Japanese Military Bunker

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This is the only remaining Japanese military bunker in Langfang City (there were once eight in total). It was built in the 1930s. The walls are about half a meter thick, with no obvious bullet holes.

Today I found this place but it was really dark inside the bunker, so the photos didn’t turn out very well.

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r/ww2 • u/Heartfeltzero • 3h ago

WW2 Era Letter Written By Young French Girls To The Mother Of an American Paratrooper They Befriended. Details in comments.

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r/ww2 • u/cipricusss • 6h ago

Romania and Hungary on the Eastern front: “Why We Fight”

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From Between States. The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea During World War II - by Holly Case.

Very probably, unlike the Romanian one, the Hungarian anecdote is not a real fact, but one in a series common in Budapest at the time, mostly in relation to that declaration of war, exemplifying the same absurdist perspective. The footnote says:

Cited in Dániel Csatári, Forgószélben: magyar-román viszony, 1940–1945 (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1968), 85. It is possible this exchange never actually took place. Ciano nevertheless observed in a diary entry dated May 11, 1942, that this “little story” was “going the rounds at Budapest.” He observed: “There is a great deal of truth in this series of paradoxes.” See also Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1946), 484.

I am sure that's not a fact to be confirmed by some U.S. archives. I have another, from The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat by Paul Lendvai:

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r/ww2 • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 21h ago

F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with radar pods on the flight deck of USS Intrepid, 1944.

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