🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian sailor after 26 years of service in the imperial fleet. 📸 me
A PROUD FAMILY LEGACY—the pioneering accomplishments of the US military’s first Black generals, a father and son—serves as the center of a close, thoughtful look at the history of military inclusion and segregation. B PLUS
Keresey, who served in the South Pacific as the first commander of the PT 105, tells his journey to the Solomons Islands where he tells of harrowing battles and frustrating results.
#CfP#histodons
The US #Military and the #Holocaust
International Research #Workshop, Center for Advanced #HolocaustStudies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (#USHMM), July 15–26, 2024
Co-Convenors: Kaete O’Connell (Yale University) and Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University)
Application deadline: February 2, 2024
#OnThisDay in 1942, the Allies began Operation Streamline Jane, to capture the rest of #Madagascar. Streamline Jane consisted of three linked operations, codenamed Stream, Line, and Jane.
The initial landings for all three operations were very successful. But Vichy resistance was stubborn, and it was November before the island was completely under Allied control.
The latest episode of the #WW2 Podcast covers Patton in France, August-December 1944.
The start is particularly interesting, as Kevin Hymel talks about how the 1953 transcription of Patton's diaries diverged hugely from what Patton actually wrote.