#operation britain

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Asterix Adventure Games: Operation Britain (1987)

Text: Stephen Thraves -- Art: Albert Uderzo -- Concept: René Goscinny

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1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day.

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#OTD in 1957 – Birth of Volunteer, Mairéad Farrell, in Belfast.

‘Your minds your strongest weapon, and that’s how we always counteract whatever they do, because they can’t control our minds, they can’t get inside them, and that’s their failure.’ –Mairead Farrell Mairéad was born in Belfast; the second youngest of six children and the only girl. She was twelve when the British Army took over the streets of Belfast in 1969. Mairéad found school work easy but…

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DEAUVILLE and STE.-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France (The New York Times) — For many, it will be the last big commemoration. The last reunion.

Eighty years after Allied armies invaded the beaches of Normandy, marking a definitive turning point in World War II, those veterans who are still alive and sound enough are expected to return to France this week from the United States, Britain and Canada to commemorate the moment — gingerly, slowly, happily.

They number less than 200. Their average age is about 100.

As some of the veterans arrived on Monday, descending from a hulking 767 onto the tarmac of the small Deauville airport — sometimes helped by multiple aides — many of those there to greet them grew teary in between their bursts of applause.

For a place saturated in the history of that grand landing, when some 156,000 Allied soldiers arrived on the coast and began to push the occupying Germans out of Normandy and then out of the rest of France, there is a deep sense of nostalgia.

“It’s very emotional,” said the airport director, Maryline Haize-Hagron, who like most Normandy natives, has an intimate story of D-Day. Her grandfather Henri Desmet, after watching American parachutists land in the marshes near his farm on June 6, used his flat-bottom boat to row dozens to dry land so they could continue fighting.

“It’s such an honor to be able to welcome them back,” she said.

Mr. Desmet, like most witnesses, is dead now. And this anniversary comes at a time that feels darkly critical — there is a war in Europe, far-right movements are gaining ground across the continent, there is a shifting politics of anger.

The veterans, for their part, have individual reasons for returning. Some come to honor their fallen comrades. Others want to enjoy the pageantry of it all, one last time.

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brits: hey can we just take trains from the east to the west without going through londo-

the train companies:

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

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Dialogue with Gemini (1) History of exchange between Japan and Britain

Q: It would be good to cover the history of exchanges between Japan and Britain in an NHK taiga drama. The history of friendship such as the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the history of hostility such as the Imphal Operation in World War II, and the history of reconciliation after the war. What plot could be written for a drama between geopolitically similar island nations?

A: Title: Across the Ocean: A Tale of Two Islands(plot)

The story begins in the late 16th century, during the seclusion period of Japan (Sakoku). A young shipwrecked English sailor, William Adams, finds himself on Japanese shores. With the help of a kind samurai, he integrates into Japanese society, becoming an advisor to the powerful Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Adams acts as a bridge between the two cultures, fostering initial trade relations. (This reflects the early positive exchanges)

Fast forward to the late 19th century. Japan is undergoing rapid modernization, and the British Empire is a dominant global power. The drama follows a young Japanese diplomat, Ito Hirobumi, who travels to London to negotiate the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The alliance, born out of mutual strategic interests against Russia, showcases the complex dance between cooperation and competition between island nations. (This reflects the period of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance)

The narrative then shifts to World War II. A Japanese soldier, Tanaka Soichiro, finds himself fighting in the brutal Imphal Operation against British forces in India. Witnessing the horrors of war and the cultural similarities between the fighting soldiers, Soichiro questions the path his nation has taken. (This reflects the period of hostility)

Post-war, the drama follows the story of a Japanese woman, Sato Hana, who travels to London to pursue her studies. She encounters prejudice but also finds friendship and understanding with a young British historian, Thomas Moore. Together, they grapple with the legacy of the war and the importance of reconciliation. (This reflects the period of reconciliation)

This NHK taiga drama would showcase the evolving relationship between Japan and Britain, reminding viewers of the shared humanity that transcends geographical distance and political conflict.

