Submitted by setemupknockem t3_10pmpym in OldSchoolCool
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Brilliant_Play4255 t1_j6lggkx wrote
Are you sure this is a wartime photo?
He looks like he is posing and grooming and well.... Posing... mostly..not fighting the empire.
Brilliant_Play4255 t1_j6lgkhb wrote
Was he a soldier? If so, what country maybe ask ?
[deleted] t1_j6lhnev wrote
Drainbownick t1_j6liei9 wrote
And babies were even smaller men
Gnarledhalo t1_j6lj8hw wrote
No dog tags. How universal were they back then?
setemupknockem OP t1_j6ljaid wrote
Going off what was written on the back. He joined the US Navy at age 17 (1938) and served all during WWII; at Normandy, in South Africa, in Europe, at Pearl Harbor.
ElectroFlannelGore t1_j6lk3xg wrote
3? Try 12.
jakobmkn t1_j6lnrll wrote
This is rad
m_watkins t1_j6pessw wrote
Yowza
ElectroFlannelGore t1_j6lge3z wrote
Aye. Back when Men were Men and women were Men.
And children were smaller Men.