answers to "lieutenant mcmuffin" (or megan). twenty something college registrar from nova scotia. anglophile with a touch of hibernophilia. aspiring writer. should've been born earlier. fond of history, literature, music, cinema, hockey, and beverages that are warm.
this blog is a little less loquacious and perhaps a bit more succinct.
greatestgeneration | picturesofwar:
War correspondent Lee Miller taking a bath in Hitler’s own bathtub, inside his abandoned apartment.
The photo was taken on the same day that Hitler committed suicide.
Munich, Germany - April 30, 1945.
The National War Memorial (also known as The Response) is a tall granite cenotaph with acreted bronze sculptures, that stands in Confederation Square, Ottawa, and serves as the federal war memorial for Canada. (x)
Group of torpedomen relaxing beneath rows of torpedoes in torpedo shop, c. May 1945
On This Day: 9th November 1989
The Berlin Wall has been breached after nearly three decades keeping East and West Berliners apart.At midnight East Germany’s Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converged on crossing points.
They surged through cheering and shouting and were be met by jubilant West Berliners on the other side.
Ecstatic crowds immediately began to clamber on top of the Wall and hack large chunks out of the 28-mile (45-kilometre) barrier.
It had been erected in 1961 on the orders of East Germany’s former leader Walter Ulbricht stop people leaving for West Germany.
Since 1949 about 2.5 million people had fled East Germany.
After 1961, the Wall and other fortifications along the 860-mile (1,380-kilometre) border shared by East and West Germany have kept most East Germans in.
Many of those attempting to escape have been shot dead by border guards.
Mass Exodus:
The first indication that change was imminent came earlier today when East Berlin’s Communist party spokesman, Gunther Schabowski, announced East Germans would be allowed to travel directly to West Germany.
The move was intended to stem an exodus into West Germany through the “back door” which began last summer when the new and more liberal regime in Hungary opened its border.
The flow of migrants was intensified last week when Czechoslovakia also granted free access to West Germany through its border.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has hailed the decision to open the Wall as “historic” and called for a meeting with East German leader, Egon Krenz.
“Operation Torch” – an Allied invasion of the western flank of North Africa – was destined to change the complexion of the war against the Axis. The sharp arrows on the battle maps which had for so many months been pointing from Germany toward the western shores of North Africa were suddenly blunted. The campaign was also important for another reason: on the coasts of Morocco and Algeria, green American soldiers had their first experience with large scale landing operations under heavy enemy fire. The word “amphibious” was taken out of the military textbooks and into history.
Working against the clock, the planners of the invasion sought to anticipate every need, to make sure that not a single one of the million items necessary for invasion would be missing on the morning British and American troops splashed ashore. Never before in history had so large a mechanized army attempted to land on hostile coasts. The very size of the operation made it necessary to reach quick decisions of tremendous importance.
The US army in England and Northern Ireland had been built up to nearly a quarter of a million men. A 126,000 of these men would be taken for the invasion of Africa; 65,000 others would come from the United States. The British, landing to the east, would have a force of nearly 100,000. These numbers, however, would only cover the initial landing; other thousands would pour in after, serving as reserve before finally taking their own place in the battle.
On the morning of November 8, 1942 at dawn, the Allies landed in North Africa.
Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland, 1972
(Source: andrewharlow)
Neat mugshots of Australian criminals from the 1920s + descriptions of their crimes. Mugshots nowadays can’t even touch this.
Charles Lindberg and his plane, Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1927
(Source: operationkino)
