Urban Dictionary: World War II
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smouldering

According to the protagonist in Kurt Vonnegut's "Timequake": "...The world's second unsucessful attempt to commit suicide."

This is truly amazing.

terse yet comprehensive AND humourous

Ftoto-reportaje sobre el lanzameinto de la bomba en Hiroshima

...black colonial soldiers - who made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the unit that led the Allied advance into the French capital.

Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory. Many who fought Nazi Germany during World War II did so to defeat the vicious racism that left millions of Jews dead. Yet the BBC's Document programme has seen evidence that black colonial soldiers - who made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the unit that led the Allied advance into the French capital. By the time France fell in June 1940, 17,000 of its black, mainly West African colonial troops, known as the Tirailleurs Senegalais, lay dead.

Allied High Command agreed, but only on one condition: De Gaulle's division must not contain any black soldiers.

"We were colonised by the French. We were forced to go to war. Forced to follow the orders that said, do this, do that, and we did. France has not been grateful. Not at all."

WWII

II. világháborús légifotó-archívum. - *http://ow.ly/FBjf

Aerial wartime photography

for schools

The National WWII Museum presents this website with information, lessons, and actiities about the science an technology of World War II. You can use this site to to provide your students the opportunity to broaden their understanding of WWII history.

ww II german photographs

Color photographs from World War 2.

Unas grandes imágenes bélicas de la segunda Guerra Mundial, gracias a demonicious.

Fotos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a Colores

Aufnahmen vom D-Day

Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Relembrando o dia D, 66 anos atrás.

The Big Picture's photos of D-Day. My grandfather landed on Omaha Beach a few days behind the main invasion, treating casualties from both sides as the front advanced. I cannot imagine what this was like, for him or for those he was treating who led the invasion.