Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
In 2008, photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington lived with an American platoon in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, one of the nation’s most dangerous outposts. Since then, he’s released a series of photographs called Sleeping Soldiers, an experimental audiovisual project of the same name, and a full-length documentary produced with author Sebastian Jung called Restrepo, which won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Restrepo is slated for a summer 2010 theatrical release.
Soldiers Sleeping
One of my (and your) favourite posts is soldiers sleeping in World War One; today, more of these touching wartime moments of peace.
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A soldier sleeps on a break from action in the fight for Southern France, 1944.
Exhausted American Marines sleep in a train after intense fighting in the Vietnam War, 1965. Source
British troops sleep in a trench in Tunisia, c. 1942. Source
A gun crew aboard a battleship catch some sleep while they can, WWII. Source
Soldiers sleep in a crowded bunker [as noted by the caption; it looks more like the back of a truck], Texas, 1941. Source
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Two British artillery men sleep on a limber in France, near Ypes, 1917. Source
American soldiers sleep in a dugout during a lull in the fighting, Anzio, Italy, 1944. Source
B-17 bomber crewmen catch some sleep before receiving the day's orders, England, 1942. Source
A British soldier sleeps in a foxhole in Germany, 1945. Source
Finnish soldiers sleep during a break in the Russo-Finnish war, 1940. Source
A British scout car driver sleeps in his vehicle in France, 1940. Source
A Gurkha soldier sleeps in the trenches in Palestine, 1917. Source
A British soldier sleeps in a shallow foxhole in Libya, 1941. Source
Two sleeping Marines share their foxhole with a Okinawan boy, Ryukyu Islands, 1945. Source
Stokers nap in between watches on a battleship, 1940. Source
RAF airmen sleep in their billet in France, c. 1940. Source
A British sailor sleeps by the ship's wheel, WWII. Source
American soldier sleeps on rocks during the advance towards Rome, 1944. Source
US Marines sleep after a meal, Thailand, 1961. Source
A soldier sleeps on a break from action in the fight for Southern France, 1944.
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