#06/1944

[carbone14]

Soldats finlandais attendant une attaque soviétique dans l'un des abris de la ligne VT (Ligne Vammelsuu–Taipale) - Offensive Vyborg–Petrozavodsk – Guerre de continuation – Rautu (Sosnovo) – Isthme de Carélie - Finlande - 16 juin 1944

Le soldat de gauche tient une mitrailleuse Maxim M/32-33

©SA-Kuva

#WWII #front est #eastern front #guerre de continuation #continuation war #vyborg–petrozavodsk offensive #offensive vyborg-petrozavodsk #armée finlandaise #finnish army #rautu #sosnovo #isthme de carélie #karelian isthmus #finlande #finland #16/06/1944 #06/1944 #1944

[bobgasm]

letters from bob | forever yours, [06/07]

pairing: bob floyd x ofc!evelyn floyd word count: 240 warnings: longing, baby floyd,

summary: in which evelyn sends her third letter…

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treasure, | sincerely, | sincerely,

September 20th 1944

My Love,

Did you get my last letter? I haven’t heard from you in a while. The longer I go without hearing from you, I grow more and more worried.

We have a gorgeous, healthy baby boy. His name is Robert Lonnie Floyd and he has my whole heart. He was born on August 10th at 9:17am and weighed almost six pounds. He’s gotten bigger since then, and I’ve gotten smaller.

Has there been any more news about when you’ll be home? I’m trying to be patient, I really am, but it will be so good to see you. Hold you. Kiss you. And Robbie? I tell him so many stories about you. About how you’re a Captain and training men to fly planes. He doesn’t understand much right now, but he coo’s whenever I talk about you.

June says her husband is coming home for Christmas. I’ve been praying for you both to be home for Christmas. June and I have organised to have a joint Christmas, just in case you can’t make it. We want our kids to have a great time and have fun memories to look back on.

I miss you so much every day, Bob. Having June around has been a blessing, but she also has her own baby to look after. And a toddler.

Please come home safe. And write me back soon.

Forever yours, Evelyn and Robbie Floyd xoxo

#bob floyd x oc #bob floyd #bob floyd x reader #bob floyd x you #bob floyd x ofc #robert bob floyd x ofc #rober bob floyd x you #bob floyd fic #robert floyd x reader #robert bob floyd #robert bob floyd x reader #bob floyd fanfic #bob floyd fanfiction

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1944 06 09 Dawn Chorus - Nicolas Trudgian

June 1944, the first days after the Normandy invasion. Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" fighter-bombers of the 20th Fighter GRoup are sent on a mission to directly support Allied forces in the landing area on the continent.

#nicolas trudgian

[fashionbooksmilano]

Hilma af Klint Paintings for the Future

Tracey Bashkoff

Guggenheim Museum Publ., New York 2018, 239 pages, 22.35 x 29.46 cm, ISBN  978-0892075430

euro 67,00

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Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetism

When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's radically abstract painting practice―one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism.

Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art. Essays explore the social, intellectual and artistic context of af Klint's 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars and curators considers af Klint's sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art―a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, the site of the exhibition.

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Though her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.

14/06/23

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[overland-defender]

04/06/2022 - Day 1

The location for the group to meet was just a stones throw from Pegasus bridge located in Bénouville. Here we met some familiar faces from a previous BF4x4 tour we did a few years ago. As always an introduction and agenda was shared where most of this tour will be spent in the Calvados (Normandy) area. Today's agenda Pegasus Bridge Memorial Ranville War Cemetery Colleville-Montgomery - The Hillman Fortress Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery Arromanches-les-Bains - The Mulberry Harbour/Port Winston

Memorial Pegasus  As you would've guessed our first stop was indeed Pegasus bridge memorial/museum, now i'd imagine most would know this but the original captured bridge has been relocated away from the canal and the one you drive/walk over is a replica. The site is dedicated to the men of the British 6th Airborne Division who were the first Allied troops to arrive in Normandy on the night of the 5th/6th of June 1944 where a small detachment of the 6th British Airborne Division surprised the German garrison guarding the bridges. The BF4x4 guides arranged for a guided tour to walk us through step by step how the assault unfolded and we were even lucky enough to meet a veteran - Well worth a visit.

