#08/08/1944

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Un canon automoteur Hummel et son équipage de la 12e Division blindée SS Hitlerjugend détruits dans le 'couloir de la mort' – Poche de Falaise – Bataille de Normandie – Août 1944

Photographe : George Rodger

©LIFE Magazine Archives

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1944 P-51D Mustang by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Erickson Aircraft Collection

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[majorhortonisonleaveinlondon]

If you’re wanting to watch Band of Brothers/The Pacific/Masters of the Air in chronological order with BoB 1st Currahee episode split up in the dates on screen I made a list

(Updated: April 12, 2014 7:58pm pst)

July, 10 1942 Easy Company Trains in Camp Tocca (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee 2001) August 7, 1942, Allied forces land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 1 Guadalcanal/Leckie 2010) September 18, 1942, 7th Marines Land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 2 Basilone 2010) December 1942 The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal is relieved (The Pacific Ep. 3 Melbourne 2010) *June 23, 1943, Easy Company Trains in Camp Mackall N.C. (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee) * June 25, 1943, 100th Bomb Group flew its first 8th Air Force combat mission (Master of the Air Ep. 1 2024)

July 16, 1943 the 100th Bomb Group bombed U-Boats in Tronbhdim (Masters of the Air Ep.2 2024) August 17, 1943 the 4th Bomb Wing of the 100th Bomb Group bombed Regenberg (Masters of the Air Ep. 3 2024) *September 6, 1943, Easy Company Boards transport ship in Brooklyn Naval Yard (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* September 16, 1943, William Quinn and Charles Bailey leave Belgium (Masters of the Air Ep.4 2024) September 18, 1943 -*East Company trains in Aldbourne, England (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* -John 'Bucky' Egan returns from leave to join the mission to bomb Munster (Master of the Air Ep.5 2024) October 14, 1943, John ‘Bucky’ Egan interrogated at Dulag Lut, Frankfurt Germany (Masters of the Air Ep. 6 2024) December 26, 1943, 1st Marine Division lands on Cape Gloucester (The Pacific Ep. 4 Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika 2010) March 7, 1944, Stalag Luft III Sagan, Germany, Germans find the concealed radio Bucky was using to learn news of the War (Master of the Air Ep.7 2024) *June 4, 1944, D-Day Invasion postponed (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* *June 5, 1944 Easy Company Boards air transport planes bound for Normandy (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* June 6, 1944, 00:48 & 01:40 First airborne troops begin to land on Normandy (Band of Brothers Ep. 2 Day of Days 2001)

June, 7 1944 Easy Company Takes Carentan (Band of Brothers 3x10 Carentan)

August 12, 1944, The 332nd Fighter Group attack Radar stations in Southern France (Masters of the Air Ep.8 2024)

September 15, 1944 U.S. Marines landed on Peleliu at 08:32, on September 15, 1944 (the Pacific Part Five: Peleliu Landing)

September 16, 1944 Marines take Peleliu airfield (the Pacific Part Six: Airfield)

September, 17 1944 Operation Market Garden -(Band of Brothers 4x10 Replacements)

October 22/23, 1944, 2100 – 0200 Operation Pegasus (Band of Brothers 5x10 Crossroads)

October, 1944 Battle of Peleliu continues (the Pacific Part Seven: Peleliu Hills)

December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge (Band of Brothers 6x10 Bastogne)


January, 1945 Battle of Foy (Band of Brothers 7x10 The Breaking Point)


February 14, 1945 David Webb rejoins the 506th in Haguenau (Band of Brothers 8x10 The Last Patrol)

April 5, 1945 506th Finds abandoned Concentration Camp
(Band of Brothers 9x10 Why We Fight 2001)

April 1-June 22, 1945 Battle of Okinawa (The Pacific Part Nine: Okinawa)


May 7, 1945, Germany Surrenders V-E Day - (Master of the Air Ep. 9 2024) - (Band of Brothers 10x10 Points 2001)

August 15 The Empire of Japan surrenders end of the War (The Pacific Part Ten: Home)

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who was Augusta Chiwy?

Episode 6 of Band of Brothers is a masterpiece, but I think writer Bruce C. McKenna made a huge error in only including Augusta Chiwy as a background character with no name in the episode, while Renée is a focus. I did some research on this amazing hero, who honestly deserves a miniseries of her own.

Renée Lemaire and Augusta Marie Chiwy (pronounced shee-wee) were nurses that lived in Belgium before the Battle of the Bulge. They volunteered to help Dr. John ‘Jack’ Prior (who was assigned to the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion) when the battle started. Dr. Prior evacuated the wounded soldiers he was taking care of from Noville to Bastogne as Noville was taken by German troops. Lemaire and Chiwy both volunteered to help Dr. Prior take care of the massive amounts of wounded men who were brought from the front lines into Bastogne. 

Augusta was born in Belgian-colonized Africa (in the part that is now Burundi) to a Belgian father and African mother. Her family moved to Belgium when she was a child, and she trained as a nurse there. She was visiting Bastogne to see her father when the Battle of the Bulge began. She chose to use her skills as a nurse to help the soldiers who were trying to defend Bastogne from German forces. 

