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#OTD 4 Oct. '43, #WW2 the people of Naples celebrate their freedom from the German occupation. The 1962 film 'Four Days in Naples' focuses on the local uprising and how the Neapolitans played an active role in their own liberation. Great 'war story telling' on screen.

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#OTD 4 Oct '43, #WW2 Naples is finally fully under Allied control. During the last few days of the occupation, the Neapolitan people had risen up against the Germans. Their stories are told in the 1962 'Le quattro giornate di Napoli'., 'starring the people of Naples'.

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#OTD 4 Oct '43, #WW2 Salerno, '45th Division News'. Bill Mauldin describes the fury of the Germans in Sicily who spent all summer nurturing watermelons, grapes, apples and peaches, dreaming of fruit pie - only to retreat at harvest time.

'Quoth the Dogface'. 45th Division News Oct 04, 1943, p.4

Several German projects mixed Pz.Kpfw.III and IV parts. One of the most interesting was a new chassis named Panzer III/IV. The project was cancelled #OTD in 1944 when the Tank Commission decided to restrict German production to just three tank chassis #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

A woman accused of collaborating with the Germans get her head shaved after the liberation of Valognes, France in June, 1944.

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A rainy day for a change. Went for mail with fear and dread. but thankful nothing in it. Himself home at noon. I went down and paid tel and elec. Talked to Isabel and went to library. Kept kids while Cal went for Ed. Raining hard. Bud down to dorm from Groman's. Awful foggy. #history #wwii #otd #ww2

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Only 1 minute 7 seconds of the film 'The Dam Busters' shows the damage on the ground after the dams broke. The new exhibition at the IBCC in Lincoln will show the Möhnekatastrophe and what happened next. #History #WW2

Panzer Hauptmann in 1944
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A pair of snapshots of the destroyer USS Blue. Photo 1 is the ship entering a dry-dock for repairs in Leyte. Photo 2 is the ship returning home from WW2 to San Francisco in 1945.

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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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Plans to build 10 experimental Pz.Sfl. leFH 18 Ausf. A SPGs were made #OTD in 1941. Mass production was to begin next year, but by that point the leFH 18 howitzer was already available on a light tank chassis. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

A cafe for the use of German soldiers - Paris, France, date unknown #worldwar2 #ww2 #1940s #paris #france #history