Keele University (in the United Kingdom), as from this monday will be putting on-line their archive of over FIVE-MILLION photo-recce images (principally from WW2) the archives have been digitalized and are available for public access. I have seen some of them, the images of Omaha beach are particularly striking. More than anything an interesting perspective on military photography. the site can be seen at:



Evidence In Camera

Well worth a visit....Jim

Have tried to acces the site without any luck. Anyone know if the site is up???

hi

@ the newssite from CNN you also can find this link. it works there...

greetings

dmd

As I said in my original post, the site will be operational as from Monday January 19th... Jim

This morning tried several times to acces the site but with no luck. If there is any news about it .........

Jim,
did you manage to get in today? No luck down here...
Ciao

It's already the 19th. Hmmm.... I'll check it again tomorrow.

That's a problem!!! They, probably, never fought that it would be a massive interest in those pic

See yaaa

I think the site has been killed because too many people are trying to access it. Killed their server. They said last week they were getting a lot of hits when the pictures were not even on line yet.

Shaun

No luck trying to get in.

At least now I get a message that they are overloaded, that's an improvement...

Lucky you..... I still only get the message the site can´t load. Yesterday I saw some pics on the news and so far that are the only visible things I have seen from this site

Behold the Power of Armorama!! Crashed the website. Maybe their IT guy ought to go feed the gerbil on the wheel that is powering their server...
Kidding. I think they knew this was going to happen about two weeks ago from what I read. I still get the "Cannot Open Page" message here...

Shaun

EDIT 5 million pictures. If you looked at one picture a minute for 40 hours a week, it would take you 40 years to look at them all. If you're on dial up, you would be dead before you could check them all out... CLOSE EDIT

I'm gonna start another thread to crash another site....Any suggestions? Jim #:-)

ParisHilton.com?

I'll nominate www.freekingofpop.com. Not hot linking to it because, well, because.
Remember, you asked... #:-)

Shaun

IIRC when Pathfinder landed on Mars, JPL hooked up either 6 or 8 additional T-1s to their server because of the volume of hits they expected. In the first few hours after landing they were getting 40 million hits an hour! So the photo archive being swamped doesn't suprise me at all.

Don