#wwii spies

[ariastarke]

You want SJM to write another book about training to fight because you can’t comprehend a female character being badass and having agency unless she holds a sword.

I want SJM to write a book about Elain training to be a spy because it plays on themes of everyone underestimating her, her powers as a seer, claiming agency in the NC, becoming a hidden weapon, and still maintaining the roots of her character.

We are not the same.

#acotar. elain archeron #pro elain #elriel #we already got the feyre and nesta found family books where is elain’s #i’m suffering #also i feel like there will probably be those self defense lessons as well but like #ESPIONAGE?? FORBIDDEN ROMANCE?? #i think about what sjm said about the wwii spies daily #also i could go on for HOURSSS about the parallels between the way feyre nesta and elain train and why emphasis is put on different things #for different sisters #but maybe that’s for another day 👀 #hush m #book. acotar

[gameraboy2]

Private Snafu in Spies (1944) 

#my gif #prviate snafu #spies #gif #gifs #gifset #vintage #film #movie #propaganda #wwii #world war II #1944 #1940s

[thisbluespirit]

Matty Firman (Suzanna Hamilton) and Colin Beale (Jeremy Northam) in Wish Me Luck S1 (LWT 1988).

#wish me luck #gif #matty firman #colin beale #colin x matty #suzanna hamilton #jeremy northam #1980s #period drama #spies #wwii #kissing #slightly different version of them in this ep #because a) the colouring is so horrible and i keep trying to make it better #but i'm afraid the dvd is just like this #and b) they really are v cute in it and it's hard to leave out bits #(it means nothing tho! lol)

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: Operation Carpetbagger

On this day in 1944, an American B-24 Liberator lands in England, having completed a top-secret overnight mission. The plane had been painted black, making it hard to spot against the nighttime sky. The B-24’s ball-turret had also been removed, replaced with a cargo hatch.

The objective of the secret flight was simple: Resupply underground resistance forces in Nazi-held territory. The flight was the first of many in an effort that would span months. Taken together, these missions came to be known as Operation Carpetbagger.

It became one of World War II’s best-kept secrets.

The missions were so covert that the crews themselves often had no idea where they were going or what they were carrying.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-operation-carpetbagger

#tdih #otd #this day in history #history #history blog #America #WWII #world war ii #aviation history #spies #sharethehistory

[historybizarre]

Much of the initial press coverage about the agents centered on women who were heralded for their wartime exploits, but who also firmly demonstrated that they had now left war behind for lives focused on home and family.

An illustrative example is the January 1947 newspaper profile of Marguerite “Peggy” Knight, which mused in its opening paragraph, “You would not suspect that the prim little woman who comes out of the newly-built house… wheeling her 16-month and four-month-old babies in a second-hand pram… once blazed away with a Sten gun at Germans hunting her down as a secret agent in France.”

Similar juxtapositions between Knight’s present state of domestic bliss and her former life as a resistance fighter continued throughout the article. In wartime, her bag held coded messages and a radio set but now contained a shopping list.

#history #wwii #women's history #british history #espionage #women spies #gender roles #20th century

[theworldatwar]

At an unknown airfield somewhere in occupied Europe, three Abwehr agents fold their parachutes in preparation for a jump over England - 1942

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #wwii #ww2 history #wwii era #wehrmacht #world war 2 #abwehr #secret agent #secret war #spy #spies #1942

[musewrangler]

He could see the white of the breakers as they came out over the sloping ground leading to the beach. Not quite high enough to be termed a cliff, but no easy ascent either. And the right height for Han and his plane.

He dipped a little lower and opened up the throttle a bit more, roaring out over the water.

“Captain Solo, is this aircraft not able to achieve more height?” asked Piett, and Han wished he could see the man so he could throw him a smug look.

“The Falcon isn’t really built for speed anyway,” he replied. “I’m going for subtle which means flying below radar.”

