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Have reported brazen holocaust denial multiple times on there and they do nothing

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Just pulling random favorites to highlight on Saturday- also because Bluesky decided to obscure the photos from the follow-up post for some odd reason.

I'm fond of the 25mm gun, a sneaky and deceptively dangerous foe for a tanker of 1940. It could be lurking in any brush, behind any low wall...

I'll say this for Trump, he makes good on his pledges

March/April 1956: Groupe d'Hélicoptère n° 2, based at Aïn Arnat. Equipped with Bell 47 (#1) and Sikorsky H-19 (#2-4) helicopters.

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A few more photos of the French landings in Haiphong, 6-8 March 1946, that I neglected to post previously. The auxiliary cruisers Barfleur and Cephee are apparently depicted but not clearly identified.

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#OnThisDay 7 March 1940: Soldiers of the 2nd Army set up telephone lines. Northern France, Meuse-Ardennes area.

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The war that Hegseth thinks was botched because we were too politically correct is the one with Abu Ghraib. (Also the one with My Lai, of course). Complaints about constraints on the military preventing easy victories are all nonsense and have always been nonsense.

Your healthy reminder that slides were better before PowerPoint

#OnThisDay 6 March 1945: US troops of the 104th Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in Cologne, Germany. Not sure if these were taken by a French photographer or simply shared with the French archives.

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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

I was curious what it was and had no idea what words to even google to try to find it haha

The right are consolidating all news media and all major social media in to meticulously designed right wing bubbles and these obnoxious losers still go out of their way to whine about left wing bubbles. To the absurd degree that they’re talking about a platform this small to make that point

An imperfect movie but in all fairness if you tried to fully communicate the insanity of the Congo War you'd need several additional hours of runtime, so with that in mind it's still worth watching, if for no other reason that because the conflict, and the UN involvement, is so widely forgotten.

#OnThisDay (more or less): Between 1 and 15 March 1951, the 23e Groupe Aérien d'Observation d'Artillerie (23e GAOA) based out of Hanoi. These artillery spotters flew the Morane M.S. 500, a derivative of the German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch.

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Identified in #3 above: Gen. Joseph Jeannel. Commander of the 23e Division d'Infanterie from 1939-40, under Vichy he was made commander of the 12th Military Division (a territorial command centered on Limoges) until retiring in 1942. Arrested in 1944, he remained in German captivity until 1945.

March 1942: The military basketball championship in Limoges. Sport and athletic displays were a major part of Vichy propaganda and the programme of the "National Revolution." The tournament was won by the team of the 6e Légion de la Garde Mobile.

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Some Dewoitine aircraft :

It's so telling that these people are rushing to condemn "the campus left" at this moment
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March 1940: Sailors of the French destroyer Simoun ashore in Casablanca, Morocco, home port of the 3rd Torpedo Division which included Fortuné and Railleuse.

For the claimed sinking of U-54 the ship was decorated with the Croix de Guerre with Star. [3/3]

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March 1940: Gunnery practice aboard destroyer Simoun (Bourrasque class). [2/3]

The claimed action against U-54 took place off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. This is obviously difficult to square with wreckage recovered by German patrols off Denmark in March 1940.

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March 1940: Destroyer Simoun (Bourrasque class), Capt. Gaston Bataille pictured #2. [1/3]

French records claim that Simoun depth-charged and sank German U-54 on 23 Feb 1940, though elsewhere it's claimed she was sunk by HMS Salmon on 12 Feb., or struck a mine.

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Assembly of Char B1s at the AMX plant in Issy-les-Moulineaux:

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Worth noting however that the cadence of production improved dramatically after the declaration of war; starting from only 4 B1 bis completed in September '39, 15 were completed in Dec '39, 25 in Jan '40, and 45 in March '40. A monthly pace of 50-70 tanks was anticipated by the end of the year.

March 1940: A military bakery of the 2nd Army. An important function for any army, but essential for the armée de terre!

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#OnThisDay 1 March 1957: An M8 Greyhound of the 12e Compagnie Saharienne Portée Africaine (CSPA).

Crew composed of Sgt. Roland Boquet, commander, Gabriel Rabbin, gunner, Serge Godneche, driver, and the radio operator identified only as Dogomarne.

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The plan is to run through a pre-determined target list and then declare victory whenever the list is up or the political/material costs of the operation become prohibitive.

Shaking off the rust and trying to redevelop some fine motor skills I lost at some point- I remember having steadier hands!