Lieutenant Winters relentlessly pursues a German plane to the ground, 21 September 1944.
OTD 1944
Spanish Anarchists in La Nueve (9th Armored Company) are the first to enter a liberated Paris.
‘The vast majority had no military mindset and were even antimilitarists, but they were magnificent soldiers, valiant and experienced warriors.’
- Raymond Dronne, Captain of La Nueve
"The Spaniards? Best soldiers I've ever had. Worst at obeying orders too."
- Free-French general LeClerc
[Recommend reading: La Nueve by Evelyn Mesquida, Spanish language Epub and Pdf in comments)
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Stephen Kapos, who attended the march for Gaza in London, was 7 y.o. when he and his family survived the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944.
“Its criminal that the Israeli government exploits the sufferings of the holocaust to justify the present massacres,” he said.
“The UK government should stop facilitating this holocaust, in Gaza, and that by withdrawing funding from Unrwa, they are in effect, participating in this holocaust,” Kapos added.
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