USAAF airbase at Matching Green in Essex. It was only operational for a year but the Americans flew 6,000 sorties from here and 200 crew lost their lives. info & images turned into a Gif.

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Happy birthday to ! During World War II, the Gestapo considered Virginia Hall—an American woman with a prosthetic leg—to be “the most dangerous of all Allied spies.”

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I have decided to call the giraffe Robin

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Retro-modernism. Stop the spread! Photoshopped WW2 poster updated for modern times. via /r/RetroFuturism https://t.co/QJEHHYfUdA

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in 1945 the ISU-122BM with the BL-9 gun entered trials. This 122 mm gun fired a 25 kg shell at 1000 m/s, penetrating 204 mm of armour at 1000 meters. https://t.co/IyVv27AJ2Z

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in 1945. American paratroops and British troops start the assault on the major city of Münster in Germany. Cleared, the next day.

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Me : Alright !! Who want more very niche post WW2 polish-centered posts and art ??? Cuz I got a sHIT load of that !!
Twitter : ........ Please no..........
Me : Too bad !! Enjoy this !! They’re all friends !!! And happy !! For now !!!

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Assez triste de ne pas pouvoir lire "Fujimi no Tokkōhei" d'Azuma Naoki et Kokami Shoji, l'histoire vraie d'un kamikaze de la WW2 revenu vivant de 9 missions-suicides.
Il y a déjà 6 volumes en cours et ni trad ni édition.. Il aurait fière allure dans les airs aux côtés de Tenjin

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お返しの品がやっと出来ましたーー!遅れてごめんね!!うちの絵の相方である皆守ちゃんを巻き込んd…おっお願いして城戸を描いてもらったww2人とも初描きでヤッベ全然似ないぃ!って唸りながら描いてましたwよかったらお受け取りくださいませぇぇ!

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No one:
Not a soul:
Customer: My friends sent me a post saying that the government created the CORONAVIRUS in 2006 and want to eradicate us like the Jews in WW2 and want to pretend to save us the way Trump is like Hitler. I was in the military, I would know
Me, a historian:

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皆さんいいねとRT本当にありがとうございます。
こちらも新しいPSブラシセットの練習です。

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Forgot to share young Näve when he was in WW2

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A delegation from Yakutia in front of a T-34 tank. This one has interesting winter camo with wavy lines of another colour, presumably original green. The white paint on the front glacis and fenders is heavily worn.

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i guess this is what i do in quaratine, draw ww2 fighters from memory

WIP

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最近の練習
新しいPSブラシセットやってみました。
1917の映画より参考しました。

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“He felt shocked. But he also felt in some way relieved, for it is better to admit some facts, even hard, bitter facts, than to go on pretending that they don't exist.”

Dick King-Smith, born 1922. He fought in WW2 & worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer.

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