PugJesusJapanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945
WrenchThis doesn’t seem real.
Dreadlocks would have been extremely abnormal for the period. Hell, it’d be extremely abnormal now.
You sure this isn’t some indy photoshoot or AI or something?
cheesymoonshadowNot sure if you’re serious, and I don’t know if the pic is authentic, but I don’t see dreadlocks, just thick Asian hair.
Source: I’m Asian and had classmates with the same kind of hair.
The one on the left has half her hair in dreadlocks.
I guess the shutter could have blurred it to look exactly like dreadlocks, but it looks pretty definitive to me
If anything, it’s caked in mud.
Could be. I tried a reverse image search to find more context, and didn’t find anything but posts like this with no citations, starting from 2017.
I’m not convinced it’s real.