#World war Two

[lostmementomemori]

Allied soldiers mocking Hitler (Balcony of the Reich Chancellery, 1945)

[johnnyandthicket]

P1-6 / Zero (Prologue)

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[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[cid5]

Tiger 1 SS Division

[liyazaki]

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[cirr0stratus]

does the Lord make house calls?

“The radio followed close behind, and he gingerly slid it over his back, wincing when the sharp corner of the cold metal dug into the small of his back.

He didn’t need to bring the radio — hardly ever, almost — but he always did, anyways. Like a comfort that did nothing.”

inspired by the little talks collection by @blood-mocha-latte

[americanwoodcockfan]

Did you knowed? AMERICAN WOODCOCK is an acronym.

A: Americanwoodcock

M: aMericanwoodcock

E: amEricanwoodcock

R: ameRicanwoodcock

I: amerIcanwoodcock

C: ameriCanwoodcock

A: americAnwoodcock

N: americaNwoodcock

W: americanWoodcock

O: americanwOodcock

O: americanwoOdcock

D: americanwooDcock

C: americanwoodCock

O: americanwoodcOck

C: americanwoodcoCk

K: americanwoodcocK

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[morbidology]

This video depicts the moment Sir Nicholas Winton realises he is in the same room as hundreds of Jewish people he saved as children during the Holocaust. While appearing on the TV show, “That’s Life!” the host Esther Rantzen asked the audience: “May I ask, is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton? If so, could you stand up, please?” To Winton’s shock, the entire audience stood up.

Winton was responsible for organising eight trains full of children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to London in 1939. While supporters in Britain were working to get Jewish intellectuals and communists out of Czechoslovakia, nobody was attempting to save the children so Winton took it on himself. Once Winston secured their escape, he travelled to Britain where he persuaded British officials to accept the children as long as foster homes were found. In all, Winton saved the lives of 669 children. He was not recognised for his achievements until 60 years later because he kept quiet about his exploits. In 2003, he received a knighthood from the queen for his services to humanity.

[theworldatwar]

Wounded are tranferred from the USS Bunker Hill to the USS Wilkes Barre following a Japanese attack off Okinawa, 11th May, 1945

[nazuuuhistory]

• Corporal Lydia Alford, LACW Myra Roberts and LACW Edna Birkbeck were the first 3 women to land in Normandy on 12th June 1944 to evacuate casualties. They were the first of the Flying Nightingales. Colorized by me.

[lostmementomemori]

A German soldier takes geese for a walk in a village in the occupied territory of the USSR.

[dronescapesvideos]

P-38 Lightnings on patrol over the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1943.

➤P-38 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/abxPFouyafs

➤WW2 VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WW2

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[cid5]

Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942, American troops on board a landing craft going in to land at Oran during Operation TORCH.

[humanoidhistory]

Submarine bunker at Charente-Maritime, France.

[aphroditeslover11]

Today I discovered a mid-century photographer called Philippe Halsman who photographed the famous people of his era, from Richard Nixon to Marilyn Monroe. At the end of his sessions he would ask the person to jump into the air for a picture, believing that this would cause them to drop their pretenses and public persona, leaving him with a picture of the real person as they made their leap. He called this ‘jumpology’.

This is the photo he took of Robert Oppenheimer in 1958, possibly the most free and unreserved image of him that I’ve ever seen.