#wwii watches

[stricklandvintagewatches]

Exceedingly rare, magnificent – and original – WWII era Hamilton Seckron "D37" Fairchild “bomber timer" with custom-designed wrist strap by Strickland Vintage Watches in black cordovan and cowhide. Circa 1940.

#hamilton #hamilton watches #military watch #hamilton military watch #wwii watches #wwii history #men's 1940s fashion #military timepiece #timepiece #men's watches #men's fashion #vintage timepiece #classic watches #wrist art #1940s mens watches #1940s hamilton watch #true vintgae #vintage lifestyle #horological mahinces #horological finds #horological art

[uncanny-tranny]

I just find it very interesting that all the labour classed as lesser (most often seen as "women's labour") becomes indispensable in moments of crisis. It's just interesting to see how quickly people turn to that labour and then discard it in moments of peace or prosperity, devaluing it until another crisis hits.

#politics #feminism #yes this is me reflecting upon the knitting and war video #it's interesting how a 'feminine' craft like knitting became recognized only in tangent to the violence of war #my feelings about this are complex but i think textile craft is a good example of what i mean #because textiles are revolutionary to humanity - just like the discovery of fire. and yet it is so often devalued #especially when it comes to profit over human welfare #look the textile artist to even stauncher hater of capitalism pipeline is real and i'm barreling down it faster than the speed of light #complex feelings on this but this is my general thesis i guess #(context: i was watching a video about knitting and how it supported war efforts in wwi and wwii) #(and while i did know a lot about the topic in that it was a huge part of war support propaganda it was still interesting) #i feel like that video encapsulated a lot of angst i have about crafting labour especially #and also by 'interesting' i actually mean infuriating and stupid

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Dancing is for people who are free.

— Jojo Rabbit (2019)

dir. Taika Waititi

#if you know you know #one of the saddest scenes in cinematic history I swear #I just watched this movie and cannot stop the storm of tears #taika waititi how dare you #taika waititi #also I don’t see enough hype over this child actors performance #he was incredible #jojo rabbit #film #scarlett johansson #holocoust #germany #world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #cinema #cinemetography #oscars

[thoughtportal]

Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gender non-conforming people. Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the trans community, deporting many trans people to concentration camps and wiping out vibrant community structures. As transgender people are now increasingly targets of discriminatory legislation and hate, join the Museum for a program exploring these stories and experiences prior to and during the Holocaust.

This panel conversation will feature Dr. Anna Hájková, Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick; Dr. Katie Sutton, Associate Professor of German and Gender Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at Australian National University; and Dr. Bodie A. Ashton, a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Universität Erfurt, with moderator Rabbi Marisa Elana James, Director of Social Justice Programming at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York.

#video #science history #history #lgbtq history #WWII #germany #Youtube #watch this

[thatsrightice]

THE REASON REAR-TRI-WHEELED PLANES LIKE THE P-51 DO THE LITTLE “S” WIGGLES WHILE THEY TAXI IS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T SEE PAST THEIR NOSE OH MY—

oh wait ha i def already knew that

#wwii #I love using gifs from mota for reactions because I’m hoping I’ll convince more people to watch the show #mota #masters of the air #Harry Crosby #mota musings #aviation musings #airplanes #p-51 Mustang

[romanceyourdemons]

as a kaiju movie, godzilla minus one (2023) does everything it should and more. unlike many earlier godzilla films, where the themes and emotional arcs are functionally an excuse to show godzilla, godzilla functions as a way to illustrate the themes and emotional arcs; from a character standpoint, the film could almost completely narratively function without godzilla, which sets it head and shoulders over many of its peers. furthermore, godzilla’s presence from almost the first scene—vast yet not truly alien—establishes it not as a destructive intrusion from the future, as in films where godzilla is purely a metaphor for the nuclear age, but rather as an unwanted lingering of the past, a literalization of postwar cultural trauma and survivor’s guilt. however, whereas as a monster movie it takes a bold new stance, as a war movie it pulls its punches. placing the start of the movie at the hopeless end of wwii serves to shift the narrative from the national and nationalistic to the level of the individual (while also firmly placing the repercussions of imperialism and war crimes outside of the story’s scope), as also seen in the burmese harp (1956) and fire on the plain (1959). like those films, the presence of fantasy or magical realism replaces the presence of flesh-and-blood human foes, and, like the burmese harp (1956), the film adopts a very strong, at times heavy-handed, life-affirming message. and yet, for all the openly themed monologues, this film pulls its punches when it comes to its life-affirming, anti-war stance. the narrative only grants its failed kamikaze pilot redemption when he chooses to undergo a suicide mission; it only grants its kid too young to go to war maturity when he chooses to go to war. of course these themes of self-sacrifice come naturally to the collectivist narrative this film shares with most kaiju movies. despite this, the contrast of these arguments more suited to a war movie with the nominal themes of the film left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth even during its highly engaging final fight scene. all things told, godzilla minus one (2023) combines two genres rarely seen together in a deeply intriguing and in certain respects highly effective way, but the spaces in which it takes the easy way out leave points of weakness in the story that highlight the strength it could have had

