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@jorgelapar @WWIIpix Yes, Canadian's at Juno.

@WWIIpix hummm Juno?

One of the most significant pieces of film footage captured during the D-Day landings. Recorded from within a landing craft, it shows Canadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment as they disembark onto Juno Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944. #WW2

@WW2Facts As it is today, apologies for the poor screenshot.

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division during a medal ceremony in the city of Carentan, France, in 1944. #History #WWII

@MericaCulture Without doubt a savant. His knowledge on the War Between the States is beyond compare.

Later in his life, Shelby Foote was asked about whether he would have fought in the Civil War if he had been living in 1861. Foote replied, “I’d gone with Mississippi.”

@EchoesofWarYT Incredible.

This is the Walker family cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, USA 🇺🇸. The Walker family (13 total) lived here before there was a national park. These are the last two Walker sisters who actually lived here. The last sister died in 1966. The black and white picture was taken about 1960, when the cabin looked the same as 150 years ago. The cabin is now a tourist destination that includes some of the original furniture and tools.

@Doug86007296 @WarMonitorClips en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shal…

@WarMonitorClips What documentary?

One of the best documentaries capturing WW1

@WestHamPlace Home Win Home Win 😳 Home Win Draw I hope I'm wrong on all counts, except we get a win ⚒️

Predictions? 👀 Leeds v Wolves Spurs v Brighton Forest v Burnley Palace v West Ham

@WHUContinental @westhamnetwork Laugh away, we shall see, it's a fkn opinion m8, stop crying about fk all.

@Shaky_Hammer @westhamnetwork they aren’t beating bournemouth lol

6 games to go How many points do you see each team getting?

@WHUContinental @westhamnetwork I think they'll get 2 wins from Burnley and Bournemouth and 2 draws from Sunderland and Newcastle. We shall see.

@Shaky_Hammer @westhamnetwork forest 8? crazy

@EchoesofWarYT Great pictures, keep them coming.

Several people and horses outside the historic Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone in the 1920s.

@Wasteland_Memes They used to do a pint called Old Roger, bloody vicious stuff.

There is a Pub near a town called Beaconsfield in England that predates England itself. It also predates: >The reunification of China. >Turks in modern-day Turkey. >Ghengis Khan’s Mongol Conquests. >The Crusades. >About 92% of modern countries. The Royal Standard of England

@ithacarising You don't evacuate 338,000 by being disorderly. My father made it from Cassel to Dunkirk and was evacuated on the 27th May 1940, his best mate is buried at Wormhout.

The British Army didn't quite hold off the Germans and made it out of Dunkirk. You can thank the French for that. While the British Expeditionary Force scrambled toward the beaches in a disorderly retreat that Churchill himself privately feared might mark the end of organised resistance, it was the resolute stand of French rearguard divisions - particularly around Lille and the Dunkirk perimeter - that bought the precious days needed for the "miracle of deliverance." These men, often poorly equipped and already battered by weeks of Blitzkrieg, held their positions with a tenacity that belied the crumbling command structure above them, allowing over 198,000 British troops (alongside more than 100,000 of their own comrades) to escape across the Channel. The events of May-June 1940 represent not French cowardice or surrender (a tiresome trope still bandied around today) but a tragic inversion: the French fought bravely to the last, ensuring that the British could live to fight another day, while their own army paid the heavier price in captivity and occupation.

@EdwardN78337411 @FortnbyG @pika_nekopanda The United States gave Britain 50 "over-aged" Wickes/Clemson-class WW1 destroyers that needed complete refits in exchange for bases.. 'you' gave us nothing, it was business.

@FortnbyG @pika_nekopanda We put 50 destroyers in the hands of the british in 1940. We basically gave them an entire navy, (minus the crew) just so we could pretend to be neutral and not at war. The fact is, we were at war, despite our contribution being only material in nature at that point.

親愛なるアメリカニキへ質問です。 アメリカでは太平洋戦争を学校でどのように習いましたか？ ちなみに日本での習い方を正直に話すと、空爆や原爆の被害を細かく深掘りして習います。東京、広島、長崎、沖縄の出来事を重く扱います。そして真珠湾に関してはそこまで大きく触れません。

@NAM_London Is there a reason behind the flag being upside down?

