Cat of Lady Lex👩🏻‍🎓

Lover of World Wars history. /I'm studying Korean. /Pictures of World Wars, of course I don't own those photos. /Here is my anime account: @kiharasananako

[Cat of Lady Lex👩🏻‍🎓 @CatBathub]

Flight deck of USS Saratoga on fire after a kamikaze plane crashed into, during air strikes at Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima, 21 February, 1945.

Plane struck here was the third one of 6 suicide planes on this attack, belonged to 2nd Mitate Squadron.
#ww2 #history

[#WWII 8th Air Force @FrancesBekafigo]

B-26 Marauder, Mary, of the 322nd Bomb Group after crash landing at Andrews Field , April 23 1944. 43-1887 #WWII

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

#OTD in 1944, Southampton. An American M-10 tank going on board an LST (Landing Ship Tanks) for shipment to France. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1945, Wageningen, Holland. Details of the surrender of German forces in North-West Europe of the day before are determined. Today is still an official day of celebration, #Bevrijdingsdag, or Liberation Day. #WW2 #HISTORY

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

Top view of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft in flight over the English countryside in June, 1944.

#History #WWII

[Robert Lock @RobertL02984137]

Here you can see a map made for Polish pilots with Polish pronounciation of towns in Eastern England.

Stolen from FB

@rentaquill

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

German glider troopers in exercise in a DFS 230 transport glider in Italy, 1943.

#History #WWII

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

Churchill tanks and soldiers of the 9th Durham Light Infantry in Schilberg, Netherlands, in January 1945.

#History #WWII

[#WWII 8th Air Force @FrancesBekafigo]

It is rare you have a #WWII veteran on Twitter, but I have gotten to know one, Norm Bussel, @PTSDandYOU who is, cough, 100 years old. 🙂The 20 y/o Radio Op/gunner with the 447th Bomb Group became a #POW until war's end when his B 17 was blown up near Berlin. He had just jumped.

[Doug @colour_history]

Pilots of 65 Squadron & Spitfire YT-O (P 7856) at Tangmere on 4 February 1941, on the wing is Sgt Peter G. Rose & l-r: Sgt Chalmers, Sgt David C. Mitchell, Int.Officer, F/O Brendan "Paddy" Finucane, F/O Ronald G. Wigg (NZ), Sgt Harold C. Orchard.
Chalmers & Wigg survived the war

[Ɖｏｇｅ_Ａｌｂ @doge_albania]

@NoContextHumans December

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

General Anthony McAuliffe is presented the Distinguished Service Cross from General Patton for his leadership during the heroic defense of Bastogne. 🪖

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

(Some days before D-Day.) Men from British 6 Airborne Division, taking their minds off what is to come. #WW2 #HISTORY

[HistoriadeElSalvador @EShistoria32]

Erupción del volcán de Ilopango, 1879.
Entre el 21 y el 31 de diciembre de 1879, San Salvador y la zona circundante del lago de Ilopango sufrieron una serie de más de 600 temblores, con intensidades y magnitudes variadas.

Grabado en madera por A. Kohl. T. Taylor.

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

So cute. #WW2 #HISTORY

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

Footage taken by Pathé News cameraman, John Turner, shows the HMS Barham exploding after being hit by a torpedo from German submarine U-331 off the coast of Egypt on November 25, 1941. Over 860 people lost their lives.

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

23 Headquarters Special Troops was a US tactical deception unit. The 1100 men impersonated units to deceive the enemy by utilizing inflatable tanks, sound trucks and fake radio transmissions. #WW2 #HISTORY

[Vanguard WWII by Cadet - bringing history to life! @Vanguard_WW2]

🇧🇪🇫🇷 🇨🇦 The fall of the Possum escape line.
On 29 December 1943, the head of the Possum escape line for Allied pilots, Belgian air force officer and MI9 agent Dominique Edgard Potier, was arrested by the Gestapo at 36 rue Jeanne d'Arc in Reims. 1/4

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

Breaching the Siegfried Line. (Looks like the cameraman is standing *right behind* the bazooka. 🙁) #WW2 #HISTORY

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

A US M12 self-propelled 155mm gun in close support. #WW2 #HISTORY

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

A British soldier gives the "two-fingered salute" to German prisoners captured at El Alamein on October 26, 1942.

#History #WWII