World War II has never been hotter
This photo was taken by a war photographer who was on a PBY (a kind of flying boat) in the Pacific in 1944.
The crew had just landed in the water to retrieve a U.S. pilot who’d been shot down. This Navy crewman stripped naked to swim to the pilot to rescue him.
As the rescue wrapped up, a Japanese fighter appeared and began its attack run on the PBY, still sitting on the surface. The naked crewman rushed to his side machine gun station to defend the flying boat, and was able to chase the Japanese plane off.
Some say his name was Gatlin, and was awarded the Navy Cross for his action that day. I’d have given him another reward.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 26, 2025 5:57 AM
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A blue ribbon for that tanline for sure!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 24, 2025 6:03 AM
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World War II was hotter.
First, that's a cropped version of the original photo.
The original:
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 24, 2025 6:18 AM
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Get a load of Adolf, invading my thread over here
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 24, 2025 6:53 AM
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colorized, ruined by the blush sadly
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 24, 2025 7:53 AM
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It must have been gay men on Madison Avenue who did the beloved Cannon Towel ads circa 1943, depicting Marines and GIs in various states of undress.
The War in the Pacific was a riot of nudity.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 24, 2025 1:16 PM
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I think it's it in this book I bought in 2005. It has a lot of unclothed seamen.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 24, 2025 2:45 PM
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Getting some sun on their asses.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 24, 2025 4:37 PM
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R3 are those British soldiers?
It's tagged as "ww2 naked army ladz."
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 25, 2025 7:55 PM
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Better than another Trump thread, R14
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 26, 2025 5:40 AM
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Are you trying to turn it into one?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 26, 2025 5:57 AM
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