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Nazi Germany had some of the best soldiers at the time that included the Gebrigsjäger's, Waffen SS and the Fallschrimjägers
Mostly took this picture to show off the new Brickarms MP40 submachine gun. The updated version has a ton of detail in it but its too big. I cut the stock off because I was not a fan of it at all.
During WWII, the site is used to produce tomato ketchup for export when emperor Japanese military occupied Taiwan.
位於高雄大湖的番茄會社【大湖甘仔蜜會社】，大湖番茄會社約興建於日治時期，為當年台、日合資經營的番茄會社，當時所產製的番茄醬全部只供外銷。DSC04091
Paris' Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest train station, ground to a halt on Friday while an unexploded World War Two bomb was defused, causing the cancellation of all Eurostar trains for the day and huge disruptions to nearby traffic.
Railway workers found the 500 kilogram (1,100 lb) device 2 metres underground at around 0230 GMT in Saint-Denis, a northern Parisian suburb, during construction work on a bridge. Police say the area is known to contain "vestiges" of the war.
Une découverte inattendue. Ce vendredi 7 mars, une bombe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale a été retrouvée « au milieu des voies » sur la commune de Saint-Denis à 2,5 km de la gare du Nord de Paris. En conséquence, le trafic est interrompu à la gare du Nord, a indiqué la SNCF.
Aucun TGV, Eurostar, RER, ni TER ne circule.
reprise du traffic vers 18h
Au total, les perturbations ont touché "500 trains"
et "600. 000 personnes",
L’interruption du trafic a été décidée « à la demande de la préfecture de police de Paris » après la découverte de la bombe « non explosée » dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi « lors de travaux réalisés en amont de Paris gare du Nord », explique la société ferroviaire dans un communiqué transmis à l’AFP. Elle mesure un mètre et pèse 500 kg.
un quart du milliard d’obus largué pendant la Première Guerre mondiale n’a pas explosé. Le chiffre est de 15 % pour les 600 000 tonnes de bombes utilisées lors du second conflit mondial. Ces explosifs sont peut-être vieux d’au moins 80 ans, mais ils n’en sont pas moins dangereux.
Rien qu'en 2023, le service de déminage de la Sécurité civile a réalisé près de 13 000 interventions pour des munitions des deux guerres mondiales.
colossal metal-working factory housing the largest hydraulic presses west of the mississippi river. manufactured artillery shells for the military from WW2 until about 2010. the site has since been demolished and replaced by logistics warehouses.
nikon coolpix 8700. processed in adobe camera raw & PTlens.
Thanks to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/96443663@N05] for the fast service and the great torsos, I now have a pair of Japanese and Luftwaffe officers :-)
Alnmouth beach, Northern England.
These concrete cubes were placed on Alnmouth beach during WWII to impede the progress of any German invasion. They are very photogenic and have a brutalist nature to them. They make good hiding places for kids playing on the beach and they make handy seats for adults.
Took a little break from my WW1 moc due to lack of pieces until my bricklink order happens and took some time to wrap up this drawing a started a while back
While the speeches were going on I turned my phone the other way and snapped this shot looking out from the Marquee. A couple of bridesmaids catch up with a friend. The mound in the background is a WWII beach front bunker now used as garden furniture storage!
Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong.
This postcard was found in the company archives, held by Stadsarchief Rotterdam. It shows Pottinger street in Hong Kong and has a serial number, 189.
HCHC had its offices in Alexandra Building.
1256 N.V. Internationale Crediet- en Handelsvereniging Rotterdam/C.V. en N.V. Wm H. Muller & Co. (Internatio-Muller N.V.) 1479 Foto's Holland China Trading Co in Sjanghai en Hong Kong.
courtesy Stadsarchief Rotterdam, www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/en
Alright, I'm back from Brickfair in one piece, and got a lot of nice swag. While I'm not going to post a picture, this one displays my 2 favorite BA items obtained quite nicely.
This is a picture of my dad, Ralph Syverson, posing in his WW II uniform with his little brother, Donald.
The portrait was taken probably in 1942 in Wahoo, Nebraska.