Last chance to visit Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies This exhibition shines light on the ‘forgotten’ armies, their experiences and the contributions they made. 🎟️ Free entry 📅 Cosing 19 April bit.ly/3USpvFa #BeyondBurma #WW2History #BurmaCampaign #LondonExhibitions

@BillyBondsStand Brooking was a genius.

Remember being in the Holte end right next to the Everton fans as it was split down the middle. Once Brian Kidd got sent off we felt this was gonna be our year ⚒️

@JEmptyloo @YesterdaysBrit1 Military Series Commandos

@YesterdaysBrit1 They used to sell these at my newsagent.

Ten sweets for a few pence. Chocolate mice, flying saucers filled with sherbert, gobstoppers, those lovely squidgy milk bottles... All on display in a glass cabinet that hadn't been cleaned for years. A slice of ham, or two, sawn off with a spinning blade that still had yesterday's cut meat clinging to it. Bottles of Panda Cola, stacked up in the window. Bird's Eye frozen beefburgers in an overflowing freezer that wasn't completely closed, because it was too full. Choc ices just a little bit past their sell-by date. People popping in to settle last week's account. Plastic toys for 25p. No dogs allowed, but there was always a poodle roaming around. Newspapers for 5p. A pound of potatoes and a few runner beans. The shopkeeper with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. Get your deposit back on the fizzy drink bottle. A packet of ciggies for me dad, with no questions asked. Biros that needed to be dragged back and forward across paper about twenty times, before the ink started to flow, for 5p... Oh, yes, that was my corner shop.

@robert41405 @francesafetytra Mons, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Aubers Ridge, Festubert.... the list goes on

@francesafetytra British didnt "really" get into war until 1916! France and Russia carried the war until then! British were too busy worried about Turkey, German East Africa and Cameroon. They had hope that war could be won without British doing heavy fighting in Europe.

British soldiers in WWI, courage in the face of history. 🇬🇧

@hw97karbine French?

French personnel use a knocked out Sherman tank as a step ladder while laying field telephone lines at Schweighausen in December 1944 The men are armed with M1917 Enfield bolt-action rifles

@vvksurf @EchoesofWarYT WW1 started 28th July 1914.

@EchoesofWarYT This photo was taken on the eve of World War I.

In April 1913, two unidentified men stood rigid on either side of a lifeless body, facing the camera as if to certify that something unbelievable had finally come to an end. Between them lay John Tornow — a man the newspapers had transformed into a monster, a myth, a cautionary tale whispered to children once the sun went down. For more than a year, he had terrorized Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Before the fear, before the headlines, Tornow was simply a solitary figure living deep in the wilderness of the Wynoochee Valley in southern Grays Harbor County. He kept away from towns and avoided human contact, surviving among towering evergreens and mist-filled ravines. Some who knew of him called him a hermit. Others described him as quiet. Odd. Harmless. Then everything shifted. In late 1911, two teenage boys entered the forest and never returned alive. Their deaths shattered any illusion of harmless isolation. Tornow disappeared further into the wild, retreating into dense timber where even seasoned loggers hesitated to go and lawmen feared to follow. That was when the legend took shape. Newspapers gave him names that blurred the line between man and nightmare: “The Cougar Man.” “A Mad Daniel Boone.” “The Wild Man of the Wynoochee.” Loggers swore they saw him watching from the trees. Parents warned children he would take them if they strayed too far. Armed posses searched relentlessly, but Tornow knew the land in a way no outsider could. Rain washed away his tracks. Moss swallowed his footprints. For months, he existed only as a rumor moving through the forest. No one — not even his own family — could explain what had broken inside him. He had once been confined to a mental institution, but surviving records offered no clear answers. Was it illness? Prolonged isolation? Or something darker awakened by endless silence? By the spring of 1913, fear had reached its breaking point. A heavily armed group finally cornered Tornow in the wilderness he had claimed as home. What followed was not an arrest, but a gunfight — shots ripping through branches, echoes rolling through the valley. When it was over, Tornow lay dead, his body torn by bullets. The newspapers declared justice served. The photograph that followed was meant to end the story. Two men standing stiffly beside the corpse. Proof that the nightmare was over. Yet the image did something else entirely. It preserved a question that time has never answered. Was John Tornow always a monster — or was he a man consumed by isolation, fear, and a world that no longer knew how to deal with him? The forest never answered. And even now, the Wynoochee Valley feels just a little quieter — as if it still remembers the man who vanished into its shadows.

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