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Sunday, October 30, 2022

One more time


Closing out our military series with a photo you've seen before, probably right here.  It may be my all-time favorite photo of nude servicemen.  They seem completely amused and comfortable posing naked, and the matching raincoats are the icing on a very good cake.

 

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  1. You have to wonder if they sent these pictures home to their wives and girlfriends. I had pictures of my Dad and a bunch of guys naked in a hot spring in Iceland during WWII. My Mom had fits when he showed them to me and my brother. Don't know why.

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  2. I really like this photo as well, favorite military picture.

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  3. This is obviously a dare or a stunt. There was a lot of that sort of behaviour in the two world wars of last century. A war time army of conscripts is a very different army to a professional one and I think the psychology of it was social levelling. I recently watched The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) again, and the sergeant went home to a very up-market apartment with a commissioner on the door and a reception desk, while his lieutenant went back to a rented room and a wife - who had abandoned the marriage - who was working as a stripper. No dramatic licence was taken, this really happened when conscripted men were promoted on ability rather than social status. This also occurred in the British military in WWII - although an officer from a working class or rural background would inevitably change his accent, which happens much less today. Married very young, one of the questions my father was asked by the board before receiving the King's commission was whether his wife was suitable for the ward room (mess)! (One candidate didn't get through - he replied, "It depends whether the ward room is suitable for my wife.") The moral of the story being that take all your clothes off and everyone is equal.

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    1. I think you're right about the dare, and I'm left wondering if they got the photographer to be naked as well. True about the social twists in modern war.

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  4. Definitely my favorite military photo as well. The naked gunner in the plane is a close 2nd

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    1. I read somewhere that the plane was a seaplane, and the gunner was naked so he could quickly jump into the water to help rescue downed pilots.

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    2. That photo is called "PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul." The naked gunner had actually just swum out to rescue a pilot, and the photo was taken as the PBY (seaplane) was taking off. For more of the story, see my post
      https://unashamedmale.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_20.html

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  5. I saw a pic of my naked dad with his arm over an equally naked blond flat top fella, with a long dick [virtually all adults were uncut back then, neither was an exception.] from Korean Era France.
    Coupla years later, on Vacation, Waldo stopped by Brent's house in Shreveport, to visit and swap "whatever the Army equivalent of yarns are..." even as a 9 year old, I recognized this handsome vet, was the nekkid guy with the really long dick.

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    1. While his pecker got the most attention, you had to have looked at his face for at least a moment in order to recognize him.

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  6. Thanks for this whole series. These types of pictures, where men are doing normal everyday activities naked with other naked men, are my favorites.

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