AW1Steve
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AW1Steve- This one obviously was staged , but better than most. Uniforms , weapons and props (US flag on ground) appear to be real , current with the time period , and correctly worn. I'm guessing the explosion was done by theatrical people vice military.
Here is a staged picture AW1Steve. No explosions, no blackened faces, no grim, desperate expressions. The picture in question does not seem in keeping to the Japanese propaganda style of the period.
i don't think that is correct - when i saw the photo, i immediately thought of the description of the Japanese film made about taking Corregidor, which prominently features a Japanese soldier lobbing grenade after grenade into the enemy, blowing them up. BTW, this was based on an actual incident, except the grenade thrower was American. The film was shown to US survivors of the attack who commented on this (much to the annoyance of the Japanese).
However, i think the thrower was supposed to be on a water tower of some kind, so this probably is not the incident. However, if the unknown photo is a still from a theatrical presentation (rather than a staged photo with troops for newsreels) i would expect grim expressions, explosions, blackened faces, flags in the dirt, etc.
I was thinking more along the lines of "staged on the scene" at the time. Think of Patton's Landing in Sicily , which he alledgely had them reshoot several times because he was not happy with it. Or McArthurs "I returned" photo , which was posed , but done in one take , (Despte McAuther being somewhat "p-ssed" because the water was higher than he expected. One thing that second photo showes acurrately is that Japanese troops were far more likely to use their knee-mortars (which gave you range , accurracy and , if used correctly -safety) than close to grenade tossing range. And wouldn't they? They had them , and the allies didn't.
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RE: What´s this pictures history? - 
The majority of the ship contests are allied ships , and the photo's have been documented. Having spent hundreds of hours looking at thousands of wartime photo's for three different museums , I can tell you that about 85% of undocumented photo's get a great big ? on the back. You can ID uniforms,weapons , geo features and sometimes even people to get an approximate time , but often that's about it. Propaganda photo's (unless you have original document -copy of the magazine it appeared in , etc) are a real pain as they are more likely to be using prop's vice real items. This one obviously was staged , but better than most. Uniforms , weapons and props (US flag on ground) appear to be real , current with the time period , and correctly worn. I'm guessing the explosion was done by theatrical people vice military , as military people of the time period knew how to blow things up (and pepper them with shrapnel) not give good special effects. (Today they do , but largely to make training more acurrate , rather than stage propaganda). So other than the fact it was staged early in the war , pre 1943 , professionally done by a film studio , there is not much I can tell you from this print. And I'll bet every one who reads this forum could tell you the same thing. 
I don't think so!
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