Entrance to a Nazi Underground Fortress in Cherbourg, France, after the Germans surrendered the city, June 27, 1944
Category: WWII
Under the Mistletoe
I found this photo back in May, but didn’t want to post it at that time. Unfortunately it’s still relevant eight months later.
First Draft
To Have and To Hold
Strange newspaper advertisement for War Bonds, 1945.
The Tuskegee Airmen, 1941-1946
The Tuskegee program officially formed June 1941 with the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Tuskegee University. A group of Black-American and Caribbean-born pilots were formed into the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. They 332nd Fighter Group received the nickname of Red Tails after the pilots painted the tails of their P-47s red.
Shirley Slade
Happy Veterans Day to the women who fought for the USA as well!
Shirley Slade, was one of the 1,100 female pilots of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) she flew both B-26 and B-39s
Hogan’s Heroes
55 Years ago today, a comedy was introduced to the television world about a group of allied “prisoners” of war, in a concentration camp, who ran an underground operation for the allied war effort.
The show ran for 6 seasons, from 1965 until 1971, but for some reason I thought it was newer than it was, as I remember watching it growing up in the late 70s, apparently as reruns. It is currently playing over the airways on MeTV.
Col Klink (Werner Klemperer), Sgt Schultz (John Banner), Hilda (Sigrid Valdis), Col. Hogan (Bob Crane), Carter (Larry Hovis), LeBeau (Robert Clary), Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon), Newkirk (Richard Dawson)
Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945
75 years ago, August 6th, 1945 the B-29 Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb, which detonates over Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m. at an altitude of 2,000 feet, which killed 70,000 people with the initial blast.
Automatic Pistols of the World War
A collection of automatic pistols of World War 2, from the Stoeger Arms Corporation catalog, 1948
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Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty
All gave some; some gave all. Happy Memorial Day
Bernard Perlin (1918-1943), Artist. From the Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries, 1943