In March 1943, about 1,000 international people living in Shanghai were interned in Chapei Civil Assembly Centre by the Japanese. As the war progressed, food rations became smaller and less varied. Many people living in the camp were helped by people living in Shanghai from countries which were neutral during WWII, like Sweden. Also Chinese employees from foreign companies sent their former colleagues food.
This photo shows a label of such a food aid package, sent by the Swedish family Asker, to the Dutch family Hennus. Mr. C.G.C. Asker worked for the Maritime Customs Service of China (as per Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1854 –1949 Part Three: Semi-Official Correspondence from Selected Ports by Professor Robert Bickers, University of Bristol).
The text reads:
"DONOR: Mr C G C Asker, Swedish ...
1300 Rue Lafayette
CONTENTS:
Milk powder, 12 ozs
Jam, 1 tin 12 ozs
Sugar, 2 lbs
Margarine 1 lb
Peanuts 2 lbs
Tomato sauce, 1 bot
Cocao cubes 1 pkt
Fruit drops, 3 pkt
BENEFICIARY:
Master M F Hennus, Netherlands, C.829
CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTRE
4th Febr. 1944"
Chapei Civil Assembly Centre was liberated on 15 August 1945, 76 years ago today.
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Vestkusten, Number 39, 28 September 1944:
"SWEDEN PRAISED FOR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING AID TO WAR PRISONERS. By Dr. I). A. Davis, Associate Executive Director, Y. M. C. A. Worlds Committee,
Sweden and Switzerland, spared the horrors of warfare, are doing their share to lighten the burden of war victims. These two neutral countries are cooperating with the War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in Geneva and New York, in sending material aid to war prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East. The rights and privileges of more than 6,000,000 prisoners of war confined behind barbed wire throughout the world are protected by the treaty called “The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,” signed by 47 nations on July 27, 1920. Among other things the Geneva Convention specifies that various welfare organizations may have access to war prison camps to render certain services to prisoners; thus War Prisoners Aid, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. World’s Committee carries on its stimulating programs of educational, recreational and religious activities among war prisoners, regardless of race, creed or nationality. The role that Sweden plays in this important services are manifold, for giving financial support as well as supplying materials for leisure-time activities. They provide also a large percentage of the personell necessary. From Sweden comes books, writing materials, lumber and other materials hardly found now in other european countries and piany of the neutral secretaries are permitted to visit war prison and internment camps. “We sail never forget what your Swedish colleague, Hoffman, did for us in England,” said a German prisoner of war to Gunnar Celander, Swedish representative of War Prisoners Aid, during a recent prisoner of war exchange between Germany and England, through Sweden. Boatloads of German prisoners from Canada, U. S. and .England, and British prisoners from Germany, docked at Trelleborg and Goteborg, while they transferred to boats waiting to take them home.
The Swedish Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross Lottas, Swedish rail roads and welfare organizations assumed a large portion of the responsibility of looking after these men— most of whom were invalided and blind during their short stay in the country. Food, travel facilities, reading matter, games, gramophones supplied with records of German and British music were made available to make the men comfortable. Crown princess Louise visited the prisoners, with representatives of the Swedish government, who officially welcomed them. Mr. Celander reported “We Swedes are happy that it was the privilege of our country to arrange this exchange of prisoners in the spirit of conciliation and kindness in the midst of the fire of conflict. I longed to share with the entire Y. M. C. A. and its secretaries the memory of the happy faces these homeward-bound prisoners and their many proofs of gratitude. All these men can testify that we were able to serve them in of their liberation. That is the highest reward and greatest encouragement for our work.” In Stockholm a War Prisoners Aid office is under the able leader their capacity as well as in' these days ship of Hugo Cedergren, Associate Director of Y. M. C. A., and National Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Mr. Cedergren, who has visited prisoners in Europe, U. S. and Canada, said recently in America: “The spirit of prisoners is excellent. I can say that honestly from my own experience. The treatment they are receiving is correct and good.” Mrs Ceder gren is the daughter of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, brother of King Gustaf. He is honorary president of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Pastor Carl-Erik Wenngren of the Stockholm Diocese, Associated National .Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A., is now in U. S. as a neutral representative of the Ecumenical Commission for Chaplaincy Service to prisoners of war, of the World Council of Churches, and as a representative of War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A. He is visiting camps throughout America carrying the message of the church, especially to German prisoners, conducting services and other functions of a minister. Gunnar Celander, Henry Soderberg, Gunnar Janssen, O, M. Carlman and Erik Berg have been recruited from Sweden to visit war prison camps in Germany, while Bengt Hoffman carries War Prisoners Aid service to allied fliers detained in Sweden in compliance with neutrality laws. Civilan internment camps in France ares visited by mr. and Mrs. Hemming Andermo. The Swedish representative in India is Fredrik Franklin. (In the Philippine Islands, aid to prisoners of war and civilian internees is carried on under a neutral committee of Swiss, Irish, Danish, French, Belgian and Norwegian citizens, headed by Swedish Ex-Consul Helge A. Jansson, in Manila, and appointed by W. J. K. Bagge, Swedish Minister to Japan, since July 1942, chairman of neutral citizens, responsible for Y. M. C. A. services to prisoners and internees in Japan and Japanese-controlled areas. All contact between War Prisoners Aid and Japanese government are made through Stockholm. Through Minister Bagge, War Prisoners’ Aid received the first complete information about aid work in the Philippines. Final permission was given by the Japanese for the YMCA to purchase monthly in the Philippines sorely needed relief supplies for shipment to camps there in which Allied prisoners are interned. War Prisoners’ Aid service to allied war prisoners and civilian internees in Japan and Japan-held territory other than the Philippines is headed by I. P. Troedsson, Swedish Consul to Japan, assisted by N. E. Ericson of the Swedish Legation in Tokyo, under supervision of Minister Bagge. Swedish representatives of War Prisoners’ Aid make regular visits to camps in Japan are B. Gawell, John Anderson, A. Swensson and O. Pettersson, C. G. C. Asker works in Shanghai, and in Thailand, War Prisoners’ Aid service is carried to prisoners of war by F. Ehnstedt, Swedish Consul there. N. Arne Bendtz, with headquarters in Chungking, is in charge of War Prisoners Aid Services in Free China. He was responsible for taking aid not long ago to the more than two hundred German and Italian Catholic Fathers who had been interned for more than a year in the Honan Province. Traveling hundreds of miles over famine-stricken war-ridden country by car, rickshaw and on foot, climbing bleak, rugged hills, fording gushing streams, enduring scorching heat, mud and a plague of locusts, Bendtz finally reached his destination and found that the missionaries were living in dilapidated buildings, lacked essential food and clothing and faced grave financial difficulties. “For about three weeks I lived among these Catholic missionaries sharing their daily life, which I shall never forget,” wrote Bendtz in his report to Geneva. “They had suffered a lot during the past year and we came, as one said, “like an angel from Heaven, to soothe and comfort their sorrowful hearts.” “They had not met another foreigner since internment, and the concerts and speeches made in honor of the War Prisoners’ Aid representative were visible tokens of their gratitude.” Solutions to many problems facing War Prisofters’ Aid of the YMCA, a participating agency of the National War Fund, in its service to prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East, are greatly facilitated by the cooperation of Sweden.
Swedish representative of Y. M. C. A. War Prisoners’ Aid, Henry Soderberg (center), talks with prisoner and German camp official in war prison camp somewhere in Germany."
Courtesy Hennus family archives
I went to the WWII memorial this morning hoping for a different image. The fountains didn’t come on until about 15 minutes after sunrise.
Marcel Albert was a French Ace that served with the French Air Force, RAF and from late in 1942 the Soviet Air Force, he had took part in shooting down at least 23 German aircraft during WWII
This aircraft was originally Yak 11 or C-11 which was built in Czechoslovakia, while in the USA the aircraft had the s/n N9VK
Photo taken at Air Legends Paris-Villaroche Melun Airshow France September 2023
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This is an old WWII bombshelter in Kafertal Not far from here is where George S Patton had his car accident.
I am still trying to find maps for 1944 to 1945 to find the right place where it happen
An old WWII Observation Post atop a hill on the Marin Headlands view a great view of the entrance to the Golden Gate. At the end of the dirt path on the right you can see the Point Bonita Lighthouse in the distance.