Latest posts tagged with #wwII on Bluesky
#WWII Mike Kendall's Z Force was conceived as a stay-behind party for Hong Kong. Almost exclusively comprised of Whites, it failed because they could not blend in with locals in a limited area, as demonstrated by the British Army Aid Group's success. This led to the recruiting of Chinese Canadians.
#WWII Some anti-colonial movements in Asia sided with the #Japanese, while some local guerrilla groups co-operated with #Force136 against them; only many were pro-independence and would turn against their colonizers at the end of the war.
#OTD in 1943 the Medium Tank M3 finished winter trials. The performance in snow was not bad when grousers were installed, but the tank burned an incredible amount of fuel, 965 L per 100 km of driving, just a quarter mile per gallon of gasoline. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
Mar 14, 1941 #WWII NYT "The Three-Power Pact is most important to Japan and I would not be doing justice to the Japanese nation if I did not make Hitler's personal acquaintance." Mr. Matsuoka said that the idea of a three-power pact came to him in 1932.
www.nytimes.com/1941/03/14/a...
#WWII During the 1930s Hungary’s political priorities started to align with Nazi Germany. Hungarians wanted their lost #WWI territories back and leadership saw a powerful ally in Hitler. As it turned out, joining the Axis powers proved to be a terrible miscalculation.
www.history.com/articles/hun...
Mar 14, 1941 #WWII NYT President Roosevelt signed an order today adding Hungary to the list of German or Russian controlled countries whose financial assets in the United States have been "frozen." Hungary is the twelfth.
www.nytimes.com/1941/03/14/a...
In 1942 all Soviet factories that could produce the T-34 were ordered to do so, even if it meant reduction in other types of tanks. ChKZ was only permitted to stop T-34 production to focus on production of heavy tanks and SPGs #OTD in 1944. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
The War Poem - www.youtube.com/shorts/2O1UN... #Iran #Gaza #Ukraine #Iraq #Afghanistan #WWI #WWII #Vietnam
Kate Connolly: ‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images. Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers.
#Photography #history #USSR #WWII […]
Associated Press headline - " 8 accused of antifa ties convicted on terrorism charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility "
@apnews.com - pls stop blithely reposting #fascist #Texas #copaganda talking points!
#Antifa just means opposed to #fascism
Not a "movement"
Not "far-left"
Not "militant"
In #WWII USA & allies were all 'antifa'
Why carry water for fascists?
#AccessJournalism != #News
[No link for #clickbait]
Uvi 🌷 Whispering your name and mine
A sweeping #WWII #romance
Get it now!
uviart.blogspot.com/2017/03/whis... …
This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!
March 14th, 1941
#CongoPeacock #JapaneseSoldiers #WWII #Inventors
youtube.com/@strangeasitseems
A person wearing a military uniform crouches next to a camouflaged military artillery piece in a barren, recently shelled landscape. The sky is overcast and the surroundings are sparse with scattered trees.
A British soldier inspects an abandoned German Nebelwerfer rocket launcher left behind during the retreat in Normandy near Troarn, on July 20, 1944.
#History #WWII
A classic black-and-white photograph of pioneering American war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (born Georgette Louise Meyer, 1919–1965), captured in an intense, action-oriented moment during her early career as a combat correspondent. Chapelle, a trailblazing female journalist who covered World War II (including Iwo Jima and Okinawa), the Korean War, and Vietnam—where she became the first American female reporter killed in action—is shown crouching low on a sandy, barren beach or landing zone. She wears a worn U.S. military-style fatigue jacket and trousers, a wide-brimmed, battered field cap tilted back on her head, and thick, dark-rimmed glasses. With focused determination, she aims a compact press camera directly forward, hands gripping the camera body and lens securely. Her expression is alert and mid-speech or exclamatory, mouth slightly open, conveying the urgency and adrenaline of frontline work. In the blurred background, a large military tank (an M4 Sherman or similar WWII-era model marked with "CII" on the turret) rumbles nearby, its long gun barrel and tracks visible against the horizon, with faint ocean waves or surf in the distance. The image powerfully captures Chapelle's fearless, hands-on style—often embedding with troops despite military restrictions on women correspondents—symbolizing her grit, independence, and dedication to documenting war from the front lines across multiple conflicts until her death in 1965.
Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle was the first American female war correspondent to die on the front lines (1965).
She covered #WWII, the Korean & Algerian wars, Castro's Cuba, Lebanon & early Vietnam, where she was killed in action. She was born #OTD in 1919. #photography #WomensHistoryMonth
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.
#history #wwii #ww2
FROM THE BOOK: 'The Lausanne Convention was a wound that healed as precedent.' The 1923 Greco-Turkish exchange -- 2 million expelled by treaty -- established forced transfer as statecraft. The logic returned with devastating force. #DisplacedPeoples #WWII
#DisplacedPeoples #WWII
#WASP ELIN GRISWOLD HARTE RAIMONDI 43-W-3
Target Towing at Haan AAF, California
"TOWING A TARGET MEANS GETTING AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN.”
(5 Jan 1918– 2 Mar 1996)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
#WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII
Uvi 🌷 Whispering your name and mine
A sweeping #WWII #romance
Get it now!
uviart.blogspot.com/2017/03/whis... …
FROM THE BOOK: 'The Lausanne Convention was a wound that healed as precedent.' The 1923 Greco-Turkish exchange -- 2 million expelled by treaty -- established forced transfer as statecraft. The logic returned with devastating force. #DisplacedPeoples #WWII
#History #WWII #Photography
‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images
Ukrainian-Russian photojournalist Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Koča" illustration 2026 #cardula #kocapopovic #popart #portrait #illustration #communist #Surrealist #politi #InternationalBrigades #VicePresidentofYugoslavia #Nationalheroofjugoslavia #wwii
Mar 14, 1941 #WWII NYT Haile Selassie's own army of native troops have driven deeply into Ethiopia. Armed, drilled and officered by the British, they move forward behind British scout planes, with their wings protected by swarms of guerrilla fighters.
www.nytimes.com/1941/03/14/a...
#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.
#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace #Artillery #OTD
Rubha nan Sasan #17
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82 years ago today:
"I thought I would be on my way to somewhere else by now, but no orders have come down so maybe it will be tomorrow. It sure gets tiresome just sitting here waiting but not knowing where or when you are going."
#LettersFromGrandpa. #WWII #1940s #History
