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The North American Aviation A-27 is an attack version of the North American T-6 Texan. Ten aircraft were ordered by Thailand as NA-69 light attack aircraft.

Instead of being delivered to Thailand, the aircraft were taken over in October 1940 by the United States Army Air Corps
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/north-american-a-27-attack-aircraft/ #NorthAmericanA27 #USAAC #USAAF #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #SecondWorldWar #aviation #aeroplane #aircraft #airplane #trainingaircraft #attackAircraft #military

#200 - https://boxd.it/3sDg #2025MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #War #SecondWorldWar #Action #Movies Not very good.

PZL P.7a Captured by Germany Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Luftwaffe captured various Polish aircraft, including several PZL P.7a fighters. Some captured P.7as were used by the Germans for training https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/pzl-p-7a-captured-by-germany/ #aeroplane #Aircraft #airplane #fighter #Luftwaffe #PolishAircraft #PZLP7 #SecondWorldWar #WorldWarTwo #WW2

Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Luftwaffe captured various Polish aircraft, including several PZL P.7a fighters. Some captured P.7as were used by the Germans for training, though the exact number of aircraft captured intact is not precisely documented. Most P.7as were either destroyed in combat during the September Campaign or damaged beyond repair on the ground during German air attacks. The captured P.7as that fell into German hands were primarily assigned to training duties.

LWS-6 Zubr Polish Bomber https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/lws-6-zubr/ #aeroplane #Aircraft #airplane #aviation #bomber #LWS6Żubr #PolishAirForce #SecondWorldWar #WorldWarTwo #WW2

Fifteen LWS-6 bombers were delivered to the Polish Air Force between 1938 and 1939. Due to their obsolescence, they were relegated to training units rather than frontline combat roles. The LWS-6 did not take part in combat during the German invasion of September 1939. Six machines were destroyed at airfields, one was destroyed during the evacuation and the rest were captured by the Germans and Russians. The Germans took over five LWS-6 stored in Zajezierze and one operational aircraft. The planes were overhauled and put into service where they were used to train pilots in blind flight until 1942.

Four LWS-6s fell into Russian hands and were put into service as communication planes.

Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it | David Reynolds https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/14/trump-obsessed-us-history-but-learned-wrong-lessons #USforeignpolicy #Secondworldwar #DonaldTrump #USmilitary #USpolitics #Worldnews #USnews

#OnThisDay in 1913, Berthe Mayer was born. During the #SecondWorldWar, she worked as a radio operator for her husband Percy, an SOE agent on #Madagascar.

When the allies took the north of the island, Percy ended up behind Allied lines and Berthe behind French lines. Despite having small children and SOE and her husband telling her to stop, she kept transmitting intelligence on her radio. The French authorities knew a radio was transmitting somewhere and searched her house multiple times, but never found any evidence.

In November 1943, she received the MBE in recognition of her work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Mayer

@CarveHerName

Black and white photo of a young Berthe Mayer. She has dark hair and is wearing a top with flowers, tied in a bow at the neck.

#OnThisDay in 1942, the village of #Lidice was completely destroyed. The men were shot, the women sent to a death camp. A few children were sent to SS families to be "Germanised", the rest sent to a death camp with the women. The area around the village was landscaped so that no trace remained. Hitler had ordered that the memory of Lidice was to die.

Lidice was chosen because a man named Vaclav Říha wanted to end his affair with Anna Maruščáková. He sent a cryptic note to her workplace, suggesting that he was involved in the assassination of Heydrich (he wasn't). Under interrogation, she mentioned that a couple of men from Lidice were in Britain. The Gestapo initially assumed those two men were the ones that had assassinated Heydrich. By 10th June, they'd realised their mistake, but by then Hitler had issued his decree, and so Lidice was destroyed.

https://russellphillips.uk/product/a-ray-of-light-reinhard-heydrich-lidice-and-the-north-staffordshire-miners/

#SecondWorldWar #histodons #history #LestWeForget

Arboretum talk to explore “one of the last great taboos” of the Second World War

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/06/10/arboretum-talk-to-explore-one-of-the-last-great-taboos-of-the-second-world-war/

Oradour-sur-Glane a place to remind you that war only has losers. But this robin shows you that there is always hope.

#remember #hobbyphotography #pixelfed #robin #birdsofmastodon #france #oradoursurglane #secondworldwar #hobbyphotographer

Een roodborstje hoop in een verwoeste omgeving

Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden Scale Model by Hasegawa. Allied reporting name Jack. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/scale-model-aircraft-photographs/mitsubishi-j2m3-scale-models/ #MitsubishiJ2M3 #Aeroplane #airplane #aircraft #aviation #ScaleModel #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #SecondWorldWar #fighterplane

Mitsubishi Ki-15 (Babs) 1:72 scale model by Hasegawa. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/scale-model-aircraft-photographs/mitsubishi-ki-15-babs-scale-models/ #MitsubishiKi15 #MitsubishiBabs #Ki15Babs #aeroplane #Airplane #aircraft #WW2 #SecondWorldWar #WorldWarTwo #scaleModel #Hasegawa

#OnThisDay in 1942, Reinhard Heydrich made the world a slightly better place by finally dying of the wounds he'd sustained during the assassination attempt on 27th May.

Unfortunately his Nazi mates, scared that the same thing might happen to them, killed thousands of people in retributions.

#MilitaryHistory #SecondWorldWar #LestWeForget
@militaryhistory @worldwarshistory

#188 - https://boxd.it/s9k #2025MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #War #Drama #SecondWorldWar #Movies Good war drama. Loads of excellent B-17 scenes.

https://www.alojapan.com/1288525/ukraine-drone-attack-harvard-educated-japanese-admiral-planned-original-pearl-harbour-attack-on-the-us/ Ukraine drone attack: Harvard-educated Japanese Admiral planned original Pearl Harbour attack on the US #DroneAttackRussia #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #PearlHarborMoment #PearlHarbourMoment #RussiaPearlHarbourMoment #SecondWorldWar #UkraineDroneAttack #UkraineSpider'sWeb #UnitedStates #us In what could be a defining moment in the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv launched one of the biggest drone attacks under Operation Spider…

I just heard someone on a podcast say that the Tetrarch was designed to be an #airborne #tank, and that Britain wasn't conducting many airborne operations in 1941, which is why they sent some to the #USSR.

Sigh. I guess it's time to share this again.

The Tetrarch was not designed as an airborne tank - Russell Phillips
https://russellphillips.uk/the-tetrarch-was-not-designed-as-an-airborne-tank/

#SecondWorldWar #WW2 #WWII #MilitaryHistory

#186 - https://boxd.it/Zz6 #2025MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #Documentary #SecondWorldWar #War Not amazing but still worth a look. Further reason to respect and admire that generation of young people who paused their lives to go fight nazis.

Marcel Ophuls was the unflinching chronicler of France’s suppressed wartime shame https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/26/marcel-ophuls-france-suppressed-wartime-shame-sorrow-pity #Documentaryfilms #Secondworldwar #Worldnews #Culture #France #Europe #Film

#OnThisDay in 1942, Warrant Officers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš ambushed Reinhard Heydrich and attempted to assassinate him. He was wounded and later died in hospital.

The reprisals were brutal and swift, and eventually led to the complete destruction of the village of #Lidice.

https://russellphillips.uk/books/heydrich-lidice/

#LestWeForget #SecondWorldWar #histodons @worldwarshistory