Vanguard WWII by Cadet - bringing history to life!
@Vanguard_WW2
Created by Yannis Kadari (Cadet Publishing CEO), Vanguard is a group of historians and authors who are passionate about WW2 history.
🇫🇷 Miss Dior Late afternoon 6 July 1944, Catherine Dior, Resistance member and sister of fashion designer Christian, is arrested by the Gestapo when she goes to meet a member of her network at Place du Trocadero in Paris... 1/7
24-year old Roger Savin during the liberation of Paris. He would not live to celebrate. Killed during a German attack, his body was found on 26 August 1944.
🇫🇷 Jacqueline Grüner wrote children's books before the war under the pen name of Nanine or Maryse Willm, an activity that she began in Paris as a high school girl, writing tales for her two youngest siblings. After losing her mother in 1943, Jacqueline was introduced into the…
Armand Bouilloux, a veteran of the French 4th SAS who took part in Operation Amherst behind the lines in Holland in 1945, has died at the age of 99. Rest in Peace Monsieur Bouilloux.
23 July 1942 Julien Delvel was 16-years old when the Germans tied him to a wooden stake and shot him in the Arras citadel in northern France. He had joined a local FTP Resistance group the previous summer and had been arrested by the French Gendarmerie in possession of a pistol…
As someone who has enjoyed making Tamiya model kits since my childhood years, sincerest condolences to the family of the company chairman and president and son of the founder, Shunsaku Tamiya who has passed away at the age of 90.
Shame on the Imperial War Museum. If ever there was a time that these stories of heroism were needed, it is now.
The #LordAshcroftGallery holds the largest collection of George Cross and Victoria Cross awards in the world. It is my pride and joy. Learn about the stories of bravery and heroism behind them before it is too late #lestweforget @I_W_M
22 July 1944 17-year old Rosette Ciofi is a messenger for a local maquis resistance group. A car carrying a group of Armée Secrète men is ambushed by German troops in the town of Aups in the Provence Alps. Rosette runs forward to help some of the wounded men and is shot down,…
The young actor seen here on the left in the 1944 Nazi propaganda film, "Young Eagles", would be recruited at the age of 16 into the 38th SS Grenadier Division Nibelungen in the dying months of the war, but ended up a Hollywood star.....
