WWII Workout Week continues with exercises to improve your posture.
Durante los conflictos bélicos del siglo XX, especialmente las dos Guerras Mundiales, tejer se convirtió en un asunto de capital importancia. Fue doblemente útil: servía para proveer de prendas de …
In preparation for an Allied forces parachute jump six miles east of The Rhine, an American paratrooper receives an al fresco Comanche Indian Mahican haircut in Arras, France. Photo by Robert Capa on March 23, 1945.
When Roosevelt made his promise to the Chinese, less than 100 B-29s had been built, and only 15% of them were actually flyable...
Treinreizen was vroeger een echte beleving. 5 redenen waarom treinreizen vroeger zoveel meer romantischer is dan nu.
Original Second World War artworks produced as propaganda for the Ministry of Information have gone online and are now freely available on Wikimedia Commons. More than 350 pieces have gone online so far, but there are plans to digitise the entire collection of almost 2,000 art works. We present a selection here. See this Wikimedia page for more.
An excerpt from a 1946 Army manual on leadership. The principles are directed at military officers, but apply equally well to leaders today in any arena.
Pro-Allied propaganda from the US Office of Fact and Figures
War is hell, and tragedy, and terrible, terrible posters.
War is hell, and tragedy, and terrible, terrible posters.
I knit the lap robe for a veteran. I used 2 skeins of Red Heart yarn color Blue, and size 10 needles. I cast on 120 stitches, and knit every row. Size about 31 inches wide x 33 inches long.
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Incredibly, there is still a shell lodged in its armour almost 80 years after Adolf Hitler used the coastal town of St Malo it to defend Nazi-occupied France from attack on the Atlantic coast.
Despite some opposition, nearly 16,000 Māori enlisted for service during the Second World War. By 1945, 28 (Maori) Battalion had became one of New Zealand's most celebrated and decorated units. But Māori contributed to the war effort in many different ways, at home and overseas.
Claude Benmeleh Nationality : Jewish Residence : Paris, France Death : October 30, 1943 Cause : Murdered in Auschwitz ( buried in Auschwitz death camp ) Age : 4 years
Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation. The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you to pick out
Several people who found fame later in life started out on a much different path. And if you're not still working at the first job you ever got, thank your lucky stars that you're in the same boat. Unless you operated a boat as your first job. Then, well, yeah. Sorry.
An exhibition showcasing hundreds of never-before-seen artworks painted by serving US soldiers has been unveiled for the first time in America.
