bammerbb Posted December 18, 2009 Share #51 Posted December 18, 2009 One of the best sources of photos of all aspects of military life in WWII was LIFE magazine. Google has now scanned two million of the 10 million photos in the LIFE archives and placed them online. You can also type in a keyword in the Google search box and then follow it with the phrase source:life - so if you wanted to see images of Patton you'd type in Patton source:life - when the results come up click the Google IMAGES button. Here's showing the results when I used the search term Iwo Jima source:life http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...G=Search+Images The life photos are outstanding and it is quite fun actually to just keep plugging in different keywords before the source:life phrase. Thank you so much for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I"m going to spend a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of time with this, I've loved reading about WW2 ever since I was a kid. THANKS again. Brian Blankenburg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chap15 Posted April 24, 2010 Share #52 Posted April 24, 2010 Does anyone know of the photographer with the last name of Hoffman who was with Acme Newspictures during the Korean War? He took a number of photos of the 187th RCT second jump. Any idea who this photographer was and where the photos could be? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted October 2, 2010 Share #53 Posted October 2, 2010 http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=i...bdc0efbb0a3fff5 interesting reversed photo of John Wayne holding an M1 Garand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagman Posted May 7, 2011 Share #54 Posted May 7, 2011 One of the best sources of photos of all aspects of military life in WWII was LIFE magazine. Google has now scanned two million of the 10 million photos in the LIFE archives and placed them online. You can also type in a keyword in the Google search box and then follow it with the phrase source:life - so if you wanted to see images of Patton you'd type in Patton source:life - when the results come up click the Google IMAGES button. Here's showing the results when I used the search term Iwo Jima source:life http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...G=Search+Images The life photos are outstanding and it is quite fun actually to just keep plugging in different keywords before the source:life phrase. HELP! I tried searching the Life Archives with some "source:life" searches I had as "favorites" and they all failed. Can someone please give me the correct procedure to use TODAY. I just hate to think of that wealth of info being unavailable. Any help will be appreciated greatly! Bagman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostoktrading Posted December 12, 2012 Share #55 Posted December 12, 2012 I wanted to bring this thread back up again. Thanks to Forum Support for bringing it to our attention. I have spent hours on this (much to the dismay of my wife) trying all kinds of searches. Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share #56 Posted December 12, 2012 I wanted to bring this thread back up again. Thanks to Forum Support for bringing it to our attention. I have spent hours on this (much to the dismay of my wife) trying all kinds of searches. Jon. I hadn't done in a while, but your post prompted me to give it a go and I found some great color photos from Parris Island, back when they used to get dressed up for amphibious training: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtpete Posted December 13, 2012 Share #57 Posted December 13, 2012 HELP! I tried searching the Life Archives with some "source:life" searches I had as "favorites" and they all failed. Can someone please give me the correct procedure to use TODAY. I just hate to think of that wealth of info being unavailable. Any help will be appreciated greatly! Bagman I had trouble also. I found out you have to be in the image search tab in Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff TX Posted March 8, 2014 Share #58 Posted March 8, 2014 Here's an ad from inside the 1943 edition that had the 8th AAFon the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted April 1, 2014 Share #59 Posted April 1, 2014 heres some from the covers of NEWSWEEK Magazine 1965 - 1973 http://clickamericana.com/eras/1960s/the-vietnam-war-as-seen-on-newsweek-magazine-covers-1965-1973 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted April 1, 2014 Share #60 Posted April 1, 2014 The centerfold picture of the 19 April 1968 issue of Life Magazine featured one of our Firing Batteries, A Btry, 1st Bn, 30th FA, on an LZ about 3 Klicks east of Khe Sanh. These were taken by famed photographer Larry Burrows, who was later killed in Vietnam in 1971. There were actually three separate pictures that he took and I will show all three. The guidon you see flying in the images was made in-country, and was brought home by my friend then CPT John Fleming [later LTC Retired]. John died in 1997 of cancer caused by Agent Orange. I was fortunate to be allowed to give his eulogy in the Chapel at Arlington when we buried him with full military honors. We also honored him with a large frame containing that very same guidon in the picture. That frame was dedicated to him and is displayed in our 30th Field Artillery Regimental Room, in Snow Hall, at Ft Sill, OK. This is frame number 1 with three more to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted April 1, 2014 Share #61 Posted April 1, 2014 Frame number 2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted April 1, 2014 Share #62 Posted April 1, 2014 Frame number 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SG_1st_Cav Posted April 2, 2014 Share #63 Posted April 2, 2014 Here is the last picture showing the guidon displayed in our Regimental Room. Just a footnote, John Fleming earned two Bronze Stars with "V" and a Bronze Star for Service during his tour in Vietnam. Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
27Division18 Posted April 5, 2014 Share #64 Posted April 5, 2014 Superb. This is an excellent visual resource. Thanks for letting the community know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Posted July 9, 2014 Share #65 Posted July 9, 2014 Is the photo archive still available? If I try the search method suggested it turns up blanks in the image tab... regards, STijn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share #66 Posted July 10, 2014 Is the photo archive still available? If I try the search method suggested it turns up blanks in the image tab... regards, STijn They've changed (not for the better) so it helps to experiment with keywords. You can go to http://images.google.com/hosted/life to enter search terms. If you type in Marine Corps you get basically nothing but if you put in just Marines it makes big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMC Saipan Posted October 21, 2014 Share #67 Posted October 21, 2014 fantastic pic thank for the sharing Cool - I looked that up: it's Jimmy Roosevelt's raider group training in San Diego.I spend a lot of time searching military photos in Google images and with few exceptions there just has been nothing thus far to compare with these LIFE photos. Keep in mind that they have only scanned 20 percent of the library.below another excerpt from a large photo:Lt. Joseph Fournier of the US Marine Ranger Battalion wearing camouflage uniform.Location: San Diego, CA, USDate taken: 1943raider1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terp 00 Posted November 25, 2014 Share #68 Posted November 25, 2014 results for Kwajalein: Photo Fubruary 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetranger407 Posted November 28, 2014 Share #69 Posted November 28, 2014 As a general trick to performing a quick LIFE-archive specific image search on Google or Google Images, type: source:life _____________ and whatever you're looking for in the blank, and it only searches/crawls LIFE google images. Just a fancy trick for fancy folk i.e. source:life patton Try it out. It's a big time killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted March 28, 2015 Share #70 Posted March 28, 2015 Found a copy of the Life Magazine, of 1 Jan. 1945, at the flea mkt. Great cover photo of a 155 breech mechanism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted September 28, 2015 Share #71 Posted September 28, 2015 From 1 Jan 1945 issue. Jinx Falkenburg signs the cast of pilot in the CBI theater. Any ID on the unit patch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share #72 Posted September 28, 2015 That CBI photo provides an excellent example of the difference between photos scanned from negatives and photos scanned from magazines and books which have the half-tone dots in them. This is also a photo from that CBI visit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted December 12, 2015 Share #73 Posted December 12, 2015 Picked up this 7 July 1941 edition today. Lots of color photos in this one. Documents America's military and civilian strengths. Lots of M1917A1 helmets ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted December 12, 2015 Share #74 Posted December 12, 2015 US Marines in training mock-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted December 12, 2015 Share #75 Posted December 12, 2015 A bit of great period art work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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