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George Orwell: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
Let’s manipulate information and control behavior. Let’s alter thoughts and behavior. Let’s manipulate brain function. Let’s use nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and big data to alter the cognition of humanity. We will not only attack what they think, but also the way they think—the very way their brains processes information. We will influence their decision-making, we will change their behavior.
It’s a war on the brain and the way it functions. Indeed, the human mind is the new battlefield. Psychological operations…psychological warfare…cognitive warfare…yet the war isn’t really for your mind, but for your soul—for your eternity.
The boot: satan’s plan for humanity. It will step on your mind, it will crush your soul. It will hold you down, it will oppress you. If you take the Mark, it will stamp on your face for ever.
A technocratic dystopia, a digital gulag is coming for you. Take the microchip, become a human hybrid—owned by patent, easily controlled. Transhumanism: the dawning of a new era. A dystopian nightmare of Biblical proportions!
Jeremiah 25:31 “His cry of judgment will reach the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring his case against all the nations. He will judge all the people of the earth, slaughtering the wicked with the sword. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
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Aristotle said that tyrants “endeavour by every means possible to keep all the people strangers to each other.” Totalitarianism creates fragmented groups of isolated individuals. The people under such movements suffer a lack of normal social relationships. When isolation becomes commonplace in a society, the ground is fertile for totalitarianism. Therefore, isolation and loneliness in a society are precursors to totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments create isolated citizens. Terror works best against people who are isolated from each other. If people are afraid to speak to one another, they are more easily controlled. Indeed, “isolated men are powerless by definition.” Recent studies tell us that society is becoming increasingly isolated, lonely, and depressed.
“Millennials, Generation Z: Connected with thousands of friends—but feeling all alone” – USA TODAY
The more people are cut off from the world, the more they are cut off from reality. When they are cut off from reality, they are more easily manipulated and indoctrinated. The structures of the Nazis and Soviets were very cult-like. These structures created brainwashed conformists. Today socialist ideologies are still brainwashing people. Philosopher Nicolai Berdyaev stated that “Russian revolutionaries... had always been totalitarian,” and, “the revolution was a religion and a philosophy.” In the Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini referred to Fascism as a religious concept. So why do we let schools teach our children neo-Marxist cult doctrines, such as Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory? The revolutionaries who follow these cult doctrines want to bring in totalitarianism. They want to usher in a communist revolution that will destroy democracy and free-market capitalism.
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.” – Lenin
The corporate-owned politicians and media act like patriotism is bad. (Patriotism is the glue that holds the people of a sovereign nation together). There is a big difference between patriotism and Hitler’s Germany. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party was a political party of “National Socialism.” Patriotism and National Socialism are two different things. The corporate entities listed above like to cry out: nationalism! Sorry, but nationalism and National Socialism are two different things. One is authoritarian and one is not. Trying to stretch the word nationalism into National Socialism is completely dishonest. Fascism is a form of socialism, and communism is a form of socialism. They are kissing cousins! One form revolves around race: the Aryan race vs supposed inferior races. The other revolves around class: the proletariat vs the bourgeoisie. On the far-right of the socialist spectrum is fascism. On the far-left of the socialist spectrum is communism. Socialism promotes centralized government, but democracy promotes decentralized government. Socialism promotes collectivism, but democracy promotes individualism. Socialism equals totalitarianism, and democracy equals freedom. Who would have thought: Big Brother government equals totalitarianism? And guess what? The fascists and communists hated one another, because they were both vying for power! They were archenemies. Nowadays the commies like to call all their enemies fascists. So they call conservatives far-right Nazis and white supremacists. Speaking of fascists! The globalists—with their neo-fascist stakeholder- capitalist (stakeholder-socialist) system, which they are working towards implementing—hate patriotism and want open borders and mass migration.
