A moving, beautifully illustrated true story for children ages 6 to 9 about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II—from the iconic Star Trek actor, activist, and author of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy.
Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?
Well #Trillanes isn't really wrong. #Duterte and his gang of #drugwar criminals are perhaps the most dangerous #fifthcolumn the #Philippines has faced yet since #WW2. Worse than the Japanese #fifthcolumnists in #Davao (which funnily enough is the same territory the Duterte clan has firm control of, like a fiefdom). But instead of working for the Japanese invaders they're working for the #Chinese communists this time.
The main collaborators being officials within #PNP leadership isn't really surprising either, because Duterte pampered the #police so hard (for example promising not to hold them accountable for clear-cut abuses of power in the drug war) during his 6-year rule.
It seems like #Marcos' strengthening of the alliance with the #US has convinced the #AFP not to defect to the Dutertes though. The Philippine #military is rabidly pro-American and Duterte had a hard time trying to balance having a pro-#China policy and appeasing the soldiers. :seija_coffee:
Book review #26 for 2024 is John R Bruning's Race of Aces: WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky. An interesting yet sobering re-telling of the men, primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater of operations, who fought to beat Eddie Rickenbacker's 26 victories in World War 1. ☕☕☕☕review #books#ww2#history#military#bookreview@bookstodon@books
Book review#15 for 2024 C. Raymond Calhoun's Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945. The writer was an officer aboard the Sterett from its commissioning in 1939 until a combat wound required him to leave the ship in 1943. The emotional bond the crew had with one another is something that came out in the writing.
☕☕☕☕+ #navalhistory#ww2#memoir#books#bookreview@bookstodon@books
"Ok, sir. We have this weapon, it's a way for infantry to destroy tanks, but unless they're very, very careful, it will turn them into unwilling suicide bombers."
Mar 24, 1944: On this date, the poem The Life That I Have was issued by Special Operations Executive cryptographer Leo Marks to agent Violette Szabo. The poem was made famous by its inclusion in the 1958 movie about Szabo, Carve Her Name with Pride. (1/2)
Violette Szabό was executed at Ravensbrück at the age of 23, on or before 5 February 1945. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. She is one of only twelve George Crosses to be awarded to a woman. (2/2)
Today marks the 80th Anniversary of the Great Escape WWII March 24th 1944.
One of the most audacious projects carried out during WW2 occurred. It was the mass escape of Allied soldiers from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III, the story of which was forever immortalised in the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen. #ww2#greatescape
Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?
#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.
Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in 1920 in Haarlem, Netherlands. She became a Dutch Resistance fighter who went by the nom de guerre “Hannie.”
In 1938 she enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to pursue law with a goal of becoming a human rights lawyer. She became friends with fellow students Sonja Frenk & Philine Polak, who were Jews, & became increasingly concerned about the rise in antisemitism. (1/5)
Shaft engaged in sabotage (including blowing up a power station), transported weapons, & conducted assassinations. She, along with sisters Truus & Freddie Oversteegen, became a 3 woman assassination team. Schaft killed German soldiers, Dutch Nazis, collaborators & traitors. She became fluent in German, allowing her to tempt German soldiers as a honeypot. She was wanted by the Nazis, but known only as ‘the girl with red hair’. (3/5) #WW2#Resistance#antifa
Schaft was arrested at a Nazi checkpoint on March 25, 1945. Though she had dyed her hair to conceal her identity as the girl with red hair, her red roots gave away her identity. She was executed 3 weeks prior to the end of the war, on April 17, 1945. She was 24 years old. (4/5)
She is one of the most recognized women of the antifascist resistance during WW2. A film, Het Meisje met het Rode Haar, directed by Ben Verbong was released in 1981 and a musical with the same name premiered Oct 2015. The National Hannie Schaft Foundation Visitor Center is located in Haarlem. (5/5)