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secondworldwarremembrancedays · 1 year

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Remember the Battle of Sedan: May 1940.

When Britain and France declared war on Germany following the Nazi invasion of Poland, many expected that war to be a retread of the infantry tactics of WWI.

That line of thinking clearly led to the French strategy of constructing the heavy concrete fortifications of the Maginot Line. Those expectations where shattered in May 1940, when the Germans launched a fast-paced “Blitzkreig” (“lightning war”) spearheaded by Panzer tanks. Lacking heavy artillery, the Germans attacked French positions at Sedan with massed Stuka dive bombers. The intense air assault quickly demoralized the defenders and the German forces easily broke through. France fell soon afterwards.

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#infantry tactics #second world war #Blitzkreig #lightning war #Panzer tanks #heavy artillery #german forces #air assaults #french army #year 1940 #chronology

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masterofiodine · 2 months

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capvers doodles yay

#it's a combination of 1940s and modern au #havers definitely took up photography you can't convince me otherwise #they are going birdwatching with cap and then at home they go through all the photos of birds havers took #cap is teaching him their names #and yes they have a cat #the bottom left is inspired by fic where they were preparing new years eve celebration and cap brought these really awful hats #(i dont remember in which one it was sorry)#caphavers #capvers #bbc ghosts #ghosts bbc #the captain #lieutenant havers #anthony havers #bbc ghosts modern au

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sovietpostcards · 4 months

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"New Year's Night" by Yuri Pimenov (1949)

#1940s #soviet art #happy new year #ussr

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nashvillethotchicken · 2 months

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It's crazy how people talk about loumand like they hate each other and have never once looked at each other with anything resembling lust, like two nuns at a silent covent. Buddy louis has had bed death with his husband, and that husband wasn't armand lemme tell you that!

#like out of the 30 years loustat was canonically together in the show.#louis literally says they were only having sex for like 13 years at most!!!#from 1911 to when claudia kills charlie so about 1923 then that weird ass coercive sex from 1937 to 1940 when lestat gets murked #they was not fuckin fr!#meanwhile loumand fucked in front of daniel on two separate occasions. had a crazyinsane psychosexual rp for 7 episodes #and people say theyre experiencing bed death. who died? not blasia!#people just dont wanna see blasia winning over halfrica cus then theyd have to care about people of color fr #instead of projecting onto and woobyfying lestat #iwtv #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #amc iwtv #iwtv 2022 #armand iwtv #armand #ldpdl #lestat de lioncourt #loumand #i did the math and technically loustat had sex for around 15 years but i cant edit my other tag #i also forgot the bed death and affair in 1916-1917 so i was close but no cigar #all that to say loustat werent real fuckers.#and i love loustat. they just werent real fuckers

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marzipanandminutiae · 4 months

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“This 98-year-old woman has had a total of 622 ‘descendants’…because at age 16 she married a 50-year-old widower with 10 children, SOME OF WHOM WERE OLDER THAN HER AND HAD THEIR OWN KIDS ALREADY, and then had 13 more children by him, but news outlets report on it like a cute human interest story”

sounds like an SNL skit where the “straight man” character gets increasingly disturbed while everyone else acts happy and charmed

And. Fucking. Yet.

#current events #child abuse #I don’t know if it was CSA because I can’t find when her first bio child was born but uh #seems likely #her descendants seem to think it’s fine and was normal back then #which. no the fuck it was not #average age at first marriage for women was 20 in 1940! to men like 2 years older!#huge families made newsreels!#teen marriage HAPPENED more but it wasn’t the NORM #also that was usually to OTHER TEENS #nobody wants to talk about how she ended up marrying this old creep in the first place

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classicfilmsource · 1 year

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Woman of the Year (1942) dir. George Stevens

#filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #uservita #usermichi #userrobin #chewieblog #woman of the year #katharine hepburn #1940s #gifs #ours #by gina

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atomic-chronoscaph · 4 months

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#bugs bunny #happy new year #looney tunes #dell comics #merrie melodies #comic covers #warner brothers cartoons #sylvester the cat #porky pig #elmer fudd #1940s #1941

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andyeddieeee · 2 months

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40s era Enjolras save me… save me 40s era Enjolras….

#this is for a fic I’m working on hehe #it’s set in the 40s right before the war and Enjolras inherits a ranch 🤭#and Grantaire HATES him!!#And they fistfight!! then kiss!! (But not in that exact order)#anyways I have. A lot of ideas for this it’s been in the planning stage for three years #not bob #my art #enjolras #alternate universe #les miserables fanart #les mis fanart #les miserables #les mis #1940s

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booigi-boi · 2 months

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Dash and Ford 🔍🐇 Love them 🤍

Anytime Dash makes an appearance, you can hear Maple Leaf Rag playing quietly in the background

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secondworldwarremembrancedays · 1 year

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Remember the Battle of Britain: July–October 1940.

By late 1940, Britain faced the threat of a German invasion, but the incursion would succeed only with air superiority. What followed was the first major campaign fought by opposing air forces.

For four months, the German Luftwaffe carried out attacks on British airfields, radar stations, and aircraft factories, and bombed British cities, too. But the Stukas proved too vulnerable to being intercepted, and the Germans couldn’t mass enough planes to defeat the fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force in their Hurricanes and Spitfires. Heavy casualties forced the Luftwaffe to scale down operations. Hitler’s invasion plans were put on hold indefinitely.

[Must Read: What if the Nazis Bombed Britain Earlier?]

#year 1940 #German invasion #British cities #Royal Air Force #casualties #british forces #Battle of Britain #incursion

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musicalfilm · 1 year

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bing crosby, fred astaire and marjorie reynolds in holiday inn (1942)

✧ :･ﾟ*HAPPY NEW YEAR *:･ﾟ✧

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sovietpostcards · 4 months

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"New Year tree on Manezhnaya Square" by M. Bobyshov (1947)

#moscow #soviet art #happy new year #1940s

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theamandacollection67 · 30 days

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March 30, 1942

#year: 1942 #1942 #decade: 1940s #1940s #1940s vintage #on this day #on this date #otd #vintage couple #as they were #vintage snapshot #yesterdays #the past #memory lane #found photo #old photo #vintage style

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newyorkthegoldenage · 4 months

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Marion Greenwood, New Year's Eve, 1942. Lithograph on paper.

Photo: Carnegie Museum of Art

#vintage New York #1940s #Marion Greenwood #New Year's Eve #social realism #lithograph #New York art #vintage New Year's Eve

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kfrances · 1 year

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happy new year guys! it’s finally 2020

#dfkgndlkfg #new year's eve #new year's day #1940s pinup #vintage inspired #fireworks #artists on tumblr #original art #hi

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oifaaa · 3 months

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Even though Dick is the youngest of the oringal Titans, he was still the most experienced and the 1st sidekick! I think your comic is really funny, and those fics bug me as well, but I had to say Dick is widely regarded as THEE first child hero, I have to rep my man and straighten facts. Hope this didn't irritate you and take care!

Oh don't worry friend I am well aware that Dick was the first side kick but I think its also important to point out that doesn't matter bc both speedy and kid flash existed before the justice league formed so no matter what if Batman is introducing Robin to the justice league atleast a couple of them would already have kid sidekicks which was the point of the comic

#ask #anon #like correct me if im wrong #but im pretty sure speedy was introduced #like a year or so after robin was #as him and ollie were a direct response to the popularity of batman and robin #so i think robin was 1940 and then speedy was 1941 #which like considering comics timelines as well

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