Ranville War Cemetery

1.4 kilometres down the ride (3 minute drive) is the Ranville War Cemetery. Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was captured intact in the early hours of 6th June by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were landed nearby by parachute or glider. Many of the division's casualties are buried in Ranville War Cemetery.

The cemetery contains around 2,236 Commonwealth burials of WW2, 90 of them unfortunately are unidentified and 323 German graves. The churchyard also contains 47 Commonwealth burials, one of which is unidentified, and one German grave.

One grave of interest was of Private Emile Corteil, he was from Watford in Hertfordshire and served with A Company, 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion. Corteil was the dog handler for the company, and his dog was called Glen. Both parachuted into France with their company on D Day, Emile was killed on D Day aged 19 years; Glen was also killed and the two were found lying together.

Colleville-Montgomery - The Hillman Fortress

From Ranville we head 7.5km northwest to The Hillman Fortress which sits south of the town Collevill-Montgomery. The Hillman Fortress was a command post among the German coastal defences on the Normandy beaches which was built between 1942 and 1944.

The 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment liberated the site on the 6th of June 1944 but took longer than expected. The delay in taking the bunker complex has been cited as a reason for the Allies not completing their major D-Day objective of taking Caen. We were fortunate to experience a camp reenactment, this entailed enthusiasts dressing up as allies and Germans with decommissioned weapons and WW2 vehicles. 1940's radio's playing war speeches and also the Jive music like 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' by The Andrews Sisters. It's honestly awesome to be amongst it and i'm sure many have got bitten by the reenactment bug. Once we had completed many laps of the camp and the fortress we has a spot to eat in the back of the 110 mainly cheese, ham and baguette (continental lunch) before heading off to our next destination of the day.

Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

Whilst in convoy heading west over the CB radio Keith informs us that we will be stopping off at another war cemetery, but this contains mostly Canadians. Many of those buried were of the 3rd Canadian Division who died either on 6th June or during the early days of the advance towards Caen, when the Division engaged the German 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Divisions. As you look around any war cemetery it is hard to really comprehend that each headstone represents a lost life and though i'm stating the obvious it's just an overwhelming experience.

Arromanches-les-Bains - The Mulberry Harbour/Port Winston

And just when you thought the day was drawing to an end, when arriving at our accommodation for the next couple of nights which is the very nice Chateau de Bellefontaine. The guys at BF4x4 explained after checking in and freshening up we have a table booked at La Marine which overlooks Gold beach, where the remains of the Mulberry Harbour/Port Winston lie. It was part of mission overlord, where the objectives at Gold Beach were to - Secure a beachhead - Move west to capture Arromanches  - Establish contact with the American forces at Omaha - Capture Bayeux and the small port at Port-en-Bessin - Link up with the Canadian forces at Juno to the east

The forces attacking Gold beach faced the German 352nd Infantry Division and German 716th Infantry Division and there were around 350 ally fatalities.

Mulberry "B" (British) was the harbour assembled on Gold Beach at Arromanches for use by the British/Canadian forces. The harbour was decommissioned 6 months after D-Day as the Allies were able to use the recently captured Antwerp port. The harbour was operated by 20 Royal Engineers under the command of Lt. Col. G C B Shaddick.

That will be enough about the history, the food at La Marine was fantastic and the on the house calvados shot (cider brandy) definitely opened up the airways. Based on Day 1... tomorrow is going to be another epic day.

#landrover #defender #landroverdefender #overlander #4x4 #defendertd5 #overland #td5 #defender110 #land rover defender #battlefields4x4

[margotfonteyns]

At The Christmas Ball: A Vintage Xmas Anthology

01 - At The Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith (1925) 02 - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back To Me - Ozie Ware (1928) 03 - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus - Butterbeans & Susie (1930) 04 - It's Winter Again - Isham Jones & His Orchestra (1932) 05 - Jingle Bells - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1935) 06 - There's Frost On The Moon - Artie Shaw & His Strings (1936) 07 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Mildred Bailey (1937) 08 - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner (1939) 09 - Winter Weather - Fats Waller & His Rhythm (1941) 10 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1943) 11 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland (1944) 12 - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Connee Boswell (1945) 13 - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Mabel Scott (1948) 14 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page (1949) 15 - All I Want For Christmas - Nat King Cole Trio (1949) 16 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - The Orioles (1949) 17 - Midnight Sleighride - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (1952) 18 - Silent Night - Dinah Washington (1953) 19 - White Christmas - The Drifters (1954) 20 - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Cadillacs (1956) 21 - Warm December - Julie London (1956) 22 - Love Turns Winter To Spring - June Christy (1957) 23 - The Secret Of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald (1959) 24 - The Christmas Song - Carmen McRae (1961) 25 - A Christmas Surprise - Lena Horne (1965) 26 - Santa Was Here - Lorez Alexandria (1968)

