#wwii — Public Fediverse posts

These men jumped into Holland and into chaos. Their story deserves more than a footnote.
#books #bookreview #WWII #MarketGarden
https://smpl.is/amt98

Hastings shows Allied failures, German soldiers with no choice, and Soviet war crimes — equal weight, equal honesty. Rare in WWII books.
#books #bookreview #WWII #militaryhistory
https://smpl.is/amt96

When most Americans think of #WWII, the story starts on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But the United States had been edging toward war with Germany for several months before Japanese Zeros screamed over the Hawaiian Islands, as President Franklin D Roosevelt made clear with his “shoot-on-sight” Fireside Chat to the nation on September 11, 1941.
https://www.cfr.org/articles/fdrs-shoot-on-sight-fireside-chat-and-the-ethics-of-misleading-the-public

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spies-in-the-congo/

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spies-in-the-congo/

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spies-in-the-congo/

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spies-in-the-congo/

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spies-in-the-congo/

The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII

The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII

The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII

The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII

The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII

https://www.europesays.com/africa/421125/ What Made Botswana Southern Africa’s Greatest Success Story #Africa #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #ContemporaryArt #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII

For the #History theme for this week's #JukeBoxFridayNight, here's "Prisoner" by Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan. My father introdued me to this song and it's stuck with me. At the time I'd known nothing of German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky and his fate.

Caution: it's a grim song, with an uneasy message. We cannot let this history repeat.

"In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=59YmX0zvWHc

#DickGaughan #WWII

For the #History theme for this week's #JukeBoxFridayNight, here's "Prisoner" by Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan. My father introdued me to this song and it's stuck with me. At the time I'd known nothing of German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky and his fate.

Caution: it's a grim song, with an uneasy message. We cannot let this history repeat.

"In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=59YmX0zvWHc

#DickGaughan #WWII

For the #History theme for this week's #JukeBoxFridayNight, here's "Prisoner" by Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan. My father introdued me to this song and it's stuck with me. At the time I'd known nothing of German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky and his fate.

Caution: it's a grim song, with an uneasy message. We cannot let this history repeat.

"In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=59YmX0zvWHc

#DickGaughan #WWII

For the #History theme for this week's #JukeBoxFridayNight, here's "Prisoner" by Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan. My father introdued me to this song and it's stuck with me. At the time I'd known nothing of German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky and his fate.

Caution: it's a grim song, with an uneasy message. We cannot let this history repeat.

"In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=59YmX0zvWHc

#DickGaughan #WWII

For the #History theme for this week's #JukeBoxFridayNight, here's "Prisoner" by Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan. My father introdued me to this song and it's stuck with me. At the time I'd known nothing of German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky and his fate.

Caution: it's a grim song, with an uneasy message. We cannot let this history repeat.

"In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=59YmX0zvWHc

#DickGaughan #WWII

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1197320/ 7 Things You Should Know About Damien Hirst #AmericanHistory #AncientHistory #AncientHistoryBlog #AncientPhilosophy #ArtBlog #ArtistsBlog #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ContemporaryArt #Design #Entertainment #EuropeanHistory #HistoryBlog #HistoryOfPolitics #HistoryOfReligion #LatinAndSouthAmericanHistory #MedievalHistory #MilitaryHistory #ModernArt #ModernPhilosophy #Philosophy #PhilosophyBlog #RenaissanceHistory #TravelAndCulture #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldHistory #WWI #WWII

BFBS Forces News: Forgotten no more: Search the stories of 12,500 Coastal Command heroes lost in WW2. “The Coastal Command Losses Database was officially launched at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln this week, bringing together what is believed to be the first truly comprehensive record of Coastal Command losses…. Described as the Royal Air Force’s ‘Cinderella […]

BFBS Forces News: Forgotten no more: Search the stories of 12,500 Coastal Command heroes lost in WW2. “The Coastal Command Losses Database was officially launched at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln this week, bringing together what is believed to be the first truly comprehensive record of Coastal Command losses…. Described as the Royal Air Force’s ‘Cinderella […]

BFBS Forces News: Forgotten no more: Search the stories of 12,500 Coastal Command heroes lost in WW2. “The Coastal Command Losses Database was officially launched at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln this week, bringing together what is believed to be the first truly comprehensive record of Coastal Command losses…. Described as the Royal Air Force’s ‘Cinderella […]

BFBS Forces News: Forgotten no more: Search the stories of 12,500 Coastal Command heroes lost in WW2. “The Coastal Command Losses Database was officially launched at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln this week, bringing together what is believed to be the first truly comprehensive record of Coastal Command losses…. Described as the Royal Air Force’s ‘Cinderella […]

BFBS Forces News: Forgotten no more: Search the stories of 12,500 Coastal Command heroes lost in WW2. “The Coastal Command Losses Database was officially launched at the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln this week, bringing together what is believed to be the first truly comprehensive record of Coastal Command losses…. Described as the Royal Air Force’s ‘Cinderella […]

A Harvard writer who became a WWII paratrooper — and wrote the truest account of what that war really felt like. Review is live.
#books #bookreview #ParachuteInfantry #WWII
https://smpl.is/amr40