He was reasonably sure Piett muttered something derogatory about ‘Americans’ and ‘subtle’ but Han was a magnanimous guy and he could gloss over such things.

Besides, this man had been through several kinds of hell judging by what Han had heard. Working undercover so close to Hitler’s foulest officers took a special kind of courage. And he’d been briefed by Luke about the nature of Piett’s bold rescue of his friend.

#star wars #star wars original trilogy #star wars au #star wars wwii au #world war two #firmus piett #admiral piett #general veers #maximilian veers #han solo #myra veers #obi wan kenobi #friendship #slow burn #romance #spies #d day

[aurembiaux]

Update of The time that is given to us!

Aaaand here we go with the 7th chapter of my WWII in Middle-Earth! In which some decisions are taken, some family matters threaten to be discussed and new characters are introduced!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41875923/chapters/113253817

#tolkien #tolkien fics #wwii #ww2 #spies #Fíli #ori #nori #balin #Bofur #bifur/dori #bifur #dori #dáin

[preppystatesman]

Warm evenings & spying

#spies #oss #cia #preppy #ivy style #rugged Ivy #astethic #martini #dirtymartini #record player #turntable #military intelligence #military history #wwii #ww2 history

[teddybasmanov]

POV: I'm listening to Jim ち ASMR spy roleplays.

#Jim ち ASMR #jim asmr #asmr roleplay #since nothing I post seems to be noticed anyway #I decided to make this silly joke #it's a song from a very famous soviet movie about spies during WWII (that I didn't watch...) #Spotify

[tenth-sentence]

Thousands of FANYs were recruited for the Special Operations Executive and about 60 were trained as spies, parachuting into occupied countries to organise resistance fighters preparing the way for the Allied invasion.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #fany #first aid nursing yeomanry #special operations executive #training #spies #parachuting #occupied country #organizing #resistance #preparation #allied forces #invasion #ww2 #wwii #world war two

[ruleof3bobby]

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940) Grade: B-

Not the typical Hitchcock film you would think of. Still, it's a master class in spy movies. It def set a road map for future spy scripts.

#Foreign Correspondent #1940 #B #Thriller Films #Spies #Spy #London #Alfred Hitchcock #World War II #WWII #Reporter #Joel McCrea #Laraine Day #George Sanders #Herbert Marshall #Albert Bassermann #Robert Benchley #Eduardo Ciannelli #Martin Kosleck #Edmund Gwenn #Charles Wagenheim #Charles Halton #Barbara Pepper #Youtube

[unyieldingvalxr]

#Era ww2 spies #muse: philomena cheer #wwII au #muse: Sybil Crawley #Muse: Samuel Tallmadge #muse: Samantha Tallmadge

[thisbluespirit]

Matty (Suzanna Hamilton) and Colin (Jeremy Northam) about to be caught by German soldiers in the middle of a radio transmission to London in Wish Me Luck (1.6, LWT 1988).

#wish me luck #gif #matty firman #colin beale #suzanna hamilton #jeremy northam #colin x matty #1980s #period drama #spies #wwii #kissing #i do love matty #she's very much a blunt instrument #anyway #fanfic tropes in canon #taking going undercover literally #and i'm not entirely sure jeremy northam should be allowed to be this young in anything

[ghassanrassam]

1952..a French unit has a spy for the Germans in its midst..

#spies WWII

[olganmwriter]

#TuesdayBookBlog Regardless of the consequences by L.D. Lauritzen. Western, mystery, spy novel and more

Hi all: I bring you a book I found in NetGalley thanks to BookGoSocial, and I had also read some intriguing reviews, so I had to check it out. It’s a peculiar mix of genres, but it works quite well. Regardless of the Consequences by L.D. Lauritzen Regardless of the Consequences by L.D. Lauritzen Sheriff Lance Tallbear’s half-blood Apache heritage leaves him struggling to find his place in a…

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#Apache #Arizona #mystery #reservation #shaman #sheriff #spies #thriller #western #WWII