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lvl99catpriest

Beard crop is coming in nicely

love-for-boys

minhamemoriasuja

“Beach boys” Fotografia: Rob Tennent

maleinstructor

kozacy

In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.

Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”

orbisonblue

That is the BEST EVER quote about the nature of historians I’ve ever seen

dynamax--grookey

There’s something I love about nudity in old photography. Like, this could be any point in time. This could have been taken two days ago. Clothing is such a time stamp that can create such huge distances between a subject and observer but stripping that away (quite literally) reminds us that people throughout history were just that, people, and not merely a distant snapshot of the past.

dynamax--grookey

Also, butts.