Projects posts tagged with WWII

I made a WWII Shoot 'em Up for Android

gregoryg — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:01:22 -0800

A friend and I decided we wanted to get some Android development under our belt. What better way than to make a retro-themed videogame that harkened back to one of the favorites from my youth? Droidius: 1945 is a short, vertical shooter with old-school graphics and a kickin' rad soundtrack to match. Only a daring ace with skills to match can defeat Hitler and the Nazi Menace. Will you deliver victory? Or defeat? It's at your skillful fingertips!

World War II in Photos

kokogiak — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:26:10 -0800

A retrospective of World War II in large-size photo stories. 900 photos in all, over 20 chapters, telling many of the countless millions of stories from the biggest conflict and biggest story of the 20th century. When I recently moved from the Boston Globe's Big Picture to the Atlantic's In Focus, one of the things I wanted to tackle was larger, serial stories, and I dove right in with a historical one, World War II, as my first project. I started planning it back in May, published the first weekly installment in June, and just posted the last one on Sunday, four months later. I looked over more than 25,000 photos, selected 2,500 for first drafts, and edited down to 900 total - 45 per chapter. I thought I knew quite a bit about WWII before I started... but have to say that I learned an unbelievable amount during this process, and have now seen images of so many things I had never even heard of, let alone seen evidence of before. There are so many parts of the conflict that are hard to get one's head around. I hoped to tell the stories, some that have been retold countless times before, in this newish format (big images, narrative, all one web page), and try to give some fresh impact to a brutally sad, but important, part of our shared history. I'm really happy with the outcome, and hope others enjoy it, and can learn from it, as well, especially now that it's complete.

My Father's Photos from 1945-1946 on a U.S. Coast Guard Troop Transport

ShooBoo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:18:29 -0800

My late father in 1945 at age 17 joined the U.S. Coast Guard, and served on the USS General H.F. Hodges, a troop transport. Last year I found 200+ photos of his time in the Coast Guard and had them scanned. The ship traveled around the world a few times and the photos show shipboard life as well as scenes from shore leave, including Egypt, India and New York City. I had no idea these photos existed until I opened a box that had been sealed for twenty years and had been sitting on a shelf in my garage for ten years. The originals are about 2"x3", with a few with two exposures on either side of one photo (none of those were of high enough quality to include). Two interesting notes about the Hodges: - The captain was Carl Hilton, brother of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. - One of the crewmen, Clyde Allen, is the father of the Thad Allen, former Commandant of the Coast Guard and currently in the news as the National Incident Commander for the BP oil spill. Here's an interview with Clyde Allen, including questions about his time on the Hodges.