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#music #christmas music #my compilation

[linesandmarksonpaper]

Roy Crane - Buz Sawyer 06/09/1944

#newspaper strips #roy crane #buz sawyer

[superherobriefings]

Nitro

internationalhero.co.uk/n/nitro.htm

Creator(s): Jerry Lazare

Alias(es): Terry Allen

1st Issue w/Uniform: Dime Comics #15

Year/Month of Publication: 1944/06

#superheroes #comics #nitro #terry allen #classic #golden age #blue trunks #blue underwear

[pinturas-segunda-guerra-mundial]

1944 06 Saipan, US Marines - Peter Dennis

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#peter dennis

[usarmytrooper]

Today is the 79th Anniversary of Operation Overlord

On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 British, Canadian, and American troops crossed the English Channel to attack Hitler’s Fortress Europe at Normandy. It was the largest amphibious operation in history.

Above: Map depicting the D-Day landings by Allied forces.

Above: The text of the Order of the Day for 6 June 1944 issued by Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Prior to the assault, the United States’ 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions were assigned objectives on the Cotentin Peninsula west of Utah Beach, while the British 6th Airborne Division was assigned to capture the bridges over the Caen Canal. The Airborne operations were intended to impede the German response to the beachhead. Supreme Allied Commander (European Theater of Operations) had been told that casualties among the Airborne units could be as high as 80%. They jumped into Europe anyway.

Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to men of the 101st Airborne prior to their boarding lanes that would take them to jump into Normandy. Eisenhower stayed at the airstrip until all of the planes had taken off safely before returning to his headquarters. Happily, casualties among the paratroopers were much lower than predicted. Of approximately 13,100 paratroopers who jumped into battle, approximately 2,500 (19%) were killed, wounded, or missing by the end of D-Day.

Approximately 3,000 landing craft and 2,500 ships were used during the invasion. Preliminary naval bombardment of German positions commenced at 05:45 and continued until 06:25 from five battleships, twenty cruisers, sixty-five destroyers, and two monitors. Infantry began arriving on the beaches at around 06:30.

Above: (Top) The Battleship HMS Rodney fires on German positions at Caen, (Lower Left) Battleship USS Arkansas engages the enemy at Omaha Beach, (Lower Middle) Battleship USS Nevada fires her ten 14-inch guns in support of the Invasion, (Lower Right) Battleship USS Texas underway en route to England to participate in the Invasion.

Above: US Troops begin to establish a beachhead, signaling the beginning of the end of the Nazi occupation of Europe.

On D-Day, some 132,000 men were transported to the beaches by sea, and a further 24,000 entered France by air. The battlefield conditions were brutal and the Allied hold on the beaches was tenuous, particularly at Omaha Beach, the sector most heavily defended by German troops. But they held on. By July 25, 1944, the Allies had landed approximately 1.5 million troops in France and were ready to implement Operation Cobra, the Allied break out from Normandy. By the end of August, approximately 2,050,000 Allied troops had landed in France and resistance by Hitler’s Wehrmacht was crumbling.

Above: US Troops exit a landing craft to attempt to establish a beachhead at Omaha Beach.

The Allies suffered approximately 226,000 casualties during the period from D-Day to the end of August: the American armies suffered 124,394 casualties, of whom 20,668 were killed, and 10,128 were missing. Casualties within the Canadian and British Armies are placed at 83,045: 15,995 killed, 57,996 wounded, and 9,054 missing.

During the same period, Allied air forces flew over 80,000 sorties in support of Operation Overlord, suffering approximately 17,000 additional casualties and the loss of over 4,000 aircraft.

They truly were the Greatest Generation. After what they did for all of us, it is only fitting that we pause for a moment to remember and reflect on the sacrifices they made at the altar of freedom.

