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#SSRex, the greatest #ItalianLine #OceanLiner, was lost on #ThisDayInHistory in 1944. Tucked away during #WorldWarII for safety, the #BlueRiband winner was stripped by Nazis in 1943 so her Italian crew anchored off shore. Allied bombers turned her into a flaming, capsized wreck.

Saratoga County honored the heroic legacy of PFC Raymond G. McKnight with a heartfelt recognition ceremony, celebrating his bravery and sacrifices during World War II.

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#SaratogaCounty #NY #WorldWarII #CitizenPortal #VeteranHonors #CivicRecognition

It's back to World War II as James R. Benn discussed his latest Billy Boyle novel in The Ninth Cirlce. Signed copies available, along with the video of the event @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social's blog. #BookSky #WorldWarII tinyurl.com/2zvjewud

People mostly don't realize how severe rationing was during WWII. Here's a brief article about that: worlds-worst-website.com/worst-ration... ( #rationing, #WWII, #WorldWarII, #WorldWarTwo, #gasoline, #USHistory, #warfareHistory, #automotiveHistory, #gasRationing, #gasolineRationing)

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a #WorldWarII #jumpBlues song written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince which was introduced by #TheAndrewsSisters in the #AbbottAndCostello #comedyFilm #BuckPrivates (1941).

#RatkoMladić funeral exposes gap between #Serbia ’s #EU ambitions and political reality

A general convicted of #Europe ’s first #Genocide since #WorldWarII was buried Monday with military and #religious honors, sparking alarm in #Brussels

www.politico.eu/article/ratk...

"The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by." - Sebastian Junger

#WorldWarII #Veterans #WordsOfVeterans #Military #VeteransDay

Exhibition recounts Estonian sailors’ wartime service aboard Norwegian ships #EstonianMaritimeMuseum #Estoniansailors #worldwarii

“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.”

#BookSky #Books #WorldWarII #FamilySaga #PhilosophicalFiction

#DeadMenWalking #doomsday #rapture
#NWO far-right #colonialists of #Germany projected to #win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since #WorldWarII.

"We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

#USAPresident #34thUSPresident #WorldWarII #Veterans #WordsOfVeterans

New audiobook available!

"When Titans Clashed" by David Glantz and Jonathan House chronicles the struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, from the gates of Moscow to the fall of Berlin.

Explore "When Titans Clashed": https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700621217/

#WorldWarII #UPKansas

“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.”

#BookSky #Books #WorldWarII #EspionageHistory #WomenInResistance

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Dunkirk #TomHardy #WorldWarII Tom Hardy and Christopher Nolan Officially Reunite on the WWII Epic Taking Over Streaming

Britain & France declared war on Germany #OnThisDay in 1939 after Adolf Hitler sent tanks into Poland, proving that their policy of #appeasement had failed; #WorldWarII was a turning point in #history; war is never good but is occasionally necessary...