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USS PRINGLE (DD-477) near the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina on November 25, 1942. Intended to carry a seaplane, she has an aircraft-handling boom. But no catapult has been installed.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 107408

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something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

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NEW MODEL IS OUT! WS38 British Radio set!

Get em' while they're uh. 3d?

Anyway, designed to be a 1:1 scale model of the real thing, with some concessions for easy 3d printing and assembly, it's hollow and designed to be wired up with modern internals if you want a working model!

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Merry Christmas - 1944 - From Brussel's to its Liberators

Many years ago I bought this invitation card; actually I bought a lot of militaria and this was amongst some documents. I'd never seen anything like it before or since. It is printed on a card stock, and the silver ink is metallic. I've not paid much attention to it until it recently came up in conversation and I'd remembered I have it. If anyone can find more information about the event, or photos, I'd be delighted to learn more; so far I found the 3 De Jonghe Clowns (Photo from 1951);

And a photo of the theatre from 1904';

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The children yearn for pretty men in pre 20th century military uniforms

curatedstupidity

First big reenactment order in two years placed! Fresh uniform and new gear! So excited.

#reenactment #wwii

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-Bilbo Baggins at his 111th birthday party.

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And it hurts to miss you, but it’s worse to know

That I’m the reason you won’t come home

Photos by keltikfilm, editing by me

#this is so #ow #it hurts #i hope you are happy it hurts to look at #its so well done

Normandy feels like a lifetime ago

#wwii #reenactment #history #france #me

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I am sharing food with you; it is all I can do, and it is everything.

― Andre Dubus

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I was a veteran of some war getting married and just as I was about to kiss my bride, my alarm went off.

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The Indianapolis Star, Indiana, March 18, 1926

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Ad agencies with the Chlorine Gas account in the post-WWI era had to hustle

#can't get a cold if your lungs are burning!

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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I’m so mad because this worked

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help me roger

telanu

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

luthienebonyx

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

riskpig

………my friend has made me curious

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help me roger

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Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director