"Bexhill County School Boys dig trenches in their playfield. (Photo by H. Vieler.)" Bexhill Observer 1.10.1938. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #School #History #1930s #ThrowbackThursday

1 October 1946

International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death, 7 to prison sentences of various lengths with 3 being acquitted.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

LDN: 🔍 Learn about Fighter Command’s attempts to use infrared technology during #WW2.

Join Dr Stephen Moore for our FREE Lunchtime Lecture.

📅 8 Oct, 12.00pm
📍 RAF Museum London
💻 Online via Crowdcast

🎟️ Book your FREE place now at: bit.ly/4ykZ6lz

#AviationHistory #SecondWorldWar #LunchtimeLecture

The Suffolk Regiment archives are now at The Keep Gibraltar Barracks 🏛
To unite the collection and archives is an amazing achievement by the trustees, curator and archivist 📃
The archives are open to the public for research & viewings 🏅
#Suffolk #LestWeForget #WW2 #archives #library #WW1 #heritage

Tom Anderson's series on #naval #history looks at the #interwar period between #WW1 and #WW2 and how the politics of naval strength affected the alliance structure of the latter war and rise of #Japan. #Battleship #AircraftCarrier #Navy #MilitaryHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/naval-g...

#OTD in 1944, all resistance around Calais has ceased. Time to relax; men from Canadian The North Shore Regiment beside and in a cross-channel gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

(1944, Holland.) Men from 49 Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment (formerly 49 Royal Tank Regiment) beside their LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked). #WW2 #HISTORY

Good morning. (German Panzer I. #WW2 #HISTORY)

This is definitely the maritime equivalent of editing files live in production and hoping nothing goes wrong!

#history #maritime #richardmontgomery #tech #ww2

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Photograph taken in October 1942 by Alfred Palmer (1906-1993), Office of War Information (OWI).
👉ALT
#WW2 #womenWW2 #WPA #TheNewDeal #DefenseProduction #AlfredPalmer #DouglasAircraft #aircraft #bombers

Le Mossad et Bardella ont un objectif commun. Le départ des Juifs de France, si possible pour Israël, vu du Mossad.
Et c'est pas nouveau. #WW2

#PicOfTheDay The very seldom visited Cretinier @cwgc.bsky.social #Cemetery #Wattrelos. The men here all fell in the area across the two world wars. 11 men of #WW1 rest here alongside 36 men of #WW2 who were holding the line as the retreat to #Dunkirk was in full flow.

The 1st Moscow Conference concluded #OTD in 1941. Here, British, American, and Soviet diplomats negotiated the conditions for British and American military aid to the USSR, including payment. #tanks #history #WWII #WW2

Several sets of Maus hulls and turrets were constructed, but never used. #OTD in 1944 Hitler proposed using the turrets in fortifications. Blueprints were drawn up, but not a single turret was ever installed. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

The most famous variant of the Katyusha was based on the Studebaker US6 truck, but there were many other chassis including fully tracked ones. For instance, the STZ-5 NATI tractor with an M-13 MLRS was accepted into service #OTD in 1941. #artillery #history #WW2 #WWII

Blog Spotlight: Carolyn Ekins 🇬🇧

She has lived on Britain's WW2 ration book on and off since 2009, and numbered every recipe. She is on No. 244.

https://blog.cheftalk.ai/carolyn-ekins-1940s-experiment-244-recipes-from-the-ration-book/

#Foodsky #Cookingsky #Skystorians #WW2

Very hard frost last night. I have to get my eye tooth pulled at 10. I did and am still here t.g. No very encouraging news tonight from the tel co. I only hope he won't have to go. Phine and Maureen at movies. Guess Bud is too. O.k. eve I am going to bed 7:30 #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday

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#WW2: A B-17 pilot on the edge. A woman fighting to rebuild shattered lives. John Mackenzie faces death with every mission—until he meets Stella. Can love heal the wounds of war?

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#histfic #HistoricalRomance #bookrecs

#OTD in 1939 Soviet tank chief Pavlov reported that the A-32 tank was ready to go into production. Full scale production was expected by 1941, but even at this point it was clear that the A-32 would become to the Red Army's main tank, replacing the T-26. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

1939: Bonnie Renard is eighteen and willing to die for France. ''Characters were fabulous. Best World War II history fiction I’ve ever read… so colorful and heartbreaking and loving at the same time.' mybook.to/UnderEnemySkies #WW2 #Frenchresistance #historymatters Lest we forget.