Today is 49th anniversary of #BlackApril , one of the most terrible days in US history. One year from now I intend to organize a 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to honor America's great South Vietnamese allies.
#SouthVietnam #VietnamWar #RVN

Gardeners keeping everything immaculate at the Bayeux War Cemetery today. ⁦Commonwealth War Graves⁩ #DDay

Thanks Jack Carr Remembering the legend. 🙏

An absolute legend. Note the Thunderbird patch, the same worn by The Liberator.

A Marine of the US 1st Marines Division pointed his Thompson submachine gun at a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, Japan, Apr-Jun 1945

79 years ago today, legendary Army Ranger William Darby is killed in action in Torbole, Italy….So close to the end of war.

- Combat Infantry Badge 🪖
- 2 DSCs 🇺🇸
- Silver Star ⭐️
- Legion of Merit 📜
- Bronze Star 🎖️
- 3 Purple Hearts 💜

'Delivered with flamboyance, [The Stalin Affair] features a sparkling cast of chancers, charmers, egotists and eccentrics with a ringside seat to world events... a fast-paced tale full of surprising details.'
A 5* review from Katja Hoyer in Telegraph Books John Murray Press Henry Holt & Company

Aviation Ordinanceman poses aiming the twin Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine of an SBD Dauntless scout bomber aboard light carrier USS Independence during her shakedown cruise to Trinidad, 30 Apr 1943.

You have been warned!

RIGHT NOW in 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. The German Führer escapes justice, but not the judgement of history.

'Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.' 🇺🇸

-General George Patton 🪖

Thanks Alderney truthseeker. Anders Lassen VC - truly one of the bravest of the brave. He gave the ultimate sacrifice. We remember.🙏

Female SS guards made to bury victims of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 28 Apr 1945

🇫🇷 Killed by their own countrymen
At 6.40 a.m. 80 years ago today, 19-year old FTP Resistance member Robert Massé was shot by a French Milice firing squad at the Santé prison in Paris, along with his comrades in arms, Guy Hénault, Alfred Godefroy, Bernard Bosmayer, Albert

This is a great example of what a box pew would have looked like for a family in 18th-century New England.

These box pew rentals would be passed down in probate records or sold off from the estate.

Today I pause to remember an American Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner - Deborah (Sampson) Gannett (1760-1827) who died today April 29th at her home in Sharon, Massachusetts Revolution250 #NSSAR DAR findagrave.com/memorial/377/d…

In November of 1942, 1st Battalion Army Rangers capture a coastal gun position fighting near Arzew, Algeria. 🪖

In October of 1944, Sgt. Pierce Dewey of the 39th Combat Engineers has been up to his chest in mud near Livergnano, Italy. 🪖

His reward is a coffe break with donuts courtesy of an American Red Cross Mobile Unit. 🍩

Paul Embery Immigration on the whole has been an unmitigated disaster for the UK and especially disastrous for the white working classes.

Absolute car-crash of a country 🇬🇧

'The highlight of my life was singing for the soldiers there. I stood out on an open stage and it was cold, but I swear I didn't feel a thing except good.' ~ Marilyn Monroe
Korea, February 1954
#KoreanWar