A tyrant also should rather admit strangers to his table and familiarity than citizens, as these are his enemies, but the others have no design against him.” – Aristotle
“For of all the states which appear well governed we find not one where the rights of a citizen are open to an indiscriminate multitude.” – Aristotle
The globalists want to overthrow Western democracy and free-market capitalism—degrowth. So they attack our heritage and culture by labeling them racist. The woke communists call our capitalist system systemically racist. They use their cult dialectic of oppressed vs oppressor as a battering ram to break apart our system. The funny thing about these new woke commies is that they are turning towards fascism (race socialism) like the Nazis did in Germany—can anyone say “Critical Race Theory!?!” The United Nations’ public–private partnership system is also a form of neo-fascism. “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” These public–private partnerships involve governments, banks, multinational corporations (corporate fascists), and non-governmental organizations. Their Great Reset (Build Back Better) is an implementation of their New World Order system—the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations; Agenda 21; Agenda 2030—a neo-fascist system.
“The imperative of global governance, in particular, is irrefutable.” – United Nations
Our governments in the West have designed interventionist policies, which supposedly improve our ‘free-market’ capitalist system. There is no doubt that this interventionism will end in disaster, chaos and social unrest—the destruction of our current system. “Anti-capitalistic policies sabotage the operation of the capitalist free-market economy.” In the end their measures produce worse results, and in order to fix these results they add more anti-capitalist regulations. Their interventionism is slowly bringing about full-blown socialism. One step at a time they interfere with the economy, with the intent of one day controlling all economic activities. We will eventually end up with a controlled economy like they had in Nazi Germany. Then our economic freedom will be gone. Democracy goes hand in hand with capitalism. In the end, socialism cannot operate according to democratic or capitalist principles. They are like oil and water—they do not mix. So in the end our system will become a socialist system.
“According as circumstances are favourable, one should modify one’s plans.” – The Art of War
Our capitalist system is headed for a crash. A totalitarian system will replace it. This new system will revolve around digital surveillance. It will entail digital IDs, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), Social Credit Scores, and Universal Basic Income (social(ist) welfare). They want to put the population in 15-minute cities, because totalitarian systems don’t like freedom of movement. They don’t like freedom of speech either. How about freedom? Do they like freedom?
“The presently popular liberal notion of a World Government is based, like all liberal notions of political power, on the same concept of individuals submitting to a central authority which ‘overawes them all,’ except that nations are now taking the place of individuals. The World Government is to overcome and eliminate authentic politics, that is, different peoples getting along with each other in the full force of their power.” – Hannah Arendt
Plato had his weird Platonic collectivist and Platonic proto-communist ideas. He called his ideal city-state Kallipolis—Beautiful City—in Latin. Kallipolis has occasionally been depicted in art as the Tower of Babel. These globalists are building their own global Chinese-style commu-fascist Tower of Babel—communist in governance, fascist in economics. Every socialist government has an authoritarian leader like Hitler, Stalin or Mao. This new antichrist government will also have its own antichrist. This charismatic leader (philosopher king) will introduce a globally centralized digital currency system. To participate in this system, you will have to take his digital smart-tattoo. You will have to join his cult and worship him. If you do not take his Mark and worship him, you will be an enemy of the state. You will then be exterminated. Welcome to Digital Babylon! Take the Soma-Vaccine, take the Chip-Mark! But beware: transhumanism will only cause you more isolation and loneliness. What fulfilling lives you will live, sheltered in the technological surveillance bubble of the Beast’s psychological warfare, which will control your minds and souls in the digital era of the all-seeing eye of singularity—the Fourth Industrial Revolution (the Fourth Reich). MK-ULTRA gone nuclear!
“All warfare is based on deception.” – The Art of War
A society of isolation and loneliness will produce decadence and nihilism. Decadence and nihilism yesterday: the Jews are parasites. Decadence and nihilism today: babies in the womb are parasites. Decadence and nihilism in the future: those who refuse the Mark of the Beast are parasites. The victims will no longer be human in the eyes of the antichrist-state and its executioners.
Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work is about to be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.”
John 16:1 “These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.”
Matthew 15:16 “’Are even you,’ He answered, ‘still without intelligence?’”
Mark 8:21 “’Do you not yet understand?’ He said.”
John 16:31 “Jesus answered them, ‘Do you now believe?’”
Description: World War II propaganda poster focusing on the Anglo-American alliance. Hitler and Goebbels are in the background
Date: c.1943
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 3/322
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Description: Anti-rumour and careless talk poster. Mock "German Intelligence Officer" gives message to British troops on the consequences of giving military details to friends.
