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At Dunkirk, commanders made strategic choices under pressure. In B.C., Eby called a snap election amid U.S. trade tensions; Conservatives now lead in 63 of 93 seats. Elections aren’t battles, but both remind us: leaders’ decisions can reshape history. 👀 #PastTheFrame #election

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German V-2 rocket world's first long range guided ballistic missile. It was a liquid propellant ( Ethyl alcohol & liquid oxygen) rocket. also first thing in human history to reach in the space. Though it was introduced in WW2 this technology was used in some space programs.

DID YOU KNOW? 🇺🇸 During WWII American factory workers built a B-24 bomber in less than ONE hour! Ford’s Willow Run plant eventually produced one bomber every 63 minutes. No robots. No modern computers. THAT was American manufacturing! 🇺🇸

In 1941, Hedy Lamarr appeared in Ziegfeld Girl. That same year, she and composer George Antheil filed a patent application for a secret communication system designed to prevent enemy interference with radio-controlled torpedoes. Their invention used rapidly changing radio frequencies to make the control signals harder to jam during World War II. Granted on August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 lists Lamarr under her then-married name, Hedy Kiesler Markey. The original patent drawing is shown here.

Good evening. 1:1 scale modeling! A former shipyard worker in Taiwan with no formal aerospace training is building a full-scale WWII Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa fighter out of aluminum and he has already hammered in over 30,000 rivets by hand! 1/2 #WW2 #History #Aviation

In August 1914, the War Office was inundated with letters from citizens reporting suspected German spies: some believed to be signalling the enemy with codes or wireless messages. These reports were passed to MI5. For the first two months of the war, MI5 staff (including its women) worked 12+ hour days, including Sundays, with only two half-days off. For the next 18 months, they still averaged 10+ hours daily. By 1915, they were handling around 3,000 papers a month, opening 1,000+ new files on suspects. The sheer volume of intelligence also made their work invaluable to other departments. (continued)

I was given this exceptionally rare photograph, taken during the D-Day Normandy landings by a very special WW2 veteran: Bill Howard. He describes something that the image alone cannot convey:

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Without doubt. Bet nobody can guess what though...🙃😉

Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry

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Is there a part of the Second World War you feel still deserves far more attention?

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'[Collapse is] the first volume of what promises to be a monumental opus on the Second World War … [Fennell has an] extraordinary command of military history.' Thrilled with this review of COLLAPSE from Ian Buruma in @TheTLS the-tls.com/history/collap…

In this image from our Digital Collections, dated October 21, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur and Major General Verne D. Mudge are shown on Leyte with soldiers gathered behind them.