A different sort of stash

[BarleyBop]

Seeing as I'd mentioned the Great War...

 

[Littlemarten]

Seeing as I'd mentioned the Great War...

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What's impressive about this, is the insanely brave photographer who took it.

 

[BarleyBop]

the insanely brave photographer who took it.

Yes.
We can point at the heavy censoring of wartime reporting, the propaganda leverage it was often used for.
But those guys behind the lens, hauling their typewriters, scrawling short dispatches under fire to the folks back home, telling the stories best they knew how... blows my mind.

 

[BarleyBop]

So many horses. Google it, and estimates range between 2 and 5 million horses died in WW2.

...not the impression I got from Hollywood movies in the 60s.

Poland, Aug 1939



Germany, September 1939 (bonus planes!)

 

[Littlemarten]

Horses are remarkably fragile creatures, far more fragile than their human riders (contrary to what you saw in the movies in the 60s. Their advantage in a relatively modern (WWI & WWII) is that they don't run on a petroleum product. But they don't do well when used against machine guns or effective massed fire. (Agincourt, Crecy—apparently the Poles never got the memo.)

 

[BarleyBop]

contrary to what you saw in the movies in the 60s

True about the vulnerability of our faithful steeds.

I was thinking more along the lines of never seeing them in WW2 movies, just jeeps, planes, tanks and battleships!