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♥ Apr 6th, 2012
To Victory - Canadian War Poster depicting the British lion and the Canadian beaver, 1942. I can’t be the only one who finds it really hard to take this poster seriously.
♥ Apr 5th, 2012
Brigadier General Dollard Ménard, was a Canadian general who, as a lieutenant colonel, was wounded five times during the Dieppe Raid in 1942 while leading Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. His story inspired a famous Canadian World War II poster Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre (What it takes to win). He was later made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Since all of the other commanding officers were either killed or captured, he was the only commanding officer who had landed at Dieppe to return to Britain after the raid.
♥ Mar 26th, 2012
22 May 1942: Partisan Resistance fighter Stjepan Filipović, seconds before his execution by the Nedićevci (Nazi-collaborating Serbian State Guard). In a final act of defiance, Filipović thrust his fists into the air, yelling “Death to fascism, freedom to the people!” As a result, the phrase became the official motto of the Yugoslavian resistance movement. It was also used as a greeting between the Partisans. Accompanied by a closed-fist salute, the first member would exclaim “Smrt fašizmu!” (“Death to fascism!”) to which the second would respond “Sloboda narodu!” (“Freedom to the people!”) When written, it was abbreviated to “SFSN!”
♥ Mar 23rd, 2012
The town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, prior to June 1942. On Hitler’s orders, it was razed to the ground in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Close to 200 people were executed, and many more sent to concentration camps because of suspicions that the town was ‘harbouring the assassins.’
♥ Mar 18th, 2012
Jewish children in the Lublin ghetto. The men behind them were forced to remove their caps in deference to a German officer standing next to the photographer. Poland, 1941-1942.
♥ Mar 14th, 2012
The USS Lexington explodes after being bombed by Japanese planes in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942. More than 200 of the carrier’s 2,951-man crew went down with the ship. While Japanese forces won a tactical battle, a number of their damaged ships were unable to participate in the upcoming pivotal Battle of Midway, which took place one month later.
♥ Mar 12th, 2012
These prisoners were photographed along the Bataan Death March in April of 1942. They have their hands tied behind their backs. The estimates of the number of deaths that occurred along the march vary quite a bit, but some 5,000 to 10,000 Filipino and 600 to 650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O’Donnell. Thousands more would die in poor conditions at the camp in the following weeks.
♥ Mar 7th, 2012
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California. Photographed in October, 1942
♥ Mar 6th, 2012
Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill. Photographed in August of 1942.
♥ Mar 5th, 2012
Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, October, 1942.
♥ Mar 4th, 2012
An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, California. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. Photo from October, 1942.
♥ Mar 4th, 2012
Answering the nation’s need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Assembly and repair department. Mrs. Davis’ training will enable her to take the place of her husband should he be called by the armed service. Photo taken in August, 1942.
♥ Mar 2nd, 2012
A Malayan mother expresses her grief over the loss of her child whose body (at right) lies where the youngster was killed by a Japanese bomb fragment in one of the last raids before the city fell, in Singapore, on March 13, 1942.
♥ Feb 28th, 2012
Japanese soldiers killed while manning a mortar on the beach are shown partially buried in the sand at Guadalcanal on the Solomon Islands following attack by U.S. Marines in August 1942.
♥ Dec 14th, 2011
Road to the east, the Eastern Front, August 1942