Date: World War Two
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 3/267
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How many biplanes can claim a jet fighter among their victims in an air-to-air engagement? The Polikarpov Po-2 can (see below).
Designed as a replacement for the British-designed Avro 504 in Russian training units, it served as a general-purpose Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (from Russian "kukuruza" for maize; thus, "maize duster" or "crop duster"), NATO reporting name Mule.
The reliable, uncomplicated concept of the Po-2's design made it an ideal training aircraft, as well as doubling as a low-cost ground-attack, aerial reconnaissance, psychological warfare and liaison aircraft during war, proved to be one of the most versatile light combat types to be built in the Soviet Union.
As of 1978 it remained in production for a longer period of time than any other Soviet-era aircraft. More than 40,000 Po-2s may have been built between 1928 and 1953, although this total needs confirmation. Low-rate production by small repair shops and air clubs likely continued until 1959.
North Korean forces used the Po-2 in the Korean War, inflicting serious damage during night raids on Allied bases.
UN forces named the Po-2's night-time appearance Bedcheck Charlie and had great difficulty in shooting it down - even though night fighters had radar as standard equipment in the 1950s, the wood-and-fabric-construction of the Po-2 gave only a minimal radar echo, making it hard for an opposing fighter pilot to acquire his target. On 16 June 1953, a USMC AD-4 from VMC-1 piloted by Major George H Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S Kramer shot down a Po-2, the only documented Skyraider air victory of the war.
And that jet fighter mentioned above? Well, one Lockheed F-94 Starfire jet fighter was lost while slowing to 110 mph during an intercept of a Po-2 biplane; maybe not shot down, but I'll bet the Po-2 pilot claimed it. - all details from various Wikipedia pages.
This example is in a Soviet Air Force colour scheme at the Shuttleworth Collection and is seen at the end of its display during the Collection's 50th Anniversary Air Show at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire.
How many biplanes can claim a jet fighter among their victims in an air-to-air engagement? The Polikarpov Po-2 can (see below).
Designed as a replacement for the British-designed Avro 504 in Russian training units, it served as a general-purpose Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (from Russian "kukuruza" for maize; thus, "maize duster" or "crop duster"), NATO reporting name Mule.
The reliable, uncomplicated concept of the Po-2's design made it an ideal training aircraft, as well as doubling as a low-cost ground-attack, aerial reconnaissance, psychological warfare and liaison aircraft during war, proved to be one of the most versatile light combat types to be built in the Soviet Union.
As of 1978 it remained in production for a longer period of time than any other Soviet-era aircraft. More than 40,000 Po-2s may have been built between 1928 and 1953, although this total needs confirmation. Low-rate production by small repair shops and air clubs likely continued until 1959.
In WWII, the Po-2 trainer was modified into the U-2 light night bomber. Wehrmacht troops nicknamed it Nähmaschine (sewing machine) for its rattling sound and Finnish troops called it Hermosaha (Nerve saw) as the engine had a very peculiar sound, which was described as nerve-wracking. The material effects of these missions may be regarded as insignificant, but the psychological effect on German troops was much more noticeable. They typically attacked by complete surprise in the dead of night, denying German troops sleep and keeping them constantly on their guard, contributing yet further to the already exceptionally high stress of combat on the Eastern Front. Their usual tactics involved flying only a few metres above the ground, rising for the final approach, cutting off the engine and making a gliding bombing run, leaving the targeted troops with only the eerie whistling of the wind in the wings' bracing-wires as an indication of the impending attack.
The U-2 was known as the aircraft used by the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-women pilot and ground crew outfit. The unit became notorious for daring low-altitude night raids on German rear-area positions. Veteran pilots, Yekaterina Ryabova and Nadezhda Popova on one occasion flew 18 such missions in a single night. The women pilots observed that the enemy suffered a further degree of demoralisation simply due to their antagonists being female. As such, the pilots earned the nickname "Night Witches." The unit earned numerous Hero of the Soviet Union citations and dozens of Order of the Red Banner medals; most surviving pilots had flown nearly 1,000 combat missions each by the end of the war and had taken part in the Battle of Berlin.
