Obsolete LT vz.34 tanks returned to action in 1944. A number of tanks were used by the Slovakian resistance during the Slovakian National Uprising. The Germans captured ten of these tanks #OTD in 1944, which were then used by the Tatra Tank Division. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#OTD 22 September 1943, #WW2 Amilcar Tunis. Today Eisenhower receives a message of congratulations for Winston Churchill.
'Your policy of running risks has been vindicated.'

Harry Butcher, 'My Three years..', p.423 tinyurl.com/3ert2wb9

'I'm restoring a #WW2 fighter plane on my driveway'.

➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#September1943 #WW2 Capri. Philosopher Croce has been transferred safety in Capri. Douglas Fairbanks (Jnr) with the Beach Jumpers sees one of his daughters listening intently to an American soldier reading aloud and wonders why.
Fairbanks, 'Hell of a War', p.206 tinyurl.com/akcjjta3

#OTD 22 September 1943, #WW2 Yesterday, Joseph Goebbels comments on Badoglio's 'shameless appeal' to the people of Italy to 'engage in guerrilla warfare'. In his dairy, Goebbels seems genuinely angry: he takes it all very personally.
Goebbel's Diaries, p.462, tinyurl.com/44dnakhd

#OTD 22/9/'43 #WW2 Southern Italy. Peter Stainforth is among the paratroop brigade mobilised to chase the Germans out of Altamura. They arrive ready for battle... which never happens. The Germans have pulled out and the locals have already de-mined the roads..

'Wings of the Wind', p. 186

[📓BIOGRAPHIE] Saul Calli (1891-1944)

🇬🇷🇫🇷 Une coopération franco-grecque a permis la réalisation de la biographie de Saul Calli. Né le 22 septembre 1891 à Thessalonique en Grèce, il a vécu en France à Antibes jusqu’en 1944.

#histoire #mémoire #shoah #antisémitisme #WW2 #Auschwitz

"Flight-Lieutenant Chandler (right), Battle of Britain pilot, leads local Air Training Corps Squadron in Sunday's anniversary parade."
Bexhill Observer 22.9.1945. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #History #1940s

(Driel, near Arnhem.) A buste of Sosabowski, commander of Polish 1 Independent Parachute Brigade during operation Market Garden. A good commander during the battle, but blamed afterwards for the failure, and stripped of his command. Died a factory worker. 😥 #WW2 #HISTORY

Positions of the men from Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, on 22 September 1944. #WW2 #HISTORY

September 1944, Eindhoven-Son area, Holland. Captured 88mm FlaK. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1940. Removal vans relocating people's belongings from bomb damaged houses. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Daimler armoured car and crews from 1 Troop "C" Squadron, 11 Hussars. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, four armoured vehicles of Captain Wrottesley's "5" Troop 2 Household Cavalry made contact with the Poles, on the south bank of the Rhine River. Sosabowski and Wrottesley, in the picture. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Helmond, Holland. Operation Market Garden. Sherman tanks, jeeps and scout cars from 29 Armoured Brigade. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Holland. A Universal carrier crew from 8 Rifle Brigade handing out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11 Armoured Division. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942. A woman from the B.T.H. factory in Neasden Lane, Willesden in London chalking a message on the barrel of a Covenanter tank from Guards Armoured Division. #WW2 #HISTORY

Not staged. (#OTD in 1943. Salerno area, Italy. Men from 2/6 Queens's carefully passing two burning Panzer IV tanks. #WW2 #HISTORY)