'Betty Grable and The House with the Iron Shutters.' 1943, Whitman Publishing Co.
#books
#ww2

A mesh to protect against shaped charges was tested #OTD in 1944 by the 7th Armoured Brigade. This method offered good protection against the Panzerfaust 30, but not the larger and more powerful Panzerfaust 60. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#OTD 6 Oct '43, #WW2 Capri Italy, Anti-fascist Joyce Lussu is meeting Croce. They disagree over the role of the King. Finally Croce accepts that he should abdicate in favour of his grandson.
[an error: she means his son, Umberto]

'Freedom has no Frontier', p.146. tinyurl.com/mpnref9r

#OTD 6 Oct '43, #WW2 Italy, Anti-fascist Joyce Lussu has gone to see Croce in Capri. Her response to the luxury is classic:

'If I had seen an anarchist slip a time bomb or two under the tables I would have done nothing to stop him.'

'Freedom has no Frontier', p.146. tinyurl.com/mpnref9r

#OTD 6 Oct '43, #WW2, Italy. For three days, John Barnes has travelled by train from Florence. Today he starts in Ferrara, his journey disrupted by the effect of the Allied bombing raids over Bologna. Finally, they are in Venice. Gondolas.

Baldoli & Fleming, 'A British Fascist in WW2' loc 2880.

"Totally unputdownable!"

B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?

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histfic #readers #HistoricalRomance #WW2 #audiobooks

Santa Barbara honored the remarkable life of Arthur Max Petersen, who died recently at 102. He was was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne and participated in most of the major European battles of #WW2 - starting with D Day.

#WeRememberThem.

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4 October 1939

Adolf Hitler issued a secret decree granting amnesty, including the cancellation of all court martials to the Wehrmacht and police for all crimes committed in Poland between September 1 and October 4.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

The first Medium Tanks M7 were delivered #OTD in 1942. This tank was initially envisioned as a light tank, but ballooned into a medium one during development. It was promptly cancelled as it offered no advantages over the Sherman. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Australian privates William Goodgame, Gordon Watkins and Charles Stening (front to rear) in the salient during the Siege of Tobruk, Libya, in August, 1941.

Goodgame and Watkins were both killed at Buna, Papua New Guinea, on Christmas Eve of 1942.

#History #WW2

Auxiliary Territorial Service women, dressed in warm winter coats, work a searchlight during an air raid near London on 19th Jan 1943 #searchlight #england #london #airraid #ats #ww2 #worldwar2 #history

#OTD in 1942 the third iteration of the Maus design was presented to Hitler for approval. The tank now weighed 130 tons, a third greater than the initially proposed limit of 100 tons. It would proceed to grow by almost 60 tons more. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

October 1943: Commandos from the Bataillon du Choc (Shock Battalion) on the march towards the Col de Teghime, Corsica.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Corsica

😆 But seriously, CBS's William Shirer did a lot of excellent reporting from Germany during that time. His book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is a masterpiece.
#WW2 #WilliamLShirer #ThirdReich #Nazi

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The Red Army captured large quantities of Pz.Kpfw.III tanks, enough to build the SG-122 and SU-76I vehicles on its chassis. A fatal verdict was issued for these programs #OTD in 1943: engines on captured tanks were too worn out for further service. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#OTD 5/10/'43 #WW2 No 10, Downing Street. Field Marshall Jan Smuts is in London for meetings - seen here between Churchill and his wife Clementine. To Churchill's left is Capt. Smuts, who acted as his father's ADC [Harold Macmillan flew in on the same flight as Smuts.]
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Check out JAPAN WWII Military postcard Imperial Japanese NAVY Warship ASAKAZE WW2

#Japan #WWII #WW2 #Navy #Japanese #Warship #ASAKAZE

ebay.io/m/aaEtrS #eBay @eBay_UK