North Korean forces used the Po-2 in the Korean War, inflicting serious damage during night raids on Allied bases. At 0300 hours on 28 November 1950, a lone Po-2 attacked Pyongyang airfield in north-western Korea, damaging 11 Mustangs, three so badly that they were destroyed when Pyongyang was abandoned several days later.
On 17 June 1951, at 01:30 hours, Suwon Air Base was bombed by two Po-2s. Each dropped a pair of fragmentation bombs. One hit a motor pool, damaging some equipment, but two bombs burst on the flight-line of the 335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. One F-86A Sabre was struck on the wing and burned out. Prompt action by personnel who moved aircraft away from the burning Sabre preventing further loss. Yet eight other Sabres had been damaged in the brief attack, four seriously. One F-86 pilot was among the wounded.
UN forces named the Po-2's night-time appearance Bedcheck Charlie and had great difficulty in shooting it down - even though night fighters had radar as standard equipment in the 1950s, the wood-and-fabric-construction of the Po-2 gave only a minimal radar echo, making it hard for an opposing fighter pilot to acquire his target. On 16 June 1953, a USMC AD-4 from VMC-1 piloted by Major George H Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S Kramer shot down a Po-2, the only documented Skyraider air victory of the war.
And that jet fighter mentioned above? Well, one Lockheed F-94 Starfire jet fighter was lost while slowing to 110 mph during an intercept of a Po-2 biplane; maybe not shot down, but I'll bet the Po-2 pilot claimed it. - all details from various Wikipedia pages.
This airworthy example is in a Soviet Air Force colour scheme at the Shuttleworth Collection and is seen at the end of the Collection's 50th Anniversary Air Show at Old Warden Aerodrome in Bedfordshire.
Title: [Farewell, American Soldiers!]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 13x19cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
A Vietnam War safe conduct pass in my collection.
According to SGM Herbert A. Friedman:
"The United States and its allies dropped over 50 billion leaflets on Vietnam. Many of them were safe conduct passes.
During the Vietnam War, the United States produced a series of safe conduct passes depicting the flag of the Republic of (South) Vietnam with other allied flags, to encourage defection of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. The passes and leaflets were produced under the jurisdiction of the Joint United States Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO)
The main Allied operation using such PSYOP in Vietnam was the Chieu Hoi program. It is usually translated as "Open arms." It is a combination of two verbs, "to welcome" and "to return." The program was first started by President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Diem believed that a defector who willingly came over to the government side was more valuable that one who is taken prisoner. He encouraged the Allies to drop billions of leaflets offering amnesty to those who might rally to the government. In 1969, over 47,000 Viet Cong deserted. During the length of the war, about 160,000 enemy soldiers voluntarily came over to the Government of (South) Vietnam.
The United States began the aerial bombing and leafleting of Vietnam of North Vietnam in 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Two South Vietnamese leaders are identified on the leaflets. Nguyen Cao Ky headed a military junta that assumed control in June 1965 following a series of short-lived military regimes that operated after the fall of long-time President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963. Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president in 1967. The process of American withdrawal and their replacement with Vietnamese troops ("Vietnamization") began in July 1969. As the American and South Vietnamese position worsened, a cease-fire was negotiated in Paris in January 1973, but it was never implemented. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese on 30 April 1975.
(This) variety bears the signature and photograph of Nguyen Van Thieu. The leaflet was developed in January 1968. Nguyen Van Thieu was born on 5 April 1923, in the province of Ninh Thuan. As a young man, he briefly helped the Viet Minh fight the French colonial powers in his native province. He attended the National Military Academy in Hue and joined the French-backed Vietnamese army fighting the Viet Minh. By 1963 he was chief of staff of the Armed Forces of South Vietnam. During the confusion of the mid-1960s, when South Vietnam was wracked by coups, General Thieu became commander of the military region embracing the Mekong Delta. In June 1965, Thieu was appointed chairman of a 10-member military directorate. From there it was a short step to the presidency. He was elected in 1967, and presided over the country for eight years of the war. As the North Vietnamese armies moved south in greater numbers Thieu appealed to President Nixon for more financial aid. Nixon was sympathetic but the United States Congress was not and the move was blocked. Starved of funds, Thieu had difficulty paying the wages of his large army and desertion became a major problem. With the fall of the government to the Communist armies he fled to Taiwan in April, 1975. He died in September 2001 in Boston."