#operation overlord #june 6 1944 #d-day #general dwight d eisenhower #normandy #landing craft #airborne #paratroopers #101st airborne #82d airborne #thankful #grateful #respect #heroes

[carbone14]

Un Sherman Firefly de la 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division débarque d'un LST (Landing Ship Tank) sur Gold Beach – Opération Overlord – Calvados – Normandie – 7 juin 1944

Photographe : Sergent Laing - No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - B 5130

©Colorisation de RJM

#WWII #opération overlord #overlord #bataille de normandie #battle of normandy #7e division blindée GB #7th Armoured Division #22e brigade blindée GB #22nd Armoured Brigade #gold beach #calvados #normandie #normandy #france #07/06/1944 #06/1944 #1944

[dhr-ao3]

A Fool's Dream

A Fool's Dream https://ift.tt/wbuQdFe by art_emissss The envelope, addressed, as if to mock him, to Mr & Mrs Malfoy, lay on the edge of his desk. His knuckles smarted from the force of his grip and Draco peeled his fingers off the mahogany wood, one by one. Perhaps he could vanish the letter. Or burn it. Or: Marriage Law and its intricacies. Words: 1944, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Forced Marriage, Miscommunication, Pining Draco Malfoy, Pining Hermione Granger, Idiots in Love, marriage law, mature themes, Light Angst, Happy Ending via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/xQ8IvGz February 25, 2024 at 06:30PM

#IFTTT #Dramione #Draco x Hermione

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"…JOHN ENTWISTLE, SURELY THE MOST GIFTED BASS PLAYER OF HIS GENERATION…"

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on THE WHO's John Entwistle (1944-2002), a.k.a., "The Ox," laying down fat bass chords and solid rhythms during the recording of the "Live at Leeds" LP at Leeds University on February 14, 1970. 📸: John Rettie.

"…John Entwistle, surely the most gifted bass player of his generation, held a beat but at the same time played imaginative runs -- or fat chords -- at every notch on his fretboard. With all this going on around him, Pete was allowed the luxury of soloing at will -- knowing that if he missed a note it didn't matter because the sheer din of Moon and The Ox covered everything up -- or doing what he did best, which was to establish a chord riff and ram it home."

-- CHRIS CHARLESWORTH, "Live at Leeds" 1995 CD remaster liner notes

Source: http://rnrchemist.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-who-live-at-leeds.html?m=1.

#THE WHO #John Entwistle #Bass guitar #Hard rock #Live at Leeds #Bass chords #Bassist #John Entwistle The Ox #1970s #Leeds University #Rock photography #Bass player #Bass guitarist #Leeds UK #Leeds #The Ox #The Ox John Entwistle #WHO 1970 #THE WHO Live at Leeds #Live at Leeds 1970 #THE WHO 1970 #Heavy rock #Heavy Metal #70s rock #John Rettie #Roger Daltrey #1970 #Valentine's Day #St. Valentine's Day #THE WHO band

[pinturas-sgm-aviacion]

1944 06 28 Ploesti, A Pistol Whipping - Stan Stokes

In June of 1944, Capt. Arthur Fiedler of the 317th Fighter Squadron (flying P-51's) tangled with a Me-109 over Ploesti, Rumania. Fiedler scored several hits before his guns jammed, but the Messersmidt flew on. The German pilot decided he had had enough when Fiedler pulled his service revolver, and bailed out

[fashionbooksmilano]

Peter Lindbergh

text by Martin Harrison

Schirmer/Mosel, Munich 1998, 96 pages, 25 x 38,5 cm, Softcover, ISBN 3-88814-117-6, English text

euro 120,00

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Mostra Triennale Milano 6 marzo 12 aprile 1998 a cura di Franca Sozzani, direzione artistica Luca Stoppini

A very rare and beautiful catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh", organized by La Triennale di Milano, Milan. Peter Lindbergh (1944 - 2019) was one of the most significant and sought after fashion photographers of the past forty years, and was closely associated with the rise of the ‘supermodel’ during the 1980s.

Les photographies de Peter Lindbergh paraissent dans les magasines Vogue, Marie Claire, Stern, Allure, ou encore Harper's Bazaar. L'ouvrage reproduit en trés grande partie des photographies en noir, en pleine page, de nus ou de portraits

18/06/23

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[pinturas-sgm-tanques]

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1944 06 Normandy, Panzer IV Ausf H 12 SS Pz Div Hitlerjugend - Ron Volstad

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#Ron Volstad