#OTD in 1945, Issum, Germany. Brigadier Prior-Palmer (right), CO from 8 Armoured Brigade, consulting a map. #WW2 #HISTORY
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#OTD in 1945, Issum, Germany. Brigadier Prior-Palmer (right), CO from 8 Armoured Brigade, consulting a map. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Das automatische Bild-Labeling von Bluesky kann immer noch nicht zwischen Kunst und Pornografie unterscheiden. Ich weiß nicht, was an diesen Statuen jugendgefährdend sein soll? Soweit ich weiß, verwendet Bluesky dafür eine KI-Software von Hivemoderation.com.
WW2 Bombing in the UK - A very powerful painting - A House Collapsing on Two Firemen Shoe Lane, London, EC4 by Leonard Rosoman, 1940 Leonard Rosoman served with the Auxiliary Fire Service and captured this disastrous moment as a wall collapses on two firemen. One of the firemen was killed - a fact which haunted Rosoman for the rest of his life.
Today's most impressive #warart via Craig Moore on Facebook.
Air Power’s Lost Cause: The American Air Wars of Vietnam, Brian Laslie. Rowman & Littlefield 2021.
I’m mortified that I forgot this book from @brianlaslie.bsky.social. An outstanding book. Covers the air war in all its iterations. #histbookchat.
I'm not trying to paint anything. I am just pointing out some facts that you apparently do not like. The fact that they could eliminate the whole bunch of these murderous theocrats is great, but IDNF that this means they are doing better at eliminating specific combat assets.
I meant the opposite sorry for lack of clarity. Shooting up vessels of states you aren’t at war with is piracy.
Apparently she had requested internment in Sri Lanka which makes this quite dubious really.
Does the question on whether this is actually a war or not make a difference, legally? Starting with whether there was a declaration.
The laws of armed conflict are reasonably clear on the restrictions on a national warship firing on a national warship of an opposing combatant that is not carrying ammunition for its main armament.
Namely: there aren’t any.
There isn’t any requirement for immediate threat or anything similar.
160 dead little girls and their teachers say otherwise.
Operation Spring Awakening began #OTD in 1945. After three failed attempts to relieve the besieged garrison of Budapest, the German and Hungarian armies launched a massive offensive aimed at eliminating the 3rd Ukrainian Front and a stabilizing the front line. #history #WW2 #WWII
Why tenured academics and administrators insist that using this technology is unproblematic and just how the future should work with none of our input is baffling to me. Feels like a modern cargo cult.
#OTD in 1942, North Africa. A captured 28mm Schwere Panzerbüchse 41. #WW2 #HISTORY
The trouble with the Second Chamber is that every once in a while they have the ability to push back against the government - in this case to stop them giving away my work for free to billionaires
RTp (Regia Torpediniera - Escort Destroyer/Sloop) Ardito was a Ciclone class torpedo boat, an enlarged and improved version of the Spica class, which was the mainstay of the Italian escort fleet. She would almost certaily have carried active sonar and more powerful German depth charge equipment.
It was most likely on 6 March 1943 that RTp Ardito depth-charged HM/Sub Turbulent, which was lost with all hands on patrol. She has not been found.
In August 1942 Turbulent attacked and damaged Italian merchant Nino Bixio on its northbound run. Bixio was carrying 3,200 POW, of whom 336 were killed.
Ah great! Thank you.
OTD in 1944 the Red Air Force carpet bombed Narva, then Red Army used artillery to finish the job. As a deliberate act, hundreds of civilians died & thousands were made refugees. We then repopulated it with Russians.
Imagine something like this happening in the 21st century.
Yeah, salaries have to be pretty decent before it all makes sense. Once you have kids/family anyway. I think of it as Luxembourg with more sand and sun. Maybe a fun place when you're unattached and in your 20s, not so much with a family.
People choose to live there.
What bombs?
There are no bombs.
Well, come on darling
The stars are burning bright
Come on now, darling
Our luck is good tonight
'Cause we're the all time winners
In the all time loser's game
Yeah, we're the all time winners
And here we go again
The Special Shield of the Americas!
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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
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On 6 March 1942 the remnants of the battalion, which had been destroyed at El Haselat in the Jebel Akhdar on 19/20 December 1941, returned to Italy.
On 6 March the much-delayed 7th convoy arrived, and Generalmajor Fröhlich, a WW1 veteran, took up his post as Fliegerführer Afrika.
#FrescoFriday
Painted plaster found at Caerleon fortress baths.
📷 My own.
#Archaeology #artwork #History #RomanBritain
A classic black-and-white photograph of Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb, pioneering American aviator and astronaut candidate, seated in the cockpit of a high-performance jet aircraft during the early 1960s. She wears a flight helmet with visor, oxygen mask connected to a hose, and flight suit with patches. Her expression is calm, focused, and determined as she looks upward slightly toward the sky, evoking her role as the first woman to pass the same astronaut screening tests as NASA's Mercury Seven men and her status as the top contender in the Mercury 13 program. The image captures her courage, skill, and groundbreaking ambition in an era when women were excluded from spaceflight due to gender bias.
Jerrie Cobb should have been the first woman in #space. 🚀
Due to gender bias, she wasn't.
Part of the Mercury 13 (women), she passed the same tests as the Mercury Seven astronauts (men), often ranking in the top 2% (including compared to the men). She was born #OTD in 1931.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
T'was a big deal on Radio 4 yesterday where the presenter and talking heads were getting all excited about this.
#OTD in 1945, Sonsbeck area, Germany. Private Jim Sinar from Tipton. #WW2 #HISTORY