Much more information is available at www.psywarrior.com/VNFlagSCP.html
Title: [Capitalists Demand Red Endlessly]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
A Vietnam War safe conduct pass in my collection.
According to SGM Herbert A. Friedman:
"The United States and its allies dropped over 50 billion leaflets on Vietnam. Many of them were safe conduct passes.
During the Vietnam War, the United States produced a series of safe conduct passes depicting the flag of the Republic of (South) Vietnam with other allied flags, to encourage defection of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. The passes and leaflets were produced under the jurisdiction of the Joint United States Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO)
The main Allied operation using such PSYOP in Vietnam was the Chieu Hoi program. It is usually translated as "Open arms." It is a combination of two verbs, "to welcome" and "to return." The program was first started by President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Diem believed that a defector who willingly came over to the government side was more valuable that one who is taken prisoner. He encouraged the Allies to drop billions of leaflets offering amnesty to those who might rally to the government. In 1969, over 47,000 Viet Cong deserted. During the length of the war, about 160,000 enemy soldiers voluntarily came over to the Government of (South) Vietnam.
The United States began the aerial bombing and leafleting of Vietnam of North Vietnam in 1964, following the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Two South Vietnamese leaders are identified on the leaflets. Nguyen Cao Ky headed a military junta that assumed control in June 1965 following a series of short-lived military regimes that operated after the fall of long-time President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963. Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president in 1967. The process of American withdrawal and their replacement with Vietnamese troops ("Vietnamization") began in July 1969. As the American and South Vietnamese position worsened, a cease-fire was negotiated in Paris in January 1973, but it was never implemented. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese on 30 April 1975.
(This) variety bears the signature and photograph of Nguyen Van Thieu. The leaflet was developed in January 1968. Nguyen Van Thieu was born on 5 April 1923, in the province of Ninh Thuan. As a young man, he briefly helped the Viet Minh fight the French colonial powers in his native province. He attended the National Military Academy in Hue and joined the French-backed Vietnamese army fighting the Viet Minh. By 1963 he was chief of staff of the Armed Forces of South Vietnam. During the confusion of the mid-1960s, when South Vietnam was wracked by coups, General Thieu became commander of the military region embracing the Mekong Delta. In June 1965, Thieu was appointed chairman of a 10-member military directorate. From there it was a short step to the presidency. He was elected in 1967, and presided over the country for eight years of the war. As the North Vietnamese armies moved south in greater numbers Thieu appealed to President Nixon for more financial aid. Nixon was sympathetic but the United States Congress was not and the move was blocked. Starved of funds, Thieu had difficulty paying the wages of his large army and desertion became a major problem. With the fall of the government to the Communist armies he fled to Taiwan in April, 1975. He died in September 2001 in Boston."
Much more information is available at www.psywarrior.com/VNFlagSCP.html
Title: [That Goes Double. The Slick Yank (in Melbourne): Take Your Sweet Time at the Front, Aussie--I Got My Hands Full Right Now With Your Sweet Tootsie at Home--]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 18x25.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Australia Screams]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Framed]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Safe Conduct Pass]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 7.5x15cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Your Happiness at Home in Australia Sacrificed! That American War Mongers May Indulge in This! Pt.2]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 17x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Your Happiness at Home in Australia Sacrificed! That American War Mongers May Indulge in This! Pt.1]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 8.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Beware of the Triple Threat]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 10x13.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Your Happiness at Home in Australia Sacrificed! That American War Mongers May Indulge in This! Pt.3]]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 10x13.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Genesis 43:28 King James Version
Title: [Ace of Hearts Leaflet-Front and Back]
Date: n.d.
