On April 8, 1940, off the coast of Norway, the Polish submarine ORP "Orzeł" sank the German ship "Rio de Janeiro", which was sailing with the full German landing army, vehicles and horses to Norway.

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Soviet Union is under attack as WW2 is raging. Andrei and Svetlana embark on a harrowing odyssey across the snow-covered plain, battling impossible odds and deformed former humans.

What they discover will change history: https://t.co/IwCXrfUHJz (affiliate)

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Tom Lovell was a great artist, doing cover work for Detective Tales & several great Westerns, among others. His pen & ink work for interior illustrations in ‘The Shadow’ are exceptional. Also served as a Marine during WW2 IIRC. https://t.co/iHgAMPaWiu

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1943. The Soviet Union is under attack as WW2 rages. A soldier finds himself in a strange city where Svetlana, a girl he has never seen but who looks eerily familiar, saves him from a fist-faced creature - https://t.co/erTvIAdP7q
(affiliate)

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Map of British D-Day assault beaches

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Painted around 1948, the subject of the returning sailor was still pertinent to a Europe that had recently demobilised its armed forces following WW2. The sailor in this work by William Roberts seems to be from the French Marine Nationale according to the red pompom on his cap.

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Numerous motifs re-appear in propaganda posters. Usually with spiders or octopuses as caricature of a nation. I guess history is a flat circle & imperialists like to copy each other.

Here are examples of ones from WW2 (Axis Anti-British + Allies Anti-Nazi), Red Scare, WW1.

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絵を描いたりしてます。WW1米軍とWW2日本軍と古着と珈琲とポロショコラと洋楽と妻が好きです。今年は同人誌を出せるよう頑張ります。

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Bombshells

What if the DC Universe set during WW2 and the women take center stage! A really fun and creative story featuring Alysia Yeoh once again and this universe's Black Canary is also trans!

Written by Marguerite Bennett

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Cuckoo Summer goes to - 's debut children's novel is inspired by his family's stories from WW2

https://t.co/AEyp61GzE8 (£)

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isle of tokkou by shuho sato

dark & grim psychological story set during WW2 that portrays the inner struggles of a japanese soldier regarding his role involving the Kaiten, a suicide torpedo while presenting complex nature of human beings & ponders the question of life and death

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Still Life with Acanthus Leaves, Eric Ravilious, 1938/39. The original artwork is on long term loan to . An unfinished work, made as he was about to leave to join the Castle Hedingham Royal Observer Corps at the start of

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Soviet Union is under attack as WW2 is raging. Andrei and Svetlana embark on a harrowing odyssey across the snow-covered plain, battling impossible odds and deformed former humans.

What they discover will change history: https://t.co/atmraiMlZV (affiliate)

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Site 01 - a comm node at Belorusskaya metro station. It was not quite ready for the Soviet entry into the WW2, but was used during most of it.

While it was built before nuclear era it was retrofitted to deal with new challenges later. Sadly it was not made into a museum 1/n

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新しい絵を最近描けてないので戦闘機の過去絵を再投稿。どれもけっこう昔だね。



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新しい絵を最近描けてないので戦車の過去絵を再投稿。
チャーチル7はクリスタの鉛筆塗りに慣れてきた頃でしたね。




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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. Mothers at work in "No, Albert, you mustn't talk to Mum now!" Frank Reynolds 1944

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'The Plough,' is representative of the style of painting William Roberts began perfecting during WW2 and became his signature style for the next three decades; a simple pictorial language with strikingly cubist figures. This is from 1944.

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Marc Chagal’s ‘The Ukrainian family’ painted in the early years of WW2. It could have been painted yesterday.

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