The motor yacht Sundowner which was owned by Charles Herbert Lightoller; the Titanic's Second Officer. On May 31st 1940, the Sundowner was requisitioned by the Admiralty and the following day, Lightoller (then aged 66), his son Roger and Gerald Ashcroft set sail from Ramsgate; as part of Operation Dynamo, the three men successfully evacuated 130 allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk.
Now docked at the Ramsgate Maritime Museum
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Sundowner

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp was asked to draw “home” and what she drew was scribbles. It shows how the horrors of the concentration camp warped her mind. It’s a mystery what the lines truly mean to her, probably the chaos or the barbed wire.

This photograph was taken by Chim (David Seymour) in a home for emotionally disturbed children located in Warsaw, 1948. There are a few versions of this image, but most of the captions (including one at the War/Photography Exhibit currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum) mention that the subject grew up inside a concentration camp. There’s little information about the girl’s identity, her name was Tereszka, a diminutive version of Teresa. Her eyes are piercing, like a window to her soul. Not the eyes of an innocent youth. She’s probably experienced horrors at that age most will fortunately never have to. Like the soldiers who have seen heavy combat, she’s got the terrifyingly haunting one thousand yard stare.
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Without words





This weapon has a true Battle of Normandy provenance. It was painted in the standard "Dunkel Gelb" ordark and finish and supplied in 1942 to a Luftwaffe anti-aircraft division where it found its way to Normandy in early 1943. By June 44, it was positioned in defense of a German Command Center located in an occupied chateau near to Cherbourg. 

When the Cherbourg pensinsula was over-run by the Allies in July/August, our weapon was captured intact by the Americans who, deciding it might be of some use, painted it olive drab green and presumably had some intention of using it.
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http://ww2live.com/en/content/world-war-2-sale-original-german-88mm-flak-36-manufactured-1942-one-rare-surviving-normandy
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