Extent: 6.5x9.5
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [American Gobs and Doughboys Love Women]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 13.5x15cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Attention! Attention!]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 7.5x15cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Hey! You Diggers! He Came, He Saw, He Conquered!]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Best Wishes: A Man's Foes Shall Be They of His Own Household]]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 13x24cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [One Who Disturbs Asia's War Effort Deserves Capital Punishment. Today's Sacrifice or Tomorrow's Slavery!]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x22.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [South Vietnamese Leaflet-Both Sides]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 8.5x13.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Guard Against Venereal Diseases]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 15x23cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Broken Beyond Repair]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 10x12.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Destroy the Hiding Place of the Viet Cong]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 8x21.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [To Protect and Maintain the Security of Vietnam]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 12.5x18cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Warning Proclamation]
Date: [1939-1945]
Extent: 12.5x22.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [The Benefits of Leaving the Viet Cong]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 9x13.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [Violent Air Attack]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 13x18.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Title: [How to Behave at Checkpoints]
Date: [1955-1975]
Extent: 12.5x18.5cm
Format: Artifacts—Leaflets
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Commando Solo II seen at the California Capitol Airshow. This airplane performs psychological warfare missions. They're able to broadcast TV and radio signals from this plane!
By 1966, the Vietnam War was in full swing, and the USAF was noting the alarming rise in losses among its Forward Air Control (FAC) community, at that time flying mostly Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs. The O-1 was a good FAC platform, but single engined; the FAC role required low and slow flight, making it vulnerable to ground fire. The USAF’s requirement for an “off-the-shelf” interim replacement for the O-1, which would retain the O-1’s good visibility from the cockpit and have better survivalbility, was suited well by Cessna’s Model 337 Skymaster. The Model 337 used a unique “push-pull” twin engine setup, which had better performance and reliability than a single-engined aircraft, but did not require twin-engined certification to fly. The USAF immediately ordered 532 Skymasters as O-2A FAC aircraft and loudspeaker-equipped O-2B psychological warfare aircraft, with the first reaching USAF units in March 1967.
The O-2, nicknamed “Oscar Deuce” or “Duck” by its pilots, proved to be an excellent FAC platform, even if the twin-engined reliability was thought by its pilots to be oversold—the only thing that handled worse than an O-2 on one engine, the saying went, was an O-2 with no engines. Using marker rockets on underwing hardpoints, FAC O-2s would mark a target for USAF or South Vietnamese strike aircraft to attack VC/NVA positions in the dense jungle and mountains of South Vietnam, and occasionally Laos or even the southern portion of North Vietnam. FAC pilots were known to make strafing runs or salvo their rockets into attacking enemy troops if the situation on the ground was desperate, and some O-2 pilots even equipped their aircraft with side-firing machine guns to act as “emergency gunships,” though the USAF discouraged this activity. The FAC role was dangerous enough: 178 O-2s were lost during the Vietnam War, nearly one out of every five the USAF acquired. As it turned out, the O-2 was at least as effective as its scheduled replacement, the OV-10 Bronco, and its involvement in Vietnam ended only when American involvement did in 1973.
Following the Vietnam War, the O-2 remained in service as a FAC, though it was gradually relegated to liaison duties with Air National Guard units as the OV-10 and jet-powered OA-37B Dragonfly replaced it. The Skymaster was finally retired from USAF service around 1986, but several remained in service with the US Army as test aircraft and the US Navy as range safety aircraft for the strike training program. The last O-2 left US service in 2010. Many ex-USAF aircraft were supplied to other nations as liasion or counterinsurgency aircraft, or in Africa, anti-poaching aircraft.
67-1465 was converted to an O-2B on the assembly line, one of only 31 B-models produced. It was delivered to the 14th Special Operations Wing at Nha Trang, South Vietnam in 1967, and would take part in psychological warfare missions until 1972, when it was returned to the United States. 67-1465 was then placed in storage at MASDC, but in 1973, was returned to duty as a standard O-2A FAC aircraft with the 111th Tactical Air Support Group (Pennsylvania ANG) at NAS Willow Grove. In 1975, it was transferred to the 163rd TASG (California ANG) at March AFB, and would finish its career there in 1982. 67-1465 had been flown nearly to pieces: metal fatigue grounded the aircraft. It would remain in storage until 2000: as a Vietnam veteran, it was slated for preservation, and obtained by the March Air Museum.
