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Photographer Margaret Bourke-White with the U.S. Bomber Command in England, 1942. See more photos here.
(Margaret Bourke-White—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Yet another plea for everyone looking at this to read the amazing The Women Who Wrote the War, an oral history of female war correspondents in the 1930s and ’40s.
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LOTR extras
→ ”He proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of WW2…
He seemed to have expert knowledge of exactly the sort of noise that they make so I just sort of didn’t push the subject any further, I just said ”Well you obviously know what to do, Christopher, so I’m sure you’ll do it great” and he did.”
Good morning! Happy Friday! Have some of this to start off the end of your week.
(I still want that story that someone implied when they pointed out that Christopher Lee, Julia Child and Roald Dahl were all super-tall clandestine intelligence types during WWII, no lie. Would that not be the best comic book ever?)
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Wait, who let this doofus have a rifle?
THESE GUYS. These guys remain my favorite. GUARNERES!
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A photo series following an ex-GI and his new wife re-visiting the battlefields of France where he fought in the war.
Photos by Tony Linck. June,1947.
Oh wow.
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Fie, watermark, fie.
”Oh mom loved it, glad that I just got home alive.They were worried about me…when I got back I assured them I was fine. Just to be home with them, I was lucky. Damn lucky.”
-Bill Guarnere on returning home
…woof, Bill Guarnere. Woof.
(I mean, I know I’m missing the point of the quote, but dang, sir.)
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Band of Brothers, episode 6 “Bastogne”.
Ohgod, always reblog BoB fanart, especially if it’s this… this yes.
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His eyes are so bluuuuuuuuue.
Uh. This is actually a pretty tragic scene. But I enjoy how lovingly it’s been capped at joe-armstrong.net.
I actually saw this episode of Foyle’s War before I knew who Joe Armstrong was. I could go back and watch it… or I could make up a storyline just based on these screencaps. Then again, is it really an either/or decision?
The natural magpie impulse is, of course, to grab shiny things and hoard them in one place.
Hi, I'm Esther, and I run Magpie & Whale, currently steampunking Shakespeare and the Roman Empire in the weekly serial Innogen and the Hungry Half!
Tendus.
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Sunday morning - cigars and gardening.
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