Last week, we shared some photos that were purported to be 70-year-old footage from World War II’s The Battle of the Bulge. However, they have since been debunked, proven to be a hoax. As it turns out, the photos still depict The Battle of the Bulge, but not from a long-lost camera only recently unearthed. In fact, some of the photos were already published in a book entitled Images of War: Battle of the Bulge. The source where we initially came across the photos, PetaPixel, was alerted to the false nature of the photos from one of their readers. There’s no word on whether the entire backstory involving Chicagoan Louis J. Archambeau and his family was falsified as well, but there’s a good chance that it was.
I sincerely apologize for misleading anybody. The internet is full of jokesters, and I’m definitely not above admitting when I’ve been duped. Carry on, internet.
[via PetaPixel]