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https://www.europesays.com/uk/80769/ A father at war’s beautiful labour of love for his little girl back home #Britain #Bury #BuryCouncil #England #GreatBritain #Manchester #Radcliffe #UK #UnitedKingdom #WorldWarTwo

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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Today in Labor History May 2, 1945: The Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion halted a death march from Dachau to Austria. As a result, the Japanese-American fighting unit saved hundreds of lives. Yet, even while they fought fascists in Europe, many had families in concentration camps within the U.S.

Today in Labor History April 30 1945: Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler committed suicide, in Berlin, after being married for less than 40 hours. Many Nazis were tried, convicted and executed. And literally thousands were secreted into the U.S., given false identities, and put to work as spies, intelligence officers, informants, and rocket scientists in the Cold War. Some of them had even been high-ranking Nazi Party officials, secret police chiefs, and heads of concentration camps. In fact, during the first few years after WWII ended, it was easier to get into the U.S. as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish concentration camp survivor. There were policy makers in Washington who said the Jews shouldn’t be let in because they’re “lazy” and “self-entitled.” For more on this sordid history, read “The Nazis Next Door How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men,” By Eric Lichtblau.

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Today in Labor History April 27, 1521: On this day, Philippine Natives fought the battle of Mactan against Ferdinand Magellan. Lapulapu’s warriors ambushed him and overpowered the Spanish forces. They killed Magellan with a poison arrow. Their victory delayed Spanish colonization of the Philippines by forty-four years. For centuries, native Muslim Filipinos fought wars against their Spanish rulers. The Spanish saw these as a continuation of the Reconquista of Spain from the Moors. They brought in conscripts from Mexico and Latin America, including many Native Americans. Mortality was high on both sides. Many conscripts fled into the countryside, or joined with the Filipino forces. Yet, despite all the slaughter and repression of Native Filipinos, the colony was never profitable to Spain. During the 1800s, Filipino immigrants fought alongside Latin Americans in their wars for independence from Spain. In 1896, Filipinos fought their own war for independence from Spain.

When the U.S. initially landed in the Philippines, in 1898, they supported Filipinos in their uprising against Spain. However, by August, 1898, the U.S. had ended their collaboration with Native Filipinos and soon annexed the country. American rule was brutal. In 1899, American went to war against their colonial subjects. The war was far deadlier and more costly than their war against Spain. 4,200 American soldiers, up to 20,000 Philippine soldiers, and at least 200,000 civilians died.

The Japanese occupation during World War II was also brutal. In the most infamous example, 10,000 Filipino and 1,200 U.S. soldiers died in the Bataan Death March. However, during the occupation, Filipino guerillas fought an insurgency against the Japanese. Consequently, the Philippines became the costliest theatre of war for the Japanese. Nearly 500,000 Japanese died fighting in the Philippines. But it was much worse for Filipinos, with over 1 million dying during World War II. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, toward the end of World War II, was the largest naval battle in history.

Mark Twain, who was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League from 1901 until his death in 1910 said “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”

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How many modern day companies would do something like this? Or do the fascists own car manufacturers?

Think that we're fighting this rise of fascism alone this time!

Today in Labor History April 12, 1935: 150,000 college students protested across the U.S. in the first nationwide student strike against war. Between 1936 and 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students (almost 50% of all American college students at the time) in annual one-hour strikes against war.

#BletchleyPark code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

A decorated #WorldWarTwo code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101.

Mrs Webb, from Wythall in Worcestershire, joined operations at the Buckinghamshire base at the age of 18, later going on to help with Japanese codes at The Pentagon in the US. She was awarded France's highest honour - the Légion d'Honneur - in 2021.
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Today in Labor History March 19, 1933: Nazis arrested Jewish antifascist photographer Gerda Taro and interrogated her about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She had previously been arrested for distributing anti-fascist literature. The Nazis eventually let her go and she fled to France, and then Yugoslavia. She died at the age of 26, photo-documenting the Spanish Republican war against Franco and the fascists. Some said that she was responsible, along with Robert Capa, of inventing the genre of war photography. Capa was actually the nom de guerre of Taro’s lover, Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew who taught her the art of photography and who later went on to found Magnum Photos, along with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Capa” was Friedmann’s street name, back in Hungary. It meant “shark.”

#Navajo Code Talkers disappear from #military websites after #Trump #DEI order.

From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo #CodeTalkers were instrumental in every major #MarineCorps operation in the Pacific Theater of #WorldWarTwo.

They were critical to securing America's victory at #IwoJima.

Naxios identified at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers that had disappeared from the U.S. Army and Department of Defense websites as of Monday.

#Diné #USPol #auspol #RESIST

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A question about the past answered

Today in Labor History March 4, 1943: The Battle of Fardykambos began. It was one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. The battle lasted 3 days. The Greeks forced the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and liberated the town of Grevena. The Greek Resistance was one of the strongest anti-fascist resistance movements in Europe during the war. The Communist National Liberation Front, the largest contingent in the Greek Resistance, fought the Italians during the Battle of Fardykambos. As the fighting progressed, local civilians joined in, as did many of the right-wing members of the Greek Resistance. As a result of their victory, they obtained many weapons and took 550 Italians as prisoners of war.

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, converted from the collier USS Jupiter Later converted to a seaplane tender On 27 February 1942, she was attacked by nine twin-engine Japanese bombers of the Japanese 21st and 23rd naval air flotillas and later scuttled by her escorts. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/uss-langley-cv-1-us-navy-aircraft-carrier/ USSLangley #USSLangleyCV1 #USSLangleyAV3 #USNavy #WW2 #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #WorldWar2 #WorldWarTwo #SecondWorldWar #AircraftCarrier #SeaplaneTender

“Stamp ‘em out! Buy U.S. stamps and bonds.” Poster by Thomas A. Byrne. WPA War Services of La., circa 1941–43. Via Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98518290/.

"Cloak and Dagger," dir. Fritz Lang (Warner Bros., 1946), is good as a thriller and as a war film. Unfortunately, it never develops its initial premise, the international race to develop the atomic bomb.
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https://www.europesays.com/1867427/ Germany’s polls could reshape Europe as conservative Merz aims to lead amid far-right surge #afd #ChancellorOlafScholz #ChristianDemocrats #ChristianSocialUnion #DebtBrake #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #eu #europe #fdp #germany #migration #RefugeesWelcome #SocialDemocrats #Ukraine #WorldWarTwo

Far from #plane, far from #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar.

USS Franklin (CV-13) in the Elizabeth River, off Norfolk, Virginia, 21 February 1944 https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/us-aircraft-carrier-uss-franklin-cv-13/ #USSFranklinCV13 #USSFranklin #USNavy #USN #NavalHistory #aircraftcarrier #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2 #WWII #SecondWorldWar

‘People who do not know what others in a group actually think often decide that it is safer to go along with what appear to be the dominant norms in order not to stand out.’
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