#march 1945

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Vogue, March 1945

[doubtspirit]

Photo: Stadtarchiv Rheinbach

On March 6, 1945, these soldiers with Red Cross signs on their helmets drove a jeep across Münstereifeler Strasse into Rheinbach, which was 60% destroyed. The 2nd Battalion of the 310th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army arrived early in the morning of March 6th via Essig and Oberdrees. As a last crime, the henchmen of the Nazi regime burned down the town hall in the former building "Vor dem Voigtstor 23" on March 7, 1945, and with it the written estate of the city with all files and the archive.

[historyandwarfare]

Firebombing of Tokyo 10th March 1945

Bombing of Tokyo in 1945. is given far less attention than some objectively less deadly attacks (London Blitz, attack on Pearl Harbor, or bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki). Yet it is important to understand why it happened, how it was so deadly, and why the memory of the attack is so negligible. While conventional bombardment of Japan is given far less attention than the atomic bombs that…

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[hjmarseille]

Paratroopers of 17th Abn Div assemble to advance after being dropped across the Rhine in late March 1945. The man in the foreground has a rolled-up sleeping bag (“mummy bag”) in its water-repellent case lashed to an M1936 musette bag, which has a poncho under its flap securing straps; immediately behind his shoulders he also carries a narrow blanket roll. The light-colored “scarves” are 14in x 12in air-ground recognition panels in either white or yellow.

Photo and caption featured in Osprey Elite • 210 World War II US Army Combat Equipments by Gordon L. Rottman

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Harper's Bazaar, March 1945. Source

[theirfinesthour]

March 1945 A civilian woman from Berlin learns how to use Panzerfaust in Volkssturm

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Anne Frank died on March 12th 1945 in Belsen camp. I figure with the anniversary of her passing, we should acknowledge the 15 year old girl who somehow wrote positive entries in her diary and found a reason to smile, despite the darkness of the world.