Augusta Chiwy was heroic in her work during the Battle of the Bulge. War historian Peter Chaddick-Adams wrote that “Chiwy accompanied ‘Doc’ Prior to collect casualties from Mardasson Hill, north-east of Bastogne, wearing a GI uniform because her own clothes had become saturated with blood.” Chaddick-Adams wrote that Dr. Prior thought that bullets missed Augusta as she was out on the line because she was “so small.” Augusta was only 23 years old when she cared for hundreds of soldiers during the battle. 

Renée Lemaire was killed by the Luftwaffe on December 23 when German aircraft bombed the Bastogne aid station, along with thirty wounded soldiers who were also inside. Augusta Chiwy was blown through a wall but miraculously survived the bombing. Her contributions to saving lives, and providing comfort to many soldiers in their last moments were largely unrecognized until 2011, when Augusta Chiwy was granted Knighthood by the king of Belgium for her service in the battle. The American ambassador to Belgium also presented Chiwy with the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service. At this ceremony, Chiwy said: “What I did was very normal. I would have done it for anyone. We are all children of God.”

She passed away at 94 years old on August 23, 2015. 

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/us-honors-belgian-nurse-for-heroism-in-world-war-ii.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/augusta-chiwy-forgotten-african-nurse-of-battle-of-the-bulge-dies-at-94/2015/08/27/8ff843ec-4bfb-11e5-84df-923b3ef1a64b_story.html

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45 by Peter Caddick-Adams, pages 374-375 

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Happy Gonorrhea Day!

SSG William Guarnere, 28 Apr 1923 - 08 Mar 2014

Other Aprilers:

PFC Patrick O'Keefe: 03 Apr 1926 - 08 Feb 2003

LTG Robert Sink: 03 Apr 1905 - 13 Dec 1965

PFC James Miller: 11 Apr 1924 - 20 Sep 1944

CPL Walter "Smokey" Gordon: 15 Apr 1920 - 19 Apr 1997

LTC Ronald Speirs: 20 Apr 1920 - 11 Apr 2007

PVT Alton More: 23 Apr 1920 - 31 Jul 1958

SSG Earl McClung: 27 Apr 1923 - 27 Nov 2013

1LT Henry Jones: 27 Apr 1924 - 21 Jul 1947

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-most-criminal-act-atomic-bombings-japan/5864786

America’s Most Criminal Act: The Atomic Bombings of Japan

By Chaitanya Davé

Global Research, August 08, 2024

On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a premeditated and ruthless attack on U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor. At the time, America was already in World War II on the side of Britain and Russia. But the unprovoked Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor changed things drastically. At Pearl Harbor, 350 Japanese planes in a premeditated attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet destroyed or crippled 8 battleships. 2,403 Americans were killed. The next day, President Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941, as a day of ‘infamy’ and declared war on Japan. Fateful Decision One of the most barbaric, ruthless, and criminal acts by a nation against the civilians of another nation was the use of two deadly atomic bombs by the United States against the civilians of Japan during the Pacific War. 

Today, August 9th, 2024, is the 79th anniversary of the 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the United States. The first bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Its population was between 320,000 to 400,000 people. As if this was not enough, three days later on August 9, 1941, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, a city of 270,000 people. About 140,000 innocent men, women, and children were killed in Hiroshima. The death toll in Nagasaki was 70,000.

The question is how and why the United States decided to employ such horrendous weapons against Japan, especially against its civilians.

A lot of books, essays, and articles have been written about this event. Yet after some 60 years, the United States government and its compliant mass media have succeeded in hiding the truth from the rest of the world. Due to massive propaganda, the most common belief amongst the people about these horrific acts is that the United States government used the atomic bombs to save from a quarter to half a million American soldiers’ lives by forcing immediate Japanese surrender. Yet the truth of the matter is quite different.

During the Pacific War, which lasted from December 1941 till August 1945, the United States went through two presidents. On April 12, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt died suddenly and his vice president, an ex-senator from Missouri, took over the presidency. He was especially inexperienced in foreign policy. By all accounts, Truman was an honest, hardworking, and decent man.

But yet, he was far more complex a person. Robert Griffith describes: 

Truman was a complicated, not a simple man; a man at times different and aggressive, capable of both humanity and arrogance; a man who would leap to decisions quickly and perhaps impulsively, but he could also be vacillating and indecisive; a man who always seemed to know his own mind, yet he appears in retrospect to have been highly dependent on those who advised him; a man who valued honesty and plain speaking, but who was also capable of contradiction and deception, including and perhaps especially, self-deception. 

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Tatyana Makarova (25/9/1920–25/08/1944) was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. She and her navigator Vera Belik were posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union after their plane was shot down by the Axis forces over Nazi-occupied Poland.

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The 10 Best Russian Films Of All Time

I'm amazed to discover that every one of my favourite Soviet-era Russian films is available to watch for free in HD on the Mosfilm YouTube channel, so I can make a list here from which you can actually watch all the films themselves. Oh the wonders of technology.