When 67-1465 went on display at March, it was painted as it appeared in the 163rd, but recently it was repainted to its Vietnam-era markings. This nonstandard camouflage--similar to Southeast Asia, but incorporating dark gray--was one of several tried by the O-2 community during the war, but aside from the nighttime Sleepytime FACs, overall ADC Gray was the most common scheme used. Camouflage did nothing to hide the O-2 from ground fire, but it did hide it from strikes the FAC was controlling, increasing the possibility of collision.
I'm a big O-2 fan, so I was pretty excited to see two of them on display at March when we visited in May 2021.
After the end of World War II, the general aviation market returned to prominence, and grew--now there were thousands of former pilots who might enjoy an aircraft of their own. The war had also opened up Alaska and the more remote areas of Canada; "bush" pilots needed a good, reliable light aircraft that could land in all conditions, on very short runways.
Two aircraft designers, Otto Koppen and Lynn Bollinger, founded the Koppen-Bollinger Aircraft Company in 1948, for the express purpose of building a short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. The company's name was changed to the easier to market Helio name a few years later. Koppen's idea was a modified Piper PA-17, with a taller tail, larger flaps, and leading-edge wing slats, which would give his design superb STOL capability. For more cargo space, the fuselage was lengthened. With the final addition of a much more powerful engine, Koppen named his design the Heliopolis. It first flew in 1949. By the time production began in 1954, it had been renamed the Helio Courier. The Courier immediately found sales in the bush pilot community, and among missionaries in South America.
The USAF was interested as well. The Korean War proved that there was a need for aircraft that could operate away from airfields, in often very small landing zones. Though helicopters were coming into their own, the USAF still bought 120 L-28As as light transports; these could carry cargo and passengers, or evacuate casualties. With a stall speed of only 28 mph, it could drop into areas no other fixed-wing aircraft could reach. In 1962, the L-28 was designated U-10, though it kept the Courier name.
By the time the United States began to get involved in the Vietnam War, the USAF and US Army were both operating the U-10D Super Courier, a version with an uprated engine and longer range. Their short field landing capability was very valuable in Southeast Asia, and U-10s were not only used as light transports and liasion aircraft, but also as psychological warfare aircraft--the latter dropped leaflets and were equipped with speakers. The speakers could exhort Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers to defect, or demoralize them with Buddhist funeral dirges and terrifying ghost noises, usually played at earsplitting volume. The U-10 was very vulnerable to ground fire, but it could be used in low threat areas. A few were used in Laos as forward air control (FAC) aircraft, often by the CIA's "airline," Air America.
Though production of the Courier ended in the early 1980s, the aircraft remains popular with bush pilots. The USAF and Army retired their Couriers not long after the end of the Vietnam War, and a few of these have made their way into the hands of collectors as warbirds. Roughly 500 were built.
Built as a U-10B, 63-3096 had something of a rare career--it was built for the Air National Guard and then served with the active duty USAF. 63-3096 entered service with the 129th Air Commando Group (California ANG) at Hayward as a general duties aircraft in 1965. It was later transferred to the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, possibly as a trainer; it does not appear to have been deployed to Vietnam. 63-3096 was also upgraded to a U-10D with a more powerful engine.
It was retired in 1973, but acquired by the USAF for possible display at the National Museum of the USAF. As the NMUSAF then acquired a U-10 that had served in Vietnam, 63-3096 was surplus to the NMUSAF's needs and was moved to the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia, as Robins had done overhaul work for the USAF's fleet of Couriers. Transferred in 1987, it went on display in 1990.
63-3096 is painted in USAF Southeast Asia colors and is part of the Museum of Aviation's Vietnam display. It is posed over reproduction revetments and Conex boxes.
We also had leaflets. I don't read Vietnamese; but it looks like they are encouraging the civilians to warn US soldiers of booby traps.
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Another from the treasure trove of my father's World War II era belongings. This I presume was meant to be dropped into a German city, for someone to read. Please excuse the crookedness of this, as I took a photo, and not a scan. Here's a translation:
At the top: On February 18th, 1943, a few weeks after the catastrophe of Stalingrad, Dr. Goebbels put the question to a mass meeting at the Berlin Sportpalast:
Large print: "DO YOU WANT TOTAL WAR?"
