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• Reading WW2 Propaganda Posters: Silence

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 156
  So, I seem to have pissed off some militant WW2 buff-wads (like Fred ) with my queries in the post below. Let’s see if I can piss off some more of them! This next set of American WW2 proraganda posters focuses on SILENCE as patriotic, which I think is veeeeery interesting! I’m interested here in ...
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• Nazis LOVE Jello!

  
  PCL LinkDump — Authority: 531
  And so does Carol Channing. Thanks Bob!!
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• Thursday Open Thread

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 490
  Christmas comes on the 26th for the 101st Airborne in Bastogne… C-47s drop in supplies.Share on Facebookvar button = document.getElementById(facebook_share_link) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_icon) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_both) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_button);if ...
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• Fox Mike Huckabee to interview Toshio Tamogami

  
  Japan without the sugar — Authority: 417
  It is way, way too late at night to be up reading this sort of nonsense, so the whole thing could possibly be just a weird dream.We remember Huckabee as one of the Republican candidates of the last primary season and Tamogami as the fellow who was fired as Japans Air Force chief of staff for saying what many ...
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• André Zuccas Wartime Paris: What You Dont See

  
  Topinambours — Authority: 124
  nybooks : Ian Buruma André Zucca “The French photographer André Zucca was not a Nazi,” Ian Buruma writes in his recent article on Paris during the German occupation , “but he felt no particular hostility to Germany either…. Zucca simply wanted to continue his pre-war life, publishing pictures in the ...
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• Karma: Operation Barbarossa

  
  Free Games Download Video and News for PC Windows Linux Mac OS X — Authority: 134
  Karma: Operation Barbarossa is an alternative-ending World War II multi-player online first person shooter (MMOFPS) developed by Dragonfly, Futureport and Blueside. Karma: Operation Barbarossa is set in an Europe that hasn’t seen the end of the Second World War. The entire continent is under Germany’s unyielding ...
  2 days ago

• KAYAK (trip booking) Commercial Making Light of WW2 Veterans

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  If anyone hasnt seen Kayaks commercial making a joke out of the sacrifices of our soldiers on D-Day, the link is below. It disgusts me, and I finally decided to let the company know. I hope you will do the same. The commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RFoEn5EYJw Heres what I wrote to them on their "feedback" ...
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• New Release: Bolt Action Cullin Prong

  
  Warlord Games — Authority: 120
  We know all full-blooded Allied Commanders are never satisfied with just stock vehicles in their forces. Therefore you can now add a hedgerow cutter to your Allied armour. An ingenious attachment that allowed Allied tanks to cut through the bocage hedgerows in France, the Cullin Prong was widely used on Shermans ...
  6 days ago

• Gallery: Troop of Shewe Bolt Action Vehicles

  
  Warlord Games — Authority: 120
  As this is being written, it’s quite a week for Bolt Action Miniatures releases so we figure we’ll go the whole hog and look at some more great paintjobs by that nice chap Neil at Troop of Shewe . First off we have a GMC CCKW Deuce-and-a-Half truck . The model comes in two variants - with enclosed canvas cabin ...
  6 days ago

• New Release: Bolt Action Kubelwagen

  
  Warlord Games — Authority: 120
  Widely used across the German Armed forces in all theatres of operations, the Volkswagen Kubelwagen is as iconic a vehicle for the Germans as the Willys Jeep was for the Americans. As such we simply had to add it to our Bolt Action WWII German range. The Bolt Action Kubelwagen is a beautiful little rein ...
  6 days ago

• Another perspective on Obamas bow

  
  Japan without the sugar — Authority: 417
  I am behind the times as usual, but Armchair Asia has a very interesting perspective on Obamas bow to the emperor as being an unintended (Obama likely following what he considered good manners and being culturally sensitive) slight to Hatoyama and the DPJ and a possible nod to the right. The author notes (roughly ...
  6 days ago

• Legal News: A Check on Faint-hearted Presidents–Letters of Marque and Reprisal, by William Young

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 139
     This is an excellent treatment of the subject.  If you have the time to review the legal side of the LoM and all of it’s modern day implications, I highly recommend reading this. One note for the author though.  During World War Two, Congress  issued a LoM , and that technically was the last one issued. ...
  1 week ago

• Jewish WW2 study: Women and Blacks most susceptible to Jewish lies

  
  What Do You Believe? — Authority: 437
  In “Anti-Semitism up, Islamophobia down,” Gilad Atzmon reports that: Only 25% of Europeans believe that “Jews have too much influence“ Only 31% agree that “Jews in general do not care about anything or anyone but their own kind.” Only 45.7% of the Europeans somewhat or strongly agree that ...
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• Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 153
  It’s not often that I shine the spotlight on an older game but I feel compelled to bring every Xbox 360 loving WTC reader’s attention to Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII . I picked this one up several months ago (with a copy of the first Blazing Angels , which is a decent game itself) but didn’t ...
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• Roar! 1943 Studebaker Weasel

  
  Just a Car Guy — Authority: 565
  Via: http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/s/43studWeasel1_MVS.jpg for one that made it through the war and came though ok, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/1944-studebaker-weasel.html
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• WW2 Games Arent Dead, They Just Need New Digs [History]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 810
  As has been established by science , there are over 100 recent video games set during the Second World War. Yet for a war that literally spanned the globe, we sure do spend a lot of time in, and above, France. John Constantine over at MTV has written a piece today on alternative locations for WW2 games, which I ...
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• Carlsons Rangers: Gung Ho

  
  Knickerbocker Village — Authority: 137
  I must have seen this movie a thousand times as a kid. Who knew that a fourth warder was actually there. from janeresture Gung Ho! The basis of Carlsons thinking was what he called Gung Ho, basically, "work together." But his concept of this was not merely a battle cry, a slogan or a motto, etc.; it is an ideal ...
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• Makin Atoll: Call Of Duty

  
  Knickerbocker Village — Authority: 137
  I didnt realize that Call Of Duty had a game devoted to Makin Atoll. I cut out one of the more gruesome parts. Before the Army 165th Regiment of Charles Murphy landed a Marine Ranger force invaded in late 1942. The game tells a version of their story. The Makin Island Raid (pronounced, "Muggin") (occurred on August ...
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• December 8, 1941: The War with Japan Begins

  
  History Blog — Authority: 115
  December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to man scaled new and scientific heights. “Yesterday, December 7, ...
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• Diving a German U-Boat

  
  Life In The Great Midwest — Authority: 426
  My buddy “Sarge” introduced me to SCUBA diving a couple of years ago as a “best man” gift at his wedding. What started out casually as just another fun vacation activity to enjoy some free morning at a tropical resort has grown for both of us into a true passion for the sport. While the Midwest might not seem ...
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