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roughly a year-long period near the end of WWII where Gallup was asking respondents to fantasize extreme, violent punishments for Germany and Japan

1-5 February 1945: Liberated Colmar and mopping-up operations in the Colmar Pocket.

1. Men of French 5th Armored (5e DB) with captured STG-44.
2. 5e DB Shermans, interesting camo pattern.
3. M8 HMCs, 5e DB.
4. Search of German prisoners, I think US troops.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #OTD

Just want to reiterate that before WW1 the idea that you would even have to have so much as a passport to cross a border was seen as a hopelessly backwards relic of serfdom

"Borders" in the Bible are not at all the "borders" constructed by the 20th and 21st centuries

He managed to get it expunged from his record so it didn't show up on the background check, then he was fired when they found out.

2 February 1945: Scenes of joy in liberated Colmar.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace #Colmar

1-3 February 1945 Liberation of Colmar: French troops, likely 5th Armored Division, and German POWs. At least one of the Germans appears to be a mountaineer, likely of the 2. Gebirgs Division.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace #Colmar

1-2 February 1945 Liberation of the Colmar Pocket: Riedwihr (Haut-Rhin Department), 8 km NE of Colmar.

1. German POWs.
2. German Lieutenant separated for interrogation by an officer of the 5e DB.
3. POWs transported by US MPs.
4. M8 Greyhound, likely US Army.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France

#OnThisDay 2 February 1945 liberation of the Colmar Pocket. Tanks belonging to Combat Command 4 of the French 5th Armored Division.

#WWII #WW2 #France #MilitaryHistory #Alsace #Colmar #Tank #Armor #OTD

February 1951: An FM 24/29 machine gun team under Viet Minh mortar fire in Tonkin. Unspecified unit of Tirailleurs Vietnamiens.

#Vietnam #MilitaryHistory #France #Indochina #ColdWar #Decolonization

February 1940: Horse-drawn wagons of the 3rd Army, possibly at the Chevert barracks in Thionville (Moselle department).

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #PhoneyWar

The emerging narrative from the people who worked for Biden seems to be "we debased ourselves repeatedly and violated our own laws for Israel and Israel won't even say thank you".

#OTD On Jan 31, 1915, Germany launched its first large-scale gas attack at Bolimów. 18,000 gas shells rained down, but the attack failed as freezing winds caused the gas to freeze or blow back.
#WWI #history #battleofbolimow

When I was working in Paris I had a colleague from Fez and it drove him crazy when people would jokingly ask how he was handling winter in France- it snowed more in Morocco!

#OnThisDay 31 January 1961: Troops of the 22e Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins training at Centre d'Instruction de Tikdja, located in the Djurdjura mountain range in Kabylia.

#MilitaryHistory #France #Algeria #ColdWar

#OnThisDay 31 January 1945: Tactical Group Dio (similar to a US armored Combat Command) of the 2e DB crosses the Ill, a tributary of the Rhine, over a pontoon bridge at Sand, Bas-Rhin department. Frustratingly grainy photos, but I digress.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #Alsace #Tank #Armor

#OnThisDay in 1962. the last two Short Sunderlands serving with the Naval Air Arm of the French Navy were retired.

Read our Sunderland profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #Aviation #History

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January 1945: Moroccan mule trains in the Vosges mountains, near the village of Triembach-au-Val (Bas-Rhin Department), northwest of Sélestat.

#WWII #WW2 #France #Morocco #MilitaryHistory #Alsace

Movie poster for The Red Ball Express.

Was going to complain that Hollywood should do a movie about the Red Ball Express, then I looked to see if it had already been done.

It had.

In 1952.

Starring Jeff Chandler, and a really young Sidney Poitier.

Watching it now.

It's very 1952.

Could still do with a modern telling.

Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do

This is an important, credible, and damning article about the IDF in Gaza by Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Raider colonel with combat experience from Fallujah and Mosul who maintained close contact with IDF officers during the war (while keeping a low public profile). Read the whole thing.

#OnThisDay 29 January 1945 tankers of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique (5e Division Blindée) with a captured Panther tank dubbed "Kayserberg", the name of the Alsatian village where it was captured.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #Tank #Armor #France #Germany #Panzer #Alsace

"Okay boss, I'm good at the language of images so you want the dissident facing the camera, defiant, and the agent of the state faceless, back to the camera, as if they're cowering in shame, right?"

Non, la "Wehrmacht propre" n'a jamais existé

On approche de la fin de la saison d'hiver, avec un sujet joyeux : les nazis.

Enfin pas les nazis - la Wehrmacht. Vous savez ? Les soldats normaux, corrects, qui ont juste été victimes de leurs dirigeants.

Sauf que ça, c'est un mythe, un mensonge collectif.

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A great many more to be found in this album, including this unfortunate vehicle that I particularly like: imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/colonne-d...

🚨President Biden's top Middle East adviser @brett_mcgurk tells me: “That statement by Netanyahu is categorically false. Biden left office with a ceasefire in Gaza and hostages coming home, a ceasefire in Lebanon with Hezbollah defeated, Iran in its weakest position since 1979 after two failed missile attacks thanks to the deployment of U.S. military forces and a coordinated response that destroyed Iran's air defenses. His commitment to Israel's security to include US military assistance was unwavering throughout the crisis."

Does it inspire any introspection on the part of the Democratic foreign policy establishment that backing Israel to the hilt no matter what it did at any time undermined America's global position and image while also not getting any credit from Israel itself

26-29 January 1951: M24 Chaffees of the 1er Régiment de Chasseurs, part of a Mobile Group under the command of Colonel Sizaire, on the Route Provinciale 18 towards Mạo Khê following a Viet Minh offensive in the area.

#Vietnam #France #Indochina #MilitaryHistory #ColdWar #Decolonization #Tank #Armor

Romanian troops in Arad in 1919.

#OnThisDay 26 January 1945: Gen. Henri Martin, commander of the 19th Army Corps, inspects Fezzan, Libya, occupied by France until 1951. [2/2]

1: Review of Méharistes at Rhadames, Libya.
2: Rhadames.
3&4: Meeting with Touareg leaders at Ghât, Libya.

#WWII #WW2 #France #Libya #MilitaryHistory

#OnThisDay 26 January 1945: Gen. Henri Martin, commander of the 19th Army Corps, inspects Fezzan, Libya, occupied by France until 1951. [1/2]

1: Beechcraft C-45B, Sebha, Libya.
2&3: Fort Colonna d'Ornano, Murzuk, Libya.
4: Repatriation center for POWs and deportees.

#WWII #WW2 #France #Libya

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Rare RL post: What a beautiful day in #Baltimore