Miss Iris Davis, a 19-year-old from Clapham, London recovering cats from the debris of a bombed house with the aid of a 'lasso'. She rescued over 600 feline strays. ca. 1940

It's an open notes test and some dense motherfuckers still can't figure out the answers.

Not to worry, Europeans. If a fight breaks out, the Americans will rescue you. Again.

In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

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Fuck them. Straight up monsters.

If this really is a war then we need Roosevelt’s OPA:

…“The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. “…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Price_Administration

On this day, 19 December 1925, Lepa Svetozara Radic was born in Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lepa became a communist and joined the anti-Nazi partisans aged 15 in 1941. She was captured in 1943.
The Germans offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
The executioner subsequently reported that the “bandit” had “shown unprecedented defiance”.
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“The Germans offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she responded that she was not a traitor and her comrades would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.”

Man of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945. https://wrhstol.com/2PZ4ua4

On this day, 6 September 1925, anti-fascist resistance activist Freddie Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. Together with her older sister Truus, she joined Dutch resistance aged 14. With her communist mother they initially helped shelter refugees and Jews, and later under German occupation joined a resistance cell in Haarlem alongside Hannie Schaft, sabotaging bridges and railway lines and assassinating Nazis and Dutch collaborators. Unlike Hannie, the Oversteegens fortunately survived the war and lived until their 90s. This is a podcast episode we produced about antifascist youths during World War II: https://soundcloud.com/workingclasshistory/anti-nazi-youth-world-war-ii https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1204120863106395/?type=3

Ghosts on a Tree (1933) by Austrian painter Franz Sedlacek. He was a soldier during World War 2 and disappeared somewhere in Poland in 1945. He was never found again.
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