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#WW2

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Martin Rundkvist

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 #WW2 air defence position.

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Minnesota Spy Club

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.

#WW2 #SOE #FSection #France #UK

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_

Two side by side photos of Latour. On the left, a black and white photo from the war years of a young Latour strolling along a sidewalk wearing a floral print knee length dress with a purse or clutch in her right hand. Old model cars are parked along the sidewalk. On the right a color photo of an elderly latour with bright white hair, wearing a fleece blue jumper with her parachute wings and war medals on her left chest.
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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@enkiusz @SpaceLifeForm @georgetakei
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interesting did not know this

And I bet the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces of #WW2 never knew or assumed there might of been #japaneseamericans secretly living (spying) in the big cities in Japan.

Everyone knew they were all in isolated US Army controlled 24/7 lockdown camps, but there were volunteers who fought in Germany, maybe in Japan too.

en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php

en.m.wikipedia.orgImperial Japanese Armed Forces - Wikipedia
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Frédéric D'Astous

American liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against #extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today.

« (..) their up-close view of the horrors of Mauthausen and their interactions with the Spanish antifascist survivors was a lifelong vaccine against extremism.

They witnessed how a fascist leader tore the world apart. They saw with their own eyes the death and destruction of political extremism. » #WW2 #History #Fascism #USpol

theconversation.com/american-l

The ConversationAmerican liberators of Nazi camps got ‘a lifelong vaccine against extremism’ − their wartime experiences are a warning for today
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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@enkiusz @SpaceLifeForm @georgetakei
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putting people in prison camps and expecting them to become intelligence operatives seems like a bad plan for recruitment

Actually, forcing families to quickly relocate without many personal possessions IS a bad plan for any reason

But, have you heard of the 442 #goforbroke #WW2 infantry regiment?

The most decorated, composed almost entirely of second generation soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_

I wonder how many were #OSS

en.m.wikipedia.org442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia
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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@SpaceLifeForm @georgetakei
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many people today will never connect the dots

RE #GeorgeTakei
"...send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942."

⭕Connect the dots, makes me think, what IF one reason to do this in 1942 was to get many balanced bilinguals to join the #OSS and be placed ALL OVER JAPAN #WW2
#officeofstrategicservices

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George

Takei had several relatives living in Japan during World War II. Among them, he had an aunt and infant cousin who lived in Hiroshima and who were both killed during the atomic bombing that destroyed the city. In Takei's own words, "My aunt and baby cousin [were] found burnt in a ditch in Hiroshima." At the end of World War II, after leaving Tule internment camp, Takei's family was left without any bank accounts, home or family business; this left them unable to find any housing, so they lived on Skid Row, Los Angeles for five years. He attended Mount Vernon Junior High School and served as Boys Senior Board President at Los Angeles High School. He was a member of Boy Scout Troop 379 of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Upon graduation from high school, Takei enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied architecture. Later, he transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in theater in 1960 and a Master of Arts in theater in 1964. He also attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in England and Sophia University in Tokyo. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop.
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