#335Sqn #aegeantigers #spitfire #MJ755 #warbird #WW2 #livinghistory #icarusfoundation #classicaircraft #spitfiremkix #clippedwings #clippedwingspitfire #rollsroycemerlinengine #F16block52m #formation #mixedformation #warbirdwednesday

1939: The battleship Dunkerque.

1 & 2: Honor guard.
3 & 4: Forward main battery, 350mm quadruple turrets.

#WWII #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #France #navy #NavalHistory #Battleship

📣 New Podcast! "The Secret Machine That Saved Millions: The Truth About Enigma" on @Spreaker #alanturing #alliedforces #bemachine #bletchleypark #bom #codebreaking #cryptography #enigma #historynerd #historypodcast #marianrejewski #mathgenius #militaryhistory #podcastdiscovery #secretwar #ww2

Another great review for Under Enemy Skies. 'I have read many books about WWII, no others match the brutal honesty surrounding war as this one does. Nor have any others described the French resistance so clearly. mybook.to/TalesofLoveandWar #WW2

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#DruštvoVranovLet #VranovLet #CrowsFlight #ZZBNOB #ZZB #NOB #Slovenia #Slovenija #Europe #Evropa #WW2 #2svetovnavojna #zgodovina #history #pohod #hiking #Dovže #GraškaGora #Koroška #Štajerska #Mislinja

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The Red Army captured several types of tanks in Poland that they had never encountered before, including the 7TP. Trials of this tank began #OTD in 1940. Its performance was compared with the T-26, which shared a common ancestor with the 7TP. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Know thy #SavingGrace!
The #sangha fellowship of the noblesse of #theorient #silkroads #IndoAsianPacific #familyoriented ways of life of THE #ELDERS
#TheFirstNations by #oldworld #traditionalorientalorthodox #sacredorder #wayoflife
#WTFComingSoonFalseProphets #doomsday #THEEND OF #colonialism #WW2!!

Join us on Thursday 12 November for the launch of Dr Artemis Photiadou's new book 'Interrogating Nazism: Spies, Soldiers and War Criminals in Second World War Britain.'

Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#ww2 #nazigermany #nazi #UK #Britain #book #event #history #lse

Very cool today. I went to church. Feast of the most holy Rosary. Marion on wire when I got back. Had call from Floyd. He is a good boy. Walked for mail and took chickens to box. Then they drove up. Off again this eve 1115. Bud home at 10. #history #wwii #ww2 #otd #onthisday

The 13ème Régiment de Dragons armed with Char B1 bis tanks recaptured from German forces was formed #OTD in 1944. This was mostly a PR move, since the Char B1 bis was hopelessly obsolete by 1944 and the French had plenty of more useful tanks. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#OTD in 1944
Cover of The New Yorker, October 7, 1944
Alan Dunn
#TheNewYorkerCover #AlanDunn #WW2 #Italy #artillery

Champion Spark Plug Company. October 7, 1944
#WW2 #ChampionSparkPlugs #sparkplugs

#OTD in 1944
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‘“G I Joe” - Spark Plug of the Armed Forces’
Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #WW2 #PacificTheatre

Photograph by Alfred Palmer (1906-1993), Office of War Information (OWI).
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#WW2 #AlfredPalmer #OWI #women #defenseindustry #DouglasAircraft #mechanics #LongBeach #defenseplants

In #OCTOBER 1942
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‘Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California, in October of 1942.’
#WW2 #women #defenseindustry #DouglasAircraft #mechanics #LongBeach #defenseplants

A 'mini-Matador' was initiated but failed ....

#Kroh #Krohcol #TheLedge #WW2 #WWII

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Maps showing proposed line for British Forces preemptive strike ('Operation Matador') from #Malaya into #Thailand in order to protect #Singapore from the japanese attack Dec 7 1941

Source: NAS.GOV.SG/archievesonline

#Songkhla #Singora #Pattani #Kroh #WW2 #WWII

Tom Anderson's #article series on the #history of #naval #warfare covers the #Pacific front of #WW2 and its major clashes between #Japan , the #UnitedStates and #Commonwealth where the #aircraftcarrier dethroned the #battleship. #PearlHarbor #Midway #Navy www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/naval-g...