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Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21500) • London, England 30 Jan 22

A bright, but chilly, morning for my bike ride today. Being 5C (41F), the old fingers and toes were beginning to feel the cold on the final miles. I took the opportunity to visit the village of Harmondsworth and its memorial to...

history

memorial

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Bomb from the 2nd World War Found in our City

Thelma @thelme55 (79308) • Germany 18 Jun 19

Again! It is not new to me that we have a bomb alarm here where I live. The bombs were the remnants of the 2nd World War thrown by the allies (American or British army). Every time a new building is built, the workers have to...

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THE RESISTANCE BANKER...a great movie from a true story

Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (44560) • United States 14 Sep 18

Have you seen the movie The Resistance Banker on Netflix? We just watched it (thankfully we still have power in the middle of Hurricane Florence) and it was so good. It's a true story about the resistance movement in the...

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true story

historical movie

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A wonderful film!

Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (44560) • United States 26 Aug 18

Have you seen the movie, "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"? It is so good! It's based on a true historical event during WW2 about Guernsey Island which was occupied by the Germans. The people invented a literary...

courage

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Marching, Marching, Then Sleeping As My Friends Were Blown Up.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 26 Aug 16

This is my father's personal account of how he was part of the mass evacuation of soldiers from France during WW2 in 1940. "After so many days of solid marching my boots had disintegrating so much that they could only be...

my fathers memoirs

dunkirk

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Snakes Alive!

Vivenda @Vivenda (583) • Portsmouth, England 15 Aug 16

It was @jabouk who set me off on this track, by posting some very interesting extracts from her father’s wartime diaries. My dad was not one for committing himself to paper. Apart from the odd postcard, I only had one letter...

personal

family

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Memories Of A Wartime Childhood.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 24 Jul 16

My sisters and I were children during WW2, and England was under attack. We lived near a couple of industrial towns which were often targeted by the enemy. When we heard the wailing sirens warning us of an air raid we knew we...

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A Stranger To His Children.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 27 May 16

I was born in 1939 on the very day that my father was embarking for France to fight in WW2, and I hardly saw him until I was 6 years old. He was just a stranger who monopolised my mother's attention on the rare occasions when he...

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I am going to build an air raid shelter in the garden!

Happy Homestead @destry (2567) • Kirkwall, Scotland 12 May 16

I have this thing about WW2 and the 1940's, I love the history of the time and also the fashions of the era. I collect bits and bobs from the 1940's and where I can, I go to 40's themed events. Yesterday, I was given an...

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air raid shelter

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Why Are Your Legs Dirty Mummy?

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 28 Apr 16

As a child in the 1940s I remember watching in disbelief as my mother made her legs dirty. I couldn't understand it as she was so fussy about me and my sisters being clean. Material of any kind was in short supply during World...

1940s

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US of Japan

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 21 Apr 16

I was wondering if anyone else has watched this movie on Amazon called "United States of Japan". It is based upon the premise that Japan had won the Second World War. There was a group of rebels who were fighting for their...

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Christmas Past - The 1940s

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 23 Dec 15

I did a post a couple of days ago about the make-do Christmas tree my mother made when I was a child. Some of you were interested enough to ask to me to write more about that time, so here goes.. Children today take it for...

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1940s christmas

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Our Christmas 'Tree' In The 1940s.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 20 Dec 15

During my childhood in WW2 goods were in short supply, and that included Christmas trees. Dad was a soldier away at the war, so it was up to my mother to do the best she could to ensure that we three little girls had a good...

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christmas tree

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Toys We Played With In The 1940s.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 17 Oct 15

We didn't have many toys when I was a child in England in the 1940s. World War 2 was on for half of that decade, and things were scarce, as they were for years afterwards.. A lot of our toys were home made, and we mostly...

1940s

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A Happy Coincidence.

Jabo @jaboUK (64346) • United Kingdom 14 Oct 15

My father and my uncle were both in the Army in World War 2, Dad serving mainly in France and Belgium, his brother in North Africa. Dad's regiment was evacuated from France when it looked like Hitler's troops were going to...

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tank

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Why only a bunch of jews fought back in WW2?

spicymary @spicymary (558) • Romania 30 Dec 12

I know there were a lot of circumstances that made very difficult an organised armed uprising against the Nazis. Jewish people didn't expected what did happened. So they accepted the gradual discriminatory policies. When the...

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World War 2 Movies

Devilova @Devilova (5392) • Indonesia 16 Dec 12

I like a movie about world war 2, any suggestion movies title to be watched? Give a little review about it.

movies

world war 2

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Why didn't the government repeat steps to fund the recent wars?

scorpiobabes @scorpiobabes (7225) • United States 15 Sep 12

Many people in the United States have heard about war bonds. While searching for a copy of the poster my grandfather made, I decided to search for information about them. During World War 2, war bonds were sold to help offset...

price of war

war bond program

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If germany had won the WW2

EuroSaint @EuroSaint (41) • Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 3 Jun 12

Many times i have found myself wondering, what the world would look like now, if the germans had won? How would my life be different in the year 2012? Could you guys give me your thoughts on that subject? what do you think, how...

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schipperke

allenaustin1993 @allenaustin1993 (7) • United States 13 Apr 12

in WW2 , the belgian resistance used the schipperke to run messages between various different resistance hideouts and cells , and the nazi's never caught on ! :)

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