One of my (and your) favourite posts is
soldiers sleeping in World War One; today, more of these touching wartime moments of peace.
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Paul Schutzer, LIFE © Time Inc.
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Exhausted American Marines sleep in a train after intense fighting in the Vietnam War, 1965.
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British troops sleep in a trench in Tunisia, c. 1942.
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A gun crew aboard a battleship catch some sleep while they can, WWII.
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| George Strock, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Soldiers sleep in a crowded bunker [as noted by the caption; it looks more like the back of a truck], Texas, 1941.
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Two British artillery men sleep on a limber in France, near Ypes, 1917.
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| George Silk, LIFE © Time Inc. |
American soldiers sleep in a dugout during a lull in the fighting, Anzio, Italy, 1944.
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| Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE © Time Inc. |
B-17 bomber crewmen catch some sleep before receiving the day's orders, England, 1942.
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A British soldier sleeps in a foxhole in Germany, 1945.
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| Carl Mydans, LIFE LIFE © Time Inc. |
Finnish soldiers sleep during a break in the Russo-Finnish war, 1940.
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A British scout car driver sleeps in his vehicle in France, 1940.
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| LIFE © Time Inc. |
Two sleeping Marines share their foxhole with a Okinawan boy, Ryukyu Islands, 1945.
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Stokers nap in between watches on a battleship, 1940.
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RAF airmen sleep in their billet in France, c. 1940.
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A British sailor sleeps by the ship's wheel, WWII.
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| Carl Mydans, LIFE © Time Inc. |
American soldier sleeps on rocks during the advance towards Rome, 1944.
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| John Dominis, LIFE LIFE © Time Inc. |
US Marines sleep after a meal, Thailand, 1961.
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| Carl Mydans, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A soldier sleeps on a break from action in the fight for Southern France, 1944.
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3 comments:
Amazing collection of pics. Thanks. Startling for me how they easily could have been corpses, so at rest they seem given the impossible circumstances you know soldiers were/are in. the @feefifofunfaery
Wonderful photos. I'm pretty sure the men in the fourth photo are in the back of a truck, however. The wooden slatted sides and the tape stretched across the foreground would indicate this.
Thank you for the comments! I agree, sometimes the caption is the only way you know they're just sleeping. I can imagine they were just exhausted.
You're right, Shay, it does look more like a truck, doesn't it? I took 'bunker' from the caption, but I've seen incorrect captions before! I added in a note, thank you!
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