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British Home Front During World War Two.

Senate House. Senate House in Malet Street, London WC1 close to the British Museum is an Arc Deco building built between 1932 and 1937 and is now the library and administration centre for the University of London. Most days of the week many thousands of people walk past this building and the general public along with students at the University of London are seldom aware of its wartime…

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UK warns nuclear power plant operator of cybersecurity failings

EDF, the company operating several nuclear power plants in Britain, has been placed under “significantly enhanced regulatory attention” after an inspection into its cybersecurity practices. The new attention is an escalation of the enhanced regulatory attention that EDF — a subsidiary of the French state-owned energy company Électricité de France — received last year. Since then, EDF failed to…

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You're probably gonan get to this question long after it's relevant, if ever, but it's worth the wait to hear your take, assuming you'll believe me I'm asking in good faith-is all the blame the queen gets in the light of her death, for the various shitty things Britain has done, justified (at least some of it pretty much has to be), or is fair to say most of it akin to "blaming Obama for Vietnam, if he had little to no power to begin with"?

This is a super good question and i'm sorry for taking so long to get back to you. But when it come to the guilt or innocence of the Queen, I think you should think about the Position of Queen of England as a Symbol, and the individual personality of Elizabeth II

As an office, the Monarchy symbolically represents the Empire, all actions are taken in the name of the Monarch and the legal system is justified by the approval of the Monarch, direct or indirect the monarchy is dipped in blood as is everything else in the British Empire. At no point did the Monarchy really reckon with the Empire they ruled over, in fact under Elizabeth's reign, there was a consorted effort to rewrite the legacy of the British Empire and cover up its crimes. So as a symbol of Britain, Elizabeth deserves scorn

As an individual, Elizabeth II is probably the best monarch Britain had, in that she gave up the last vestiges of royal power and turned it over to the Parliament, I understand why she was so popular. Hopefully with her gone, Charles I can be the last monarch

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Relentless direct action has secured another victory in the fight against Israel’s arms trade, as Elbit Systems are forced to sell their ‘Elite KL’ factory in Tamworth.

The company had previously manufactured cooling and power management systems for military vehicles, but was sold on after stating that it faced falling profits and increased security costs resulting from Palestine Action’s efforts. 

After the sale was completed last month, Elite KL’s new owners, listed as Griffin Newco Ltd, confirmed in an email to Palestine Action that they will have nothing to do with the previous owners, Elbit, and have discontinued any arms manufacturing:

“Following the recent acquisition of Elite KL Limited by a UK investment syndicate, the newly appointed board has unanimously agreed to withdraw from all future defence contracts and terminate its association with its former parent company”.

This victory is a direct result of sustained direct action which has sought, throughout Palestine Action’s existence, to make it impossible for Elbit to afford to operate in Britain. Before they sold the enterprise to a private equity syndicate, Elbit had reported that Elite KL operating profits had been slashed by over three-quarters, with Palestine Action responsible: Elbit directly cited the increased expenditure on security they’d been forced to make, and higher supply chain costs they faced.

And these actions did, indeed, cost them. The first action at the site, in November 2020, saw Elite KL’s premises smashed into, the building covered in blood-red paint. Between March and July 2021, the site was put out of action three times by roof-top occupations – drenched red in March 2021, with the factory’s camera systems dismantled, before again being occupied in in May. Another roof-top occupation in July, despite increased security, saw the site forced closed – once again painted blood-red, and with its windows and fixings smashed through.

In February 2022, activists decommissioned the site for weeks – closed off after an occupation that saw over £250,000 of damages caused, the roof tiles removed one-by-one. After this, Elbit erected a security perimeter around the site – but to no avail. One month later, six were arrested after Palestine Action returned to Tamworth – again taking the roof and smashing through, preventing the production of parts for Israel’s military machine.

