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The submarine base of Lorient in Brittany. Base originally French, then German with new facilities and returned to France at the end of the war.
I wish you a nice week-end, life is not easy everyday, so, it is urgent to enjoy the good times,
Little video of me which reminds me of my military period when I was younger.
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Souvenir, one year ago with my little Orthense in Rome (23h00) ............ I miss Orthense terribly ..... :(
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I wish you a nice week, I'm back in my Celtic Brittany (4H by plane from Italy, I will post a little video soon).
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I like this song, she deserves to be known.
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Do you know the Wormhout Massacre ?
The Wormhout Massacre – Afternoon of Tuesday, May 28, 1940 (Operation Dynamo)
The Wormhout Massacre, also known as the Plaine au Bois Massacre, was a war crime committed by the Waffen-SS against approximately 80 French and British prisoners of war during the Battle of France in May 1940. Although commonly referred to as the Wormhout Massacre, it actually took place within the territory of Esquelbecq.
The Fighting
During the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force toward Dunkirk, the British 48th Division held the road linking Bergues to Hazebrouck via Wormhout and Cassel in an effort to delay the German advance. Lacking ammunition and armored support, the British units defending Wormhout were eventually overwhelmed by troops of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment, supported by tanks of the 3rd Panzer Regiment.
After exhausting all their ammunition, the British troops surrendered, believing they would be taken prisoner in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
The Massacre
Following their surrender on May 28, 1940, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Cheshire Regiment, and the Royal Artillery, together with a French soldier responsible for a military supply depot, were marched to a barn at La Plaine au Bois near Wormhout, in the municipality of Esquelbecq.
During the march, the Allied prisoners became increasingly alarmed by the brutal conduct of the SS guards, who shot several wounded stragglers along the way. Upon arriving at the barn, a British officer, Captain J. F. Lynn Allen, protested the treatment of the prisoners but was immediately struck by an SS soldier. The officer was subsequently killed.
Once roughly one hundred men had been crowded into the barn, soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment threw hand grenades into the building, killing and wounding many of the prisoners. The number of casualties would have been even greater had it not been for the extraordinary courage of Sergeant Moore and Company Sergeant Major Jennings, who threw themselves onto the grenades, shielding their comrades from the blast and shrapnel with their own bodies.
When the grenades failed to kill everyone inside, the SS ordered two groups of five prisoners to leave the barn. As each group emerged, the men were machine-gunned. Gunner Brian Fahey survived the shooting, although the SS believed him to be dead.
When a third group was ordered to come out for execution, the remaining British prisoners refused. The SS then opened fire directly into the barn with their weapons.
A small number of British soldiers managed to escape, while others, including Fahey, were left for dead. Approximately 80 men were murdered in the massacre.
Several days later, Fahey and other survivors were discovered by Wehrmacht soldiers searching the area for dead and wounded personnel. The survivors were taken to a hospital, treated for their injuries, and later transferred to prisoner-of-war camps in occupied Europe. Some of the most severely wounded were eventually repatriated before the end of the war.
Responsibility
The SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment was commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. After the war, Dietrich claimed that he and Joachim Peiper's adjutant, Max Wünsche, had been sheltering for several hours in a roadside ditch between Esquelbecq and Wormhout and that he therefore could not have issued the execution order.
Postwar testimony indicated that the soldiers responsible for the massacre belonged to the regiment’s 2nd Battalion, commanded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Mohnke. However, Mohnke, who remained a Soviet prisoner until 1955, was never brought to trial for his alleged role in the killings. He consistently denied the accusations, telling historian Thomas Fischer:
“I ordered neither the taking of British prisoners nor the execution of prisoners.”
Mohnke died in August 2001.
Investigations
In 1947, several survivors returned to the site accompanied by investigators from the War Crimes Interrogation Unit. The inquiry was directed by the office of the Judge Advocate General. However, it proved impossible to build a sufficiently strong case to bring charges. Several potential eyewitnesses had been killed on the Eastern Front, while others invoked their SS oath and refused to testify.
As a result, no member of the SS involved in the massacre was convicted for the crime.
In 1988, following a campaign led by British Member of Parliament Jeff Rooker, the case was reopened. Nevertheless, a German prosecutor concluded that there was insufficient evidence to initiate criminal proceedings.
Documents from German wartime archives later revealed that Sepp Dietrich had already been freed from the ditch before the massacre took place and that, as commander of the unit, ultimate responsibility for the killings rested with him.
Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery: A Solemn Reminder of Northern Prison Camp Brutality
In a neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, is this Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery—a modest two-acre historic site that serves as the final resting place for more than 2,200 Southern soldiers.
These prisoners of war perished from disease and the harsh conditions at the adjacent Camp Chase POW camp between 1861 and 1865.
Managed today by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the cemetery features rows of marble headstones, a striking granite memorial arch crowned with a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier facing South, and a large boulder dedicated in 1897 (shown in this century old photo). The engraving reminds us that those Confederates buried here were Americans.
Camp Chase began as a Union training facility but evolved into one of the North’s largest and most notorious prisoner-of-war camps. In the bitter cold of Ohio winters, Confederate captives endured overcrowded, poorly sheltered quarters, inadequate food and medical care, and often brutal treatment by guards.
