Old Bangla Photos

[monitor]

A glorious life in picture

 

[scholseys]

Ziaur Rahman had the swag

 

[PlanetSoldier]

@ I have a serious doubt about the Bengalee intellectual killing on 14 December 1971 either by the Pakistan Army or the Razakars ????

@ Well all these so called intellectuals through out nine months apparently collaborated with the Pakistan Govt and they were in their pay roll. Now, why suddenly they would kill them without any reasons ? During that period Pakistan army and the Razakars were busy to save their lives. Rather there were lot of evidences that during that period many members of Mujib Bahini already entered Dhaka and killed many non-Bengalees and members of Peace Community. What I think that it might have planned by RAW and executed by Mujib Bahini and the blame was given on to Pakistan Govt !!!

@ During that time the brother of Zahir Rahan was also kidnapped and never found. After independence, Zahir Rahan hurriedly came from Calcutta to Dhaka to search his brother but soon he also missed himself in Mirpur. There are evidences that the day he went to Mirpur, an Indian Brigadier accompanied him. His wife Suchanda tried her best to find her husband but soon was threatened by the govt.

Coincidence...I also have serious doubt about 14th Dec genocide.

 

[asad71]

is this photo before or after 1971? is he a major in this photo or he became a general in this photo? this photo is so interesting, even though mujib was the leader of the nation, Zia did not take his glasses off or look in any sort of obeying posture. I am going all psychoanalysis on this photo

Zia has just been promoted a full Col. FYI, during '65 War he was a Major. He and course-mate Shafiullah were promoted a Maj Gen by Sk Mujib. Army doctors had prescribed him to wear these glasses constantly.

 

[kobiraaz]

1944 - An RAF Regiment anti-aircraft gun team on duty by the beach airstrip at Nidania, Chittagong.

Chittagong - Pilots of No. 135 Squadron RAF plan a sortie by their Republic Thunderbolt Mark Is at Chittagong - 1944

Chittagong - Thunderbolt Mark II, HD298 30 Squadron RAF, taking off off from Chittagong, for a sortie over the Arakan front - 1944

Chittagong - Hawker Hurricane Mark IIs of a squadron from No. 166 Wing RAF based at Chittagong (now Bangladesh), flying in formation over north-eastern India - 1944

Lalmanirhat 1944 - Base Chapel.

Lalmanirhat 1944 - Aircrew Mess

On June 25, 1964, a PIA's Fokker F-27 Friendship Mk 200 (AP-ALO) meeting a severe squall on landing at Dhaka's Tejgaon Airport.

Shamshernagar Airport 1945 - Allied Forces bomb dump

 

[kobiraaz]

Shamshernagar Airport 1945 - Allied Forces C-109

Shamshernagar Airport 1945 - Allied Forces L-5 - Unknown

Shamshernagar Airport during the WWII

 

[kobiraaz]

Maintenance Ramp for the Allied aircraft at Tezgaon, Dacca during the WWII

1944 CBI Theater in Sylhet

Flt Sgt Joe Ward and ground crew at Dohazari Airfield, Chittagong in 1943. Dohazari Airfield is a former wartime USAAF airfield in Bangladesh used during the Burma Campaign 1944-1945, now abandoned

RAF 113 Squadron, 'A' Flight Ground Crew, Bisley MkV in background, at Feni Airfield in 1943

11th Bomb Squadron Dispensary, Kurmitola, Dacca - 1943

Kurmitola Airfield Weather Station - 1943

490th Bomb Squadron Headquarters, Kurmitola Airfield, Dacca - 1943

A Japanese Ki-43-II Hayabusa crashed near Chittagong Airfield - 1943

 

[kobiraaz]

Hawker Hurricanes of 67 Squadron lined up at Chittagong Airfield - May 1943

A P-38 parked at Chittagong Airfield - 1944

 

[kobiraaz]

2nd Weather Squadron's aircraft parking area, Kurmitola Airfield, Dacca - 1943

Taken during the 2nd Burma Campaign at Cox's Bazar - 1944

Members of No.6 Squadron during the visit of Air Marshal Baldwin at Cox's Bazar in 1944

Bomb bay of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF at Jessore prior to a sortie over Burma - 1944

A Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF, landing at Jessore on returning from a bombing sortie over Burma - 1944

 

[kobiraaz]

Aircrew basha as how they used to called it, RAF 211 Squadron at Chiringa, Chittagong - mid 1945

RAF 211 Squadron at Chiringa, Chittagong - December 1944

RAF's Air Supply Ops from Chittagong, Chiringa and Cox's Bazar in the 2nd Arakan Campaign - 1944

Spitfire of RAF 681 Squadron based in Alipore, taking off from Chittagong - 1944

 

[Avisheik]

This picture isnt particularly old, but it has significant historical value. This pic shows the name some of the bengali matyrs during the WWI

 

[kobiraaz]

A Curtise Commando C-46 over Hathazari, Bangladesh - 1944

Cox's Bazar 1944 - Republic Thunderbolts of No. 30 Squadron RAF taxy to their take-off point past a line of Hawker Hurricane Mark IICs, at Cox's Bazaar.

Damaged Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF of No. 177 Squadron RAF parked in a dispersal at Feni, Noakhali, India (now Bangladesh) - 1944

 

[boltu]

Adamjee Jute Mill, Narayanganj (1957)

Kakrail, Dhaka (1982)

Open air concert in Dhaka University 1990

Stadium area , Bangabandhu Avenue 1960

Bird's eye view of Dhaka. Part of Banani and Gulshan in the distance. (1966)

 

[Musalman]

Did u achieve your goal for which u got separated from us?

 

[Avisheik]

The guy looks like a sikh but the source where i got it from says that this guy is a lancer from bengal. I am not sure how true is this