensive internet researching.

 

Loket Castle:

 

 

 

Loket Townhall:

 

 

[Brig]

Great old thread worthy of a bump!

[12A54]

Here's a more recent T&N. This is my patrol in the Grbavica section of Sarajevo in early 1996, just as the siege ended. (I was working with the French 6th Division.) Contrast that photo with the photo of the same spot and how it looks now, twenty years later.

 

[Custermen]

This is a photo I found in my Dad's negatives he brought back from Italy. I sent the negatives out to be scanned into digital files. I asked my Italian friends on FaceBook to help me ID this location.

 

 

 

The photo was taken at San Marco Church in Florence during his R&R in fall of 1944.

It appears that even the park benches are the same in the Google Map image as they were in 1944.

 

For more of my Dad's photos, check out my thread: http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/268540-dads-negatives/