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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  13. WW2 Tweets from 1944 followed and
    • @jkbloodtreasure

      agent of the law. luckless pedestrian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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