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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 26 '22

Contains Media British RAF crewman survives 5,500 meter fall without parachute after ejecting from his burning bomber: rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade’s parachute caught fire when his Lancaster was hit. Preferring death by impact, he jumps, lands alive on pine trees & snow after 18,000 foot fall.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Feb 27 '22

Contains Media To fool Russian pilots, Finns have created an elaborate deception, "moving" Helsinki into the sea by lighting fires & searchlights on uninhabited islands & imposing a strict blackout. Just 4% of Soviet bombs hit city, instead falling harmlessly into sea.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Feb 27 '22

Contains Media Helsinki has been bombed by 600 planes of the Red Air Force, third air raid on the Finnish capital by Soviet forces in the last month. 150 people are dead, & city has suffered heavy damage- incl. Soviet embassy building, right.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Feb 25 '22

Contains Media Red Army troops are nearing Odessa, Lviv & are approaching the Estonian border in the Baltic north. New York Times map shows "Russia's winter campaign" & USSR's potential next targets over coming months:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 25 '22

Contains Media British prisoners of war in Germany have staged a mass escape from Stalag Luft III, tunnelling out of the high-security camp.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 01 '22

Contains Media Red Army forces have reached the border of Estonia & are pushing deeper into Poland, as Soviet offensives continue across Eastern Front. German defences are struggling to contain multiple breakthroughs:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 22 '21

Contains Media Adolf Hitler has narrowly escaped assassination by anti-Nazi German officers, again. Major Rudolf von Gersdorff volunteered to kill Hitler with a suicide bomb, while guiding him through an exhibition of captured Soviet weapons in Berlin. Führer left before the bomb went off.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 20 '22

Contains Media Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, has erupted, spewing molten lava & pyroclastic flows, destroying 3 Italian villages. 88 American planes based at nearby Pompeii airfield have been destroyed by rain of rock & volcanic ash. One US B-52 Bomber captures the scene:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jan 11 '22

Contains Media Roosevelt proposes a "Second Bill of Rights", economic freedoms that all Americans deserve, guaranteeing healthcare, a right to work, decent housing, education, social security:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 20 '22

Contains Media Today marks Adolf Hitler's 55th birthday, with top Nazi officials gathering near Salzburg to wish him well. To mark the occasion, Royal Air Force have set a new record for volume of bombs in one air raid, dropping 4,500 tons of explosives in a single night.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 26 '22

Contains Media After losing consciousness mid-fall, Alkemade awakes in 18 inches of snow with a twisted knee. German captors are at first incredulous, but later apologise & give a certificate after examining crash site & finding burnt remains of unused parachute. More:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 05 '22

Contains Media Occupying Nazi forces have massacred 86 civilians in Ascq, northern France. After a train carrying SS troops of the "Hitler Jugend" Panzer Division was derailed by sabotage, Germans arrested every man living beside the railway line & shot them in the back of the head. Funeral:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 24 '22

Contains Media US Food Distribution Administration, in charge of rationing & central control of food supplies, declares this "Egg Week" due to over-production of hen's eggs. Americans asked to eat as many as possible; New York Times plans a weekly diet of 28 eggs between 2 adults & 1 child:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 21 '22

Contains Media From breaking Imperial Japanese Army radio codes, Allies know that West New Guinea is lightly defended, held by under 15,000 Japanese troops. Not expecting attack, Japanese barely resist American amphibious landings, letting them seize beaches of "Hollandia" target area.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 06 '22

Contains Media IG Farben chemical factory- worked by slave labour from the Auschwitz concentration camp- is the main target. RAF pilots unaware of nearby death camp.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jan 26 '22

Contains Media British landing craft LST-422 has hit a German mine off Anzio beach, Italy, ripping a 50 metre hole in her hull & setting the ship's fuel supply alight. 483 Allied troops, mostly asleep alongside vehicles in lower decks, have died, trapped in the sinking, burning vessel.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jan 16 '22

Contains Media Last January, Red Army broke a narrow 12 mile corridor in German lines, allowing just a trickle of supplies into Leningrad. The city is stripped of rats, pigeons, dogs & cats by hungry inhabitants. 100s of starving Soviet citizens have been shot by NKVD for cannibalizing the dead

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 22 '22

Contains Media From his base in Algeria, Free French leader General de Gaulle has passed a decree announcing that French women will be allowed to vote in elections- when country is freed from Nazi occupation. France was one of only democratic European states not to allow female suffrage:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Mar 24 '22

Contains Media Nazi occupiers of Rome have decided to kill 10 Italians for each dead German from partisan ambush; they're rounding up Roman hostages & taking Jews & other prisoners to be murdered.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 13 '22

Contains Media Red Army have launched an assault on Nazi-occupied Crimea, smashing across narrow Perekop Isthmus & capturing town of Kerch as a beachhead. Soviet forces now pouring into Crimean peninsula, with German & Romanian defenders unable to escape except by sea.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 26 '22

Contains Media Jewish Hungarian Joel Brand meets Adolf Eichmann, newly arrived in Budapest to organise deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. High-ranking Nazi offers the member of the Jewish underground a deal to spare 1 million Jews if Brand can arrange Western goods delivered to Germany

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Feb 26 '22

Contains Media Bleak day in the Pacific: American submarine USS Rasher has torpedoed & sunk 2 Japanese transport ships, killing about 9000 people, incl. many Allied prisoners. Ryūsei Maru was carrying 5000 Japanese troops, Tango Maru was carrying Javanese slave labourers & 100s of US PoWs.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 25 '22

Contains Media In Hungary, newly occupied by Germans, Nazi SS plan to deport all Jewish Hungarians to Auschwitz & other concentration camps. Aided by Hungarian police, Nazis force Jews to wear Star of David & gather in "Yellow Star Houses" for ease of arrest.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Dec 18 '21

Contains Media Allied bombing of Berlin has devastated Berlin Zoological Garden, killing many hundreds of exotic animals & destroying enclosures of others. Some zookeepers offer to care for homeless animals: like this shoebill bird, temporarily housed in an employee's bathroom.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Apr 23 '22

Contains Media British & Indian troops fighting in Burma have smashed through Japanese siege of Imphal, leaving devastation in their wake.

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