Harry's Last Stand
Hamburg, the city in the shadow of the Michel
JM Smith
"Love Among the Ruins was Harry Leslie Smith’s second volume in his The Green and Pleasant Land trilogy. It is a portrayal of his life as an ordinary occupation soldier in Hamburg following the Second World War."
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Hidden World War II air raid shelter found beneath home construction site in Germany
A hidden World War II air raid shelter has surfaced beneath a future home site in the German town of Quedlinburg, giving archaeologists a rare look at how civilians sought safety during the final years of the war. The shelter came to light during early construction work for a single-family house...
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Possible World War II Allied aircraft crash site identified in Polish forest after wartime wreckage analysis
A walk through the woods for wild berries has led to what could become one of the most important World War II aviation finds in northwestern Poland. A local resident found a disturbed pit in a forest on the eastern side of Świnoujście, near Fort Gerhard and the Underground City museum...
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Adolf Hitler's birthplace in Austria is set to reopen as a police station, bringing an end to years of debate over the future of one of Europe's mostBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Lázár, written in German by the young Swiss-Hungarian author Nelio Biedermann and translated into English by Jamie Bulloch, follows several generations of anBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Harry's Last Stand
"My Ambition Was Simple: Outlive The War"
JM Smith
"It seems like forever now that I’ve been piecing together and editing my dad’s The Green and Pleasant Land. The first volume is done, aside from some tinkering. This gives me a sense of enormous relief because I am always concerned that my health will pack right in before this job is finished."
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#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.
A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.
After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
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mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/116… CarveHerName@mstdn.social - Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance: couriers would move messages and equipment around an area.
Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance: couriers would move messages and equipment around an area.
Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
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The once top-secret abandoned bomb facility hidden in an old slate mine. Llanberis Bomb Store, Wales.
In January 1942, the roof collapsed burying 14,000 tonnes of bombs (14% of Britain's stock). It took until the 1970s to fully clear the site of bombs and make it safe.
Today, the Bomb Store is little more than an overgrown concrete skeleton. Occasionally it is possible to venture inside!
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“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
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