And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Sgt. Arthur L. Smith, Radio Gunner of B-17 "Our Gang", Takes A Look At At The Machine Gun Before A Mission. England, 1943.
Photo op, with flash fill (big flash bulb) from upper right, which marks the camera as likely a Graflex. Also, use of color film, rare and expensive at the time. Normally it's......dark in there.
Photo op, with flash fill (big flash bulb) from upper right, which marks the camera as likely a Graflex. Also, use of color film, rare and expensive at the time. Normally it's......dark in there.
ReplyDeleteMust have been cold at 30,000 feet.
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ReplyDeleteTough job. Many didn’t make it back.
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