Another nice day. I was to take Phine's car at least so I thought. But guess I must have misunderstood. K called about Bud. Been eve. C & E in D to movies. #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday

9 October 1940: The high altar at St. Paul's Cathedral was destroyed during a Luftwaffe air raid. #History #London #WW2

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. D-Day, June 6th, 1944. That Denison Smock pattern was "fun" to figure out😅

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#OTD 9/10/'43 #WW2 Naples, Italy. The people are starving. Security officer Norman Lewis describes people hacking limpets off the rocks, boiling them up to add flavour to soup. Others sell chicken offal. 'There is persistent rumour of a decline in the cat population.'

Lewis, 'Naples '44'. p.28

October 1943 #WW2 Naples. Norman Lewis describes an informal brothel. 'Reality had betrayed the dream, and the air feel limp.'
A soldier pays his tin of rations ...

'He might have been submitting to field punishment rather than the act of love'.

Norman Lewis, 'Naples '44'. p.24

#OTD in 1943
‘Small Japanese craft flee from larger vessels during an American aerial attack on Tonolei Harbor, Japanese base on Bougainville Island, in the Central Solomon Islands on October 9, 1943.’
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On 22 September 1944, Canadian 3 Infantry Division and specialised armour from British 79 Armoured Division succeeded in capturing one of Hitler's "fortresses", Boulogne-sur-Mer. These are pictures taken #OTD in 1944. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942, Royal Wanstead School, London. 1 Scots Guards on parade. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1940. A detachment of newly arrived troops in Egypt leaving their camp for a route march. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943, Lebanon. Wrens, having tea. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Southwold. A 3.7-inch gun from 127 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment. #WW2 #HISTORY

(The King is watching.) #OTD in 1941, Inverary. Combined operations training. #WW2 #HISTORY

The men from British 1 Airborne Division that made it back from Oosterbeek. #WW2 #HISTORY

Nice fly-by, I think. #WW2 #HISTORY

The formidable Quick-Firing 17-pounder (76.2mm / 3-inch) anti-tank gun, in action. #WW2 #HISTORY

Fascinating talk @rafmuseum.bsky.social by @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social on Infra-Red in Fighter Command during #WW2
Hindsight is wonderful, but even in the 'dark nights' of August 1940 wasn't it quite clear that #Radar was the answer to A.I. at night 📡
Linderman was a menace 🤔
#WW2 #Blitz #Infrared

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