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musingsofahistorymajor · 3 months

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Okay I watched episode 1 and 2 of Masters of the Air and I loved them! And since I have a special interest in women in WWII, I'd like to look deeper at the show to see how historically accurate it is for people who may be into the show but might not know much of the history

So let's talk about the women!!

Put under a read more because I got way to into it and it got long

First up let's look at the civilian women we see. There's a lot of background women and they all look fantastic. Their dresses, the cardigans, the patterns on the blouses, skirts, and dresses, the hairstyles, the jewelry are all so good. I love that you see a variety of updos and longer hairstyles yet they've all got the curls correct. I see rolls and pin curls and even milkmaid braids. Fantastic!

But for some reason, Marge and her friend? Not so much. Marge is obviously a major character being the love interest of Gale Cleven. Their dresses are both fine. It's their hair that bothers me. It's like they tried a wet set curl but forgot to use setting lotion so the curls fell halfway through filming.

This is bad. Especially Marge's hair. This is a modern slightly wavy hairstyle and nothing like a 1940s hairstyle should be. They should have gone more like this. 1940s, especially early 1940s, was all about the curls. Wet sets and victory rolls. Updos were the go to for evening but if you wanted to wear your hair long it'd be more like this:

Why can't tv dress main characters as well as the background women? I don't get it.

Next up is the Women's Land Army. We only see them in the background but there's enough there for me to say that they look absolutely fantastic. I'm so happy.

First off, let's talk about what they're wearing.

We see the corduroy trousers, khaki dungarees, green headscarf, and black wellies that are a part of the WLA uniform. Several of them are wearing the tan shirt sleeve uniform shirt as well and I see at least two wearing the green jumper. The rest are wearing civilian sweaters and blouses which was allowed. The hair styles are perfect too. Love seeing the scarves, gibson rolls, and turbans.

For an even closer look we can take a look at the behind the scenes photos shared by Danni Philips. You can see the Women's Land Army pin on their uniform which pleases me so much you have no idea. And you can further see that the forest green sweater they're wearing is utter perfection.

Some original WLA photos:

Now what about the work they're doing? We can see the women driving cattle and harvesting what I believe is wheat but crops are not my specialty so I might be wrong there but both of which are two jobs done by much of the Land Army. Here's some side by side examples of the show vs original photos:

So good!!

Okay now let's talk about the Red Cross women we see. The first time we see them is this scene after the bomber crews get back from a flying mission. These ladies are a part of a Red Cross Clubmobile which you can get a quick glimpse of the Clubmobile here:

We see them handing out donuts and coffee to the men as they come in for interrogation which ABSOLUTELY was something the Red Cross did!! They established aeroclubs and had Clubmobiles stationed on air bases to provide relaxation and coffee and donuts for the base. Here's an example of them giving coffee and donuts to returning airmen on their way to interrogation which so closely resembles the show I nearly lost it.

One of my favorite details is the jacket that one Red Cross woman on the left wears. She's got a whole bunch of patches sewn on the sleeve of her jacket which is something a lot of women did when they served overseas. I've seen a bathrobe with dozens of patches sewn on and a large piece of fabric one WAC hung in her tent.

Now how about the uniforms they wear? The ladies above are wearing the uniform of the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service. Those who served in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) were provided with special uniforms consisting of a battledress-styled jacket with trousers and a matching visored ARC cap. The Clubmobile uniform was made of RAF blue-gray wool.

We get a good look at their service uniforms during the dance. They wear the American Red Cross Military Welfare Corps winter service uniform with the specific Clubmobile service patch in their sleeve. It's an oxford gray wool winter suit with a specially designed overseas cap.

Here are some Red Cross Clubmobile pictures for comparison:

And finally, my specialty, during the narrated montages we see two members of the WAC (Women's Army Corps) stationed with the 8th Air Force Headquarters. It looks like the same woman playing both WACs but they've put her in an officer's uniform for one scene and an enlisted uniform for the other.

