06-28-2018, 03:35 PM
In reference to:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,2263517
I had posted some images that my Dad had brought back from WW2, specifically of Manila in 1945 after the capture of the city from the Japanese. The destruction was horrible-as war is-but the real crime was that the commander of the Japanese garrison (and I don't remember names right now) had decided to withdraw from the city without fighting as he had a great appreciation of the architectural beauty. But one of his officers refused the order and stayed with some 20,000 troops to fight to the end, as he felt he should. Thus, Manila was reduced to rubble with thousands killed and injured, including the Japanese soldiers.
They are 3.5" x 5" prints and are in pretty bad shape. My Dad didn't remember how he got them but they look official. I scanned them at very high resolution and worked them over in Photoshop. The names of the buildings are inscribed on the images.
I wrote that I'd post all of the pictures that I had scanned and cleaned up and I have a little time so here they are...
Here's a detail from the Jai Lai Club showing someone covering their face from the stench. I can't imagine it and don't want to...
A section of the image showing the detail from this small print. You can see pockets and what looks like a canteen on the man in the pith helmet at the right. Just amazing:
Thx for looking in...
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,2263517
I had posted some images that my Dad had brought back from WW2, specifically of Manila in 1945 after the capture of the city from the Japanese. The destruction was horrible-as war is-but the real crime was that the commander of the Japanese garrison (and I don't remember names right now) had decided to withdraw from the city without fighting as he had a great appreciation of the architectural beauty. But one of his officers refused the order and stayed with some 20,000 troops to fight to the end, as he felt he should. Thus, Manila was reduced to rubble with thousands killed and injured, including the Japanese soldiers.
They are 3.5" x 5" prints and are in pretty bad shape. My Dad didn't remember how he got them but they look official. I scanned them at very high resolution and worked them over in Photoshop. The names of the buildings are inscribed on the images.
I wrote that I'd post all of the pictures that I had scanned and cleaned up and I have a little time so here they are...
Here's a detail from the Jai Lai Club showing someone covering their face from the stench. I can't imagine it and don't want to...
A section of the image showing the detail from this small print. You can see pockets and what looks like a canteen on the man in the pith helmet at the right. Just amazing:
Thx for looking in...