82 years ago today, Pvt. Richard Sorenson threw himself on a Japanese grenade on Namur Island, saving five fellow Marines. 🪖
Gravely wounded, Sorenson survived and would earn the Medal of Honor. 🇺🇸
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Gravely wounded, Sorenson survived and would earn the Medal of Honor. 🇺🇸
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Clark Gable addresses the troops on the Flightline at March Field in 1938, during the filming of “Test Pilot” 😎
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81 years ago today, T/5 Wilbert Moran of the 11th Airborne Division leads a small pack mule along the Cavite Road on Luzon. 🪖
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In February of 1945, an exhausted soldier of the US 1st Army just returns from the front lines near the town of Mürringen, Belgium.🪖
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In 1944, Lt. Clarence Coggins of the 45th Infantry Division was captured by German Forces while on reconnaissance in France. 🪖
While captured, he convinced a German major that escape from the Allies was impossible, leading nearly 1000 Germans to surrender. 🇺🇸
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While captured, he convinced a German major that escape from the Allies was impossible, leading nearly 1000 Germans to surrender. 🇺🇸
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In February of 1945, an M24 Chaffee light tank of the 18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron at Petit Tiers, Belgium. 🪖
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In February of 1945, after relieved from the fighting near Belvedere, a soldier of the 10th Mountain Division naps in a foxhole with his rifle nearby in Italy. 🪖
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On this day in 1985, the mayors of Rome and the town of El Djem, a Tunisian community near the site of ancient Carthage, sit down together to sign a treaty of friendship. Both claim that the meeting marks the official end of the Third Punic War of 146 BC.
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On this day in 1913, two Greek military pilots in a French-made Farman MF.7 biplane locate the Ottoman fleet as it steams through the Dardanelles. It's history's first naval air mission.
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On this day in 1941, the United Service Organizations (@The_USO) is established. By D-Day, the USO will be putting on an estimated 700 shows a day for American troops serving overseas.
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Today in 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta in Crimea to plan for the end of the war in Europe. Talks focus on the partition of Germany and the future of Poland. Within weeks FDR will be dead and Moscow soon reneges on its pledge to allow free elections in Poland
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On this day in 1917, a German U-boat sinks the American steamer SS Housatonic off the English coast. Washington responds by cutting diplomatic ties with Berlin. Two months later, the United States will declare war.
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A Marine wearing an early war Hawley helmet liner and an Army 1st Pattern Tunic, moves through a swamp near Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 1944. 🪖
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After landing his damaged plane, Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group stands next to the hole in his wing caused by a German telegraph pole that he hit while strafing a German military train near Ulm, Germany. ✈️
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In February of 1945, a machine gunner with the 70th Infantry Division is helped by a young French boy as he cleans his weapon in Etzling, France. 🪖
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In February of 1945, two soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division play cards as they wait for orders to move out of Vettweiß, Germany. 🪖
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81 years ago today, German POWs support wounded American soldiers near Colmar, France. 🪖
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⚫ Three head sculptures from Ife, capital of the kingdom of Ife (11-15th century CE) in what is today southern Nigeria.
The left and right examples are painted plaster casts of brass originals. The centre head is a brass original.
Height: approx. 35 centimetres. 14th to early 15th century CE. (British Museum, London).
📷 Photo by The British Museum.
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The left and right examples are painted plaster casts of brass originals. The centre head is a brass original.
Height: approx. 35 centimetres. 14th to early 15th century CE. (British Museum, London).
📷 Photo by The British Museum.
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🏹 The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek religion.
The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.
The Olympic Games were the most important cultural event in ancient Greece, and they ran for 293 consecutive Olympiads. So important were the Games in the ancient world that they were even used as a basis for the calendar.
📝 Article and photos by Mark Cartwright.
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The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.
The Olympic Games were the most important cultural event in ancient Greece, and they ran for 293 consecutive Olympiads. So important were the Games in the ancient world that they were even used as a basis for the calendar.
📝 Article and photos by Mark Cartwright.
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