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The Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Ōyodo was designed as a submarine flotilla flagship. Instead, she served as an escort, transport, and fleet support vessel throughout much of her career. In October 1944 she participated in the Battle off Cape Engaño as part of the Northern Force. She was sunk at Kure in July 1945. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/japanese-light-cruiser-oyodo/ #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #IJN #ImperialJapaneseNavy #Ōyodo #lightcruiser #cruiser #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #WWII #SecondWorldWar

Ōyodo was conceived as a submarine flotilla flagship and long-range reconnaissance cruiser, intended to coordinate submarine operations across the Pacific. Her design prioritised speed, endurance, and command facilities over heavy armament. Her main battery consisted of six 155 mm Type 3 guns mounted in two triple turrets forward, supplemented by eight 100 mm dual-purpose guns amidships for anti-aircraft defence.
By the time Ōyodo entered service, Japanese naval strategy had changed dramatically. Submarine operations no longer held the central importance envisaged before the war, while carrier aviation had assumed the primary reconnaissance role. As a result, Ōyodo never fulfilled her original mission. Instead, she served as an escort, transport, and fleet support vessel throughout much of her career. In October 1944 she participated in the Battle off Cape Engaño as part of the Northern Force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, screening Japanese carriers in a diversionary role against U.S. forces.
Ōyodo spent her final months largely immobilised at Kure. During heavy US carrier air attacks in late July 1945, she was struck by multiple bombs, capsized in shallow water, and sank on 28 July 1945 with significant loss of life.

USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) a US Navy Casablanca-class
escort carrier underway off Hawaii with lifts lowered, July 1944. She was sunk by kamikaze attack on 4 Jan 1945 in the Sulu Sea. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/us-navy-escort-carrier-uss-ommaney-bay-cve-79/ #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #Aircraftcarrier #EscortCarrier #USNavy #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #SecondWorldWar

LIVE: The 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

The museum on the site of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp marks the 81st anniversary of the camp's liberation in the closing months of World War Two IN 1945. According to estimates, some 2 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered in the camp in the Holocaust. #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Commemoration #Anniversary #Poland #History #WorldWarTwo #Remembrance #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news…

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LIVE: 81st anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation

Survivors pay tribute to those who died in the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp at the 81st anniversary of the camp's liberation in the closing months of World War Two in 1945. According to estimates, some 2 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered in the camp in the Holocaust. #Auschwitz #Holocaust #Commemoration #Anniversary #Poland #History #WorldWarTwo #Remembrance #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest…

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Holocaust Memorial Day: Manchester survivors remember Auschwitz liberation

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'Mind-blowing' WWII film has just broken a huge streaming record

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Masterpiece war movie with ‘the most terrifying sequence ever filmed’ now streaming for free

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Devastation as World War II Manchester steel firm collapses with loss of around 100 jobs

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Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

Jewish women and children, arms in the air, forcibly removed from a bunker by Nazi soldiers during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. By Unknown author (Franz Konrad confessed to taking some of the photographs, the rest was probably taken by photographers from Propaganda Kompanie nr 689.[1][2]) - Image:Warsaw-Ghetto-Josef-Bloesche-HRedit.jpg uploaded by United States Holocaust MuseumThis is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Restored version of Image:Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 06.jpg with artifacts and scratches removed, levels adjusted, and image sharpened.., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17223940

I didn't know that Ansel Adams had documented the Japanese internment during WWII.

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‘Spectacular’ war film with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score now streaming on Netflix

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/12/spectacular-war-film-perfect-rotten-tomatoes-score-now-streaming-netflix-26242222/

Nicolas Cage film blocked by East London council over Nazi flag concerns

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Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank's step-sister Eva Schloss dies as King Charles pays tribute

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It is worth recalling that governments otherwise closely aligned with #germany during #worldwartwo tended to balk at handing over any of their citizens to #germany. This effect was offset to some extent by #vichyfrance denaturalising large numbers of recent immigrants - mainly #jews - who it had no compunction in handing over. Not an encouraging precedent!

Trump says his raid on Venezuela was an assault ‘not seen since World War Two’

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Locked door beneath Piccadilly Station hides underground world that helped save countless lives

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Inside 'ghost' village abandoned for 80 years after everyone told to leave

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Two nights of terror at Christmas when hundreds died and Manchester burned

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“Things Worth Remembering: ‘White Christmas’ Is a World War II Anthem - Today, we see it as a quintessential secular Christmas song. To its original audience in 1941, however, the lyrics were impossible not to associate with the war.”

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https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-white-christmas-is-a-world-war-ii-anthem

Today in Labor History November 28, 1944: 400 people in Rotterdam attacked a coal warehouse during the Nazi occupation. The Nazis executed 40 Dutch men in retaliation. By 1944, over 300,000 Dutch resisters were living underground, combined with tens of thousands more who were actively resisting the occupation.

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