#wwii

[cid5]

A Marine fires his Thompson submachine gun at enemy positions on Peleliu, September 1944.

[tribblesoup]

THIS IS AMAZEBALLS

The Killing Game (ST:Voyager season 4, episode 18-19)

[nueveg]

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (25)

The Drop (1944) - Albert Richards (1919-1945) [United Kingdom]

Oil on panel [549mm x 752mm]

[Image Description. It is clear as day, a D-Day painting. There is a chaotic scenario of troops dropping down from the sky, starting to land in the muddy and grassy terrain of France. Troops are sporadically running or aiding friends across this expanse. Their parachutes are like a jellyfish bloom against a sky set colorful by war. These parachutes are set in angles of every which way.

In the distance of the sky is a continuing trail of them, reminiscent of dandelion seeds in the wind with their shape. In front of them are the planes deploying these paratroopers. Even further back in the sky is more waves of planes, likely friendly and enemy ones alike. At the background is French forests and cities, billowing with smoke and chaos. End ID.]

Albert Richards was born the son of a WW1 vet. After attending art school he was conscripted for WW2, and eventually would end up as a British paratrooper on D-Day. This painting is Richards recalling the event through art while still enlisted during the war. In 1945, while deployed in Netherlands, his jeep drove a land mine, killing him at age 25.

This painting is located in the Imperial War Museum in London, England, United Kingdom.

[catsofyore]

“A sailor attached to utility squadron VJ-4 plays with kittens that were discovered in an equipment room at U.S. Naval Air Station Squantum in Massachusetts, 1942.” Original source is the National Archives but I found this in the book Cats in the Navy. Source.

[troythecatfish]

[captain-price-unofficially]

Churchill vs anti-tank ditch at an angle.

[blondebrainpowered]

Woman in Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee operating an air drill for a A-31 Vengence dive bomber, February 1943. Not colorized, Kodachrome.

Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer.

Although built in the US, the A-31 was used by primarily British and Australian forces during the war.

[theworldatwar]

The USS Bunker Hill has a near miss at the Japanese occupied island of Rabaul - 11th Nov 1943. CREDIT : W. Eugene Smith © 1965, 2017 The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith / Magnum Photos © W. Eugene Smith

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[jakubrozalski]

'Zygmunt and Zośka'

Ewka joined the "Zośka" battalion before the outbreak of the uprising, together with her beloved Tomasz. She met Tomek in the Grey Ranks two years ago, they participated in many reconnaissance and sabotage missions together.  They both welcomed information about the planned uprising with excitement and euphoria. Those moments seem so distant now... The uprising has been going on for a month now...  Tomek is gone. All she has left are memories of long walks by the Vistula and those short moments together when they felt free and happy, despite the horror surrounding them. Now, with a Colt M1911 in her hand, which she received from one of the "Cichociemny" fighting in the Old Town, she is waiting for the Germans assault, leaning on Zygmunt statue, her last sanctuary, last support. They will both fall today, the old king Zygmunt and brave Ewa from the Zośka battalion. -

Exactly 80 years ago, 1 August 1944 at 5:00 p.m. the Warsaw Uprising broke out. The Uprising was supposed to last a few days at most, but it did last sixty-three days and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Directly, of course, it was aimed to liberate Warsaw from the occupation of the falling German Reich, but indirectly and politically (as part of Operation 'Burza') was aimed against the USSR and Stalin's plans. This was also one of the reasons for its calamity and the help ( of the Red Army ) that never came. It was definitely too optimistic for the Polish underground resistance command to count on any help from Stalin, whose plans concerning Poland were known and who, as a vindictive and unforgiving person - in my personal opinion - certainly wanted to take revenge for the 1920 and his personal defeat.

There is no doubt, however, that it was an uprising of brave young women and men, full of high ideals, passion and dreams of a free homeland, who wanted to feel a little freedom, self-agency and relief, but also to take revenge after 5 years of terror and occupation. Very tragic and beautiful at the same time. It is to them that I wanted to pay tribute and honor their memory. 

I also observe with great concern and sadness what is happening in the world currently. Not even 100 years have passed since the apocalypse of WWII and the world is again full of divisions, tension, polarization, violence and hatred... For this reason I believe it is worth remembering and reminding about history, to try to stop it from repeating itself, over and over again...  Honor and glory to the heroes who fought for freedom and higher values ​​against evil. Work process: https://jrozalski.com/projects/QKmkRd

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

U.S. Marines cautiously make their way into what they have dubbed "the valley of death" during the battle of Okinawa, May 1945.

(Photo by PFC F.R. Chamberlain)

[a-french-guardsman]

The largest Commonwealth cemetery of France. You know that scene in What a Lovely War where the graves are so many you can't see their end? Yeah.

[wordfromoursponsor]

"You're in the Army now, You're not behind the plow, While doing the hitch fight flakes and itch" (1943)

[w3hrmacht]

new pictures i found <3