Monthly Archives: March 2015
Vintage football players
Calling All Girls! (The favorite magazine of girls and sub-debs, 1942)
Claire Trevor, 1944
Joan Crawford, 1944
Ava Gardner, 1945
WWII: Raising the US flag at Iwo Jima, 1945 (GIF)
This famous event occurred, after a brutal battle, when the US took the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. It happened 70 years + 2 weeks ago. It was significant in that the US (and allies such as Australia & China) had finally re-taken all the territory Japan had invaded and taken, leaving basically only Japan itself to fall to the Allies. At this point Japan was surrounded by the Allies and also cut off from natural resources (most importantly: oil). Japan didn’t surrender for another 6 months though.
WWII: American soldiers doing excercises
The bad guys: Spanish Nationalists (Fascists) poster, Spanish Civil War, 1930s


