#world_war_II

[flotsam-gazette]

The Odessa File

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Medium:

https://medium.com/the-book-cafe/the-odessa-file-frederick-forsyth-a-book-review-1522c7302a77

Bookworm X:

https://bookwormex.com/odessa-file-frederick-forsyth-review/

NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/the-odessa-file-by-frederick-forsyth-337-pp-new-york-the-viking.html

KIRKUS:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/frederick-forsyth-9/the-odessa-file/

LETTERPRESS:

https://www.letterpressproject.co.uk/inspiring-older-readers/2019-11-29/rereading-frederick-forsyths-the-odessa-file

GUY WALTERS:

https://guywalters.substack.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-odessa-file

THE JC:

https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/bestselling-thriller-opened-eyes-of-world-to-threat-against-israel-WqvMIPisfpfedyzXyFBk2

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2003-01-01/real-odessa-smuggling-nazis-perons-argentina

the enthusiastic role of dictator Juan Peron in providing cover for major Nazi war criminals as the Third Reich collapsed, allowing them to lead prosperous and protected lives after the war.  GUILTY PARTIES = the Vatican, the Argentinean Catholic Church, the Argentinean government, and the Swiss authorities who cooperated through a secret office Himmler's secret service was in Madrid as early as 1944 to prepare an escape route; in 1946, this operation moved to Buenos Aires, establishing its headquarters in the presidential palace. Eventually, this operation's tentacles stretched from Scandinavia to Italy, aiding French and Belgian war criminals and bringing in gold that the Croatian state treasury had stolen from 600,000 Jewish and Serb victims antisemitism, anticommunism, greed, and corruption all fortified these clandestine protection rackets. Today, the stain remains, as does the secrecy. The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina. By Uki Goni. Granta Books, 2002

RAT LINES (wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

Forsyth

Philippe Sands

Odessa

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What was Peron's motivation for harboring Nazi war criminals in Argentina?

cvcv-- https://www.thoughtco.com/why-did-argentina-accept-nazi-criminals-2136579

vbn - https://www.chimuadventures.com/blog/2016/11/argentina-nazis/

mnb - https://aish.com/nazi-havens-in-south-america/

wef - https://www.pilotguides.com/articles/nazi-ratlines-escape-south-america/

dsdsd- https://allthatsinteresting.com/ratlines

Evita, the Swiss and the Nazis -- https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=OB6C34144541

Uki Goñi -- https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9168

Postwar MADRID -- https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6C48E036A479484B4631CD7C17B43F12/S0960777321000114a.pdf/neofascist_network_and_madrid_19451953_from_city_of_refuge_to_transnational_hub_and_centre_of_operations.pdf

[graniteonmypizza]

Commonwealth War Graves, 1939-1945, Grand Park

Tirana, Albania

December 2020

(My travel temporarily suspended in Tirana, Albania, as I remain COVID-19 hunkered down.  Planning to resume travel in fall 2021.   Please enjoy the images in the archive of 11,838 unique cemetery photos of GraniteOnMyPizza until then...)

[correctsuccess]

At 100, MLB Lifer Eddie Robinson Has One Unlikely Frontier Left To Conquer: Podcasting FORT WORTH, TX - JUNE 13: Former Main League Baseball first baseman and All-Star Eddie Robinson at ... [+] his residence in Fort Value, TX on June 13, 2018. (Picture by Lawrence Jenkins for The Washington Submit by way of Getty Photographs) The Washington Submit by way of Getty Photographs Eddie Robinson seemingly did all of it throughout his 65 years in skilled ... #100th_birthday #baseball #cleveland_indians #conquer #correct #correctsuccess #debt #eddie #eddie_robinson #frontier #interview #left #lifer #mlb #new_york_yankees #oldest_player #podcasting #robinson #success #world_war_ii

[davidwfloydart]

This #95-year-old #World_War_II #veteran took 4 #buses to make an #anti-racism #rally in #New_Zealand #myhero #herosamongus🙏 #fuckracism (at Alabama Street Artist Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvk2DP_gDrO5rt4XHrN4zSHLqTARPie5z0tqQw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1igfroqqqjapu

[therealgeigercounter]

I think more  people should know about this!

Kilroy Was Here!

He’s engraved in stone in the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC – back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For younger folks, it’s a bit of trivia that is an intrinsic part of American history and legend.

Anyone born between 1913 to about 1950, is very familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known….but everybody seemed to get into it. It was the fad of its time!

          At the��National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, “Speak to America,” sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy….now a larger-than-life legend of just-ended World War II….offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.

Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts, had credible and verifiable evidence of his identity.

“Kilroy” was a 46-year old shipyard worker during World War II (1941-1945) who worked as a quality assurance checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts (a major shipbuilder for the United States Navy for a century until the 1980s).  

His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. (Rivets held ships together before the advent of modern welding techniques.) Riveters were on piece work wages….so they got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk (similar to crayon), so the rivets wouldn’t be counted more than once.

                                     A warship hull with rivets

When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would surreptitiously erase the mark. Later, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters!

One day Kilroy’s boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about unusually high wages being “earned” by riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. 

The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn’t lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added ”KILROY WAS HERE!“ in king-sized letters next to the check….and eventually added the sketch of the guy with the long nose peering over the fence….and that became part of the Kilroy message.

   Kilroy’s original shipyard inspection “trademark” during World War II

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.

Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With World War II on in full swing, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn’t time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy’s inspection “trademark” was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over the European and the Pacific war zones.

