http://www.metafilter.com/tags/wwII+wwi Posts tagged with 'wwII' and 'wwi' at MetaFilter. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:54:43 -0800 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:54:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/84015/Panzers%2Dand%2Dair%2Draids%2Dand%2Dartillery%2Doh%2Dmy <a href="http://www.freakytikiproductions.com/content/world-wars-2" title="World Wars 2 browser flash game at Freaky Tiki Productions">World Wars 2</a>, sequel to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzuHKR9094#t=0m10s" title="Youtube: Columbus Area Boardgaming Society television piece">hex-wargame</a>-inspired <a href="http://www.freakytikiproductions.com/node/2" title="World Wars browser flash game at Freaky Tiki Productions">World Wars</a>, has been released. One MochiAd upon first load. They also did an election-themed version <a href="http://www.freakytikiproductions.com/node/31" title="Battleground States 2008 browser flash game at Freaky Tiki Productions">Battleground States 2008</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84015 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:54:43 -0800 boardgame boardgames campaign flash game games grognard hex wargame wargames wargaming wwi wwii XMLicious http://www.metafilter.com/42052/Broadsword%2Dcalling%2DDanny%2DBoy <a href="http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html">Channel 4's 100 Greatest War Films</a> as voted for by their (generally more clued-up than average) viewership has plenty for you to disagree with, but much to recommend. Filmsite.org has a <a href="http://www.filmsite.org/warfilms.html">history of war films</a> (as does <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Warfilm.html">Berkeley</a>) for the completists among you. There are more war films from and about <a href="http://www.vietnamwar.net/vwfilms/vwfilms.htm">Vietnam</a> and <a href="http://members.lycos.co.uk/Indochine/misc/film.html">Indochina</a> than you can shake a bayonet at (see also the 1999 NYT article, <a href="http://www.mishalov.com/Vietnam_Film.html">Apocalypse Then: Vietnam Marketing War Films</a> to learn a little about the Vietnamese government's 1960s and 70s archive of war film). The [British] national archives have <a href="http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/onfilm/archive.htm">archived film from pre-WWI to the Cold War</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42052 Tue, 17 May 2005 06:53:25 -0800 archive berkeley film history media nyt quicktime video vietnam war warfilm wwi wwii nthdegx http://www.metafilter.com/41068/Echoes%2DFrom%2DThe%2DSky <a href="http://www.coastdrive.com/echo.html">First built in the 1920's</a>, and predating <a href="http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/radar.htm">the</a> <a href="http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/Secweap.htm#RADAR">use</a> <a href="http://starbulletin.com/2000/02/22/news/story3.html">of</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar">Radar</a> in <a href="http://www.snapshotsofthepast.com/navyradarwwiirecruitmentwarposter.html">World War II</a>, <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/abbot05.jpg">early</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/boulby3.jpg">warning</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/dungeness8.jpg">"sound</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/redcar2.jpg">mirrors"</a> were used to provide some means of detecting <a href="http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Combat/AP4G1.htm">incoming</a> <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=he-111&btnG=Search">enemy </a> <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=ju-87&btnG=Search">aircraft</a>. First used in World War I to listen for <a href="http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/ww1/ww1-6.htm">Zeppelins</a>, their vestigial remnants <a href="http://www.hyperkit.co.uk/dungeness/">dot the</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/index.html">English coastline</a>. <a href="http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm">The bizarre legacy of the sound collectors</a> lives on through some <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/29/namp29.xml">decidedly nerdy enterprises</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41068 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:52:53 -0800 cleverhumans radar sound soundmirror soundmirrors wwi wwii basicchannel http://www.metafilter.com/40317/Propaganda%2Dis%2Dto%2Da%2Ddemocracy%2Dwhat%2Dthe%2Dbludgeon%2Dis%2Dto%2Da%2Dtotalitarian%2Dstate <a href="http://www.psywar.org/leaflets.php">Aerial Propaganda Leaflet Database.</a> Propaganda from <a href="http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=191401">WWI</a> to <a href="http://www.psywar.org/apdsearchform.php?Search=Search&war=Iraqi%20Freedom">Operation Iraqi Freedom</a>, including many <a href="http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=1982FI001">safe</a> <a href="http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=NZNC05">conduct</a> <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~rod.oakland/surpass1.htm">passes</a>. Also, leaflets from the <a href="http://faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/koreanleaflets.html">Korean</a> <a href="http://www.kimsoft.com/war/miller.htm">War</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~rod.oakland/vietnam.htm">Vietnam</a>, <a href="http://www.seftondelmer.co.uk/">Sefton Delmer's "Black Propaganda Radio</a>, and even some <a href="http://www.war-images.com/widb.php?dbs=1&cat=erotic">NSFW (work, not war) propaganda</a>. <a href="http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=NZ98024576">Come On Boys</a>, <a href="http://www.war-images.com/wiviewer.php?code=00282A&dbs=1">Himmler For President</a>! tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40317 Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:01:31 -0800 iraq korea nsfw propaganda vietnam war wwi wwii armage http://www.metafilter.com/5870/ <a href="http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=15239&amp;pagenumber=1">ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US Part Deux?? </a> Old World War 1 and 2 posters, revamped. I'm kinda liking this weird trend of glorifying bad translations via Photoshop. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.5870 Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:10:35 -0800 allyourbase brokenlink photoshop wwi wwii Succa