"Became a mayor ...", disgusting. (During the Warsaw Uprising, between 5-7 August 1944, 40,000 to 50,000 elderly, women and children from Warsaw’s Wola district were executed. #WW2 #HISTORY)

I'll let experts say what this is. 😎 (#OTD in 1944, Ondefontaine, France. #WW2 #HISTORY)

#OTD in 1944. Anti-aircraft defences. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1941, North Africa. Sikh troops, armed with Bren gun and a 2-inch mortar. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1941, Middleton St. George airfield. Flight Lieutenant Christopher Cheshire from 76 Squadron and his painted "family crest". #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. ATS Private Margaret Hicks painting another V1 "kill" on the battery scoreboard. #WW2 #HISTORY

(The actual situation map of 7 August.) #OTD in 1944, at 2030, remnants of four German panzer divisions, one panzer-grenadier division and two infantry divisions counter-attacked American lines - just north of Mortain - in order to cut off the Contentin Peninsula. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Gunners marking their names on a shell case after shooting down a V1 flying bomb with only one round. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. Un-ditching a Sherman tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

This POW is seriously freezing. 😊 (18 July 1944, Normandy. #WW2 #HISTORY)

(30 July 1944, Normandy.) A British Morris C8 Quad artillery tractor towing a 25-pounder gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

Iconic footage of a 1 Border 3-inch mortar team in action during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY

The Mossie, was the best 'all-round' aircraft of WW2.

Well, yes, that's about right. 😂

A Beauty. (#OTD in 1944. Mosquito FB XVIII "Tsetse" from 248 Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY)

#OTD in 1944, Villers-Bocage, France. Knocked-out after a clash of tanks. A Cromwell OP tank (Captain Paddy Victory) and a Tiger tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943, Catania, Sicily. Italian nurses dressing the minor wounds of two British soldiers. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. A POW, a puppy and Private W. Brady from the King's Own Scottish Borderers. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Montchauvet, France. A M10 self-propelled tank destroyer has its track repaired. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1940, Woolwich Barracks. A YMCA car dispensing "char and a wad" (cup of tea and a slice of cake, I believe). #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943, Catania, Sicily. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. Men from 6 Airborne Division investigating a German self-propelled gun which they knocked out. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Pierre Lefevre, a Free French war correspondent, broadcasting live and Polish troops listening to his account. #WW2 #HISTORY

(Operational, around this time in 1944.) Understandable, why they were called Wasps. Universal carriers equipped with a Ronson flamethrower, instead of a machine gun. (Frontline units could order them on 7 days notice from stocks held in advanced ordnance depots.) #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, France. "An infantryman armed with a captured MP 40 "Schmeisser" opening fire on a sniper hiding in the church at Le Mesnil." #WW2 #HISTORY

In his thoughts. (15 June 1944, Normandy. #WW2 #HISTORY)

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. Cromwell tank from British 7 Armoured Division, aka the Desert Rats. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. Men from 7 South Staffordshire riding on a Churchill from 107 RAC. #WW2 #HISTORY

Well, yes, that's about right. 😂

Greetings from Arnhem. (A Bridge Too Far. 😉)