Expect some of the most stunning cinematography of all time, and a hefty dollop of propaganda, here and there.

01 - The Cranes Are Flying (1957) ★★★★★★★★½☆

02 - Ballad of a Soldier (1959) ★★★★★★★★½☆

03 - I Am Cuba (1964) ★★★★★★★★½☆

04 - Andrei Rublev (1966) ★★★★★★★★½☆

05 - The Destiny of a Man (1959) ★★★★★★★★☆☆

06 - Stalker (1979) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

07 - The Ascent (1977) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

08 - Letter Never Sent (1960) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

09 - Solaris (1972) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

10 - Ivan The Terrible (1944/1958) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆

Ivan Part 2 here

[margotfonteyns]

At The Christmas Ball: A Vintage Xmas Anthology

01 - At The Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith (1925) 02 - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back To Me - Ozie Ware (1928) 03 - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus - Butterbeans & Susie (1930) 04 - It's Winter Again - Isham Jones & His Orchestra (1932) 05 - Jingle Bells - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1935) 06 - There's Frost On The Moon - Artie Shaw & His Strings (1936) 07 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Mildred Bailey (1937) 08 - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner (1939) 09 - Winter Weather - Fats Waller & His Rhythm (1941) 10 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1943) 11 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland (1944) 12 - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Connee Boswell (1945) 13 - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Mabel Scott (1948) 14 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page (1949) 15 - All I Want For Christmas - Nat King Cole Trio (1949) 16 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - The Orioles (1949) 17 - Midnight Sleighride - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (1952) 18 - Silent Night - Dinah Washington (1953) 19 - White Christmas - The Drifters (1954) 20 - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Cadillacs (1956) 21 - Warm December - Julie London (1956) 22 - Love Turns Winter To Spring - June Christy (1957) 23 - The Secret Of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald (1959) 24 - The Christmas Song - Carmen McRae (1961) 25 - A Christmas Surprise - Lena Horne (1965) 26 - Santa Was Here - Lorez Alexandria (1968)

Download: flac / mp3

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Véhicule blindé de transport de troupes Sd.Kfz. 251 de la Division Großdeutschland (Division d'infanterie mécanisée) – Offensive Kaunas – Opération Bagration – Wilkowischken (aujourd'hui Vilkaviškis) – Lituanie – Août 1944

©Bundesarchiv - Bild 101I-732-0137-14

[opelman]

1944 North American P-51D-25NT Mustang N751RC "Lady Jo" by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Collins Foundation Roger Collins

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The mound under which Dante's remains were layed in 1944 and 1945.

05|08|2023

I am officially on holiday. I am staying at the seaside with my parents for a relaxing couple of weeks, while travelling here we took a stop in Ravenna. It's a city I visited multiple time and that I adore (and of which you'll be seeing pictures for the next few days). It was very rainy and moody, but honestly the admosphere was very nice. As with every visit of mine to this city I went to pay my respects to Dante's tomb, and this time for the first time I got to hear the bell that rings for him every night. The prospects for my chill hobbit summer at the seaside are pretty good. I have a few trips planned to visit places, but I will be mostly reading, doing crosswords and hopefully finishing the bookmarks I am making for my friends.

📖: Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

🍵: kokeicha tea (I have never had this tea before, so I felt like it was a good excuse to bring the tea drinking section back. It was very light, I am not sure I let it infuse enough but the herbalist gave me no instructions. It's good but not my favourite I'd say)

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Films Watched in 2023:

08. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Dir. Frank Capra

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Mas eu sou feita de tão pouca coisa e meu equilíbrio é tão frágil que eu preciso de um excesso de segurança para me sentir mais ou menos segura.

Eu sei que sou bem ordinária, sei que sou a pior (...) Sei que eu mesma não presto. Mas eu te digo: eu nasci para não me submeter; e se houver essa palavra, para submeter os outros. Não sei porque nasceu em mim desde sempre a ideia profunda de que sem ser a única nada é possível.

Você bem me conhece, toda a vida você procurou fazer de mim uma pessoa mais equilibrada e de bom senso, mas não conseguiu. (...) Eu sou horrivelmente difícil de se viver com. Mas não é por culpa minha, acredite. Eu bem que me controlo, mas sou tão sensível.

Trecho de carta de Clarice Lispector à irmã Tânia. Belém do Pará, 08/07/1944.

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Jan van Gilse (1881 - 1944) : Symphony No.3 in D-minor "Erhebung" (1903)

Mov.I: Langsam 00:00 Mov.II: Leidenschaftlich und heftig bewegt 08:46 Mov.III: Sehr langsam und schwermütig (Soprano: Halt ein!) 20:43 Mov.IV: Lebhaft und sehr kräftig 30:23 Mov.V: Äusserst langsam und ruhig, mit innigster Empfindung (Soprano: Sieh, der Winter ist vorüber) 41:09

Soprano: Aile Asszonyi

Orchestra: Netherlands Symphony orchestra, Conductor: David Porcelijn