WW2 Tweets from 1944

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Livetweeting the 2nd World War, as it happens on this date & time in 1944, & for 2 years to come. Created by Alwyn Collinson. Contact realtimewwii@gmail.com

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  1. Aug 11 Guam

    After 3 years of brutal Japanese occupation & deprivation, native Chamorro people of Guam return to American rule.

    54 retweets 112 likes
  2. Aug 11 Guam

    "How about moving over, Bud?" As heaviest fighting ends on Guam, a scouting dog & a US Marine relax in a foxhole.

    160 retweets 299 likes
  3. Aug 11 Guam

    Japanese commander on Guam Hideyoshi Obata has committed ritual suicide for failure to stop US Marines; now posthumously promoted to general

    77 retweets 122 likes
  4. Aug 11 Guam

    Organised Japanese resistance has collapsed on Guam; US controls island but 7000+ Japanese guerrillas still fighting

    81 retweets 106 likes
  5. Aug 9 Guam

    Exhausted Japanese on Guam are short ammo, food; their artillery & tanks now wrecked by relentless American assault.

    84 retweets 183 likes
  6. Aug 9 Mortain, France

    US Marines on Guam have fought inland, forcing Japanese occupiers into dense mountainous jungle on north of island.

    84 retweets 183 likes
  7. Aug 7 Mortain, France

    Germans in France launch Operation Lüttich, desperate counterattack to try & cut off American forces in Brittany.

    89 retweets 164 likes
  8. Aug 6

    Fighting raging in Warsaw, as Germans struggle to recapture city from Polish resistance, who are hoping for Soviet forces to arrive & help.

    97 retweets 168 likes
  9. Aug 5 London, England

    Reminder: this summer's Olympic Games cancelled due to war; planned host city of London suffering V1 bombing attacks

    493 retweets 397 likes
  10. Aug 5 Cowra, New South Wales

    Yelling "Banzai" & flinging blankets over barbed wire fence, Japanese PoWs overwhelm & kill Australian guards- despite their machine-guns.

    86 retweets 110 likes
  11. Aug 5 Cowra, New South Wales

    Japanese prisoners in Australia have staged mass breakout from Cowra camp, 314km west of Sydney, 1000+ storming wire

    119 retweets 134 likes
  12. Aug 4

    After 2 days' battle, Warsaw resistance have captured majority of city, although Nazis still hold vital strongpoints

    150 retweets 269 likes
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      @jkbloodtreasure

      agent of the law. luckless pedestrian

    • Histry in Pictures
      @Histreepix

      Like History in Pictures, this is the painfully inaccurate retelling of the world's history, in the wrong pictures. Final decisions become facts.

  14. Aug 2 Warsaw, Poland

    As well as murdering sick Auschwitz prisoners, Mengele's work includes deliberate infection, & dissection of twins, dwarves, pregnant women.

    69 retweets 68 likes
  15. Aug 2 Warsaw, Poland

    Josef Mengele, doctor at Auschwitz "Gypsy camp" takes Roma children for "experiments", incl. sewing twins together.

    117 retweets 103 likes
  16. Aug 2 Warsaw, Poland

    Disease & starvation have killed 10,000+ Roma at Auschwitz, men sent to work camps; women & children now murdered.

    108 retweets 82 likes
  17. Aug 2 Warsaw, Poland

    Zigeunerlager- gypsy camp- at Auschwitz holds Roma & Sinti from across Nazi reich, subject to pseudoscientific study

    91 retweets 75 likes
  18. Aug 2 Warsaw, Poland

    SS guards at Auschwitz have started to kill prisoners of "Gypsy Family Camp", gassing & burning 2,897 Roma people.

    116 retweets 69 likes
  19. Aug 1 Warsaw, Poland

    The Polish Home Army secret resistance have risen in Warsaw, taking fight to Nazi occupiers & seizing parts of city.

    202 retweets 321 likes
  20. Jul 31 Warsaw, Poland

    Red Army have reached eastern edge of Warsaw, & are broadcasting to Polish resistance fighters to rise against Nazis

    140 retweets 226 likes

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