Disease—pneumonia, dysentery, and others—ravaged the prisoners in this rough environment. Thousands suffered and died there. After the war, the prison grounds were dismantled and largely forgotten. Today, residential streets, homes, and businesses cover the former camp site. The only remnant of this once-vast facility is the Confederate cemetery itself.

While many in the modern era focus exclusively on the horrors of Andersonville in Georgia, a fuller picture reveals uncomfortable truths.
The Lincoln administration halted prisoner exchanges in 1864, a calculated military move that disadvantaged the resource-strapped Confederacy. The South, already facing starvation and struggling to feed its own soldiers and civilians, suddenly had to care for tens of thousands of additional prisoners—requiring scarce food, guards, and labor.
Northern camps like Camp Chase, by contrast, operated in a land of plenty. The Yankees had abundant supplies and shelter yet chose policies and conditions that led to widespread suffering and death. Retaliatory Northern prisons proved every bit as brutal and deadly as their Southern counterparts. The tragedy was not one-sided; it reflected the grim realities of the North’s total war.
If you ever find yourself in central Ohio, take time to visit Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery and pay your respects. Stand before the arch and boulder, walk among the graves, and honor these Southern men who endured captivity far from home.
In an age that often remembers only one narrative, sites like this preserve the truth of Southern sacrifice and the shared humanity of all who suffered. Lest we forget.
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Road workers in Chartres, France struck something far heavier than concrete—an unexpected metallic mass buried just meters from the city’s historic cathedral. What they pulled from the ground was a fully intact WWII M5 Stuart tank, a 37 mm-armed American light tank that once rolled through the city during its 1944 liberation. Records link it to the 31st Tank Battalion, 7th Armored Division—reportedly abandoned during combat, then deliberately pushed into a bomb crater and buried after the war. How does a frontline liberation vehicle end up forgotten beneath a French city for more than 60 years… hiding just below everyday streets?
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Château de Versailles.
The story of Palace of Versailles is really the story of French royal power — its rise, its glory, and eventually its collapse.
From Hunting Lodge to Royal Palace
Everything began with Louis XIII in the early 1600s. He loved hunting in the forests outside Paris and built a small brick hunting lodge at Versailles in 1623. At the time, it was quiet countryside, muddy and isolated.
His son, Louis XIV — the famous “Sun King” — transformed that modest lodge into the largest and most extravagant palace in Europe. After witnessing unrest and rebellions in Paris as a child, Louis XIV wanted to move the royal court away from the dangerous capital and place all political power under his direct control.
By 1682, Versailles officially became the center of the French monarchy.
The King’s State Apartments were designed to impress ambassadors and nobles. Every room symbolized power, mythology, and divine authority.
The most important room was the King’s Bedchamber. Surprisingly, the king’s bedroom was not private. At Versailles, daily life was a public ceremony.
Each morning, nobles attended the Lever — the king’s waking-up ritual. Important aristocrats competed for the honor of handing the king his shirt or shoes. In the evening came the Coucher, the formal ceremony of putting the king to bed.
Louis XIV turned ordinary routines into political theater. Nobles stayed busy trying to gain favor instead of plotting against him.
The most famous room in the palace is the Hall of Mirrors, where glittering mirrors reflected candlelight from the gardens. It hosted royal celebrations, diplomatic receptions, and later major historical events.
The Queen’s Apartments mirrored the king’s rooms but followed stricter etiquette.
Several queens lived there, but the most famous was Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette arrived from Austria as a teenager in 1770. Many French people distrusted her because she was foreign, and later she became a symbol — fair or unfair — of royal excess during a time of financial crisis.
Her bedroom became one of the most important rooms in France because royal births happened in public. Courtiers crowded into the room to witness the birth of royal children, proving the baby was legitimate.
One famous feature near the Queen’s Bedroom was the secret passageway hidden behind a panel. During the October 1789 Revolution, angry crowds stormed Versailles. Marie Antoinette escaped through this hidden corridor to reach the king’s chambers moments before rioters entered her room.
One of the most important decisions made under Louis XVI was France’s support for the American colonies during the American Revolutionary War.
France wanted revenge against Britain after losing territory in previous wars. Influenced by figures like Benjamin Franklin, the French court agreed to help the American insurgents with money, weapons, troops, and naval support.
French officers such as Marquis de Lafayette became heroes in America.
The victory helped create the United States — but it also pushed France deeper into financial crisis. Ironically, the ideas of liberty and revolution returning from America helped inspire the French Revolution itself.
The Fall of Versailles
In 1789, revolution erupted in France.
Crowds marched from Paris to Versailles demanding bread and political change. The royal family was forced to leave the palace and return to Paris under guard.
Versailles ceased to be the seat of royal power.
In 1793:
Louis XVI was executed by guillotine.
Months later, Marie Antoinette was also executed.
The age of absolute monarchy in France had ended.
(via Ancient History Hub on X: “Carcassonne — The Fortress That Survived the Middle Ages Built during the Gallo-Roman period and expanded in the 12th–13th centuries, Carcassonne became one of the most powerful medieval fortresses in France. Its massive double walls and 52 towers protected the region from https://t.co/ljCPYlFzhS” / X)
My portrait after graduating from the Air Force Academy as a lieutenant in 1990.
It was a long time ago, almost another life, this is the first time I’ve put these photos on, you know why I’m flying now.
Annasyl.
Tyrol, Austria.
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