An enthusiastic YES was the answer of the Nazi-Meeting. Today Germany knows what total wars means, better than Goebbels and his yes-shouters foresaw. The total war, wanted by the Nazis, will be continued with ever increasing weight and effectiveness, until Germany capitulates unconditionally.
Beneath the picture: THE GERMAN PEOPLE MUST CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES:
EITHER continuation of the total Nazi-war until final destruction of German man-power and industry -- OR:
The rest of the message is continued on the back. If you want to see, just leave me a note, and I'll upload and have a translation.
I’m afraid that the Land of the Bed Online Scrabble Challenge 2009 might have had some effects on Count Cunningham. I fear that the Challenge has rather got to his head.
Today I was called to the Duckham Asylum where I had to sit through a battle tactics seminar. The Count, dressed up in his Napoleon outfit, had come up with a plan to unsettle our opponents by using psychology. Namely the spelling of vegetables to irritate poor Mrs PB.
Of course I put a stop to the whole thing by citing the Geneva Scrabble Convention that clearly states that the writing of vegetables is clearly forbidden when polar bears are involved in the proceedings.
The Count was not impressed and went on to tramble on my copy of the Convention and mumbled something about “Victory” and “have them build bridges in no time” before he stormed off.
It looked like the tournament had turned ugly before it even began. I do hope that Mr Fox and I can see to it that there are no casualties on both sides and that the spelling of words remains civilized. May the gods be with us...
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. It is the first member of the prolific Huey family, as well as the first turbine-powered helicopter in service with the United States military.
Development of the Iroquois started in the early 1950s, a major impetus being a requirement issued by the United States Army for a new medical evacuation and utility helicopter. The Bell 204, first flown on 20 October 1956, was warmly received, particularly for the performance of its single turboshaft engine over piston engine-powered counterparts. An initial production contract for 100 HU-1As was issued in March 1960. In response to criticisms over the rotorcraft's power, Bell quickly developed multiple models furnished with more powerful engines; in comparison to the prototype's Lycoming YT53-L-1 (LTC1B-1) engine, producing 700 shp (520 kW), by 1966, the Lycoming T53-L-13, capable of 1,400 shp (1,000 kW), was being installed on some models. A stretched version of the Iroquois, first flown during August 1961, was also produced in response to Army demands for a version than could accommodate more troops. Further modifications would include the use of all-aluminium construction, the adoption of a rotor brake, and alternative powerplants.
The Iroquois was first used in combat operations during the Vietnam War, the first examples being deployed in March 1962. It was used for various purposes, conducting general support, air assault, cargo transport, aeromedical evacuation, search and rescue, electronic warfare, and ground attack missions. Armed Iroquois gunships carried a variety of weapons, including rockets, grenade launchers, and machine guns, and were often modified in the field to suit specific operations. The United States Air Force also deployed its Iroquois to Vietnam, using them to conduct reconnaissance operations, psychological warfare, and other support roles. Other nations' armed air services, such as the Royal Australian Air Force, also dispatched their own Iroquois to Vietnam. In total, around 7,000 Iroquois were deployed in the Vietnam theatre, over 3,300 of which were believed to be destroyed. Various other conflicts have seen combat deployments of the Iroquois, such as the Rhodesian Bush War, Falklands War, War in Afghanistan, and the 2007 Lebanon conflict.
The Iroquois was originally designated HU-1, hence the Huey nickname, which has remained in common use, despite the official redesignation to UH-1 in 1962. Various derivatives and developments of the Iroquois were produced. A dedicated attack helicopter, the Bell AH-1 Cobra, was derived from the UH-1, and retained a high degree of commonality. The Bell 204 and 205 are Iroquois versions developed for the civilian market. In response to demands from some customers, a twin-engined model, the UH-1N Twin Huey, was also developed during the late 1960s; a four-bladed derivative, the Bell UH-1Y Venom, was also developed during the early twenty-first century. In US Army service, the Iroquois was gradually phased out following the introduction of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and the Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota, although hundreds were still in use more than 50 years following the type's introduction. In excess of 16,000 Iroquois have been built since 1960.
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