@sammyflex.bsky.socialSeptember/October 1944: An FFI member mans a coastal position, armed with a captured MG 08-15. No location but must be in the vicinity of one of the German coastal fortresses still holding out (Dunkirk, la Rochelle, l'Orient, St. Nazaire, Royan).
@scratchbear.bsky.socialThe aprts for the radar disk are resin printed, plus a FDM connector ring.
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@shipwreckspod.bsky.social🇦🇺 Back to Australian waters on Tuesday, 6 Oct. "HMAS Sydney: Australia's Worst Naval Disaster."
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@kardsccg.bsky.socialSometimes the answer isn’t new equipment.
It’s finding a new use for what you have.
This week’s Field Notes looks at the Matilda Frog.
@rlkhistoricart.bsky.socialT/5 Medic from the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment. Wearing his wool shirt instead of the HBT top that would match his pants.
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@rnshiplosses.bsky.social3 Oct 1943 // Submarine HMS Usurper was lost with all 35 crew in the Gulf of Genoa on or around this date, possibly to a German anti-submarine vessel or through striking a mine, although the exact location and cause of her loss remain unconfirmed. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social3 Oct 1943 // HM Trawler Meror, part of the escort for a coastal convoy, struck a mine as she left the Humber Estuary. A tow was rigged but after a short time the trawler suddenly rolled over to starboard and sank. There were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social3 Oct 1943 // HM Trawler Aracari, in use as a water carrier, was wrecked on Filicudi Island north of Sicily, with no casualties, after her anchors dragged in a gale. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social3 Oct 1943 // Midget submarine X.10 was scuttled in the Norwegian Sea. Part of the force used to attack the Tirpitz, she had failed to lay her explosives due to mechanical defects, was eventually recovered by submarine HMS Stubborn but was then damaged in a collision. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social3 Oct 1942 // Motor gun boat MGB.78 was heavily damaged by gunfire while engaging German armed trawlers off the Hook of Holland, then ran aground. The survivors set the wreck on fire and drifted on a Carley raft until picked up and made prisoner by the Germans. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social3 October 1940
Former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned from Winston Churchill’s coalition government due to ill health. He was suffering from terminal cancer and died on 9 November 1940.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social3 October 1941
Speaking to a crowd at Berlin’s Sportpalast an overconfident Adolf Hitler proclaimed Russia was already "to a great extent" broken and destined to "never rise again." It proved a very poor prediction.
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The Beauty Shop wasn’t a beauty shop at all – it was where burned airmen learned to live again.
@smilo998.bsky.socialThe most fearsome tank of the war?
Flamethrower, 75mm main gun, co axial machine gun, lots of armour.
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@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1943
“Task Begun on Island X”
Illustration by Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994)
Caterpillar Diesel, 3 October 1943
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