Things GI's painted on their equipment

[rennog]

This one is not from WWII but I couldn't resist

A beautiful Mustang

another one

one more

And an handsome Corsair

[Frank Gubbels]

Impressive how many flights this plane already made.

[colinhotham]

THE GARIAN LADY.

 

70 miles south of Tripoli towards the edge of the Sahara high in the Jebel lies the old WWII Italian army barracks

of Garian. In March 1943 while serving with the 8th Army as a volunteer ambulance driver, American Clifford Saber

painted a large mural depicting (in pin-up style) a girl lying on her side in the form of the Libyan coastline with

various places marked on.

After the war this became a popular tourist attraction and I visited it in 1965 whilst serving with the RAF in

North Africa.

 

Colin.

[CaptO]

I had never heard of the "Lady of Garian" although its is mentioned in several Google hits. The fact that there are not many hits, however, would indicate that it is still not very well known.

[Walt's Daughter]

Hey it's great to see my post has taken off... Yeah!

 

I had not heard of the Garian Lady either. That' what's so great about a forum like this!

[verow]

frescos from the Battery Todt, Turm IV.

 

Here is a series of photographs taken and kindly supplied by Matthew Rivart end of April 2005. This is the current state of some frescoes in the fourth bunker fire from the battery to Audinghen Todt, Cape Gris-Nez. Home of German propaganda, the battery housed many inscriptions to the glory of the power of the German army. Those of Turm IV have been renovated in 1994 for a very short scene of the film Fortitude. Since the vandals have taken possession of the premises and cinemas to the ammunition bunker gradually lose the rare and striking written to the conflict.

 

Figure in the state of these frescoes in the late 90 . In a sense it is unfortunate to show these tags, their authors are certainly proud of their works (whose meaning eludes us and we mind if possible) and insensitive to fiber background.

 

1997 2005

 

Vee

[verow]

Against England --

 

2005 1997

[Frank Gubbels]

It's sad to see the graffiti.

[CaptO]

The actual thing I uttered when I saw the BS spraypainted on these cannot be put on a family forum .

 

You're right, of course. I'm sure these a**-clowns are very proud of their tags. Hopefully these shreds of human debris will go play chicken with a freight train somewhere in yet another attempt to be "cool".

[CaptO]

Of course, their acts are only slightly less reprehensible than the bureaucrats that chopped down all of those trees with the WWII GI's carvings. [Link removed]