#ww2 world war 2

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[kemetic-dreams]

Honoring the 1st US Army African Female Pilot - Millie Bailey. She served in WWII and was 104 years old when she passed away in May of 2022. Show this Beautiful Woman some Love! RIP. Thank you for your service to our country and freedom for all.

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #millie bailey #ww2 #world war 2

[shinishmermaid]

#history #poland #israel #jumblr #ישראבלר #ww2 history #ww2 #world war 2 #antishemisem

[theworldatwar]

US Marines pose with their War Dogs - Bougainville, Solomon Islands 1943

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #solomon islands #bougainvillea #Bougainville #war in the pacific #pacific war #pacific #dog handler #us marines #ww2 colour photos

[lonestarflight]

Two workers attaching a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp onto a F4U Corsair at the Chance-Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut.

Date: March 1943

NARA: 179036630

#Vought F4U Corsair #Vought F4U #F4U Corsair #F4U #Corsair #Fighter #Aircraft #Airplane #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #Military History #Chance-Vought Factory #Factory #Stratford #Connecticut #March #1943 #color photo #my post

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I found one of the phones designed by post World War 2 German scientists that was made to talk to the dead. I had a really bad feeling, I wouldn't like what would happen after if I answered the ringing.

#dream #almost nightmare #world war 2 #world war ii #ww2 #wwii #german #violence tw #war tw #science #scientist #death tw

[histcryprincess]

French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.

#historical photos #history #historical #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #second world war #ww2 photos #wwii #wwii photos #ww2 history #wwii history #1940s #1940s women #1940s photos #ww2 women

[dontirrigateme]

US soldiers from the 2nd armored division find a piano in the street after arriving in Normandy on 10 August 1944.

Image from Wikipedia

#ww2 #world war 2 #wwii #world war ii #2nd armored division #normandy #france

[theygender]

TLT fans: did you guys know about the real Wake? I hadn't heard about her until we covered World War II in my world civ class this semester

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) was a covert operative who was at the top of the Nazi's most wanted list in WW2, nicknamed "The White Mouse" for her ability to repeatedly evade capture. She was born in New Zealand with Māori heritage, grew up in Australia, and joined the Resistance after traveling to Europe and witnessing the harsh treatment of Jews in Vienna by the Nazis

Wake worked in the Pat O'Leary Line escape network until her Resistance organization was compromised by the Germans in 1942. After that she fled on foot across the Pyrenees—with several close calls that she escaped by flirting with German soldiers—and made her way to England to join the Special Operations Executive. She was part of a three person team codenamed "Freelance" which parachuted into occupied France. During this operation she got stuck in a tree after her parachute became tangled in its branches. The local Resistance leader who found her reportedly said “I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year" to which she replied "Cut out that French bullshit and get me out of this tree"

While working in the Freelance operation Wake once biked 500 km (310 mi) without stopping in the span of 72 hours across Nazi territory to retrieve a new radio and codes after her team's were destroyed in a Gestapo raid. Without this feat, Freelance would not have been able to communicate with London and there would have been no more supply drops to support their Resistance organization. During the war she was also part of a raid which destroyed the Gestapo headquarters in Montluçon, in which she reportedly killed a Nazi sentry with her bare hands to prevent him from raising an alarm

Wake's fellow operatives described her as "a real Australian bombshell. Tremendous vitality, flashing eyes. Everything she did, she did well. She was an excellent shot, excelled at fieldcraft and put the men to shame by her cheerful spirit and strength of character." "She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts. Then she is like five men." "We both came to the conclusion that she was 10 times the man I would ever be"

By the time of her death in 2011, Wake had been awarded the George Medal by Britain; the Medal of Freedom by the United States; the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre (x3), and the Légion d’Honneur by France; and the Badge in Gold by New Zealand. Due to a complicated relationship with Australia, she originally refused to accept any awards from the Australian government, saying that they could "stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts." In 2004, however, she accepted the honor of Companion of the Order of Australia as well

#the locked tomb #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead kia hua ko te pai snap back to reality oops there goes gravity #harrow the ninth #tamsyn muir #world war ii #world war 2 #nancy wake #nancy grace augusta wake #rambling #idk what exactly to do with this information but i thought it was really cool #and let me tell you. the fact that commander wake seems to be based on a key resistance op in WW2 at the top of the nazis most wanted list #does NOT make john and his empire look good. in case we needed anymore hints #ww2 tw #nazis tw #herstory #nona the ninth #greatest hits

[dronescapesvideos]

PBY Catalina Flying Boat in the icy waters of Kodiak Bay, Alaska, during World War II. The crew are wearing wader suits made of waterproofed canvas with attached boots and gloves.

➤➤ PBY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2qlMbZ70rqc

➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/hwndn4ta

#youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #military #ww2 #wwii #documentary #aviation history #pby catalina #catalina #kodiak #alaska #world war 2 #world war ii

[bantarleton]

The war memorial in Abertillery, South Wales.

#history #british army #military history #ww1 #world war 1 #remembrance #armistice day #poppy #poppies #ww2 #world war 2

[andromeddog]

war dog

#my art #historical fiction #world war 2 #ww2 #oc stuff #how tf do i tag this shit #do you know i spent hours drawing the netting and camo on that helmet #and then COVERED IT UP! what a schmuck

[diogxnxs]

Content Warning: Horrors of War, PTSD, Trauma

"Thanks, Joe. What would I do without you?"

#My Art #Donald Duck #Jose Carioca #Ze Carioca #Duckverse #Ducktales #Disney #PTSD #World War 2 #DonZe #WW2 #Saludos Amigos #The Three Caballeros #Cigarette #Smoking #Lucky Strike #This comic is a work of love. #WW2 Donald Duck

[theworldatwar]

American infantrymen hitch a lift on a captured German Kubelwagen - Carentan, June 1944

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #carentan #France #1944 #June 1944 #kubelwagen #us army #usarmy

[lonestarflight]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "Big Yank" (44-6405) starting up her engines. This Fortress is credited with 3 Me 262 kills and one probable on March 24, 1945.

NARA: 195654

source

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #B-17G #bomber #USAF #world war 2 #world war ii #WWII #WW2 #History #March #1945 #my post

[beautifulwarbirds]

JU 87 Stuka

#world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #ww2 #aviation #warbird #history #bomber #dive bomber #stuka #ju 87 #art #aviation art