One is WAC officer working at a teletype machine. She wears the officers service jacket with the officers lapel pins which are two US above two Pallas Athene pins. I can also see her 8th Air Force service patch on her left sleeve and Lieutenant bars on her shoulders. I can't quite tell if they silver or gold though so I'm not sure if she's a 1st or 2nd Lt. She's working as a teletype operator.

Next we see an enlisted WAC preparing for the debriefs the men will receive. She's a T3 or Technician 3rd Grade. You can see the rank patched on her shirt which has 3 chevrons and a T. There's also the 8th Air Force patch on her left sleeve. She's doing the work of a plotter. Placing the models of the planes into the locations of the formations that will be formed in the next mission.

Both WACs have perfect hair. Perfect. WACs were required to keep their hair neat and off their collar. If your hair was longer than your shoulders then you needed to put it up and the back gibson roll was the most popular way to do it. They've also kept their top rolls more to the side and smaller than usual victory rolls to accommodate their caps should they need to wear them (WACs were not required to wear their caps indoors)

In summary: I'm so damn impressed with the women in this show!!!! Overall the uniforms and costumes and hairstyles are SO GOOD! They clearly did their research when including the women and I'm so grateful for it. I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing the ATS in a future episode if the on set photos I've seen are any indication so if that happens I'll totally add that in a reblog. As well as any other glimpses of the women we get. I'm excited to see more of them!!

#wwii #period dramas #women in wwii #women's army corps #wac #masters of the air #hbo war #land army #red cross #red cross donut dollies #mod post #wwii history #women's history #women's land army #red cross clubmobile #the women of masters of the air

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copypastus · 5 months

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Nothing gave me more whiplash IN MY LIFE than going from acowar to acofas.

Remember when Feyre closed the chapter on her relationship with Tamlin and wished him well? Coz the Inner Circle sure keeps forgetting.

#my art #acotar #acotar fanart #tamlin #rhysand #acofas #acowar #acofas is enemy mine #stop coming to his house to bully tamlin challenge #i don't care if rhys comes with an excuse to discuss the boarders he goes off over the MILDEST shit #'i don't want illyrian brutes in my lands'#DDDD: how dare you?????#dude you don't want illyrian brutes in your lands either i don't see them hangining out in velaris #the dudes who die en masse every blood rite coz they'd rather kill each other than climb a mountain #who mutilate their women and would rather discard a weapon if a woman touched it #yeah why wouldn't you want an army of those in your war ravaged lands truly a mystery #rhys coming in with “”“harsh truths”“” more like rhys being a petty bitch #tamlin saves his mate AND HIM from being hella dead without asking for anything back #lost all respect for him in that scene #dude's comepletely winning at life and still can't leave well enough alone #i don't need them to be friends again just stop coming to the spring court #pro tamlin #anti rhysand #anti inner circle

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theworldatwar · 2 months

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US soldiers use the high, thick bocage as cover as they try to engage the enemy - Normandy, June 1944

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #bocage #1944 #dday #d day landings #France #usarmy #us army #us armed forces

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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months

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You get your ass on the beach. I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do. There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right.

- Colonel Paul R. Goode, in a pre-attack briefing to the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach, Normandy D-Day June 1944

#goode #colonel paul goode #quote #normandy #normandy landings #D Day #D-Day #US army #soldier #second world war #war #history #liberation of france

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averagepsychouser · 6 months

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The NCR when they see I’ve chosen to kill the president again

#omg… courier… help us…#we’re a massive army and we need YOU #a mailman #to help us secure more land to steal #I KILLED THE PRESIDENT IN FALLOUT TWO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WONT DO IT AGAIN #fallout new vegas #fallout nv #courier six #obligatory legion tag since (unfortunately) they’re my second favorite playthrough #like yas Peepaw Caesar I would totally love to kill the president #my hungry ass could totally be a brain surgeon! I would NEVER kill our lord…#caesar’s legion #fonv #fnv

