Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a visit to Ioto, widely known as Iwo Jima, to pay tribute to those who died in fierce battle on the Pacific island 80 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/07/japan/emperor-empress-visit-iwo-jima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #emperornaruhito #empressmasako #iwojima #wwii #wardead
Continuing our 
on dissent in the #WWII Polish Army-in-Exile. Not only Jews protested. A group group of Ukrainian & Byelorussian soldiers complaining of religious & ethnic discrimination was likewise arrested. The Daily Worker took great interest in these problems. 31 March
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The only flying example of of a PBJ-1J (Navy version of the B-25) N5865V makes a pass at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #USN #B25 #PBJ #photography #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #Warbird #WWII
"Only the worst for #russia?" 
#Russian truckers filmed de-preserved #WWII howitzers beeing moved somewhere inside of #Russia
Subscribe to Live: #Ukraine
#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691
Some 100 people mourned those who committed mass suicide at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture 80 years ago in the final stages of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/06/japan/wwii-mass-suicide-mourned-okinawa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #wwii
So, back to #WWII
2 Feb. 1944 @JewishChron laconically reported on the origins of a crisis of as yet unrecognized proportions. In January, 68 Jewish soldiers of the #Polish Army-in-Exile in the UK left their units due to rampant #antisemitism & secured transfer to UK forces
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AIUI, shortly before #PearlHarbour and the USA entering #WWII, the USA had "turned off" Japan's petroleum supply.
Japan is worried that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's removal from power will undo the improvements in bilateral relations made under his administration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/japan/politics/yoon-south-korea-japan-ties/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #southkorea #southkoreajapanrelations #yoonsukyeol #wwii #history #comfortwomen #wartimelabor #leejaemyung
4 April 1933 Crash of airship Akron
Facts unknown to most ppl
1) largest helium-filled airship
2) 73 dead=greatest aviation disaster prior to #WWII (Hindenburg: 36 lives lost)
3) dirigibles were under Navy command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/airships-dirigibles.html
#philately
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Nebraska sisters recognized for work during World War II
https://www.wowt.com/2025/04/01/nebraska-women-recognized-work-during-world-war-ii
Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II, the threat of unexploded ordnance still looms over the island. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/04/japan/bomb-disposal-80-years-wwii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #okinawa #usmilitary #sdf
Le Silence de la mer is a remarkable film about what a Nazi occupation looks like.
There's a scene where the "sympathetic Nazi" is getting lectured by his fellow officers, and it is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is emerging from the Drumph reich about what they are doing and want to do. It's chilling.
The siege of Sevastopol (Oct 41 to Jul 42) was an attack by Axis forces on the base of the USSR's Black Sea Fleet during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Crimea #ErichVonManstein #SecondWorldWar #SiegeOfSevastopol #Ukraine #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2683-en/
https://www.europesays.com/1960640/ Germany Deploys Troops on Russia’s Doorstep for First Time Since World War II #germany #Russia #troops #WWII
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
1932: “As the numbers of extremists grew, life seemed to diminish. “What was no longer to be found [..] was pleasure in life, amiability, fun, understanding, goodwill, generosity, and a sense of humor.”
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
p. 45 One
“When Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s government declared a long bank holiday on July 13, 1931, after a run on the banks following the collapse of the Darmstädter and Nationalbank, the economic crisis began to hit home. There was a “9% salary reduction” for civil servants [..] and higher value-added taxes for consumers"
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
The son of a Japanese soldier killed in the battle is continuing efforts to collect the remains of the war dead on the Pacific island. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/30/japan/iwo-jima-war-dead-remains-world-war-ii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #iwojima #wwii #wardead
