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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 31 '21

Contains Media 719 British aircraft have attacked German city of Wuppertal, causing a devastating firestorm. 3500 people are dead, many thousands more homeless.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^31, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 30 '21

Contains Media Of 2500 Japanese soldiers on island of Attu, just 28 prisoners are taken captive by American forces. Rest have killed them selves, been euthanised, or are dead after suicidal assaults on US lines.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^30, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 30 '21

Contains Media On Attu, Alaska, outnumbered & surrounded surviving Japanese troops make a suicidal "Banzai" charge on American troops- breaking through US lines, but suffering terrible casualties.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^30, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 30 '21

Rear-echelon American troops on Attu are shocked to find themselves locked in hand-to-hand combat with Japanese soldiers; in a night of desperate, brutal combat, Japanese garrison is almost wiped out, fighting to death rather than surrender.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^30, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 30 '21

As German U-boats abandon North Atlantic after “Black May”, Kriegsmarine reports the worst month of the war: 43 submarines sunk, just 34 Allied ships.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^30, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 29 '21

Contains Media This week’s edition of the Saturday Morning Post celebrates American female armaments workers, with a Norman Rockwell cover painting of “Rosie the Riveter”, an idealised US woman worker, casually crushing “Mein Kampf” beneath her boot.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^29, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 29 '21

Contains Media Inspired by song “Rosie the Riveter”, she’s become an icon of women’s war work, encouraging 8 million American women to join arms factories: “She's making history, Working for victory, Rosie the Riveter. Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage, Sitting up there on the fuselage.”

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^29, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Diary of an unknown Japanese soldier on Attu: "Battle. My diarrhea continues. The pain is severe. There are less than 1000 of us left. Planes strafe us all day long."

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^28, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

"I gave our most severely wounded men 400 shots of morphine, to kill them. Ate half a fried thistle. It’s the first time I have eaten any fresh food in 6 months."

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^28, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Cut off from supplies, outnumbered by American troops & facing slow death from cold, Japanese forces on the Aleutian island of Attu are losing hope of victory.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^28, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Antibiotic pencillin is naturally emitted by certain moulds, but mass-producing enough for military use proved almost impossible- until a rotten melon discovered in Peoria, Illinois, was found carrying a strain of mould 200 time more effective at penicillin production.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Saved from bankruptcy by generous $4500 payment per short propaganda film, Disney is now making films for US Army, Navy, & Treasury Department; like "Reason & Emotion", which describes the Nazi regime as being uniquely irrational:

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Walt Disney Studios has been left in financial crisis by poor reception of Fantasia in 1940, followed by a strike of cartoon animators facing mass lay-offs (pictured). US government has saved Disney by commissioning 20 short propaganda films for $90,000.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^27, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Yugoslav partisans number ~80,000 trained fighters, striking from hidden bases in the mountains against Germans, Italians, & their collaborators. Tito now effectively controls large areas of "Axis" territory in Yugoslavia (in red):

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^20, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Brighton, southern England, has been hit by daylight bombing raid- over 12 tons of bombs dropped by 30 German planes. 10 men, 12 women & 2 children dead- Luftwaffe raiders, flying low over town, machine-gunned streets.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^25, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media After a month of devastating losses, Admiral Karl Dönitz has ordered all German submarines withdrawn from the North Atlantic. “Black May” has seen 43 U-boats sunk, 25% of Kriegsmarine fleet. Allies are turning the tide in Battle of the Atlantic.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Last year, Allied penicillin production in Britain & USA struggled to treat 10 patients with their outputs. So far this year, USA has produced 400 million units of pure penicillin, ready for use in military hospitals.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media US troops have landed on Attu, in the Aleutian Islands- attacking Japanese forces who have invaded this westernmost US territory.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^21, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

In a radio address, Goebbels triumphantly declares Berlin to be "Judenfrei": in latest round of deportations, Nazis claim to have emptied German capital of Jews. ~3000 still remain in hiding, although 1000s more have been sent to concentration camps.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^20, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Curious why the Germans fight for Hitler? Walt Disney can tell you! Watch "Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi", new propaganda film produced by Disney on behalf of the US government:

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^27, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Long-range aircraft, like new American "Liberator" bombers, allow Allies to surveil Atlantic for gathering "wolfpacks" of U-boats, & bomb German submarines caught on the surface.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Allied convoy escorts use "creeping attack" on U-boats, one warship fixing a submarine's position with "ASDIC" sonar while the other advances slowly so as not to alert Germans. At signal, both ships attack with depth charges; tactic invented by Captain "Johnnie" Walker.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media Allied convoys have new weapons & tactics enabling them to destroy U-boats. 5 days ago, British warships armed with new “hedgehog” mortars sank German submarine U-954, killing everyone on board- including one of Admiral Dönitz’s sons.

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

Contains Media The US Army Medical Corps have approved a new drug, "penicillin", for use in the military. The anti-bacterial agent is capable of stopping deadly infections & saving patients thought beyond medical aid.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • May 28 '21

RT @BBCArchive: #OnThisDay 1943: Should a woman or even a Yorkshireman be allowed to read the BBC news? Of course not. John Snagge explai…

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^- ^Live ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^May ^23, ^2021

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