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onefootin1941 · 2 months

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Dame Vera Lynn's '40s glamour was a lesson in style with substance. She remains synonymous with the gutsy, lipstick-wearing glam of the Second World War.

Vera Lynn was so much more than a singer. She was one of those rare people who came to sum up the whole spirit of an era.

Say her name, and images come to mind of those dark days when Britain stood alone and her music brought hope with a dash of defiance.

While naturally the sentiments of We'll Meet Again particularly resonated during the war when there were so many sad partings, they are timeless and strike straight at the heart.

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#vera lynn #happy birthday!#ww2 icon #britain #second world war #singer #entertained the troops #the telegraph #express and star #we’ll meet again #youtube

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pleasuresoftheharbor · 7 months

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the stage banter in phil ochs in concert is so charming and lovely. the beginning of canons of christianity is my favorite ever. he really is just a poor humble boy from the sticks..

#speaking #honorable mention to 'i was entertaining the troops. i won't say which troops." his delivery of that one is so good

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seventh-victim · 1 year

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Comedian and singer Martha Raye performs for an audience of US soldiers during a United States Organizations (USO) tour for troops stationed in North Africa, 1943. (photo: Margaret Bourke - White)

#black and white photography #martha raye #entertaining the troops #1943 #margaret bourke white

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lemuseum · 1 year

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#Albert Guillaume (1873-1942) - Entertaining the Troops

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vonlipvig · 3 months

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btw i finished reading the troop by nick cutter today and i really loved it! very classic horror-like, it definitely freaked me out at times, but also made me really feel for the characters. plus the writing was really good, and very visceral at times, which was awesome. if you're into gore, infections and horror about the body, i totally reccommend it!

#it has a couple of things that i'm like hmm about it but it was suuuuch an entertaining fun book i loved it #will def be reading more of his books sometime soon!#the troop #books #according to jules

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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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One of the pretexts Putin used for his imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine was the alleged existence of Nazis there. Never mind that there are more Nazis in the Kremlin and on Russian state TV than in all of Ukraine.

So just who is entertaining Putin’s troops who are getting ready to commit war crimes? Nazis – of course.

A neo-Nazi band with lyrics about “white power” and “Aryan destiny” shot a music video at a Russian army base, featuring masked soldiers from a unit of soldiers drawn from the far-right hooligan scene.

The incident underlines overt right-wing extremist sentiment within sections of the Russian military, further exposing the hypocrisy of the Kremlin’s propaganda claims about “de-Nazifying” Ukraine. It’s also shone a spotlight on the 106th Airborne Reconnaissance Detachment “Moscow,” a Russian army unit based in the city of Tula, south of Moscow, which is distinctive for recruiting members specifically from the football hooligan and ultranationalist movements – themselves hotbeds of radical right-wing ideology.

The band, Russkiy Styag, which translates as Russian Banner, released the video for its track “We” to its social media channels last month, with a statement that it was “filmed with the support of the commanders and fighters of the ‘Moscow’ [unit] of the 106th Airborne Division.”

The video features Russkiy Styag’s lead singer performing in what appears to be the “Moscow” unit’s base in Tula, flanked by masked soldiers and with a poster featuring a neo-Nazi black sun symbol displayed prominently in the background.

The band did not just wander into the base. The far right in Russia are among the most enthusiastic supporters of Putin’s war.

The cosy relationship between the army unit and the neo-Nazi group is a vivid display of the apparent tolerance – or in this case, open embrace – of right-wing extremist ideology among Russian forces. Alongside the overt neo-Nazi orientation of paramilitaries fighting on the Russian side of the conflict, it cuts against the Kremlin’s already widely-dismissed efforts to paint its bloody invasion of its neighbour as a push to somehow eradicate “Nazism” in Ukraine.

These folks are so obviously Nazi that even the Trump State Department designated some of these Russian groups as “white supremacist terrorists“ in 2020.

But experts say the Russian depiction of Ukraine as a hub of Nazis, in a bid to justify a war of imperialist aggression, is perverse, especially given the role of Russian neo-Nazi paramilitaries like Rusich and the Russian Imperial Legion, designated by the United States as a white supremacist terrorist organisation, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s longstanding instrumentalisation of the ultranationalist far-right.

