Today is Victory Day, a Rhode Island state holiday. The only state to celebrate the day, it commemorates the victory over Japan in World War II. It is a state holiday only, meaning that the university is closed, but the post office is still open. The day used to be celebrated in other states as […]
Category: world war ii
Just wanted to alert people to this excellent collection of anti-venereal disease propaganda from World War II over at Sociological Images. Lisa Wade’s larger point is to explore the virgin/whor
After reading the piece about Fort Hunt in today’s WaPo, I’m going to propose a new rule for wingnuts: All efforts to recruit the historical legacy of the “greatest generation”
Part I ORP Orzel broke into the Baltic, searching for German targets. The search was not immediately successful, however, and the situation onboard Orzel began to deteriorate. The captain became severely ill, and mechanical problems arose. Because of the German advance, no Polish port remained for Orzel to return. Her sister, Sep, faced a similar […]
This has got to be a joke. The most creative way to use a cat as a weapon happened in World War II. The United States’ OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA) needed a way to gu
Patrick Di Justo unearthed a 1943 Army handbook for US soldiers stationed in Iraq. Highlights: NEVER discuss religion or politics or women with Moslems. Don’t stare at anyone. Remember the fear
Today is the anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II, when hundreds of American B-29s incinerated 16-17 square miles of the city and turned 100,000 people — civilians mostly — into ash. Placed along side the sustained Chinese Japanese raids on Chongqing, the German assault on Guernica, and the destruction of Dresden […]
In comments, Bistroist points out that the wreck of the Led… er, Graf Zeppelin has been found. Graf Zep was Germany’s first effort at building an aircraft carrier (Seydlitz was the second)
On a subject completely unrelated to Israel and Lebanon… I didn’t care for the National World War II Memorial, and I’m a big fan of World War II. One commenter suggested that it look
On the plane ride from London I finished Julian Jackson’s The Fall of France. While I was disappointed with the first chapter, I was very pleased with the volume as a whole. It is common to assert that France fell because of inadequate tactical and operational doctrine. The story goes something like this; bright young […]
Eszter Hargittai commemorates the end of Hungary’s involvement in World War II, 60 years ago today. Hungary, like many nations around the world, has yet to come to terms with its participation i