#OTD in 1942 convoy PQ-18 reached the USSR carrying the last shipment of Churchill II tanks. After that the British only sent Churchill III and IV tanks with a new welded and cast turret respectively and a more powerful 57 mm 6-pounder gun. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#WW2 Capa's 1943 photo of a GI eating 'C' rations led to an article on the P-38 "Opener, Can, Hand, Folding, Type I." Perfect example of the "keep it simple, stupid" school of engineering. Nickname 'John Wayne' More than a billion produced. Phased out in early 1980s.

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#WW2 Fort Schuster, Chiunzi Pass. Robert Capa out and about taking photos of the Allied troops. Here the caption, 'Time for Grub'.
Capa, 'Slightly Out of Focus' p.100 tinyurl.com/bdxkw8tf

#OTD 21/9/'43 #WW2 Sicily, Ted Ardizzone has been in Taormina sketching for over five weeks. Yesterday Geoffrey Keating arrived and gave him a choice: take the darkroom staff to Italy or go to Cairo. Today, he chooses Italy.
Below, a last sketch.

Ardizzone, 'Diary of a War Artist', p, 57

22 September 1941

The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

22 September 1939

A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

#OTD 21/9/'43. Amilcar, Nr Tunis. #WW2 Eisenhower has decided to strengthen the Italian government rather than to take direct control of the country. He hopes Italian anti-fascists will support the new government and fight against the Germans.
HarryButcher, 'My Three Years, tinyurl.com/9mf9kras

#OPTD 21/9/'43 #WW2 American Leftist magazine 'New Masses' reprints William Cullen Bryant's poem 'Italy', written in 1860 as Garibaldi launched his campaign to liberate southern Italy. 'Italy / Shall be free!'
New Masses tinyurl.com/bde6b8kj
Poem in wiki tinyurl.com/29wmk5vj

Going bigger - and more What-If style.

#Scalemodels #Whatif #3Dprinting #Airfix #Luftwaffe #Dornier #Do217 #ww2

A German Junkers JU 88 is refuelled ready for its next mission at an airstrip somewhere in France - date unknown
#ww2 #worldwar2 #junkers #ju88 #france #refuel #aviation #history

East Africa Force Despatch 31 December 1939 #Preview #History #Africa #WW2 tslbooks.uk/east-africa-...

The first Soviet report to refer to the Infantry Tank Mk.II as "Matilda" was composed #OTD in 1941. This shows that the name was used unofficially, as the British only officially adopted names for their tanks on the following day. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

TBF-1 Avengers of Torpedo Squadron 10 from USS Enterprise fly in formation over the island of Espiritu Santo in March, 1943.

#History #WW2

September 1943: The cruiser Jeanne d'Arc in Algiers. The ship had sailed to the French Antilles, where she was disarmed, after the capitulation in 1940. She was rearmed in June 1943. Nameplates for two of the main battery turrets pictured in 3+4.

#WWII #WW2 #NavalHistory #MilitaryHistory #France

For a period of time, American light tanks developed in multiple branches. The Light Tank M5 received a new engine while the M3A3 received a new turret. #OTD in 1942 the Americans combined the two, creating the Light Tank M5A1. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Lovely day. The Whites left at 2. I took money to Canterbury. Went to Conf in sta wagon and in to see Kay. Everyone was going to movies but Ed had to work. #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday

The high velocity 76 mm F-27 gun was installed in a T-28 tank for trials #OTD in 1940. This gun with the ballistics of the 3-K AA gun was developed for use in the T-150 tank which never entered mass production. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Writing Holocaust History by Christopher R. Browning has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4yxBvOy

#JewishStudies #History #WorldWarII #WW2

Representing 🇫🇷 at the Eisenhower Farm’s #WW2 weekend.