Good catch John. You win the history contest :-) It was all very different pre-Pearl Harbor.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:30 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Ann's photos are mostly from 1940 - 1941. World War II was entering it's > third year in Europe and fifth year in China - although the Japanese > occupation of Manchuria was already a decade old. > > The US was not yet really at war in 1941, although Germany's U-boat campaign > had arrived at our Atlantic coastline. The U.S. Coast Guard was already > fighting an undeclared war; the U.S. Navy and the other services were not > yet actively engaged. > > It's not until the end of 1941 that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and > Germany's declaration of war on the U.S. brought the United States into the > war as an actively declared belligerent. > > And since by that time, Germany had already invaded the Soviet Union, the > U.S. and the Soviets became, if somewhat reluctantly, allies for the > duration. > > From: Boris Liberman > >> Fortunately, USA and Soviet Union were never at war between each other. >> The hot war you're referring to, Steve, is WWII. But thence USA and SU >> fought the common enemy... >> >> Boris >> >> On 1/4/2011 5:00 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >>> >>> > Actually, during the early 40's it was a pretty hot war. I hadn't >>> > really thought of that when I first viewed these (they look better on >>> > a monitor than a cell phone) but this was wartime America. This is >>> > wonderful collection, Ann. Old photographs are precious things. >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Boris Liberman<[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> >> On 1/4/2011 5:44 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> Oh what the hell -- >>>>> >>> have a go at the whole gallery - kinda fun. >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> http://annsan.smugmug.com/Friends-and-Family/Blackstone-family-vintage/8871062_7gR8M >>>> >>>> >> >>>> >> That's way cool, Ann! Despite all the stupidity of the cold war and >>>> >> such, >>>> >> the times were pretty much the same on both sides of the big pond... >>>> >> Your >>>> >> photos surely remind me of photos in our family album... >>>> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