#like. they could have committed to the bit. it wouldn’t have been easy but it would absolutely have been worth it. #anyways sorry for bringing two art films from the 50s into it i don’t watch much japanese wwii film #ryddles

[fictionadventurer]

Potential January Reading:

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn Green

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Something by Pope Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger

A classic (new-to-me or reread)

#monthly reading list #at one point this list was going to be a mile long #so many categories felt like they fit #i always get hit hard with a space opera craving right after christmas #but i've found i prefer watching to reading it #i want something travel/adventure related #and something nonfiction #but most of those can be covered by the wwii fiction #this will be a month of wwii i think #the classic is there because this is the season for classics #i may decide to actually finish the emma reread #but this is also the month i read 'wives and daughters' and part of me really wants to reread now that i have a physical copy #or i may try a dickens audiobook or something #and i've been saving 'the long winter' for january #you have no idea how much i've been looking forward to seeing cap garland again

[coffeesnorter]

I'm getting better at drawing his face in my style, lol. Hopefully, I'll be able to make a nice, fully finished artwork instead of a sketch. Till next time, lol

This isn't meant to be readable even though it's kinda obvious I was drawing up a little story...

#these silly sketches were made while i was watching war movies #im very autistic about WWI amd WWII #siebren de kuiper #sigma overwatch #overwatch fanart #overwatch #artists on tumblr #sigma fanart #silly sketches #sigma ow

[moveslikekeithrichards]

Would you recommend watching Wizards 1977? Either as a good movie or as a bad movie or otherwise?

it is fabulously wild & charming & personally i would classify it as Good but i feel like if i recommend it & dont give a warning for the use of a lot of footage of hitler & wwii then people are gonna be mad at me. so thats my warning

#personally i think if someone wants to watch a movie they should seek out the warnings for themselves #or ask somebody specifically if theres anything distressing #i mean if i was recommending a movie to a friend & i knew somethin would bother them then certainly id just tell em #but im Still seeing people mad that nobody told them about that scene in reanimator #& to be fair i guess most people wouldnt expect wwii footage in the wacky wizard movie #but it is very political

[sunshineandlyrics]

*The movie was made with a budget of $15 million I want x x

Also the Godzilla Minus Team wearing Godzilla claw shoes x x

#yay for the underdogs #how cool are they #lets celebrate the smaller film makers #so rude how they interrupted his speech #I want to watch this Godzilla movie because it is actually made by Japanese people and its set post WWII #Godzilla minus one #Takashi Yamazaki #oscars 2024 #shoes #10 March 2024 #mine

[stricklandvintagewatches]

Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011)  One of the first American female military pilots and member of the WASPS ( Women Airforce Service Pilots), having trained with Lieutenant Col. Paul Tibbets. She's seen here sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder, which she flew expertly during WWII along with aircraft that towed aerial targets.  

  After the war, Miss Gardner worked as a test pilot and with General Textile Mills to design and implement aircraft parachutes.  She participated in at least two test flights with the experimental chute in December 1945. During both tests, she was forced to bail out of the aircraft when the parachute became tangled in the test aircraft. During the second incident, the aircraft entered a dive when its elevators were jammed by the parachute; Miss Gardner managed to escape from the cockpit and was only 500 feet from the ground when her own parachute opened.

In 2009, WASP pilots were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal through a unit citation.

The heroic Miss Gardner passed away in December 2011 in Manhattan, New York at the age of 90.

#elizabeth gardner #wasp pilot #women air force service pilot #wwii #wwii pilot #hero #military #wwii watches #wwii timepiece #watches #timepiece #military watches #horology #Congressional Gold Medal #WWII History

[ifindus]

I just finished the series "kampen om tungtvannet" on nrk. I had no idea it was such an important part of ww2 but it seems almost no one talks or knows about it? at least we didn't learn anything about it in history class

I binged the series today because of this ask ✨ been meaning to do it for a while now

tbh though, the second world war has sooo many operations in so many different countries that all had an effect on the war in some way - many more Norwegian ones too. It would be very difficult to learn about all of them in history class 😅 series etc are great ways to learn about them though!

