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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.
Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”
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#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1943, Jacqueline Nearne parachutes into occupied France. She operates as as a courier for the Special Operations Executive for fifteen months before being withdrawn from the field. The SOE worked with the French Resistance to sabotage the occupying Nazi forces.
My review of the #BigFinish #DoctorWho Companion Chronicle, Resistance
https://doctorwhohistoryoftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/1944-resistance/
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” — Shakespeare, Henry V
For some young guys, World War II was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Case in point: Sgt De Sales Glover of Pittsburgh, PA, a decorated sixteen-year-old B-24 Liberator gunner who flew six missions over Germany before being grounded when his true age was discovered.
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A storied life.
Impossibly wealthy, an international polo star, a Wall Street investment banker, a decorated aviator from World War I who made a daring escape from German captivity…
…and the inspiration for his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters Tom Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby” and Tommy Barban in “Tender is the Night.”
Tommy Hitchcock lived a storied life.
Literally.
Harry's Last Stand
Silent Night-An extraordinary record of how the Working Class celebrated Christmas 1945.
My dad Harry Leslie Smith's remembrance of life in post-war Germany is a unique record of that point in Germany's history. No other working-class soldier serving in the occupation forces provides such a detailed description of life in the city of Hamburg,
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This is a patriot.
For a while, the sister would joke, the way some people do at a wake, and the rest of the family would smile or chuckle.
‘I’ll bet he’s just fine,’ she would say. ‘He just snuck outta the woods, found some German girl and decided to stay.’
The nephew remembers the telling.
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…making a difference
With the onset of World War II, war planners in the British War Office recognized the need to find people with special talents who could aid Allied airmen shot down over Europe escape from Nazi-controlled territory.
Some of these downed airmen were in hiding in the countryside and others were imprisoned in POW camps.
A special unit of British Intelligence, MI9, was created to help both escape.
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..the entire forward end was a mass of flames
The Allied victory in the Coral Sea turned back a Japanese invasion force intent on severing a critical US supply line to Australia.
But it came at great cost.
Three US Navy ships were sunk and a fourth was damaged; sixty-nine Navy aircraft were lost; and 656 men were killed.
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It’s December 8, 1941, and suddenly, the whole world is at war.
Below, the New York Times international news summary of the day.
“Yesterday morning Japan attacked the United States at several points in the Pacific.
“President Roosevelt ordered United States forces into action and a declaration of war is expected this morning.
Wild Woila reviewed Account Rendered by Melita Maschmann
A cog in the Nazi machine
4 stars
Autobiography of a woman who was a committed & diligent National Socialist (#Nazi), of her experience in youth work & propaganda, and her journey coming to terms with the truth of what she participated in. Description of the clinical dispossession of the Poles is disturbing (and new to me), as is the readiness with which everyday mediocre people were led into misguided beliefs, alternative facts & constrained thinking, to do prosaic work with horrifyingly evil outcomes.
Reading time 11 days, 26 pages/day
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.