Tankies in the West who practice bothsiderism in the war or who retain some residual affection for Russia on the basis that it’s the successor to the glorious communist USSR are effectively turning a blind eye to Naziism. Genuine anti-Nazis want Putin and his clique to lose this war.

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slutfortheeclaymore · 1 year

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This!!! It made me love their bromance more & miss Drew even more at the same time!!!

#drew mcintyre #drew galloway #drew mcintyre is hot af #big daddy drew #world wrestling entertainment #smackdown #big daddy claymore #wwe #drew mcintyre is hot #hot daddy #sexy scotsman #drew is daddy #friday night drew #wwe drew mcintyre #sheamus #wwe tribute to the troops #I miss Drew’s sexy ass #the kilt strip & the crotch chop though…

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alejandromogollo · 1 year

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69 years ago Marilyn Monroe entertained US troops in Korea with her show 'Anything Goes’, February 17, 1954. #marilynmonroe #marilyntoday #korea #troops #entertainment #anythinggoes #alejandromogolloart https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxIMxVot6B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#marilynmonroe #marilyntoday #korea #troops #entertainment #anythinggoes #alejandromogolloart

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xr250r · 1 year

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Troop Entertainment

#Bob Hope #Brook Shields #Troop Entertainment

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speakingloudlywithamegaphone · 2 years

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Little Pattie singing for the Australian Troops in Vietnam.

18th August 1966.

#vietnam war #history #photography #little pattie #australian musicians #entertaining troops #australian army #18th August 1966

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bea-lele-carmen · 2 years

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kingbcwser · 2 years

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tag drops go brr

👑 | out of koopa troops / ooc

👑 | planning another mischief / ic

👑 | better not waste my time / asks

👑 | entertain me!... please? / memes & prompts

👑 | so long gay Bowser! / crack

👑 | glancing over the skies / dash comm

👑 | let me show you how it’s done / dash games

👑 | inside the mastermind / headcanon

👑 | even a hard shell has its weaknesses / musings

👑 | sometimes I can be the main protagonist / self promo

👑 | perhaps I treated you too harshly... / promo

👑 | listen up your little mushrooms! / psa

👑 | your king is in another castle / queue

👑 | the one and only koopa king / visage

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moondrama · 2 years

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Really loving the Queen's Jubilee vibes on UK social media these days (yea, I do like their royal family esp the Queen). Also recently, I've been in a mood to watch some traditional British TV show with old, nostalgic vibes. I used to watch sooo many British shows, kinda wanna revisit those too 🇬🇧💂‍♀️

Edit: Ok, I really wanna watch Keeping Up Appearances but not sure where to find it. And though I consider period dramas and movies a very winter thing, Pride and Prejudice and some other Jane Austen stuff have more of a summer-y vibe so I'll try and watch these over the weekend.

#i used to be heavily into british entertainment and stuff a few years back #these days I'm feeling like that old self again like I've literally started listening to some BBC radio station before sleep now #also really loving the queen posts and bunting and stuff coz i follow several UK folk on insta #you know I like it when some part of my past self resurfaces...#past self when i was much happier and motivated and inspired by everything and i had an interest in a lottt of things #i like that lately i tend to have small parts of that me reappear #queen elizabeth ii #trooping the colour #queen's jubilee #keeping up appearances #pride and prejudice #jane austen

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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"OVERSEAS TROUPERS GET NEW TOGS," Toronto Star. June 1, 1943. Page 9. ---- Vi and Vilma Vernor, singing Victory Twins, model the first official U.S.O. camp show uniforms for entertainers of armed forces in battle areas. Vi wears a dress suit of blue wool gabardine with gabardine shirt, overseas cap and shoulder strap bag. Vilma dons an informal slack suit of tropical worsted with matching cap.

#victory twins #united service organizations #u.s.o.#united states army #united states military #world war ii #entertaining the troops #musical duo #women in uniform #women at war #total babes

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loriandcompanyaction · 2 months

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