Seldom heard stories and pictures of WWII

[Fnfalman]

The South Korean made a movie about the WWII Korean soldier making his way from the Far East to the coast of Normandy. 
 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1606384/

[Historian]

2 minutes ago, Fnfalman said:

You mean reason like they’re allies and gave military liaisons?

Right.  The Germans gave the Japanese some jet aircraft near the end of the war.   They were never flown against anyone.

None-the-less there was plenty of communication between the Japanese and Germans.

[Historian]

On 9/9/2021 at 1:19 PM, pipedreams said:

When New Yorkers heard about the D-Day invasion, 1944

By the time the sun rose in New York City on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first and second waves of American troops had come ashore under heavy German fire on the beaches of Normandy.

Working under the command of General Eisenhower, an armada of 5,000 ships brought troops to the beaches of Normandy, one of the largest in military history. Almost 150,000 troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on that summer day, and approximately 20,000 of those by parachute.

 

 

God knows what the paratroopers had suffered and made the German's suffer.  I have been to the beaches at Normandy 4 times.  It is sacred land.   The French take care of the area. 

I love have the common person dressed well.  Their hearts in the right place. 

This is what FDR (not my favorite president) had to say that day.

 

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Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commanding general of the Fifth Army in Italy, talks to African American troops of the

92nd Infantry Division after they threw back a German attack in the hills north of Viareggio, Italy in 1944.

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Mt. Vesuvius spewing ash into the sky, erupting as a U.S. Army jeep speeds by shortly after the

arrival of the Allied forces in Naples, Italy in 1944.

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Canadian soldiers from 9th Brigade land with their bicycles at Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer during D-Day,

while Allied forces were storming the Normandy beaches.

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Helmets discarded by German prisoners, who were taken to a prison camp,

in a field in Normandy, France in 1944.

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The haystack at right would have softened the landing for this paratrooper who took a tumble

during operations in Holland by the 1st Allied Airborne Army on September 24, 1944.

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The Italian Campaign and the Road to Rome in rare color photos, 1943-1945

The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of the Allied operations in and around Italy from 1943 to the end of the war. Following victory in the North African Campaign, there was disagreement among the Allies on the next step they should take.

 

 

American armor moved up the Appian Way during the drive towards Rome.

 

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Italians watched American armor pass during the drive towards Rome along the Appian Way, World War II.

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American soldiers rested in a courtyard during the drive towards Rome, World War II.

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American troops stood in front of a bombed-out building during the drive towards Rome, WWII.

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Ruins of the town of Monte Cassino, a result of massive Allied bombing during an

attempt to dislodge German troops occupying the city, 1944.

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A German graveyard along the Esperia Road, photographed

during the Allied drive towards Rome, World War II.

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Life in the American concentration camp of Manzanar, 1943

Manzanar, Spanish for “apple orchard,” began soon after 1900 in the dream of a fruit-growing empire and today is a national symbol of America’s decision at the onset of World War II to confine thousands of its citizens of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire. The photos collected here were taken by the legendary photographer Ansel Adams in 1943.

After the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government swiftly moved to begin solving the “Japanese Problem” on the West Coast of the United States. In the evening hours of that same day, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested selected “enemy” aliens, including more than 5,500 Issei men. Many citizens in California were alarmed about potential activities by people of Japanese descent.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the Secretary of War to designate military commanders to prescribe military areas and to exclude “any or all persons” from such areas. The order also authorized the construction of what were later called “relocation centers” by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), to house those who were to be excluded.

This order resulted in the forced relocation of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were native-born American citizens; the rest had been prevented from becoming citizens by federal law. Over 110,000 were incarcerated in the ten concentration camps located far inland and away from the coast.

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The terrain surrounding the relocation camp.

 

Internees harvest crops.

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The camp orphanage.

 

High schoolers attend a science lecture.

 

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Benji Iguchi with locally grown squash.

 

Richard Kobayashi, farmer.

 

Hidimi Tayenaka, woodworker.

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Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerilla leader and formerly a school teacher, shows US Army Pvt. Andrew Lupiba how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of Leyte Island. Image taken by Stanley Troutman, 7 November 1944, Mabuhay Las Piñas, Leyte Island, Philippines.

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A U.S. soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child during the battle between Japanese and American forces. Saipan, 1944

 

American Marine cradling tiny infant’s barely living body which was found face down in a cave where native islanders had been hiding to escape the fighting between US and Japanese forces.

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“Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you note for the Jap skull he sent her.” LIFE magazine’s “Picture of the Week,” May 22, 1944.

The image, taken by Ralph Crane, was featured on LIFE magazine as a Picture of the Week in the May 22, 1944, issue. The original caption: “When he said goodbye two years ago to Natalie Nickerson, 20, a war worker of Phoenix, Ariz., a big, handsome Navy lieutenant promised her a Jap. Last week Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: “This is a good Jap—a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach.” Natalie, surprised at the gift, named it Tojo. The armed forces [LIFE pointedly noted] disapprove strongly of this sort of thing”.

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A squad leader of the 442nd watches for German troops in France. November 1944.

 

 

A soldier of the 442nd cleans the barrel of an 81mm mortar near St. Die, France. Nov. 17, 1944.

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Soldier drive a Jeep towing a supply trailer in rural France. October 1944.

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