#History #1940s ##MarineCorps #WW2 On December 26th 1943 the veteran 1st Marine Division fresh from their campaign on Guadalcanal stormed Cape Gloucester the next chain the Solomons, On the island like Guadalcanal it was rain mud and malaria that made men exhausted and broken

Clear and not so cold. I am miserable with cold. Went to town at 11. C cleared d room. He and Dad have laid around for a week. Went to look at McCan's roofs in PM. Margee called. Getting brakes fixed. He is not here. Went to practice in eve. My cold is terrible #otd #history #ww2

Il fotografo ucraino-russo Arthur Bondar ha raccolto negli anni circa 35mila #negativi della Seconda #guerra mondiale, convinto che siano la forma più autentica della #fotografia. Nel 2023 li ha fatti uscire clandestinamente da Mosca, temendo censura e repressione. Oggi, in esilio in Germania […]

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I don't think #Iran ever had plans to take over the #MiddleEast (ME). I do think they want to destroy #Israel. But the feeling is mutual.

#POTUS #Trump -ME efforts started after #WW2 w/ creation of Israel. Peace has been elusive. tinyurl.com/NOmePeace

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14 Mar 1943 // HM Trawler Moravia was mined and sunk while minesweeping off Harwich. A mine was sighted dead ahead but it was too late to avoid running into it. The mine scraped along the starboard side and exploded amidships. One man was lost in the sinking. #RoyalNavy #WW2

HMS Thunderbolt returning to depot ship HMS Forth in Holy Loch, Scotland, after Mediterranean service, 27 March 1942. Image Imperial War Museum: A 8454. Description: a submarine viewed from above the starboard bow, under way in an enclosed stretch of water with land and other vessels visible in the background.

14 Mar 1943 // Submarine HMS Thunderbolt was depth-charged and sunk by Italian corvette Cicogna NW of Sicily with all 68 crew lost. Thunderbolt was formerly HMS Thetis which sank while on trials on 1 June 1939 killing 99 men, and was salvaged in 1940. (IWM A 8454) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Το Tachikawa Ki-70 (Clara) άργησε πολύ για να εμφανιστεί στα πεδία μάχης του #Ειρηνικου, έτσι ώστε να αλλάξει κάτι υπέρ της Ιαπωνίας
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Meeting the first resistance since the 7th Army bridgehead over the Danube. A task force from the 103rd Div., 409th Infantry-614th Tank Destroyer Batt. thrust across the border and met a group of German OCS students in dug-in positions in the Alps.

Photo by T/4 Irving Leibowitz.
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#OnThisDay 14 March 1945: 155mm guns supporting the 3e Division d'Infanterie Algérienne during an attack on Oberhoffen-sur-Moder (Bas-Rhin), roughly 8km from the Rhine. These look to be Schneider mle 1917s on modernized carriage.

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‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images Ukrainian-Russian photojournalist Arthur Bondar has amassed huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers

‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images #ww2

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The aftermath of the Grand Slam bomb attack on the Beilefeld railway viaduct.

14 March 1945. Squadron Leader CC Calder of 617 Squadron (The "Dambusters") dropped the first of the RAF's 'Grand Slam' bombs. #History #WW2

The 22,000 lb Grand Slam bomb was the largest British Second World War bomb. It was first used to destroy the Beilefeld railway viaduct.

#OTD in 1941, Debden airfield. A Hawker Hurricane I night fighter from 85 Squadron taxiing before intercepting night raiders. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945, Mezzano-Alfonsine area, Italy. Men from "A" Company 1 Battalion of the Jewish Brigade riding on a Churchill tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945. Italy. Faenza Commonwealth War Cemetery. #WW1 #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945. Five arches of the viaducts collapsed after "Grand Slam" and "Tallboy" bombs were dropped by Lancasters from 617 Squadron. Numerous craters from previous attempts to demolish the structure can be seen covering the floor of the Johannisbach Valley. #WW2 #HISTORY

(Unjustly blamed for the Market Garden failure, but in 2005 officially rehabilitated by the Dutch Government.) #OTD in 1943, Polish Parachute Training Centre at Largo House, Fifeshire. Men from Polish 1 Independent Parachute Brigade, getting their initial training. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Francolise, Italy. An ACV (Armoured Command Vehicle) from 23 Brigade HQ. #WW2 #HISTORY

Actually, moving forward. 😊 (10 April 1945. Archers, open-top British self-propelled guns, Valentine tanks fitted with 17-pounder guns. #WW2 #HISTORY)

A Cool Gun. (A modified Lewis Gun. #WW2 #HISTORY)

The Allied Sherman, the counterpart of the German Panzer IV? #WW2 #HISTORY

(Poor quality, but nevertheless.) 17 September 1944. Operation Market Garden. Reading a book, in the air, on the way to the battlefield. #WW2 #HISTORY

(10 July 1944, Caen, France.) A tense moment. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943, Tunisia. Royal Engineers in a Daimler scout car on their way to blow up an abandoned enemy tank, to prevent it being recovered and repaired. #WW2 #HISTORY