Elite KL is a ‘specialist thermal management business’. Since the sale, the company focuses on cooling systems for buses and trains, but it had, under Elbit, manufactured these systems for military vehicles. Until December of last year, Elite KL’s website was advertising its military and defence products, and it was known to provide parts for Israel’s deadly Merkava tanks, with export license records demonstrating its provision of ‘ML6a’ components for military ground vehicles to Israel. The company was also known to manufacture crew cooling systems, for the military vests of tank operators.

Elbit Systems itself provides 85% of the drones and land-based military equipment for the Israeli military, along with a wide range of the munitions and armaments currently being used against Gaza’s beseiged population. Its CEO, Bazhalel Machlis, has claimed that the Israeli military has offered the company its thanks for their “crucial” services during the ongoing genocide in Gaza

A Palestine Action spokesperson has stated:

“Each activist who occupied and dismantled Tamworth’s Israeli weapons factory did so in order to bring an end to Israel’s weapons trade, and to end the profiteering from Palestinian repression. Every defeat Elbit faces is a victory for the Palestinian people.

Kicking Elbit out of Tamworth shows once again that direct action is a necessary tactic. It is one which must be utilised and amplified in the face of the Gaza genocide.”

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But Germany's military successes left it with the huge logistical problem of what to do with the men scooped up as it surged through Europe. Prisoners were not just British, Commonwealth and American but French, Polish and Dutch and – as countries changed sides – Italian and Russian. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Germans took nearly three million soldiers prisoner in the first four months of fighting; by the end of the war she had nearly six million Russian prisoners. After the Italian Armistice in September 1943, Germany sent 60,000 of her former ally's troops to POW camps. Russian POWs were treated particularly badly and many British POWs are still haunted by memories of the starved and broken bodies they glimpsed through the barbed wire that separated the compounds. Like the Japanese, the Soviet Union had no sympathy for soldiers who had allowed themselves to be taken prisoner and these men (and some women) became non-persons. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva Convention and Russian prisoners could expect no assistance from home. While German captors felt a cultural connection with the British men they captured, they had only distrust for the Russians. It was left to other POWs to lob their own precious supplies over the wire to help the starving Russians.

At the start of the war Germany had thirty-one POW camps; by 1945 this figure had risen to 248 – of which 134 housed British and American men. After Mussolini joined forces with Hitler in June 1940, men who were captured in North Africa were usually held in Italy and by the time Mussolini was overthrown and an armistice declared in September 1943 there were nearly 79,000 Allied prisoners in the country. By the end of the year, 50,000 had been taken to Germany and more, like the future travel writer, Eric Newby, who had spent some time on the lose, were later rounded up.

There was a huge diversity of architecture among camps that varied dramatically depending on the prisoner's rank, his escape record and whether or not he was made to work. Andrew Hawarden's first camp of Stalag XXA does not conform to either of the two most common stereotypes of a POW camp – the barbed wire, barrack huts and sentry posts of somewhere like Stalag Stalag Luft III, near Sagan (now Żagań) one hundred miles southeast of Berlin, which Paul Brickhill made famous through his book, The Great Escape, and Colditz, the glowing castle which many people still cannot think of without recalling the ominous music which accompanied the TV series of the same name

Most POW camps were nearer in design to Stalag Stalag Luft III, which was run by the Luftwaffe. In 1940 the German air force decided to build and control separate camps but they were quickly overwhelmed by the intensity of Allied bombing raids and many POW airmen ended up in military camps, albeit in separate compounds. My father's first camp, Stalag IVB, at Mühlberg, near Dresden, was built to hold 15,000 men but at its peak housed double this and included a large RAF contingent.

At first, naval and merchant-sailor prisoners were held at Stalag XB near the North Sea coast at Sandbostel until the German navy took control in 1942, when they were concentrated at a purpose-built site nearby at Westertimke. Naval POWs were held at two compounds (one for officers and the other for petty officers and senior ratings) at Marlag (an abbreviation of Marine Lager). Merchant seamen were held nearby at the larger camp of Milag (Marine-Interniertenlager).

  —  The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War (Midge Gillies)

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