History Thread

[Ond]

Communism: Exists

Lauri Törni:

he may have killed commies, but he was also a nazi fuck which negates all the good killing those commies did

 

[Deleted member 243]

Communism: Exists

Lauri Törni:

should've gone with the epic s2ker 'Simo Hayha'

 

[Rabid]

should've gone with the epic s2ker 'Simo Hayha'

Fuck me I knew I was missing someone.

 

[Deleted member 1381]

when it's 1915 on the western front and you gain a whole one mile of territory

 

[Deleted member 243]

when it's 1915 on the western front and you gain a whole one mile of territory

after they bumrushed that pesky trench wasting around a quarter of their battalion they decide to pillage the pantry and to floss 'n dab over their fallen advesaries

all roads lead to fortnite

 

[shibe]

when it's 1915 on the western front and you gain a whole one mile of territory

and it only cost 400.000 troops

 

[Ond]

Walter Rothschild astride a giant tortoise, 1890's

Captain Georg Von Trapp (whose life was later fictionalized in the Sound of Music) on the bridge of Austrian submarine SM U-5 1915

1968: Keir Dullea (Dave) in spacesuit, Stanley Kubrick in blue jacket, and crew work on final scenes of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

British troops guarding a wall during the Irish War of Independence, circa 1920

Lindsay Grove of the 353rd Fighter Group in P-51 Mustang Miss Jackie II ca. 1944

 

[tera]

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

haha great meme tera

wait a minute i didn't order chinese food oh god oh fu

 

[Dallas]

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

 

[tera]

haha great meme tera

wait a minute i didn't order chinese food oh god oh fu

soon the whole world will be made in china

 

[Bronn]

 

[tera]

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

Time for a serious post.

31 years ago today.

Spoiler: Graphic

The murder of Corporal Derek Woods and Corporal David Howes. Two off duty British soldiers who accidentally came into the path of an IRA funeral. Their car was swarmed by Republicans who proceeded to take them, beat them and then bundle them into a black taxi where they were then taken to a piece of waste ground, robbed of their possessions and then executed. Although armed with his service pistol, Corporal Wood refused to fire upon the crowd.

The incident was shown on live television, as the IRA funeral was broadcast on UTV (Northern Ireland's equivalent to ITV). According to reports from the police, they had been on standby to go in and rescue the pair, but were given orders from the British Army to stand down - army intelligence believing the men to be two Loyalist gunmen, when in reality they were two lost soldiers.

31 years ago today, and it is still seen as one of the most shocking episodes of The Troubles, and in this time of the British Governments prosecution of British Soldiers who served in Northern Ireland, it is important to remember the enemy they had gone up against and the brutality the IRA was capable of.
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Felt like I needed to share this somewhere, you can all go back to shitposting now.

 

[Rabid]

Time for a serious post.

31 years ago today.

Spoiler: Graphic

The murder of Corporal Derek Woods and Corporal David Howes. Two off duty British soldiers who accidentally came into the path of an IRA funeral. Their car was swarmed by Republicans who proceeded to take them, beat them and then bundle them into a black taxi where they were then taken to a piece of waste ground, robbed of their possessions and then executed. Although armed with his service pistol, Corporal Wood refused to fire upon the crowd.

The incident was shown on live television, as the IRA funeral was broadcast on UTV (Northern Ireland's equivalent to ITV). According to reports from the police, they had been on standby to go in and rescue the pair, but were given orders from the British Army to stand down - army intelligence believing the men to be two Loyalist gunmen, when in reality they were two lost soldiers.

31 years ago today, and it is still seen as one of the most shocking episodes of The Troubles, and in this time of the British Governments prosecution of British Soldiers who served in Northern Ireland, it is important to remember the enemy they had gone up against and the brutality the IRA was capable of.
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Felt like I needed to share this somewhere, you can all go back to shitposting now.

Thats fucking horrifying honestly.

 

[tera]

 

[mårten]

my money's on tokugawa bro

 

[Gabby]

American conflict in The Pacific
1942 - 1945

My grandfather was a airfield constructor for the US Air Force and he saw quite a lot of disturbing things during his time but he had one story that was rather interesting. There was a Japanese soldier who would sneak into the base during breakfast and eat in the mess hall with everyone else and no one ever noticed for months, at least up until the COs noticed that one of the people in line wasn't in uniform and they had his ass sent to the POW camps.
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[Bronn]