This aerial photograph of Pearl Harbor was taken three days after the attack. The black streaks are oil leaking out of the sunken ships. The USS Arizona is on the bottom right.
(Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives)
“Throughout the world throngs of people hail the end of the war in Europe. It is five years and more since Hitler marched into Poland. Years full of suffering, and death, and sacrifice. Now the war against Germany is won.”
During WWII, an unknown soldier (or soldiers) filled 31 rolls of film with pictures of American troops and machinery. The photographer left the film undeveloped and it was forgotten to history for the next 70 years.
The video is 10 minutes and absolutely worth watching.
I actually don’t know, and I’m coming up blank on my searches. So, I’m releasing this one to my followers— does anybody know for certain whether enlistment papers were obvious when received?
Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. The Franks had taken shelter there in 1942 out of fear of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. They occupied the small space with another Jewish family and a single Jewish man, and were aided by Christian friends, who brought them food and supplies. Anne spent much of her time in the “secret annex” working on her diary. The diary survived the war, overlooked by the Gestapo that discovered the hiding place, but Anne and nearly all of the others perished in the Nazi death camps. (more at the link)
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