'Deserves a state funeral': WA's last WWII prisoner of war dies aged 106
By Lily Kristanto
Tributes are paid to Arthur Leggett, WA's oldest surviving World War II prisoner of war who was captured by Germans during the Battle of Crete in 1941, after he passed away in an aged care home.
WA's oldest surviving WWII prisoner of war dies aged 106
By Lily Kristanto
Arthur Leggett, Western Australia's oldest surviving World War II army prisoner of war who fought against the Italian army in Libya in the battles of Bardia and Tobruk, dies in Perth.
In the Basque Country, a Resistance fighter's daughter recovers her father's wallet 80 years after his deportation.
With the help of volunteer investigators, the International Center for Nazi Persecution Archives located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, is working to return deportees' personal belongings to their descendants.
This is how the now 80-year-old woman received her 'papa's' wallet.
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
A British T class submarine on the surface - Atlantic Ocean, date unknown
As the Royal Navy's standard ocean patrol submarine, the T-class submarines were heavily engaged during World War II, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, and finally the Far East. The T class began service in 1938; the last one being scrapped in 1977 by the Israeli Navy #ww2 #tclass #worldwar2 #submarine #royalnavy #navy #atlantic
US Marines get a comrade to a stretcher during the battle for Peleliu - Pacific, Sept 1944. CREDIT : USMC Archives #ww2 #worldwar2 #usmarines #usmc #marines #pacific #peleliu #stretcher
"Five-Year-Old Repressed: The Story of Hanna Honcharuk" is the fourth and final part of a series of graphic stories featuring eyewitness testimonies of #worldwar2, created in collaboration with the NGO After Silence. You can find and read the rest of the comics at the following link: https://commons.com.ua/uk/komiks/.
We also want to share a teaser about the upcoming release of a printed collection featuring all the comics in both Ukrainian and English. We will be sure to update you in a future post!
One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101.
Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.
For 30 years she never told anyone about her wartime experiences and it wasn't until the 1970s that she was informed that the prohibition on discussing Bletchley had been lifted.
Three German Ju87D’s fly over a mountain range in Yugoslavia - Oct 1943 #ww2 #worldwar2 #stuka #ju87 #avaiation #aircraft #airforce -#yugoslavia #mountains
Ex-deputy PM slams posters of Dutton and billionaires dressed as Nazis
By Gary-Jon Lysaght and Rachel Holdsworth
Police are investigating a display in a storefront window in southern New South Wales that depicts Coalition politicians and billionaires as Nazis.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/former-deputy-pm-slams-nazi-posters-wagga-shopfront/105121020
A British Fairey Swordfish 1 circles around the HMS Ark Royal - exact location unknown 1939 CREDIT : Howdi #ww2 #worldwar2 #faireyswordfish #fairey #swordfish #arkroyal #hmsarkroyal #biplane #aviation #aircraft
How these sons of Waffen-SS deal with such a legacy: 'When your father is a bastard, you have to live with that stain'
As teenagers, Philippe Douroux, Alain Lejeune and Eric Frantz learned that their fathers had been among the 10,000 Frenchmen and 8,500 Walloons to enlist in the Waffen-SS.
After decades of revolt and shame, they have, each in their own way, come to terms with this reality.
Today we kick off a new series looking at World War 2 Tanks that need adding to War Thunder, with this first episode looking at German World War 2 tanks!
American Rangers take a moment to check their equipment in the city of Rurberg, Germany - March 3, 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #rurberg #germany #rangers #usrangers
British motorcycle riders cross the Rhine river on a pontoon bridge - Wesel, Germany - March 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #wesel #germany #pontoon #bridge #motorcycle #motorcyclist #britisharmy
A German Panther tank (PzKpfw.V) is examined by US soldiers of the 3rd Tank Division after being knocked out during the Ardennes Offensive - Grandmenil, Belgium, 4th Jan 1945 #ww2 #tank #worldwar2 #panther #Luxembourg #bastogne #grandmenil #belgium
A German Me 262 V303, a second V7 prototype. This particular aircraft is fitted with experimental wooden stabilizers - Lechfeld Airbase, Germany, summer 1944 #ww2 #worldwar2 #lechfeldairbase #airbase #lechfeld #germany #me262 #jetengine #aircraft #aviation #luftwaffe
#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
7.3: They Sent Us to Camp: My Family's Experience of Internment During WWII
If you meet a Japanese American, it’s also a pretty good bet, they probably won’t spontaneously start talking about what they or their family went through, how they feel about it, and how they or their family recovered from the ordeal.
I (Christina) wanted to rectify that by sitting down with my old friend Chie Furuya, whose parents (as tiny children), grandparents, and other family members were “sent to camp”, to ask her about it. The answers and stories she had for me were both fascinating and unexpectedly heartening. Her people are a resilient, cheerful people and I feel like there are life lessons for all of us here, in terms of withstanding and recovering from severe injustice (and coming out on top).
Ariel’s addition to this episode description is to point out that Japanese internment occurred in Canada in the early 20th century as well. We (by which she means Canada, or perhaps so-called Canada, as she likes to call it) aren't some bastion of anti-racism and tolerant plurality (if we ever were). Check out our blog post for links for further edification if you are interested or want to know more about the Canadian side of the story.
A Soviet T34/76 tank on the outskirts of Leningrad - Winter 1944 #ww2 #worldwar2 #leningrad #soviet #t34 #tank
