El Mundo en Guerra

Me apasiona la S.G.M. Cuenta dedicada a rememorar los sucesos de las dos grandes guerras mundiales. Gracias.

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B-17s in a formation above the clouds, c. 1942

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Calshot Spit, in use as a Royal Air Force seaplane & flying boat station, shortly after the Second World War.

Calshot Castle can also be seen, built by Henry VIII in 1539. He also built Netley Castle a few years later. They were there to protect Southampton Water from invasion.

[GuerraCivil en tuit @Guerra_Civil_]

13/6/1938: Comienza la batalla por #Castellón, la superioridad numérica de las tropas franquistas es enorme pero los tanques republicanos consiguen destruir las primeras unidades de marroquíes que llegan a las afueras.

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Soldiers of the Spanish Blue Division, Eastern Front, 1942.

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Private W. D. Fuhlrodt is removed from the tank which carried him from the front lines. Japanese artillery and small arms fire made it impossible for ambulances to carry the wounded to the rear. Okinawa, 1945.

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U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Robert L. Hite, blindfolded by his captors, is led from a Japanese transport plane after he and the other seven flyers were flown from Shanghai to Tokyo. Hite was co-pilot of crew 16 (B-25B s/n 40-2268 Bat out of Hell, 34th Bomb Squadron) of the "Dool…

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Soviet troops in a trench in Leningrad, Russia, 1 September 1941

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*Sir David Attenborough voice*
Like the Australian Koala, the lesser known and significantly more territorial combat wombat often carry their young on their back. - caption by Alıstaır Gardıner

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Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and Lieutenant Colonel Harry Kinnard II at Bastogne, Belgium, December 1944.

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Boeing B-17F bombing through overcast, Bremen, Germany, 13 November 1943.

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Photograph of the Archduke and his wife leaving the Sarajevo Town Hall after reading a speech on June 28 1914. They were assassinated five minutes later.

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Do you know what aircraft this is?

[Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII]

China's capital, Chongqing, is being bombed by Japanese planes, for 20th time in 2 weeks- Chinese Nationalist government, the Kuomintang, are meeting there to discuss war against invaders.

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Tank-borne infantry moving up to take the town of Ghuta before the Japanese can occupy it. The men are members of the 29th Marines. Okinawa, April 1, 1945.

[PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL @trenchwarlords]

El liberal George Hamilton-Gordon, Barón de Stanmore, es el primer diputado en hablar de la pandemia de gripe en el Parlamento británico. El tema sale a colacióndel problema para suministrar carbón a la metrópoli londinense. #WWI

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Six tribal leaders (left to right): Little Plume (Piegan), Buckskin Charley (Ute), Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Hollow Horn Bear (Sicangu Lakota), and American Horse (Oglala Lakota) on horseback in ceremonial attire.

[PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL @trenchwarlords]

Tropas belgas desfilan para su rey, Alberto I de Bélgica, en Houthem (Bélgica). #WWI

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Members of 12th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, enjoy a cup of tea after fighting their way back to their own lines after three days behind enemy lines, 10 June 1944.

[PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL @trenchwarlords]

La propagación de la gripe provoca mejoras en la vestimenta de protección del personal sanitario. #WWI

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Crew of USS Finback pulling downed airman Lieutenant (jg) George Bush from the water off Chichi Jima, Bonin Islands, 2 September 1944.