Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 9, 1914: On this date, Serbian-American George Musulin was born in New York City. He served in the Office of Strategic Services in WW2 & successfully led the evacuation of some 447 US airmen from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia as part of Operation HALYARD. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Yugoslavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yugoslavia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Serbia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Musulin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M</span><span class="invisible">usulin</span></a></p>
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SeanBurlington<p>Visiting Arromanches, aka Gold beach in <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/normandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>normandy</span></a> main site of the British forces <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/DDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDay</span></a> landings in <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> </p><p>When the <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> stood with the allied forces in the fight against facsism.</p><p>Today I am proud of those who fought for freedom, sad for those who died, and those who suffered.</p><p>Also sad about <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> and the situation in the USA today.</p><p>We are stronger together.</p>
Martin Rundkvist<p>Unexpectedly found that they've uncovered an old tunnel entrance in the side of a hill I often cycle past. Closed up with concrete and rebar. I'm guessing that this might be the lower entrance of a <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> air defence position.</p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 8, 1921: On this date Phyllis “Pippa” Latour was born in Durban South Africa. She joined the WAAF to be an airframe mechanic, but was recruited to the Special Operations Executive because she was fluent in French. She parachuted into Orne, Normandy on May 1, 1944 to join the SCIENTIST circuit as a wireless operator. Her codename was Genevieve. She was the last surviving female SOE agent. She died Oct 7, 2023. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Latour" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_</span><span class="invisible">Latour</span></a></p>
Frédéric D'Astous<p>American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a>’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today. </p><p>« (..) their up-close view of the horrors of Mauthausen and their interactions with the Spanish antifascist survivors was a lifelong vaccine against extremism.</p><p>They witnessed how a fascist leader tore the world apart. They saw with their own eyes the death and destruction of political extremism. » <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://tooting.ch/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br> <br> <a href="https://theconversation.com/american-liberators-of-nazi-camps-got-a-lifelong-vaccine-against-extremism-their-wartime-experiences-are-a-warning-for-today-248813" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/american-l</span><span class="invisible">iberators-of-nazi-camps-got-a-lifelong-vaccine-against-extremism-their-wartime-experiences-are-a-warning-for-today-248813</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 7, 1915: On this date, Gilbert Norman was born. He was a British Army officer who served in the F Section of the Special Operations Executive. Nov 1942, he was sent into France to join the newly formed PROSPER circuit. </p><p>He was arrested June 1943 and was executed at the Mauthausen concentration camp on Sep 6, 1944. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Norman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_</span><span class="invisible">Norman</span></a></p>
Brian Grinter<p>Making some progress on the 1/72 Heller Me-163. Next up is the bit I’m dreading, trying to do the hand mottling on the fin in green. Steady hand time. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/scalemodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scalemodel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>This is history that has not been told: </p><p>As a trained wildland firefighter who knew the history of smokejumpers, I have NEVER heard that the first American smokejumpers were the African American troops of the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) who, in Operation Firefly, fought the fires caused by Japanese balloon bombs. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WildlandFirefighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildlandFirefighting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smokejumpers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smokejumpers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/joe-harris-triple-nickle-black-paratroopers/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/joe-harr</span><span class="invisible">is-triple-nickle-black-paratroopers/index.html</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Virginia Hall subsequently joined the OSS, returned to France, and helped train three battalions of resistance forces to wage guerrilla warfare behind German lines. She survived the war and continued to work in intelligence in the post war period. In 1957 she married a fellow OSS operative, Paul Goillot. She died at the age of 76 on July 8, 1982. Much, much more could be said of her career. (2/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wanted-the-limping-lady-146541513/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/history/wan</span><span class="invisible">ted-the-limping-lady-146541513/</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 6, 1906: Virginia Hall was born on this date. Hall was considered the most dangerous of all Allied spies by the Gestapo. She worked for both the British Special Operations Executive & later with the American Office of Strategic Services. She had only one foot & used a prosthesis, giving her a limp, leading to her nickname as "the Limping Lady." Despite this, she organized the French Underground in occupied France. (1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia</span><span class="invisible">_Hall</span></a></p>
Markus Lindenberg<p>What's happening here? My city is getting ready to defuse four suspected 2nd world war bombs. 8000 people had to leave the area, currently officials are roaming the streets checking if everyone has left.</p><p>When they dig up a bomb, the have to defuse or - if that's not possible - detonate it right after because it could blow up by itself once moved. That's why all people have to leave a 500m radius before they start digging.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dortmund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dortmund</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dobombe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dobombe</span></a></p>
AustralianHistoriesPodcast<p>Episode 76 recounts the night Japanese Midget Subs came right into Sydney Harbour! </p><p>🎧 <a href="https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">australianhistoriespodcast.com</span><span class="invisible">.au/76-japanese-subs-in-sydney-harbour/</span></a> 🎧 </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustralianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustralianPodcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianPodcast</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AustralianStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianStories</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPods</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OzHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OzHist</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/japanesemidgetsubs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>japanesemidgetsubs</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SydneyHarbour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SydneyHarbour</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 5, 1944: On this date, Special Operations Executive agent Lilian Rolfe dropped near the city of Orléans in occupied France, where she was deployed to work with the HISTORIAN circuit run by George Wilkinson. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Rolfe#World_War_II" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_R</span><span class="invisible">olfe#World_War_II</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 5, 1944: On this date, Special Operations Executive agents Violette Szabo (courier) & Philippe Liewer (organizer) of the SALESMAN circuit were flown by Westland Lysander into German-occupied France in the Loire Valley. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FSection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FSection</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Szabo#First_mission" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette</span><span class="invisible">_Szabo#First_mission</span></a></p>
