HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HIMARUYA!
Fun fact: Himaruya’s birthday is 5/8/1985, the 40th anniversary of V-E day.
It’s still the 8th over here, party on my fellow Hetalians
May 8th 1945: VE Day
On this day in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, combat ended in Europe with the Germans accepting unconditional surrender in Rheims, France. The German surrender marked the end of Hitler’s Third Reich, after the dictator’s suicide on 30th April. Germany’s surrender was led by German President Karl Dönitz, signed on 7th May and ratified on 8th May. The Western world celebrated, with huge festivities in Trafalgar Square and outside Buckingham Palace in London and in New York’s Time Square. British King George VI and Prime Minister Winston Churchill led the celebrations in their country, and US President Harry Truman dedicated the victory to his recently deceased predecessor remarking his only wish was that “Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day”.“This is your hour. This is your Victory”
- Winston Churchill to crowds on VE Day
This is based on the true story of the unfortunate Union General John Sedgwick. Seconds after uttering his last words, “they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance,” he fell to a confederate sniper bullet.
(I got to visit his memorial once. You could look over the field where the fighting took place - and, to be fair, you could see that the confederate sharpshooters were pretty damn far away.)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNew York City: Left, 1790’s; Right, 1920’s
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The right image is referenced from this amazing photo; this whole thing was also inspired by the fic World Conference: An American Perspective .
I apologize for the sketchyness but one day maybe I’ll do a more finished version when I don’t have school work ;;
So pretty
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A HETALIA PARODY OF FRAGONARD’S THE SWING!?
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!
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O HMY FUCKING GOD
In case anyone needed a point of reference
Title:At The Glorius day
Author/Artist: BriLcRisT
Character(s) or Pairing(s):arthur/england/U.K
Rating:PG
Warnings:nothing
Summary:U.K in medieval armour~
Happy eyebrow day! (I almost forgot. then decided to clean up a sketch request for 1795 England that was lying around)
“The English air force must have been beaten down to such an extent morally and in fact that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German crossing.”
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The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England or Luftschlacht um Großbritannien, literally “Air battle for England” or “Air battle for Great Britain”) is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. The name derives from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: “…the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.”
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys and shipping centres, such as Portsmouth, were the main targets; one month later the Luftwaffe shifted its attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure. As the battle progressed the Luftwaffe also targeted aircraft factories and ground infrastructure. Eventually the Luftwaffe resorted to attacking areas of political significance and using terror bombing tactics.
The failure of Germany to achieve its objectives of destroying Britain’s air defenses, or forcing Britain to negotiate an armistice or an outright surrender, is considered its first major defeat and a crucial turning point in World War II. By preventing Germany from gaining air superiority, the battle ended the threat that Adolf Hitler would launch Operation Sea Lion, a proposed amphibious and airborne invasion of Britain.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. The RAF has taken a significant role in British military history, playing a large part in the Second World War and in more recent conflicts.
The RAF is one of the most capable and technologically sophisticated air forces in the world. As of January 2012 it operated 827 aircraft, making it the largest air force of a European Union country and the second largest in NATO (after the USAF). The majority of the RAF’s aircraft and personnel are based in the UK with many others serving on operations (principally Afghanistan and the Middle East) or at long-established overseas bases (Ascension Island, Canada, Cyprus, Diego Garcia, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands and Germany).
The RAF’s mission is to support the objectives of the British Ministry of Defense (MoD), which are to “provide the capabilities needed: to ensure the security and defense of the United Kingdom and overseas territories, including against terrorism; to support the Government’s foreign policy objectives particularly in promoting international peace and security.”
In the Battle of Britain, in the late summer of 1940, the RAF (supplemented by 2 Fleet Air Arm Squadrons, Polish, Czechoslovakian and other multinational pilots and ground personnel) defended the skies over Britain against the German Luftwaffe, helping foil Hitler’s plans for an invasion of the United Kingdom, and prompting Prime Minister Winston Churchill to say in the House of Commons on 20 August, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”.