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 8 months

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OTAL One Ton Amphibious Land Rover, 1965. A prototype built for the Australian army based on a Land Rover One Ton with a six cylinder petrol engine. The cab, wings and rear body are aluminium watertight compartments and all possible space was stuffed with expanded foam for buoyancy. Propulsion and steering was by the tyres. The vehicle went to Australia for trials but was never accepted and returned to the UK. More recently it was fully restored and forms part of the Dunsfold Collection

#Land Rover #OTAL #One Ton Amphibious Land Rover #amphibious vehicle #1965 #prototype #4x4 #test vehicle #watertight #Australian Army #straight 6 #Land Rover One Ton

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yellowbrickramble · 5 months

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If you've seen Return to Oz but haven't read the books, I should probably let you know that Omby Amby is not as good at being the army of Oz as Tik-Tok is.

Please support my comics on Patreon! (link in bio)

#army of revolt #general jinjur #princess ozma #bunny #webcomics #web comic #marvelous land of oz

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mafaldaknows · 6 months

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Instagram: armiehammer

HE’S BACK! 💙💪🔨💥

#instagram #instagram stories #armie hammer #land mines #landmine presses #welcome back

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bonefall · 5 months

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Just wanted to sneak in and say the idea of Riverstar x One Eye would immediately become 100x funnier if one were also to ship them in Better Bones

Here's the God of Summer. He eats people and hates everyone except his RiverClan bf and daughter /j

Quick shout back to you to tell you I'm trying to provide room for it

I love OneRiver too much to not give some kind of opportunity where they could have had some sort of positive relationship, and it's just a genuinely cool idea. That Riverstar was able to see the mysterious stranger before he revealed his true colors, and always felt... odd, about his peculiar energy.

A friendly tenseness. A mutual parting where neither one quite knows what to make of the other. The feeling in Riverstar's gut is like locking eyes with a tiger, just before it turns away.

So what I'm thinking is that in Thunderstar's Justice, after the carnage at the First Battle that summons the God of Summer like a dinner bell, One Eye comes to peruse. He visits each Clan, spends a short amount of time there, and then moves onto the next. He finally stops in Skystar's Clan, but it would give him some room to hang out in the River Kingdom.

Since it's Thunderstar's story though, he would be getting this information secondpaw from his ally and old friend, King Riverstar. One Eye would have a very... tense, predatory feeling to Thunderstar.

Like he's tracking something very powerful and very dangerous as it prowls through the undergrowth.

In truth, One Eye is scouting. He's looking for what was responsible for that delicious smell on that sticky, sweltering summer day. His stops in each group to understand them better, see what sorts of things they want and what they're currently doing, but finds that none of the other Four Founders are the warlord he's looking for.

A wise, ancient, well-spoken being, he was interested in Riverstar for a little longer than the others. Not as his target. Just as a curiosity.

What a poetic story, this peaceful prince had. Desperate to avoid the stressful responsibilities that would be thrust upon him, he sought friends where there should have been enemies, and made peace in spite of tyrants. But his nonchalance became carelessness, and he was made hostage by his underestimated enemy.

He ended up sparking the very battle he had sought so hard to avoid, his father's heroic death to save his son landing the crown upon Riverstar's head. A tragedy. A tale of inevitability. To a God of War, it's a wonderful story to hear.

#better bones au #BB!DOTC #BB!One Eye #Spirituality Overhauls #So perhaps not explicitly romantic but... Interesting.#An amusement to the god and a prickling trial for the prince #BB!Riverstar who always tries to see the good in people. But the God of Summer is no longer entirely a person.#He simply wears the skin of one.#When the leaders come together near the end to battle him I feel like it would be funny if River was the least hurt lmao #He lays low the combined strength of FIVE armies and swallowed a cat in two bites but he just picks up King River #And then YEETS him as far as he can throw.#Like. Wind gets bit and shaken like a rabbit until several lives fall out. You hear the Mario One Up sound #But River just gets thrown. He like lands in a lurch offscreen lmao #Doesn't even lose a single life from confronting the Cave Lion God Of Violence #Maybe River was so hospitable to him when he was in the skin of a mortal that he was like ''I owe him one <3''

