AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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Now as you can see from what I have actually said Steve I was undecided before and am still undecided. Are the two soldiers actually fighting from somewhere with a foreground added? Is the whole picture staged somewhere including the explosion in background or is that ¨real¨ and the two soldiers staged...etc, etc, etc. As tocaff said, show a bolt and a piece of railing from a ship and someone will tell you the ships name, when it was launched, commisioned and sunk. Show a picture of two Japanese soldiers, no one has a clue. So this picture is a bit of an enigma it seems. I have no problem someone coming up with ¨We won´t stop shooting!¨ Filmed backlot B, Tokyo studios 1942. Ref. Book ¨X¨. But as this picture is certainly a dramatic one, for me at least, I would like to know where it comes from and how. Certainly the answer is out there as I´m sure it has been published somewhere. OK, Ike , I can except this. Of course the reason we can ID the railing is because so many sets of eyes in the forum have seen the photo , or the railing , or are familiar with some aspect of the case. What we need here is a Japanese speaking , cinematography expert. We have been trying to judge the photo based on the experince we have in the forum. We have a former combat photographer , several private photographers , some people who are very knowledgable about WW2 in the Pacific, and some people who have spent a LOT of time looking at world war 2 photos. While this experince base might give us a good "feel" for the photo , we just don't have the experince base to declare "proof" in one form or the other , until someone can stand up and say , "I took that photo in 19-- at -- with this type of lense and for -------- (this group or organization.). Till then , we won't have, can't have , and shouldn't expect to have adefinative answer. As a favorite college professor of mine used to say "Needs more research".
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