Destination's JourneyWestland P.12 Delanne Lysander https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/westland-p-12-delanne-lysander/ #Aeroplane, #Aircraft, #Airplane, #Aviation, #RAF, #RoyalAirForce, #SecondWorldWar, #Wendover, #WestlandWendover, #WorldWarTwo, #WW2, #WWII
HMS Bonaventure British Light Cruiser https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-bonaventure-british-light-cruiser/ #SecondWorldWar, #Cruiser, #HMSBonaventure, #LightCruiser, #MaritimeHistory, #NavalHistory, #RoyalNavy, #Warship, #WorldWarTwo, #WW2, #WWII
HMS Charybdis British Light Cruiser https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-charybdis-british-light-cruiser/ #SecondWorldWar, #Cruiser, #HMSCharybdis, #LightCruiser, #MaritimeHistory, #NavalHistory, #RoyalNavy, #Warship, #WorldWarTwo, #WW2, #WWII
Focke Wulf Fw 190 in Spanish Service https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/focke-wulf-fw-190-in-spanish-service/ #Aeroplane, #Aircraft, #Airplane, #Aviation, #EscuadrillaAzul, #FockeWulfFw190, #Luftwaffe, #SecondWorldWar, #SpanishAirForce, #WorldWarTwo, #WW2, #WWII
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 20, 1946: The U.S. government took over control of the coal mines (again). On April 1, 400,000 UMWA coal miners from 26 states went on strike for safer conditions, health benefits and increased wages. WWII had recently ended and President Truman saw the strike as counterproductive to economic recovery. In response, he seized the mines, making the miners temporarily federal employees. He ended the strike by offering them a deal that included healthcare and retirement security.
The coal strike was part of the strike wave of 1945-1946, the biggest strike wave in U.S. history. During WWII, most of the major unions collaborated with the U.S. war effort by enforcing labor “discipline” and preventing strikes. In exchange, the U.S. government supported closed shop policies under which employers at unionized companies agreed to hire only union members. While the closed shop gave unions more power within a particular company, the no-strike policy made that power virtually meaningless.
When the war ended, inflation soared and veterans flooded the labor market. As a result, frustrated workers began a series of wildcat strikes. Many grew into national, union-supported strikes. In November 1945, 225,000 UAW members went on strike. In January 1946, 174,000 electric workers struck. That same month, 750,000 steel workers joined them. Then, in April, the coal strike began. 250,000 railroad workers struck in May. In total, 4.3 million workers went on strike. It was the closest the U.S. came to a national General Strike in the 20th century. And in December 1946, Oakland, California did have a General Strike, the last in U.S. history.
Then, in 1947, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which severely restricted the powers and activities of unions. It also banned General Strikes, stripping away the most powerful tool workers had. And there hasn’t been a General Strike in the U.S. since.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #coal #mining #strike #GeneralStrike #wildcat #ww2 #union #WorldWarTwo #tafthartley #uaw #oakland
HMS Spartan was a British light cruiser commissioned on 12 July 1943. In Jan 1944, Spartan was stationed off Anzio during Operation Shingle. On 29 Jan she was attacked by German aircraft using a guided bomb, probably a Henschel Hs 293 radio-controlled glide bomb. Spartan sank quickly in shallow water with heavy loss of life among her crew. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-spartan-british-light-cruiser/ #cruiser #hmsspartan #LightCruiser #maritimehistory #NavalHistory #royalnavy #secondworldwar #warships #worldwartwo #ww2 #WWII
Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro [Unofficial]Spitfire could return to production 90 years after first flight
Today in Labor History, May 16: Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma and Sinti people who fought the fascists during World War II. The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on May 16, 1944, there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. However subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect. It was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead, a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later. By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, when the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back, but were eventually overcome and gassed.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #genocide #holocaust #roma #romani #aushwitz #resistance #fascism #rebellion #italy #WorldWarTwo #concentrationcamp
Alan Lewis: #americanhistory #history #philippines #philippineshistory #worldhistory #worldwar2 #worldwar2history #worldwartwo #worldwartwohistory #ww2 #ww2history :
WORLD WAR 2 CAME TO AN END IN 1974
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Here (attachment) is how it happened.
So, WW2 may be one of the numerous wars Donald Trump claims he ended.
Bob the TravelerLise de Baissac, born OTD in 1905, was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during #WorldWarTwo, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/wwii-french-resistance/?s=mb #travel #France #history
