Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 22/03/2006, at 18:56, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > And what of the"other falling soldier" that was carried off before > Garcia got his? Don't tell me, "it's just a flesh wound". According the original numeration from the contacts it seems that Garcia got that first and suggest that the picture catching was pure luck, the other was taken later, and presumably the gunshot made him fell out of camera's sight, and that was way down. Mauser bullets were quite powerful, the impact force used to throw bodies a few steps away and even disengage members of those who took a hit, as my grandfather - who had to fight - told many times. > Who could believe in the accuracy of "war archives" from 1936 Spain? Well, let's accept that it will be a fake. Why two different and independent war registrys (Madrid and Salamanca) will list him in the same day and place that Capa stated ? why the testimonials of other unit members to their brother matches? You can believe or not, the evidences that we can have points reasonably to their veracity, you're on your right to do not accept it and have doubts, but please bring up evidences instead fiddling about this or that without solid arguments instead suspects . > As long as we are discussing credibility look into the Spanish > governments response to Gene Smith's */Spanish Village./* Mind you, I'm spanish but I won't take this as an offensive statement, the same can be said about the US, the UK, France, the former URSS and every single nation over this world, but please, at least compare things that can be compared. That was a hurting time in our story, our family ( me included) had 3 generation exile and more than a handful family members killed in that war. Saludos ----------------------------------------- http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/