WW2 Tweets from 1942

@RealTimeWWII

I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this date in 1942 & for 4 years to come (2nd time around). Created by Alwyn Collinson, realtimewwii@gmail.com

Britain
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2011.
Rođen/a 1939.

Tweetovi

Blokirali ste korisnika/cu @RealTimeWWII

Jeste li sigurni da želite vidjeti te tweetove? Time nećete deblokirati korisnika/cu @RealTimeWWII

  1. Prikvačeni tweet

    I've been live-tweeting the Second World War since 2011. If you find this project interesting or enlightening, I'd value your support. Help keep history alive by joining my Patreon:

    Poništi
  2. Quisling & other Nazi collaborators are widely hated by other Norwegians, who socially ostasice them with an "ice front"- encouraged by British intelligence, who smuggle propaganda stamps into Norway:

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  3. The London Times: "The word Quisling is a gift from the gods [as] a new word for traitor." You could hardly invent "a more brilliant combination of letters. Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery & tortuous."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  4. Quisling- his name now slang for Nazi collaborators across occupied Europe- has been ordered to force Norwegian cooperation with the German war effort.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  5. Hoping to force greater collaboration from German-occupied Norway, Hitler has appointed Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling to head the Nazi puppet government in Oslo:

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  6. Japanese bombers are raiding the Australian navy base of Port Moresby, New Guinea- striking ever closer to mainland Australia.

    Poništi
  7. proslijedio/la je Tweet

    I've been live-tweeting the Second World War since 2011. If you find this project interesting or enlightening, I'd value your support. Help keep history alive by joining my Patreon:

    Poništi
  8. 2. velj

    Food is running out for Bataan's besieged garrison; without fodder for the cavalry's horses, the American & Filipino defenders have butchered & eaten them.

    Poništi
  9. 2. velj

    Furious American counterattacks forcing invaders back over sheer cliffs of Bataan; US Captain: "Scores of Japs leaped, shrieking, to the beach below"

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  10. 2. velj

    In the Philippines, US troops are under constant assault; Japanese boats landing behind their lines, on coast of Bataan, last American holdout.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  11. 2. velj

    From next week, the USA will operate on "War Time": President Roosevelt orders all clocks put forward 1 hour year-round to save daylight & fuel.

    Poništi
  12. 1. velj

    "One Chinese woman had half her face blown away. I'll never forget her pleading eyes. Large maggots crawled out of the remains of her nose."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  13. 1. velj

    Phyllis Briggs, British nurse in a Singapore hospital: "In the heat & filth, many bombing victims have infected wounds, crawling with insects."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  14. 1. velj

    Japanese bombers are smashing Singapore day & night, killing hundreds of civilians; 1 Singaporean woman mourns her child, slain in a midday raid:

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  15. 1. velj

    Sole MP to vote against government is James Maxton, Scottish far-left pacifist, who opposes military action, even against Hitler: “The plain fact is that war means the slaughter of millions.”

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  16. 1. velj

    Churchill, on Parliament's debate about his handling of the war: "No dictator country fighting for its life would dare allow such a discussion."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  17. 1. velj

    British Parliament is debating a vote of no confidence in the government. After three days of debate on conduct of the war, House of Commons supports Churchill & his national coalition by 464-1.

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  18. 31. sij

    "Unity of Strength": British propaganda poster celebrates soldiers from across the Empire fighting togther to defeat the Axis: Australia, Canada, India, Africa, & New Zealand.

    Poništi
  19. 31. sij

    Hitler: Jewish "plutocrats" & "Bolsheviks" started this war "to destroy Germany; instead, it will end with the worldwide destruction of Jewry."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  20. 31. sij

    Hitler has made his annual speech to vast crowds in Berlin's Sportpalast: he calls Churchill a "drunken gabbler", Roosevelt a "mad fool", but admits "war may not end this year."

    Prikaži ovu nit
    Poništi
  21. 31. sij

    Scottish Highlanders are trying to fortify Singapore's main golf course against expected Japanese landings, only to be told: "Nothing can be done until after a meeting of the club committee."

    Poništi

Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.

Twitter je možda preopterećen ili ima kratkotrajnih poteškoća u radu. Pokušajte ponovno ili potražite dodatne informacije u odjeljku Status Twittera.

    Možda bi vam se svidjelo i ovo:

    ·