Unexpectedly found that they've uncovered an old tunnel entrance in the side of a hill I often cycle past. Closed up with concrete and rebar. I'm guessing that this might be the lower entrance of a #WW2 air defence position.
#ww2
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interesting did not know this
And I bet the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces of #WW2 never knew or assumed there might of been #japaneseamericans secretly living (spying) in the big cities in Japan.
Everyone knew they were all in isolated US Army controlled 24/7 lockdown camps, but there were volunteers who fought in Germany, maybe in Japan too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_Japanese_Armed_Forces&wprov=rarw1
en.m.wikipedia.orgImperial Japanese Armed Forces - Wikipedia
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putting people in prison camps and expecting them to become intelligence operatives seems like a bad plan for recruitment
Actually, forcing families to quickly relocate without many personal possessions IS a bad plan for any reason
But, have you heard of the 442 #goforbroke #WW2 infantry regiment?
The most decorated, composed almost entirely of second generation soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)
I wonder how many were #OSS
en.m.wikipedia.org442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia
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many people today will never connect the dots
RE #GeorgeTakei
"...send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942."
Connect the dots, makes me think, what IF one reason to do this in 1942 was to get many balanced bilinguals to join the #OSS and be placed ALL OVER JAPAN #WW2
#officeofstrategicservices
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei
![Takei had several relatives living in Japan during World War II. Among them, he had an aunt and infant cousin who lived in Hiroshima and who were both killed during the atomic bombing that destroyed the city.
In Takei's own words, "My aunt and baby cousin [were] found burnt in a ditch in Hiroshima."
At the end of World War II, after leaving Tule internment camp, Takei's family was left without any bank accounts, home or family business; this left them unable to find any housing, so they lived on Skid Row, Los Angeles for five years.
He attended Mount Vernon Junior High School and served as Boys Senior Board President at Los Angeles High School. He was a member of Boy Scout Troop 379 of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple.
Upon graduation from high school, Takei enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied architecture.
Later, he transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in theater in 1960 and a Master of Arts in theater in 1964.
He also attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in England and Sophia University in Tokyo. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/300/081/920/962/572/original/52e1969863fddd71.jpg)
This is history that has not been told:
As a trained wildland firefighter who knew the history of smokejumpers, I have NEVER heard that the first American smokejumpers were the African American troops of the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) who, in Operation Firefly, fought the fires caused by Japanese balloon bombs.
#WW2 #WildlandFirefighting #BlackHistory #Smokejumpers
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/joe-harris-triple-nickle-black-paratroopers/index.html
CNN · How Black paratroopers saved the US from Japan’s WWII firebombs
What's happening here? My city is getting ready to defuse four suspected 2nd world war bombs. 8000 people had to leave the area, currently officials are roaming the streets checking if everyone has left.
When they dig up a bomb, the have to defuse or - if that's not possible - detonate it right after because it could blow up by itself once moved. That's why all people have to leave a 500m radius before they start digging.
Brief primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services:
arsof-history.orgThe Office of Strategic Services (OSS)A Primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services
The 1930s/1940s are such a cultural reference point for making sense of this moment in history.
Can any historians tell me what the historical reference points were for people in the 1930s and 1940s making sense of their own moment?
I know: "The Great War", aka World War I, is one obvious answer. I'm looking for others. Ta. xo
The UK's Tate Britain gallery will return a painting to heirs after it was stolen by a Nazi during WWII.
The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday.
A handover date has not yet been confirmed but Samuel Hartveld's family said they were 'deeply grateful.'
Le Monde · The UK's Tate Britain gallery will return a painting to heirs after it was stolen by a Nazi during WWII.
A German guard once asked Maureen O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.
Although I am not from the #US, I feel what is happening now will be up with #1776 and the #CivilWar. There needs to be a massive act of public resistance to #authoritarianism and stupidity, every day and everywhere, by the American people to rid the country of #trump and #musk. The rest of the world needs to play its part to cripple the US economy (at its own cost) to help stifle the #UScoup in its tracks. These are historic times, not seen since #WW2. Nothing else matters
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Alan #Turing: The #codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' by breaking the encryption messages of hitler to the generals in the front. After #WW2, Turing was convicted because of his #homosexuality and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce libido, known as "chemical castration".
don't let the powerful control you, keep the flame of resisting burning for the next generations
Women in the Special Operations Executive used simple but effective tricks to stay undercover and avoid detection:
https://theconversation.com/the-women-spies-who-fooled-the-nazis-with-simple-tricks-251653
The ConversationThe women spies who fooled the Nazis with simple tricks
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Whenever MAGAmerican exceptionalism shouts that they, and only they, won the second world war, remember this bloke.
An Australian who led the newly created Pathfinder force of the RAF. Determined, smart, and dedicated to both winning the war and protecting his crews.
Without the Pathfinders, the following bomber crews would have been much less effective.
He also wanted to form an international policing force (not the UN) to ensure wars couldn't happen again.
Today in WW2 History, 18 Mar 1940: [Photo] Finnish Canet 152mm/45 naval gun, Hästö-Busö, Finland #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=14517
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Lucie Aubrac’s husband was arrested & he was sentenced to death by the Nazis. She led a dozen Resistance fighters in an ambush of the truck in which her husband was being transported & rescued him. She was 6 months pregnant at the time. She survived WW2 & died Mar 14, 2007 at the age of 94. (3/3)
en.wikipedia.orgLucie Aubrac - Wikipedia
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In one mission, Lucie Aubrac & team rescued 5 captured resistance fighters from police custody in Lyon. (Source: Women in the Resistance, Rossiter, p. 166) After WW2, this story was the theme of Issue 49 of True Comics titled “Lucie to the Rescue.” Her cinematic life in the Resistance was made into a feature film starring Carole Bouquet in the title role. A trailer for the movie may be seen here: (2/3)