Are these real?

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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Panjack
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Compare these two photos: water and sky. To the right: Enterprise hit by kamikaze.

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Looks like the "Hiryu" picture is a composite as well, then.

Where does the plume of smoke come from? My brain wants to say it's from another USN CV getting hit. Perhaps one of the Guadalcanal CV battles?
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Damn... I saw the title of this thread and got all excited.....

Me too! No pornstars?

I wish just once someone would post some gornstars. [8|]

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The smoke is added to the Hiryu pic, and the fire deleted, mostly.

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I was looking for that photo of Enterprise when I came across the Essex photo. I've been staring at photos to long where I start recognizing ack ack patterns.
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Damn... I saw the title of this thread and got all excited.....

Me too! No pornstars?

I wish just once someone would post some gornstars. [8|]
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Good work at discovering the fakes.
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I was looking for that photo of Enterprise when I came across the Essex photo. I've been staring at photos to long where I start recognizing ack ack patterns.

Me too. As another thread says, "We are a peculiar people..." I won't get into the merits of that argument, though...
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Damn... I saw the title of this thread and got all excited.....

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That picture of the Akagi also looks like it's in a field of flowers.

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That picture of the Akagi also looks like it's in a field of flowers.

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I'll certainly go along with the idea that these are fakes. Consider how the surviving crewmen from KB's carriers were treated when KB returned to Japan...no shore leave, kept isolated from practically everyone, transferred to the Aleutians (literally or figuratively). The idea that somehow a photographic record of the IJN's greatest disaster was hidden away is pretty preposterous given the culture of that time in Japan. (The Navy outright lied to the Army about the results of Midway.)

Another point: KB didn't operate ships in close proximity while under attack. The only possible ship from which such ships could have been photographed at that apparent range would have been the plane guard destroyer. Looking for 'shutter-bugs' on those ships would have been the least effort the IJN could have made for the cover-up.
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Had the photos been "real" I think they would have been "exposed" LONG ago.. much like the CA Mikuma off Midway was much publicized after that action.... it would be common knowledge within a week!
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I will never trust a photograph again.....
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I will never trust a photograph again.....
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Seeing is believing. Has anyone come across this photo of a highly decorated war hero?


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Aint that the amazing guy who fought Germany at the battle of Britain, the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and then joined the Doolittle raid ?

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Aint that the amazing guy who fought Germany at the battle of Britain, the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and then joined the Doolittle raid ?
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Yes, Ma'am the very same. He was also responsible for correctly recording, for posterity, the true starting date of World War II.
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I will never trust a photograph again.....
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Seeing is believing. Has anyone come across this photo of a highly decorated war hero?


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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Aint that the amazing guy who fought Germany at the battle of Britain, the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and then joined the Doolittle raid ?
warspite1

Yes, Ma'am the very same. He was also responsible for correctly recording, for posterity, the true starting date of World War II.


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witpqs this should help you feel better and can be quite informational.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hyiq9suWWQ

After all, we are talking are these real? [;)]
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