Reading Recluse<p>📗 "Dagboek van een Arts: Oost-Pruisen 1945-1947" by Hans Graf von Lehndorff, translated from German into Dutch by Rieke den Hertog-van 't Spijker</p><p>Available in English as "East Prussian Diary".</p><p>I give up. I've been beat. I read so many texts from 1914-1950: memoirs about war, camps, prisons, loss. They have all changed me in their own way. They're all valuable. I feel strongly about never forgetting human atrocities, being vigilant about never supporting war or genocide. Bear witness, record, resist. Keep resisting. </p><p>This book has become too much for me. I've been reading it for almost half a year now. I have about a 100 more pages to go in this 375 page diary and I can't do it, at least not now. But because this is such an important work, I can't bear putting it on the dnf list instead of giving it more time and attention here.</p><p>This is the diary from a German doctor. He is a devout Christian and anti-nazi. He has recorded his time in East Prussia during the last few months of WW2 and in the following Soviet occupation. He's trying hard to keep anyone (mostly civilians) alive, not succeeding much due to a lack of supplies and tragic circumstances. People are dying from bombings, gun shots, hunger, thirst, diseases, repeated rapes, cold, violent thefts and murder. Suicides become common. The ground gets too full of bodies even for mass graves.</p><p>Von Lehndorff is not a sensationalist writer at all. He records as if it's his duty, but he leaves out many gruesome details. There is just something about seeing him so full of horror and emotion in the early pages, but becoming more and more of an empty shell as time goes on. Seeing him go from thanking God for every bit of luck, to him starting to think that all that he sees is the true nature of humans, and a working society with laws and limitations as just a cute cover-up in periods of peace. I think he only remained alive because he kept seeing suicide as a sin. Although later on, when his extremely religious co-workers and friends start dying of suicide, he is full of understanding and passes them no judgement. He tries to give them somewhat of a decent grave, although it's barely possible.</p><p>Von Lehndorff was a kind person who somehow kept his will to survive, his need to help others and the majority of his sanity. Because of it he had to see so many horrors -horrors that even a reader like me, far removed in time, can't bear to stomach just hearing about.</p><p>I think a lot about this book and others like it. I've read many articles with evidence that in times of despair and need, people come together and help each other. Mostly this evidence comes from small communities, or from areas where natural disasters happened. But books like these also show, especially in times of need due to human violence, that only a minority keeps being good. Many people rape, plunder, snitch -they commit any terror to survive. Most just give up after the initial panic, waiting to be ordered around or to die. It stresses me out. Being a human is terrifying. Other humans are terrifying.</p><p>There are many things that make this book extra hard right now. The EU starting 'rearm Europe' and every news outlet screaming about upcoming war sure doesn't help. Being instructed by the government to stock iodine pills and prepare survival kits isn't very calming. Seeing governments here inviting kids on their 18th birthday to join the army, yikes. Watching multiple wars and genocides abroad play out in real-time... </p><p>Due to a bad injury last year, I've been in physical therapy for months now, relearning to sit, stand, walk, so I feel extremely vulnerable physically. Reading how every woman who was sick, disabled, wounded or elderly got robbed, abused and sexually assaulted at every opportunity, by both foes and allies, felt horrible and very threatening. I'd really like me some legs that can run and fight right about now, even just for a fake sense of security.</p><p>Anyway, it's amazing that this text has been recorded, and even more amazing that it has survived. It's not well-known at all, and there aren't many printed or available. If you can handle reading it, it's probably worth it. You really should not be allowed to cheer for any war before having read a diary like this one. And if you can still somehow cheer on any war at all after having read it, go volunteer to join yourself or shut the fuck up, thanks. :)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>April 4, 1944: On this date, British Jedburgh wireless operator John Austin was executed. Part of team DUDLEY who had worked to organize Dutch resistance elements in support of Operation Market Garden, he was captured, sent to Zwolle Prison, shot at age 21. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Jedburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jedburgh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://alanmalcher.com/2021/12/17/sergeant-john-austin-wireless-operator-with-jedburgh-team-dudley-netherlands-1944/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alanmalcher.com/2021/12/17/ser</span><span class="invisible">geant-john-austin-wireless-operator-with-jedburgh-team-dudley-netherlands-1944/</span></a></p>
robBattle of Britain <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/aircraft?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aircraft</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/airshow?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#airshow</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/airtattoo?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#airtattoo</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/airtattoo2010?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#airtattoo2010</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/RIAT?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RIAT</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/RIAT2010?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RIAT2010</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/RAF?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAF</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/spitfire?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spitfire</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/hawkerhurricane?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hawkerhurricane</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/WW2?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WW2</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/WWII?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WWII</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/messerschmitt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#messerschmitt</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/history?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/battleofbritain?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#battleofbritain</a> <a href="https://photos.rstokes.uk/discover/tags/dunkirk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dunkirk</a>
EV not Petrol<p>As an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australian</span></a> and understanding the effect the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a> had on our trade after <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a> which forced us to find new trading partners all I can say is: Karma is a bitch.</p><p>We diversify, we don’t import or export much with the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> and since they tried to destroy our trade relations with <a href="https://aus.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> I am happy to see them burn and the defence grifters with them.</p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Decorated WW2 code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101. She spent her youth working at Bletchley Park deciphering Axis messages.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Espionage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sigint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sigint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bletchley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bletchley</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jd3</span><span class="invisible">0ywv8o</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Clandestine daggers & knives used by the Office of Strategic Services and the Special Operations Executive during WW2: </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.fairbairnsykesfightingknives.com/thumb-daggers-etc.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fairbairnsykesfightingknives.c</span><span class="invisible">om/thumb-daggers-etc.html</span></a></p>
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