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The fictional Flower-class corvette HMS Compass Rose (K49) that appeared in the 1953 film 'The Cruel Sea' was the real-life warship HMS Coreopsis. The vessel, which served as a convoy escort during the Battle of the Atlantic, was scrapped shortly after production.

4 February 2025 A very happy 100th birthday to Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Ginette Kolinka. Born in Paris, her family left the occupied capital for the free zone in July 1942 due to their imminent arrest. Denounced to the Gestapo, Ginette, her father and brother were arrested in

On this day in 1944, a 6 year old French Jewish boy arrived at Auschwitz with his mother, sisters (9 & 8) and brothers (11, 6 & 2) where they were murdered. His name was Jacques Waks Support Auschwitz Memorial

On this day in 1940, a 2 year old French Jewish boy arrived at Auschwitz with his mother and sister (12) where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. His name was Henri Latowicz Support Auschwitz Memorial

Had some proud days in recent years but this one is up there with the very best! Seeing F/Lt Archie McInnes AE* flying in a Spitfire, aged 99, alongside his beloved Hawker Hurricane for a last time. The last of #thefew to ever fly in a Spitfire back in 2018. Special day 🙌🏻

Rescue and salvage on the coast of Newfoundland. x.com/mercoglianos/s…

🇫🇷 81 years ago today, French Resistance leader Pierre Brossolette was in the Gestapo headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris. Tortured to the very limits of human endurance, his guard briefly left him alone. Brossolette climbed out of the top floor window and fell on to the

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A young woman sat alone in a Leicester Square cafe in 1942, when an RAF officer approached her. “I’m going on a dangerous mission tonight,” he said. “I might not come back. Will you promise me something?” What happened next changed her life: (🧵)

What a beautifully quaint and precise observation.

That's what teenagers are doing in Ukraine to help the army. 🙏🏻

Thank you for your service! Major-general Ricard Rohmer. Rohmer took part in D-Day and the Battles of Normandy, Belgium and the Netherlands. 🇨🇦🤝🇳🇱#Liberation80years #Wageningen

On this day in 1945 my hometown Leidschendam-Voorburg was liberated. Thank you Canada! The party just started! 🇨🇦🤝🇳🇱

Forgiveness. 10 June 1944 - 12 May 1945 On the evening of Friday 9 June, 19-year old André Désourteaux waved goodbye to his parents and siblings and set off from his village to stay in Limoges where he was starting work early the next day. It would be the last time he saw them,

🗣️"77,000 German troops in that region, and they managed to sneak through...and blow up ships." Serving and former members of the Royal Marines have staged a re-enactment of Operation Frankton - a mission to destroy Nazi ships whilst remaining undetected. Watch here 👇

🇺🇦 Armed Forces: "do not touch parts from downed Russian Shahed drones, could be dangerous!" Ukrainian hold my beer type:

🤬 Let the following sink in: Putin began his day visiting a memorial for Soviet soldiers to mark the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the USSR that started with the Nazis bombing Kyiv on June 22nd. By nightfall, Putin ordered his own Nazi army to bomb Kyiv.

Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape.

On 7 July 1943, the Germans 'pacified' the peaceful village of SZAULICZE murdering all its inhabitants (336 people, incl. 120 children) and burning down all farms. This is of little or no interest to WW2 history accounts as there were 100s of such massacres in occupied Poland.

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