Vincent Price in a dress - performing for the troops circa 1943.

The Ruins of a Castle in Moonlight

by Alexander Lauréus

On this day 70 years ago…

February 18, 1954

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Marilyn Monroe entertains the US army troops and foreign soldiers during a show of her four-day tour in korea.

Marilyn made a tour in Korea to support the American troops from February 16 to 22 , 1954.

QUOTE OF THE DAY ↓

(The trip) “It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never felt like a star before in my heart. It was so wonderful to look down and see a fellow smiling at me.” - Marilyn Monroe

The U.S. Army Soldiers during Operation Iron Eagle IV, in Zhegoc, Kosovo.

The U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas Duval, Multinational Battle Group-East Public Affairs (2016).

First descent to Voltiks – monsters of desert

Pixel art for today based on videogame Super Turrican 2 for game console Super Nintendo. Cyborg robot action movie. About cyborg robot. With excellent super class 16 bit graphics.  Excellent 16 bit action. Like action movie. And you cannot stop it. And no need to do this. Such games you need to play from start to very end. And later, from time to time to go back to these titles. Science fiction. Future. Bright graphics. Everything is super class!

And this is my drawing about same theme. Planet Voltiks. It is famous with its desert landscapes. 10 squad of cybernetical troops is already finishing to clear the planet. So, it was looks like it is several days before incident will ends. And it is already going for several months. But rangers of desert, while they have a losing situation. But they go into the deep desert. And they come back with new attitude. They learn how to grow up in desert a big desert dragons. And another hunting dangerous types. Which can to dig into the desert. And all them are big hunters monsters. They grow up fast. And there are lots of them already. With such supply forces, rangers of desert call this planet their land. And they surround 10 cybernetical troops squad. You are straight from 2nmd descent to this planet. First descent landed from another cornet of the desert. And you are landed here. And you will go into hottest region. To not to get them into the surround situation. Until support will land.

Rangers of desert are strong enemy from the very beginning. But no one know that they have biological labs into the desert. In underground bunker. Deep in desert. And their experiments are rather saucerful. Your aim is to enter lab. And take all that you can take. Something usefull. Lab is made out of underground levels. And it is most dangerous place. There are lots of creatures there. And all them are grown up and raged as a whole army of monsters.

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Marilyn Monroe performing for American troops in Korea, February 1954. .

Ready, aim…cut! Tom commands his army of toy soldiers, in this unused idea for “Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale” 2007.

A road sign carved by a German soldier in Finland, photographed between 1941–1944.

Durch Kampf zum Sieg

Vive l'Empereur! by Wojciech Kossak

June 20, 1945:  U.S. troops returning from Europe pack the decks of the British luxury liner-turned-troopship RMS* Queen Mary as she steams into New York Harbor with some 14,000 troops aboard. This was the ship's first voyage to America since V-E Day.

*Thanks, 2woodroses.

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard via the Denver Post

Dark Places.

A U.S. Marine aboard Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay.

The U.S. Marine Corps photo illustration by Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson (2016).

French colonial troops near Taourirt, Morocco

French vintage postcard