October 1944: Vehicles cross a bridge over the Moselotte at Zainvilliers (Vosges), France, sabotaged (not fully-successfully) by the Germans.

October 1944: Vehicles cross a bridge over the Moselotte at Zainvilliers (Vosges), France, sabotaged (not fully-successfully) by the Germans.
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb.
On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floati…
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Hello again! Still on my WW2 kick. Here we have a Canadian soldier to shake things up. Enjoy!😁🇨🇦
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On 19 Nov 1941, Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney was sunk by the German raider Kormoran, which had been disguised as a Dutch merchant vessel. All 645 men aboard Sydney perished and the wrecks weren't found until 2008. Listen now.⤵️
I now have a foreword for my upcoming book by Peter Caddick-Adams, and I have someone working on maps.
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Still dreadfully hot. Dad at D fair. Guess it is election day. Took sta wagon down at noon for brakes and rode home with Phine. WAshed and hung. The heat is terrific. Maude and May called. Buddy called off a pole. Got his greetings. He is in D - to Grobman's #history #otd #onthisday #wwii #ww2
Warsaw 1st September 2019 - 80 years on. A boy stands alone with nothing to fear. I took this picture because for me it symbolises the innocence that was lost and the hope there is for a better future.. #ww2 #poland1939 #poland #polska1939
Photograph taken in October 1942 by Alfred Palmer (1906-1993), Office of War Information (OWI).
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.caregiver I’m really struggling for words here, but I want to acknowledge this. Thank you for sharing. #holocaust #ww2 #history #capitalism #cult
The new 'After me the flood' exhibition is opens today at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln. I was on the local news talking about. From 15:20: www.itv.com/watch/news/c... #History #WW2
During the action motor torpedo boat MTB.29 was damaged in a collision with another torpedo boat. She disengaged and began making her way back to Dover, but was attacked by a German minesweeper which raked her with gunfire and then rammed her. She sank with 10 men lost. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
6 Oct 1940 // HM Drifter Scotch Thistle sank after running aground in the early hours of the morning off Frinton while sailing from Lowestoft to Burnham-on-Crouch. All her crew were safely taken off by the coaster Ipswich Trader. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory