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Joseph Mazzello as Eugene Sledge in THE PACIFIC (2010) ↳ Part Six: Peleliu Airfield

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German soldiers captured by the US 2nd Armoured Division as it makes its advance towards Lemgo, Germany - April 1945

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Looks like you guys are gonna be surrounded.

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2 August 1942. Pilots of 315 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF gathered by their Commanding Officer's new Mustang Mark III (FB387, PG-G) at RAF Brenzett.

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“You got him,” Sink said. “Hell, every time I need him he’s always here with you anyway. He may as well stay.” - From Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander

DICK WINTERS, LEWIS NIXON and COL. ROBERT SINK Easy Company Dynamics 7/? | Band of Brothers

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Hawker Sea Hurricanes and Fairey Albacores on the flight deck of HMS Indomitable during a Malta convoy.

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Hurricane Mk I DZ-G shows damage to the tail and fuselage by cannon and machine gun fire that S/Lt Henry W "Harry" Beggs of No 151 Squadron RAF sustained on the evening of 15 August 1940 after combat with JG26 over Dover. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service.

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OUTRAGEOUS (2025) 1x01 The Gathering Storm

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Martin Maryland Bomber 167 A 3 BAN Lartigue-Tafaraoui 1943

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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson (Pub. 2015)

Basic Story: A biography on the lives of the six Mitford sisters and their brother Tom and their unique beliefs and lives during the war.

Fan Thoughts: After watching the first season of Outrageous I decided to read about the Mitford family, the series is based off of the book The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell; since they were real people I knew the facts would be the same regardless of author. The history of the family, including before the sisters and their brother Tom were born is fascinating and certainly informed how they navigated their wartime, and indeed lifelong, beliefs and allegiances. While this book does inform the reader of the broad strokes of the lives of all the Mitford children, I can see why they went with another title to base the new series on. The writing feels almost overstuffed, with too many facts and descriptors and musings on their thoughts and feelings crammed in, so the actual story of their lives is somewhat obscured and hard to follow. The timeline is not linear, and with the inclusion of not only the sisters and brother but their parents, relatives, husbands, affair partners, and children - all of whom also have nicknames - makes for a muddled understanding of what is going on. This family's story is truly remarkable and absolutely worth learning about, however, Mary S. Lovell's book is probably a better one than this for learning about them!

Warnings: abortions, child death, suicide

Available On: Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Audible, and likely your local library

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Jack O'Connel in Unbroken

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A group of British pilots spend time between sorties at Hawkinge airfield. In the background is a Hurricane fighter (Hawker Hurricane Mk. I.

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Winters sent me a new replacement from Philly. It was Babe. He came into the barracks, and he walked like a penguin, side to side, like a duck. He did the South Philly shuffle. You couldn’t miss it. We started asking each other who we knew back home. I thought he was as goofy as I was. He liked to have fun; I liked him right away, the dirty rat.

Bill Guarnere - Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

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A British Grumman Martlet Mk.1 (F4F 'Wildcat') fighter from the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable flies in front of the battleship HMS Warspite off Madagascar.April - May 1942

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Tallulah Bankhead and Mary Anderson in  LIFEBOAT (1944) | dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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A group of Grumman Hellcat F Mk.I fighters (US-built) of 1840 Squadron, Royal Navy (1840 NAS) in flight.23.06.1944

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