The Wadatsumi no Koe (Voices of Fallen Student Conscripts) memorial museum in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, which preserves memories of students killed in World War II, will mark the 20th anniversary of its opening in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/10/japan/history/japan-student-soldiers-war-museum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #students #universityoftokyo #museums #wadatsuminokoe

South Korea will not send officials to a memorial service at the Sado Island Gold Mines, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in Niigata Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/09/japan/south-korea-sado-mine-service/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #southkoreajapanrelations #wwii #sadoisland #niigata #history #southkorea

The Mosquito Bowl – Watch Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård and more in the trailer for the new film from Peter Berg https://bit.ly/4ywlkks

#TheMosquitoBowl #film #WWII #PeterBerg #NicolasGalitzine #BillSkarsgard

Monday, September 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/monday-september-7-2026/

Det her taget noget tid og skulle lige (gen)finde alle mine gamle kilder, men nu er historien om hvordan et engelsk bombefly var tæt på at udslette hele min familie i foråret 1944 endelig klar.

Jeg har ikke lige haft hjerne til at få lagt billeder på da det er lidt et rettighedsmareridt, men historien har jeg da.

En forårsnat i helvede:
https://kultur.ndesoft.dk/2026/09/07/en-foraarsnat-i-helvede/

#andenverdenskrig #wwii #flystyrt

Hitler bet everything on one last attack. This book shows how close it came to working.
#books #bookreview #WWII #MilitaryHistory
https://smpl.is/amob2

Pet Shop Boys honour Alan Turing in musical - Bletchley Park WWII #UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCW-c3FJHdo

I made a #Pastel #Drawing of him https://donadulcinea.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/enigmas-solution-alan-turing-art4u2/

#Art #BraveNewMan
#AlanTuring #WWII #EnigmaMachine #Kunst #History #MastoArt

While these concrete #bunkers of course indeed date back to the German occupation of #Denmark during #WWII, in most cases these specific #graffiti are later additions, though

The Battle of the Bulge. Hürtgen Forest. Market Garden. Hastings shows why the final months of WWII were the most brutal.
#books #bookreview #WWII #MaxHastings
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/battle-for-germany-book-review/

The Guardian: Nazi-looted painting must be returned to Jewish art dealer’s heir, Argentina court rules. “Argentina must return to the rightful owner’s heir an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, a judge has ruled. Portrait of a Lady by Italian baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was missing for eight decades before being photographed in 2025 hanging in […]

ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]

started a #wikipedia article on US labor economist Kate Papert (1902-1977), director of the New York State Division of Women in Industry in the 1930s and 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Papert @wikiwomeninred @barnardcollege @uwmadison #WWII #labour #LaborDay

The atomic bomb needed uranium from the Congo. This book tells the secret race to get it first.
#books #bookreview #SpiesInTheCongo #WWII
https://smpl.is/amn1i

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-26-2026/

Martin JRM Mars "Philippine Mars" taxis to her first home, former NAS Alameda, to say goodbye, Sunday February 9th, 2024 #coulson #phillipineMars #MartinMars #wwii #aircraft #photography #militaryaviation #AvGeek #spotter #photography #aircraft #milair #nikon #amphibian #seaplane #cvvhrn

#Shipwrecks from #WWI and #WWII are #polluting the #NorthSea

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-shipwrecks-wwi-wwii-polluting-north.html

During workshops run by a University of Tokyo graduate student, participants recreate in a computer game parts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the U.S. atomic bombings to understand how the attacks changed the cities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/18/japan/students-workshops-cityscapes-atomic-bombings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #nagasaki #wwii #us #atomicbombings #students #universities #hibakusha

Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

https://silentshark.app/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277535

#HackerNews #SilentShark #WWII #Submarine #Sim #TacticalGaming #GamingCommunity #IndieGames

Technical wreck diver Kingo Wakasa, 56, is battling age and nature as he documents the final resting place of a World War II destroyer on the seabed off northern Okinawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/japan/history/war-diver-okinawa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #okinawa #imperialjapanesearmy #kamikaze

As Nihon Hidankyo marks 70 years, it's timely to remember Mikiso Iwasa, one of the organization's leading figures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/10/japan/hidankyo-seventy-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #nuclearweapons #hibakusha #nobelprize #nagasaki

Seven organizations of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture urged the government to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/07/japan/hibakusha-groups-nuclear-ban-urge/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #wwii #nuclearweapons #hibakusha #nagasaki #sanaetakaichi

Kayoko Mori studied her husband's research through his books. She is currently researching Dutch captives who were exposed to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/07/japan/society/historian-wife-research-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hiroshima #wwii #us #atomicbombings #usjapanrelations #barackobama

Based on a true story, "The Man Who Carries the Voice of August" is set in 1970s Japan and stars Masahiro Motoki as a journalist who records the testimonies of atomic bomb survivors — and confronts the fragile nature of memory itself. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/08/06/film/takeshi-shibata-man-who-carried-voice-august/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #wwii #japanesefilm #masahiromotoki #takeshishibata #nhk #atomicbombings #hibakusha #hiroshima #nagasaki

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has expressed support for a world without nuclear weapons after his proposal for debates without taboos on nuclear policy sparked controversy, including among atomic bomb survivors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/05/japan/politics/koizumi-nuclear-free-controversy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #shinjirokoizumi #defense #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #hiroshima #internet #hibakusha