Once Upon a Time in War is a photographic retrospect of the Great War, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror ++about

Owner: Lux, UCF student of history

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1. Where do you find your pictures?

  • Imperial War Museum
  • German Federal Archive
  • US National Archives
  • Netherlands National Archives
  • Normandy Archives
  • War and Military (Canadian Archives)
  • US Army Archives
  • US Army Times
  • US Navy National Archives
  • Pearl Harbor Memorial
  • US Marine Corps Archives
  • Great Patriotic War Museum
  • Vietnam War Center and Archives
  • Australian War Memorial
  • National Archives of Scotland
And from the following books:
World War II: A Photographic History, David Boyle
Nam: A Photographic History, Leo J. Daugherty
Vietnam, Larry Burrows
US Small Arms in World War II: A Photographic History of a Nation at War, Tom Laemlein
The All Americans in World War II, Phil Nordyke
Times of Sorrow & Hope, Ronald L. Filippelli
The Battle of the Bulge: A Photographic History of an American Triumph, John R. Bruning
Gun Camera, L. Douglas Keeney

And my own personal collection.

2. Do you have any WWII book suggestions?

Generally:

  • I’m Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, Jim Proser
  • Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley
  • Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Amrbose
  • Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin), Hans Fallada
  • Tears in the Darkness, Michael Norman
  • The Forgotten 500, Gregory A. Freeman
  • The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
  • Brave Men, Ernie Pyle
  • Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
  • With the Old Breed, Eugene B. Sledge
  • The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed,  William B. Breuer

3. Can you post about insert-topic?

If it doesn’t fall between 1900-Present, probably not. Not because I’m not interested, but because there aren’t very many photographs before the Great War. If ask for something that wasn’t a global conflict, and I mean to say something that was a civil war or not internationally covered by news, I’ll say no.

However, if you throw out a military topic between 1900 and 2011, I’ll try to make it happen. Or throw out a specific topic inside a certain conflict (like, POWs in Vietnam or the use of the Higgins boat in WWII) I’ll try and make it happen too.

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