Before war’s end, “Kilroy” had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. 

To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had “been there first.” As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

As the World War II wore on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI’s there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always “already been” wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable. (It is said to now be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon by the American astronauts who walked there between 1969 and 1972.

In 1945, as World War II was ending, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Allied leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference. It’s first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), “Who is Kilroy?”

To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car….which he attached to the Kilroy home and used to provide living quarters for six of the family’s nine children….thereby solving what had become an acute housing crisis for the Kilroys.

                     The new addition to the Kilroy family home.

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And the tradition continues into the 21st century…

In 2011 outside the now-late-Osama Bin Laden’s hideaway house in Abbottabad, Pakistan….shortly after the al-Qaida-terrorist was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs. 

>>Note: The Kilroy graffiti on the southwest wall of the Bin Laden compound pictured above was real (not digitally altered with Microsoft Paint, as postulated by some). The entire compound was leveled in 2012 for redevelopment by a Pakistani company as an amusement park….and to avoid it becoming a shrine to Bin Laden’s nefarious memory.

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A personal note….

My Dad’s trademark signature on cards, letters and notes to my sisters and I for the first 50 or so years of our lives (until we lost him to cancer) was to add the image of “Kilroy” at the end. We kids never ceased to get a thrill out of this….even as we evolved into adulthood. 

To this day, the “Kilroy” image brings back a vivid image of my awesome Dad into my head….and my heart!

Dad: This one’s for you!

[vietnamnewslove]

World News | Manned British torpedoes during World War II

[steamedtangerine]

While RW propagandists are making a big nothing out of “Biden stealing our burgers” and Critical Race Theory, I think it worth mentioning their feeble outrage at Dr. Suess’s early, obscure work being “removed”....well, on that thread, Seuss did political cartoons for the leftist PM magazine and regularly criticized the G.O.P. and their isolationist attitude towards pressuring America from getting involved with conflicts with fascism in war-torn Europe (almost to the point of being sympathetic with the Nazis...hmmm?!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#World_War_II%E2%80%93era_work

Here are two where he depicts the abominable offspring of the G.O.P. and isolationism.

[spookybooscarystorytime]

Creepypasta and Scary Stories Episode 64: The Crossroad Series

[flyingpigsnetwork]

Stupid Moments In History - Mon. Mar. 9, 2020

[michealhxamato-blog]

Weaboo drops bombs like it's hot ?

[dialogueschannel]

SPOHP: 50 Years, 50 Faces - 28) Howard Frohnapple

[graniteonmypizza]

Rhodes War Cemetery

Rhodes, Greece

2 June 2020

[wigmund]

From Wikipedia Picture of the Day; October 1, 2018:

The Trinidad and Tobago dollar is the currency of Trinidad and Tobago. It has its origins in the Spanish dollar (also known as "pieces of eight"), which began circulating in the 16th century. The first bank in the territory was the Colonial Bank, which opened a branch in Trinidad in 1837. An 1838 order-in-council by the government designated the pound sterling as the official currency, but dollars issued by various countries remained legal tender. A government ordinance in 1934 named the dollar the official currency, replacing the system of pounds, shillings and pence at a fixed exchange rate of 1 dollar for every 4 shillings 2 pence. Trinidad and Tobago entered a currency union with other Caribbean nations after World War II, which was replaced by the modern Trinidad and Tobago dollar in 1964, two years after the nation's independence.

This is a 1905 two dollar note. A one dollar note was issued at the same time.

Banknote: Thomas de la Rue, National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Image: Godot13

[grad505-benforster]

Keywords References:

Art

Dictionary

https://www.eden-gallery.com/news/7-different-forms-of-art

Design

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/design

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design

https://www.toptal.com/designers/creative-direction/art-vs-design#:~:text=Design%20is%20an%20art%20form,no%20guarantee%20that%20it%20will

WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

economic depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression#:~:text=An%20economic%20depression%20is%20a,of%20a%20normal%20business%20cycle

Abstract Expressionism

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/abstract-expressionism#:~:text=Abstract%20expressionism%20is%20the%20term,and%20the%20impression%20of%20spontaneity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art

[steamedtangerine]

Two more profound comics by Dr. Seuss criticizing the isolationist inactivity of the US during the fascist scourge in Europe.

Dr. Seuss did political cartoons for the leftist magazine PM, and as I showed in a previous post, he would criticize the G.O.P. for being the biggest pushers of isolationism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#World_War_II%E2%80%93era_work

[grad505-12-bianca-blog]

8/3/22 Class Summary

In today’s class we discussed what research is specifically in design and how and when we can practice researching in design. We also talked about the importance of curiosity and questioning as a designer. A quote used was “curiosity killed the cat... but satisfaction brought it back”. Because curiosity can be deemed as dangerous as it can get us into trouble, however finding knowledge or the truth about something at the end makes it worth it.

The SDL task for this week was to make two mood boards; one on the geography of my chosen location during my chosen time period, and another one showing the history of my chosen location as well as other significant moments in history of other countries during my chose time period.

Mood boards:

References:

https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/10811-picturing-disaster-the-1931-wuhan-flood/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II

https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Sino-Japanese-War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changshan

http://www.thepankou.com/history-of-the-qipaos-golden-era-1930s/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_China_floods

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703860104575507240752361582

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_architecture

https://inf.news/en/history/73c0cb600b15260e98952a734da7c016.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/contumacy-singh/2802313589/in/photostream/

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/429953095660679740/

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/282319470372345541/