“Es mi más sincera esperanza, y de hecho la esperanza de toda la humanidad, que de esta solemne ocasión emerja un mundo mejor de la sangre y la masacre del pasado”
Douglas MacArthur, Comandante Supremo de las Potencias Aliadas durante la ceremonia de rendición de Japón.
“Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl MVP! … [Jalen Hurts] continues to rise above!”
@JasonMcCourty feels good about Jalen Hurts going into the NFL season.
“I have Philadelphia winning the division… I landed for the Philadelphia Eagles at 13-4. I think A.J. Brown is addition by subtraction… Jalen Hurts when doubted usually plays his best. Saquon bounce back year.”
@getnickwright is picking the Eagles to win the NFC East 👀
Germany had surrendered.
And General George S. Patton reminded America that the war was only half over.
On June 7, 1945, "Old Blood and Guts" addressed some 20,000 people at Boston’s Hatch Memorial Shell, including hundreds of wounded servicemen.
He had returned from Europe as a national hero, but this was no victory speech.
The war against Japan continued, and America still needed weapons, production and money. Patton urged civilians to support the Seventh War Loan by buying bonds, reminding them that thousands of American soldiers had already paid for victory with their blood.
The guns had fallen silent in Europe.
For Patton, America’s job was not yet finished.
This camera saved General Patton's life.
Sicily, 1943. During a drive, Patton stopped to take a picture of the town ahead. Seconds later, a salvo of German shells screamed in and tore up the road right where he would have been driving. The hobby everyone teased him about had just kept him alive.
Old Blood and Guts went nowhere without his Leica, a 35 mm camera engraved "G.S.P. Jr." in gold. Leica was the finest camera in the world at the time.
Patton shot hundreds of frames across North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, then mailed them home to his wife Beatrice.
His reason: so that some future historian could write, in his words, a "less-untrue history" of him.
USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon steaming up the Hudson River on their return home after World War II, October 27, 1945.
Four great Allied generals stood in a Normandy field.
But that day, the enlisted men were the heroes.
On July 7, 1944, Bernard Montgomery gathered with Omar Bradley, George Patton, and Canadian General Harry Crerar at his tactical headquarters near Blay, west of Bayeux.
Montgomery was still commanding all Allied ground forces in Normandy. Bradley led the U.S. First Army, while Patton and Crerar were preparing the Third U.S. Army and First Canadian Army for their coming offensives.
But the ceremony was not held for them.
"Monty" presented British decorations to American soldiers honored for extraordinary courage on D-Day. Ten men received awards, although only seven were present. Among them was Technical Sergeant Philip Streczyk of the 1st Infantry Division, the "Big Red One", who had fought his way inland from Omaha Beach.
Hollywood director George Stevens captured the extraordinary gathering on his personal 16 mm Kodachrome camera, giving us this remarkably vivid color record of the Normandy campaign.
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The last group photo of “The Band of Brothers”- Easy Co., 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division in Austria, July 1945. Let this be your sign to rewatch.
Rare WW2 photos: https://t.co/5KcSgXcHvY
Katherine “Camberley Kate” Ward pushing her famous dog-cart (1962). From 1943 until her death in 1979, Ward devoted her life to caring for Surrey’s stray dogs. She never refused an animal, and is estimated to have rescued over 600 dogs in her lifetime.
Wild: An Eagles fan went to the Cowboys Pro Shop in Dallas to rage-bait the employees and the entire interaction was PRICELESS.
Eagles fan: "Any chance you got any Philadelphia Eagles merch in here?"
Cowboys worker: "One-ply or two-ply."
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