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  1. Nobody was quite like Bob Hope when it came to entertaining the troops. "Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and WWI" explores legendary entertainer Bob Hope’s contribution in World War II and the incredible miles his troupe logged in the middle of a world war to entertain Americans fighting in Europe and the Pacific and on the home front. New at Journeys in Film! 1/2 👇

    @histodons

    #Education #Homeschooling #Histodons #History #WWII #WWIIHistory #USHistory #BobHope #Movies #Documentary

  2. Earlier this year we sat down to talk to Paul Goodwin about War Memorials, before he moved away. Paul has done extensive research into our War Memorials in Galloway, and particularly in the Glenkens.
    So as we prepare to honour the War Dead once again this coming Remembrance Sunday, here is the discussion we had with Paul.

    Video on YouTube: youtu.be/DSce1IRfSpU

    #WWi #WWii #RemembranceSunday #warmemorials #history #scotland #galloway

  3. Paris court: Painting Nazis stole from French Jew during WWII to be returned

    A Paris court has ordered that a painting by Camille Pissarro be returned to the descendants of Jewish…
    #France #FR #Europe #EU #Paris #Antisemitism #Art #FrenchJews #Holocaust #Nazi #Nazis #Painting #theft #WorldWarII #WWII
    europesays.com/france/106694/

  4. Cette enquête est passionnante. Commencée en 2024 avec la découverte de photos exceptionnelles (car interdites) du quotidien de l'Occupation à #Paris, voici aujourd'hui un nouvel épisode : qui a dénoncé Raul Minot, arrêté et déporté dans les camps, dont il ne reviendra pas ?

    #WWII #SecondeGuerreMondiale #France #Photographie #Quotidien #reportage #documentaire #Occupation

    lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/articl

  5. 90,000-ton USS Enterprise CVN-65 Cost $451 Million to Build and $1.43 Billion to Scrap 8 Nuclear Reactors. The US Navy Aircraft Carrier Is Under Tow to Alabama byteseu.com/2502308/ #AircraftCarrier #AircraftCarriers #Military #Navy #Nuclear #USMilitary #USNavy #USSEnterprise #USSEnterpriseCVN65 #wwii

  6. A Nazi Submarine Torpedoed a Merchant Ship Just Off the Coast of Maine in 1944. Divers Have Finally Located the Wreckage, 400 Feet Below the Surface
    smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/
    The SS "Cornwallis" was traveling between Barbados and Canada when it was sunk by a German U-boat that had delivered Nazi spies to American soil just days earlier
    #science #wwii #submarine

  7. Want the whole story of World War II in one book? Martin Gilbert covers 1939 to 1945 in a single volume.
    #BookReview #WWII
    bookreviews.thisgrandpablogs.c

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