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Educator/Historian 📚 Music producer for WW2 vets of 746th AAF Band Military History 🪖 Occasional war film post 🎥 World War Quotes 🧐

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81 years ago today, In Francis S. Ford survives the crash-landing of his smoking P-38L Lightning at Hill Field on Mindoro after dogfighting with Japanese fighters. ✈️ He would go missing in action one week after this…

81 years ago today, In Francis S. Ford survives the crash-landing of his smoking P-38L Lightning at Hill Field on Mindoro after dogfighting with Japanese fighters. ✈️ He would go missing in action one week after this…

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It’s mind blowing that nearly 400 men survived the HMS Barham exploding during WW2. The British battleship was sunk by German submarine U-331 in 1941.

It’s mind blowing that nearly 400 men survived the HMS Barham exploding during WW2. The British battleship was sunk by German submarine U-331 in 1941.

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I could watch these beauties all day. ✈️

I could watch these beauties all day. ✈️

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80 years ago today, the second flag raising on Iwo Jima 🇺🇸

80 years ago today, the second flag raising on Iwo Jima 🇺🇸

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I can’t decide what’s more beautiful…the scenery or the planes 😎

I can’t decide what’s more beautiful…the scenery or the planes 😎

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Greatest line from a war movie….Go!

Greatest line from a war movie….Go!

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In HBO’s Band of Brothers, Captain Herbert Sobel is the strict, widely disliked original commander of Easy Company during training. 🧵 But his real story is more complex — a tough disciplinarian who shaped the unit, yet faced resentment and a tragic end.
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In HBO’s Band of Brothers, Captain Herbert Sobel is the strict, widely disliked original commander of Easy Company during training. 🧵 But his real story is more complex — a tough disciplinarian who shaped the unit, yet faced resentment and a tragic end.

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In HBO’s The Pacific, Gunnery Sergeant John “Manila John” Basilone becomes a legend during the brutal night fighting on Guadalcanal. 🪖 🧵The real story behind that machine gun stand is even more extraordinary.
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In HBO’s The Pacific, Gunnery Sergeant John “Manila John” Basilone becomes a legend during the brutal night fighting on Guadalcanal. 🪖 🧵The real story behind that machine gun stand is even more extraordinary.

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244,473 views • 5 days ago

81 years ago today, the men of Easy Company discover Kaufering IV, a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp system in Bavaria.
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81 years ago today, the men of Easy Company discover Kaufering IV, a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp system in Bavaria.

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1,254,531 views • 1 month ago

80 years ago today, Ron Speirs is placed in charge of Easy Company and goes on one of the most impressive runs in human history. 🪖
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80 years ago today, Ron Speirs is placed in charge of Easy Company and goes on one of the most impressive runs in human history. 🪖

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7,734,323 views • 1 year ago

Rangers & paratroopers working together…now that’s diversity in film😎
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Rangers & paratroopers working together…now that’s diversity in film😎

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153,440 views • 19 days ago

It’s been over 25 years and I’m still not over Pvt. Jackson not making it out of the bell tower.
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It’s been over 25 years and I’m still not over Pvt. Jackson not making it out of the bell tower.

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3,737,300 views • 1 year ago

In Band of Brothers, Don Malarkey meets an American born German POW from Oregon, whose family had returned to Germany. The incident did happen, however, in the show, Malarkey didn't know the man. In reality, the two had worked across the street from each other for years.
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In Band of Brothers, Don Malarkey meets an American born German POW from Oregon, whose family had returned to Germany. The incident did happen, however, in the show, Malarkey didn't know the man. In reality, the two had worked across the street from each other for years.

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189,163 views • 1 month ago

No “Widowmaker” on this flight…the pilot must have had the right stuff 😎
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No “Widowmaker” on this flight…the pilot must have had the right stuff 😎

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176,763 views • 1 month ago

81 years ago today, paratroopers bound for Normandy. 🇺🇸
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81 years ago today, paratroopers bound for Normandy. 🇺🇸

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1,626,542 views • 1 year ago

Bringing a B-29 Superfortress in for a landing ✈️
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Bringing a B-29 Superfortress in for a landing ✈️

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1,105,145 views • 1 year ago

The Aerial bombardment from “Letters from Iwo Jima” to soften up the enemy prior to the Marines landing on Iwo Jima. ✈️ Iwo Jima posts begin at midnight
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The Aerial bombardment from “Letters from Iwo Jima” to soften up the enemy prior to the Marines landing on Iwo Jima. ✈️ Iwo Jima posts begin at midnight

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261,001 views • 3 months ago

This is easily sobel’s best scene in Band of Brothers 😎
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This is easily sobel’s best scene in Band of Brothers 😎

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186,297 views • 2 months ago

RIP to Easy Company legend Don Malarkey who passed away 8 years ago today. 🪦 Always loved this scene with Sobel asking Malarkey if his name was slang for “Bull shit”
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RIP to Easy Company legend Don Malarkey who passed away 8 years ago today. 🪦 Always loved this scene with Sobel asking Malarkey if his name was slang for “Bull shit”

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539,920 views • 8 months ago

Hands down….one of the most brutal scenes to watch in any war movie.
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Hands down….one of the most brutal scenes to watch in any war movie.

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117,330 views • 1 month ago

81 years ago today, Easy Company NCO Walter “Smokey” Gordon was shot by a German sniper, with the bullet penetrating one shoulder, traveling through his body and exiting the opposite shoulder, leaving him paralyzed. 🪖
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81 years ago today, Easy Company NCO Walter “Smokey” Gordon was shot by a German sniper, with the bullet penetrating one shoulder, traveling through his body and exiting the opposite shoulder, leaving him paralyzed. 🪖

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307,089 views • 5 months ago

81 years ago, Ron Speirs is placed in charge of Easy Company and goes on one of the most impressive runs in human history. 🪖
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81 years ago, Ron Speirs is placed in charge of Easy Company and goes on one of the most impressive runs in human history. 🪖

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230,795 views • 4 months ago

81 years ago today, the SS John Burke, while transporting ammunition to Mindoro, Philippines, was hit by a kamikaze and disintegrated with the loss of everyone onboard. 🪦 68 Merchant Marines and armed guards. ⚓️
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81 years ago today, the SS John Burke, while transporting ammunition to Mindoro, Philippines, was hit by a kamikaze and disintegrated with the loss of everyone onboard. 🪦 68 Merchant Marines and armed guards. ⚓️

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225,026 views • 5 months ago

81 years ago, Dick Winters & Easy Company make an all out charge on the SS in Holland. 🪖 Winters describes this moment as everything slowing down around him…The Germans were in slow motion & his men moved in slow motion. What a legend 🇺🇸
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81 years ago, Dick Winters & Easy Company make an all out charge on the SS in Holland. 🪖 Winters describes this moment as everything slowing down around him…The Germans were in slow motion & his men moved in slow motion. What a legend 🇺🇸

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332,344 views • 8 months ago

Who else is going to see the new D-Day movie, “Pressure” 🪖
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Who else is going to see the new D-Day movie, “Pressure” 🪖

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32,839 views • 20 days ago

81 years ago today, Easy Company’s Warren “Skip” Muck & Alex Penkala were killed in action. RIP, heroes 🇺🇸
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81 years ago today, Easy Company’s Warren “Skip” Muck & Alex Penkala were killed in action. RIP, heroes 🇺🇸

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139,691 views • 4 months ago