I'm not always a fan of Norwegian television, and there's a lot of bad stuff I cannot watch, but films and series set during wwii are always great? Kampen om Tungtvannet was actually really good, no complaints.

The series is about Norwegian people working with Brits at the Norwegian camp in Scotland, to bomb the heavy water factory back in Norway because the Germans want to use it to make an atomic bomb - something that would make the allies loose the war. There is also an American there for some reason who just wants to bomb everything as a solution 🤔

#hetalia #historical hetalia #aph america #aph england #aph scotland #aph norway #hws america #hws england #hws scotland #hws norway #thanks for sending the ask! ✨ I probably would not have watched the series if you hadn't #and I always have so much fun drawing uniforms 🥰🥰 #and I got to draw Scotland and Norway together!! even though there were no scots in the series :((( #I need to watch more series on NRKTV - and the new movies about wwii #also watching Max Manus would probably not be a bad idea either #love getting inspired by this sort of things

[aclaywrites]

First of all, I like the specification that this protection is during lesbian sex. Yes, straight folks who wrote this deck of cards, that’s the kind of sex someone playing a game called The Ultimate Lesbian Conversation would in fact be having.

Secondly, protection from what? Lesbian sex doesn’t get you pregnant. What else do I need? A catcher’s mask? A beekeeping coverall? A lead bunker? A dental dam? Honey, we didn’t even use those in the 80s, we sure ain’t reviving that now.

If we were doing it outdoors I would wear sunscreen, so I guess my answer would have to be yes 😂

#lesbian queries #lesbian query of the day #lesbian #lesbian sex #gay shit #dykes to watch out for #that’s pussy babe #beekeeping #baseball #wwii

[sassyandclassy94]

I brought Michaiah over the Austin Butler side. Mission: Accomplished.

My work here is done. @fictional-at-heart

#first Bobby - now Austin😏 #I’m feeling like a proper recruiter over here!! #queue up Michael Buble’s ‘And I’m feelin… GOOD.’ #but girl I’ve been a fan of him since I watched the Elvis movie while home sick last year #BUT ANYWAY BETTER LATE THAN NEVER #All it took was seeing him in WWII getup and BAM💥 She’s now hooked #Austin Butler #masters of the air #Buck Cleven

[spidergvven]

candice patton went through so much but she really knew what she was doing bc iris is black now in every new adaptation i see and it shouldnt have been that hard for her but i feel like she deserves recognition for sticking with it despite all the racist hate she endured bc she knew what a difference it would make and she was right. every single one of those haters can die mad bc iris is black now.

#sorry im watching justice society wwii and was reminded of everything candice put up with to make black iris happen #dc #the flash #iris west

[thatsrightice]

Masters of the Air is raw.

That’s the only way I can describe it.

I am only one episode in and I had to stop because it is so unbelievably raw that it physically hurts. It figuratively and literally pulls at my heartstrings.

I’m not attached to the characters, heck I don’t even know any of their names yet, but I think I’m okay with that because much like other military movies, people die. And they don’t die nice. It freaking sucks because it just doesn’t feel fair. This show is amazing, beautiful production and killer historical accuracy, but it’s just not fair because

51% of bomber aircrews in WWII were killed in operations.

Only 24% survived the war unscathed.

They are the true definition of flyboys, these men in their flying machines. They are so young and so full of life that it hurts to watch just knowing what lies ahead of them.

But even though it hurts to watch, physically pains me to sit through every minute, I feel that I owe it to them. I need to watch this in remembrance of all those that served in those flying coffins and died as well as acknowledge what they went through to survive. I can suck it up and wrap myself in a blanket with my hood up, cowering on the floor leaning against the couch because if they can go up there knowing more than likely they’re not going home, I can watch a frickin tv show from my couch. If you can watch it, watch it.

#masters of the air #go watch it guys #it’s got a hell of a producing team #also ignore the fact that the guy from saltburn is in it #watch it with your dads #(or moms/friends/parental figures/anyone) #just maybe don’t watch it alone #tv show #recc #I’m hurting guys #I’m a history nerd #aviation #wwii #recommendations #if you like catch-22 or 1914 or any other wwii movie you should like this one #mota