@captainwalker yea major tragedy
During Operation Pedestal which lasted 12 days between 3–15 August 1942 some 48–60 AXIS aircraft were destroyed, during the daring Operation to resupply Malta which was an absolute vital outpost in the Mediterranean Sea Theatre which lay under siege from June 1940 to November 1942
https://www.facebook.com/War1982/videos/368937704652665
13th August 1944
Le Pleiss Grimoult, Normandy
Major Sir Robin Leigh, second-in-command Sherwood Rangers, poses beside the much photographed ‘Königstiger’, or King Tiger, said to have been knocked out by an infantry mortar round that landed in the turret.
On this day in history … August 14, 1945
V-J Day in Times Square, the iconic photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, which was published in ‘Life’ magazine in 1945 with the caption, “In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers”
Greta Zimmer Friedman, identified later as the ‘nurse’ in the photo, became the subject of perhaps the most iconic photo taken on V-J Day on Aug. 14, 1945. The photo caught the U.S. at a moment of pure relief and represented people letting go of their inhibitions, it captured the jubilance people felt upon the war’s end.
Greta Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant, out in Times Square when news of the war’s end broke. George Mendonsa (still alive at 94 ?), who in 2015 confirmed he was the man in the photo, saw Friedman for the first time, spun her around and kissed her.“It wasn’t that much of a kiss,” Friedman, who came forward as the woman in the photo years later, said in a 2005 interview with the Veterans History Project. “It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event.”
Greta Friedman died at age 92 on September 8, 2016
or was it … Glenn McDuffie, a US Navy veteran who also claims to have kissed the nurse in the photo passed away on March 9, 2014, aged 86
Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died on August 23, 1995 (aged 96)
Colorized by Sanna Dullaway
August 21, 1942: German soldiers on Mount Elbrus, Europe’s tallest mountain. This was about as far as the German army would reach in the Caucasus. And the feat itself didn’t work wonders in German propaganda: Hitler was livid when he heard about it and thought it was a complete waste of time.
See https://europebetweeneastandwest.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/hubris-arrogance-on-europes-everest-mt-elbrus-a-metaphor-of-german-defeat-in-the-east/ for a recounting of this story.
@kaleu 18,000 feet plus. Oxygen musta been pretty thin : ) Thanks for the read. hadn’t heard of it
“Japanese D3A dive bomber being shot down over USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942” (US Navy)
August 29, 1944: American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Champs Elysees, Paris, in the ‘Victory’ Parade.
From https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=825
An early PzKpfw II Ausf. C rolls down a sandy road into Poland, September 1939
Although the German offensive was set to start at 4.45 am of September 1, at 4.34 am Oberleutnant Bruno Dilley, part of a flight of 3 Ju-87 Stuka from 3./StG1, pressed the release button and a stick of bombs fell from his black bird.
The target was the railroad bridge at Dirschau, in Polish territory south of Danzig. The objective: to destroy or damage the demolition charges set on the bridge by the Polish defenders. All 3 Stuka hit their target but with negative results.
Hitler’s war had started… 11 minutes ahead of schedule.
Original: Bundesarchiv
Color by: In Colore Veritas
@captainwalker nice pic. yea they changed the white crosses on the panzers pretty quickly.
Seems kinda wild it was 82 years ago.
Nasty Huns!
@barnee those white crosses gave the enemy something to aim at
@captainwalker yea nothing like painting a bullseye on yourself lol
Jap AC had the Red Circle on them to
@gen-manstein yea worked good at Midway
@gen-manstein @barnee
I was just arguing this same thing about rondels and the meatball the other day–watching gun-camera footage of P51s attacking planes in mainland japan in 1944-45. The red on white is extremely high visibility, especially near the ground. Other top paint schemes esp by UK are much more subdued early in the war, but painting an aircraft in contrast to the ground or sea in order to identify it as friendly seems a giant backfire when it becomes a target for the enemy.
On this day in history …
Brigadier General James “Jumpin’ Jim” Gavin, CO 82nd Airborne Division, checks his equipment before boarding a C-47 Skytrain plane for the airborne invasion of the Netherlands. (Operation Market Garden) from Cottesmore airfield, Rutland, England. 17 September 1944.
James Maurice Gavin (March 22, 1907 – February 23, 1990)
(Photo and Caption: National Archives and Records Administration Still Pictures Unit SC 232810)
(Colorized by Craig Kelsay from the USA)
@captainwalker said in On this day during W.W. 2:
(…) the airborne invasion of Holland (Operation Market Garden) (…)
Thanks for sharing this. However, Operation Market Garden didn’t happen in Holland, but in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Holland is in the west.
It’s a pet peeve of mine: ‘Holland’ is frequently, but inaccurately, used as a synonym for ‘the Netherlands’. Unfortunately, this happens so often that many people have come to believe that the two are actually the same. Even the Dutch government only recently stepped away from this habit.
@kaleu say it enough times and it becomes true lol
@captainwalker Awesome photo ! Looks like a kid !
Just looked him up and he was 37. I’m gonna learn more about him
