#1943

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

#OnThisDay in 1943, prisoners at Sobibor covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout."Our day has come. Most of the Germans are dead. Let's

Nick Short

nickfshort

So, a brief thread from my trip to #Aldbourne today, following in the tracks of Lieutenant Richard Winters and the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

WITOLD PILECKI died #OnThisDay in 1948.Pilecki was a reserve officer in the Polish Army, born in Olonets, Russia. During WWII, while attached to a Polish resistance group, he volunteered for

Bijan C. Bayne

bijancbayne

On March 31, 1943 Joe Namath was born. In h.s. Namath turned down a $60K bonus fr. the Cubs. U. Iowa flew him in to work out w/ the basketball

Irène DB

UrbanFoxxxx

Airship mooring mast at Cardington, England (1926). An electric passenger lift ran up the centre of the 200 ft tall tower; at the top, a gangway connected to the nose

Kurtz 🇫🇮

_Kurtz_99

"Based Muslim SS Division" (13th SS Division)On the night of 16/17 September 1943, while Division was training in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in France, a group of the Muslims staged a mutiny within

Bruce McCurdy

BruceMcCurdy

1/Howie Meeker gone at 97. Another body blow from a year that just won't let up.After surviving grenade blast in WW2 that nearly killed him & forever hampered his skating,

Andy Arthur

cocteautriplets

The Ferranti factory at Crewe Toll was opened in 1943 specifically to manufacture "Gyro" gunsightshttps://twitter.com/Ants1875/status/1312853416339701763 Here is a close up photo of that clock tower that for many years was

Nick Budd

BuddNicholas

Thread of pics I find of interest. Will hopefully provide insight to you.Here’s a Zug (Platoon) in ‘Schützenreihe’ (column) tactical formation.A more open formation with ‘Abstand’ (spacing) of typically 5

Sannah McDonough

SannahMcDonough

Movies that feature the afterlife (a thread):First up is “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” (1941). Is laugh out loud funny in places. Has a LOT of exposition, and Joe Pendleton exceeds

Holocaust Education

UCL_Holocaust

OTD in 1943 about 1,000 #Jewish prisoners revolted in #Treblinka. The long-planned revolt brought operations at Treblinka, which is estimated to have seen 925,000+ people murdered–inc. around 2,000 #Roma, to

ethel merman stan

ethelmermanstan

it’s friday night so why not ‘Only Yesterday’ (1991). One of the rare films that have gotten me to cry. Stunning, contemplative and heartwarming. Tabu (2012). Portuguese film on regret,

WHA Grad Caucus

WHAGrads

Hi all! I'm Nathan Ellstrand, @nellstra, a PhD Candidate at @loyolahistdept. Thanks to @WHAGrads for the opportunity to takeover! My work focuses on the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS or National

Matt Warwick

mpwarwick

The King George V class were the most modern British battleships of the Second World War. They are perhaps best known for their actions against Bismarck in 1941 and Scharnhorst

Ed White

EdWhiteMarkets

COVID-19 is becoming a world hunger epidemic too: Jim Cornelius of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Unemployment, food supply disruptions, likely food production shortfalls a problem in developing countries. Starvation a

Nick Waters

N_Waters89

A thread on the IIT report.The @OPCW IIT, which can assign responsibility for chemical weapons attacks, has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that a helicopter of the Syrian