Allied leaders in the Sicilian campaign. Gen #Eisenhower L to R ACM #Tedder, Gen #Alexander, Admiral #Cunningham #Macmillan, #GeneralBedellSmith

This kind of vulgarity is poisoning intraparty discourse for Democrats in US. Progressive Democrats brought us "woke" which killed us in elections in 2024. This woman demonstrates the difference between ass and class. Left wing "progressives" go form your own party for people who want to lose

#MillauViaduct 8,200 ft long bridge 660 ft above river. In US, many critical bridges urgently need replacement. We don't have the money because we spend so much in useless wars. Now spending billions fighting Iran for Netanyahu & supporting his genocide of Palestinians. What about America first?

#MillauViaduct

Cost of construction approximately $US 475 million. Built in three years (would take ten years in US because of constant lawsuits by the disgruntled). Bridge ranked as one of the greatest engineering achievements of modern times. Sad that a great country like ours can't do this.

#MillauViaduct #multispan bridge across valley of the Tarn in Southern France. Americans unable to build anything like this on time & on budget because of gov't & industry incompetence, massive cost overruns, environmental impact statements taking years to complete & lawsuits by anyone unhappy.

"U.S. and British troops landing near Gela, #Sicily, July 10, 1943." #ww2 #invasionofsicily #husky

#LST s (landings hip tank) lined up and waiting for tanks to come aboard. Two days before the invasion of #Sicily. La Pecherie, French Naval Base. Tunisia, July 1943. (OSS) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA. #ww2 #husky

Abyssinian people greet the marshals: Pietro Badoglio (1. left) and Emilio de Bono.
Badoglio was responsible for the Italian genocide against the Arabs in Cyrenaica and subsequently won the Italian war to seize Ethiopia by dropping tons of mustard gas on Ethiopian soldiers.

Wing Commander A G Page, commander of 125 Wing, about to take off in his #Supermarine #Spitfire Mk IXE 'AGP' from Longues, #Normandy. Later the same day, Page shot down his 14th aircraft, but was wounded and his aircraft damaged.

"She May Look Clean – But Pick-ups ‘Good Time’ Girls Prostitutes Spread Syphilis and Gonorrhea. ca. 1940."

#WW2 saw a major increase in #venerealdisease among Allied troops and among US civilians. While right-wing religious groups were opposed, US military issued condoms to all servicemen.

#ww1 2 engine #germanbomber #gothaG5

No, it wasn't. Just propaganda to get men to join the army, although they would be conscripted anyway. Zeppelins were too vulnerable, so Germans built two-engine bombers and some massive four-engine bombers, and they bombed England, usually at night from 1917 onward and killed about 1400 civilians.

Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and their combined Chiefs of Staff at the Casablanca Conference. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collection of USNA.

Kitchener was Britain's most well-known military figure at the beginning of World War One. Said Prime Minister HH #Asquith, "he is not a great man but he is a great poster." #Kitchener was a #homosexual.

#ww1 #Zeppelin raids on Britain during World War I resulted in approximately 556 to 557 deaths. The US had placed an embargo on helium so the Zeppelins had to use explosive hydrogen.

#ww1 #recruitingposter Women of Britain Say 'Go!', May 1915 poster by E. J. Kealey, poster No. 75 from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee

A 1914 recruitment poster by the Parliamentary Recruitment Committee shows a Scottish soldier in Belgium.

Lawson Wood (artist, 1878–1957) Dobson, Molle and Co. Ltd. (

#ww2 Americans of the 2nd Armoured welcomed by people in #Palermo capital of #Sicily, on 22 July 1943. British commanders had disparaged the fighting ability of US troops until their fighting in Sicily. Only in November of 1942, had British 8th Army won the first British victory of the war

US 16th Infantry walking through the #KasserinePass, #Tunisia 26 Feb 1943. #WW2 This first encounter by green American troops with the highly trained soldiers of the German Wehrmacht didn't go well. The poorly trained and led US troops were cut to pieces. The US Army had a lot to learn.

Winston #Churchill stands with Major-General Brian #Horrocks (nearest camera) on a #Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, 27th Armoured Brigade, to take the salute at an inspection of 9th Armoured Division near Newmarket, Suffolk, 16 May 1942. #ww2

US moving more #tacticaljets to the Middle East. On 17 March additional #F35A Lightning II stealth fighters and #F15E Strike Eagle jets are joining the large number of fighters already engaged in the war effort.

Deck Landing

An F/A-18E #SuperHornet prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of the USS #AbrahamLincoln in support of Operation Epic Fury in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 7, 2026.
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U.S. Navy #Minesweepers Assigned To #MiddleEast Have Been Moved To #Pacific (Updated)

Two of the three #LittoralCombatShips that had taken over the #minesweeping role in the Middle East have just appeared in Malaysia. These ship moveemts seem odd

An #A10 #warthog carrying a mixture of APKWS II rockets, AGM-65 #Maverickmissiles, and AIM-9M Sidewinders seen during a sortie in support of Operation Epic Fury. #CENTCOM

An #A10 seen linking up with a #tanker while flying a mission in support of Operation Epic Fury. #CENTCOM

one #USAF A-10C Warthog has returned from a deployment to the Middle East with kill markings revealing #dronekills. The evidence most likely confirms that the attack jets are now using laser-guided air-to-ground rockets as counter-drone weapons in an operational context

A-10 #Warthog attack jets are helping dismantle Iran’s Navy. Though the #A10 is most commonly associated with missions over land, the jets have a long-standing, if often obscure, maritime role.

A stock picture of the Independence class LCS USS Tulsa, which is configured for minesweeping duties, sailing in the Strait of Malacca in 2021. USN

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford was damaged by a fire in its laundry area. (Seaman Apprentice Nathan Sears photo)

British heavy strategic bomber Avro Lancaster. This aircraft became the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command from 1943 onward. The Lanc could and did carry huge bombs including 4,000 lb (1,800 kg), 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) and 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) "blockbusters."

Photo by: Cpl Phil Major ABIPP/MOD