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henk-heijmans · 1 month

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Members of the Women's Land Army feeding pigs and calves, Britain, ca. 1915 - by Horace Nicholls (1867 - 1941), English

#Horace Nicholls #Britain #Women's Land Army #pigs #calves

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lonestarflight · 10 months

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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (43-38673) in the mud after the right landing gear collapsed during a landing accident at Erding, Germany

Date: July 28, 1945

history on this bomber: "Accepted by USAAF August 31, 1944. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY August 31, 1944. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA September 5, 1944. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH Sep 15, 1944. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 0ctober 28, 1944. {first combat mission October 30, 1944). (63 missions). Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. 384th Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF solution to expedite the return of troops to USA (code #54). It called for the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project operated from June 15, 1945 to September 10, 1945. Landing accident at Erding (R-91), Germany July 28, 1945. The right landing gear collapsed and ground looped into the mud. Salvaged 0ctober 4, 1945"

- information from American Air Museum in Britain: UPL 60868

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #bomber #USAF #crash landing #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #July #1945 #United States Army Air Corps #US Army Air Corps #Army Air Corps #Air Corps #USAAC #my post

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musingsofahistorymajor · 3 months

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The Women of Masters of the Air -1x02 and 1x02

Women's Land Army

Red Cross Clubmobile

Women's Army Corps

#period dramas #masters of the air #hbo war #wwii #women in wwii #wac #women's army corps #women's land army #uk land army #red cross clubmobile #red cross #my gifs #mod post #the women of masters of the air

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ecoamerica · 29 days

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slasheru · 4 months

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Hi again everyone! This week is the GENERAL STRIKE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE, so there will be no updates/big stuff/etc. Instead, I'd encourage you to support Gaza and its citizens by calling for a ceasefire!

Taking direct action is the best way to help, and you can send letters and emails from your phone or laptop! I'd especially encourage you if you live in the US or the UK.

I can't imagine what life is like in Gaza right now (following along with Bisan and other journalists has been a great way to see the horrors Gazans are dealing with). I'm not Palestinian, but I'm Cantonese, and the literal only reason why I don't live in either of my ethnic home countries right now is because both sets of my ancestors had their home destroyed by fascists during WW2. This is happening during our time, and we can help make sure fascism doesn't ethnically cleanse or destroy or steal people's homes, the land they were fucking born on, the world they built. Free Palestine!

#slasher u #ceasefire #free palestine #somewhere in shanghai is my grandmother's house. the japanese imperial army occupied it by force and she fled.#someone lives there now. not my grandma. not my family.#my ancestors built that house on land they were fucking born on #pull up your antifascist pants and let's help stop this

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theworldatwar · 9 months

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US Armoured Division soldiers take the opportunity to brush up on their French - Normandy, July/Aug 1944

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aangopologist · 1 year

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Love how GRRM tried with every fiber of his being to make Team Green look like losers only for them to turn out more merciful and competent than Team Black

-Team Green only had 3 dragonriders Vs Team Black 7 dragonriders and they still make it hard for the blacks, to the point Daeron is considered the biggest threat to Rhaenyra.

-Daemon and Rhaenyra had Aegon's son killed and had their sights on the other one, but despite having tbe opportunity to, Aegon refused to kill Rhaenyra and Daemon's son.

-Daemon 50 smth ass had to die to defeat his nineteen year old nephew (in an incredibly illogical battle btw)

Martin knew he wanted the Blacks to "win" (in the sense their child sits on the throne because it's the beginning of the end for the Targaryens from now on) but didn't properly edit the story and as result ended making the Green look much better than he intended to

#Team Green #aegon ii targaryen #daeron the daring #Hotd #anti grrm #I could go on #Also addam pulling an army from his rectum #I thought aemond ravaged the river lands?#plotholes...#*Daemon's son becuser Martin doesn't care about rhaenyra

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alliswyattonthewesternfront · 3 months

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finally in the wet army gang - better late than never! i managed to track down a large once swisslink ran out, and good thing too, because apparently they make their men small in Romania

#wet army gang #if romania is the land of the short king sign me up tbh

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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