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Men browsing a bombed-out library during WWII.
Exact date unknown.
Famed World War II aviators hold final reunion
“At each reunion is a case containing 80 silver goblets with the name of each raider inscribed right-side up and upside down on a single goblet. The men toast their fallen comrades each year and turn their goblets upside down in their honor.
They have also saved a bottle of Hennessy cognac from 1896, the year mission commander James Doolittle was born. The Raiders had said the final two survivors would open the bottle, but they have since decided that the four survivors will meet in private later this year for the toast.”
Drinking tea in the Blitz, 1940s (via Retronaut)
A loved one is swept off her feet by a returning GI in the aptly named town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1945
Ugh i love old photographs
Today is World Holocaust Rememberence Day
The photos above are part of the US Holocaust Museum’s Remember Me? Project. They are children displaced by World War II who the museum is hoping to further identify.
If you celebrate—happy easter
Tea rations are over, 3rd October 1952
We know how you guys love animals, so here are some great shots of both trained work dogs and dog mascots and companions from our new book, Loyal Forces: The American Animals of WWII (LSU Press).
Picadilly Circus; Life in London during the Blitz - 1940
Photo by George Rodger
Auschwitz survivor takes to Facebook and Twitter in effort to find lost twin
Menachem Bodner’s birth name was Elias Gottesmann. He was held in Auschwitz during World War II, where he and his twin brother were victims of Dr. Josef Mengele, known for his obsession and gruesome experimentation with twins.
When the 4-year-old Bodner was liberated from the camp, he was separated from his brother. Now, 68 years later, Bodner has enlisted the help of a professional genealogist, Ayana KimRon, to track down Jeno Gottesmann. Red Cross records indicate that a boy with Jeno’s “A-7734” tattoo was treated at a hospital near Bodner’s camp just two weeks after the liberation. But, eventually, the trail goes cold.
So, KimRon turned to the Internet for help.
WWII era Mickey Mouse gas mask produced by the Sun Rubber Products Company.
Sir Nicholas Winton.
Actually crying.
Oh man, watch the video.
Oh wow, the look on his face… this is amazing.
He’s still living too! He’s 103 years old.
I cried reading the description and then I watched the video and you know what just cancel today because I’m done.
A poster encouraging parents to evacuate their children after the Blitz began.
The only known video footage of Anne Frank.
