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@asls.org.ukSep 30, 2026, 3:26 PM

Christmas Eve. The hour between tea and black-out.
The stove reddens and snores in the gathering dusk.
Five tin helmets hang in a row on the wall…

—Flora Garry, “Ambulance Depot, 1942”
published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945
#poetry #poem #WW2
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Flora Garry Ambulance Depot, 1942 Christmas Eve. The hour between tea and black-out. The stove reddens and snores in the gathering dusk. Five tin helmets hang in a row on the wall, Their little black pot-bellies gleam in the glow of the fire. Painted on each is a large white capital A. The telephone stands dumb on its shelf in the nook. No ‘Air Raid Message’ comes through, Purple or Red. The fading sky is void and cold and still But for the friendly drone of a homing plane, And the strident intermittent trumpeting Of the arrowhead formations of the geese Winging riverwards to seek the sheltering reeds. In the gloom of the garage the empty vehicles wait, While we sit here by the snoring stove, and knit. We are making a Christmas toy, a communal gift, A scarlet and yellow duck with a bear’s snout. MacDonald is making the head. She had a son. But his ship, ‘overdue must now be presumed lost’. She carries on as before, brave and bright-eyed. What can we say? We give her the easiest chair And fuss with cups of tea and hand cigarettes. Easier for everyone if she were less brave. Roberts is making the body of the duck. She is old. She comes of gentle-folk, And speaks with an English voice, and avoids draughts. But she’s good at the job and asks for no concessions. There was someone, we’ve been told, in the last war. He fell, leading his men, at Neuve Chapelle. She likes being here, though we’re not quite her sort. It’s something she can do towards settling an old score.The wings of the duck are made by Clark and Smith Whose make-up is protective colouration. They are young. Each wears a wedding ring. They live from mail to mail, they crouch by the map And trace the African coast, spelling out names, Bizerta, Tunis, Tripoli, Tangier, Renowned in tales of antique chivalry; Each word a sharp potential two-edged sword Striking one day, perhaps, at the heart’s core. Watson is making the two feet of the duck. Leave’s postponed. No Christmas engagement now. They must wait, a few weeks maybe, Maybe for all time. She knits, not lifting her head. Best leave her alone. Shouldn’t the black-out be on? We draw the blinds, Make up the fire—a shovel of dross will do— Shut out the darkening night and the eerie gusts Of wind assaulting the hut’s ramshackle roof, Bearing the season’s first thin tentative snow. ‘Another cigarette? Have you heard this one?’ We laugh, a little too loud. Then silence lasts A little too long. A muttered emotional curse! Let’s have the wireless on and get the news. (The news we’ve learned to hate, but dare not miss.) A boy’s voice sings, high, clear and cruelly sweet: As we watched at dead of night Lo! we saw a wondrous light. Angels singing peace on earth Telling of the Saviour’s birth. We are making a Christmas toy, a sort of duck, A comical duck with the blunt, snub snout of a bear. We are making a toy for some other woman’s child. No one here has any child of her own.
@suzyhenderson.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 3:12 PM

The war is relentless. The losses, unbearable.
B-17 pilot John Mackenzie finds solace in Stella—but can love endure when the skies are filled with fire?
Start the series now.

mybook.to/thebeautyshop

#histfic #readingcommunity #HistoricalRomance #ww2

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@classicwarbirds.co.ukSep 30, 2026, 2:46 PM

#OnThisDay in 1939, four of five No. 150 Squadron Fairey Battles are lost after attacking German positions in the Saar. The surviving aircraft crashed on landing.

Read our Battle profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #WW2 #WorldWar2

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@tankarchives.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:38 PM

Installation of the D-25T gun into the IS-2 tank prototype was completed #OTD in 1943. The rear machine gun was removed, as there was an unfounded concern that there would not be enough room in the tank to operate the gun with it present. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

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@tankarchives.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:04 PM

The T-29 tank was an attempt to replace the T-28 with a faster and more versatile medium tank. After years of work the project yielded nothing but prototypes. #OTD in 1941 the T-29-5 prototype was evacuated to Kazan as the Germans approached. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

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@rnshiplosses.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:55 PM

30 Sept 1941 // During a German air raid on Tyneside on the night of 30 September two naval trawlers were sunk: HMT Eileen Duncan (8 men lost) and HMT Star of Deveron (5 men lost). They were moored side by side at South Shields when hit by a stick of four bombs. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

@rnshiplosses.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:54 PM

30 Sept 1940 // HM Trawler Comet was one of a number of vessels sent out to search for traces of the armed yacht Sappho which had been sunk by a mine in Falmouth Bay during the previous night, when she too struck a mine and sank with the loss of 15 of her 17 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

@sempaiscuba.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 1:00 PM

30 September 1939: Exactly a year to the day after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned with his infamous "piece of paper", General Władysław Sikorski became prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. #History #WW2 #Poland

Photograph of Polish General Władysław Sikorski.
@bexhillmuseum.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 11:30 AM

""Best Dive I've Ever Done."
Sidley Man's "Courageous" Story.
Hour In The Sea - Saw Destroyer Pass By.
When the Aircraft-carrier Courageous was torpedoed last week two Bexhill men were on board."
Bexhill Observer 30.9.1939.
#Sidley #Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #History #1930s

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@palacestories.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 10:50 AM

#OTD 30/9/'43 #WW2 Algiers. Harold Macmillan reviews the recording of the King of Italy explaining to the Italian people that he has signed the armistice and that they are now at war with Germany. The record is 'hopeless', the King splutters.

'War Diaries'. p.244, tinyurl.com/4x8cu2c3

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@toppnews.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:21 AM

#arrested #custody #murder #Police #WW2
🌐 www.newsmart.ch

@rgpoulussen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:07 AM

*The* bridge of operation Market Garden. If you know what I mean. 😉 (#OTD in 1944. The Railway Bridge and (temporarily) the Highway Bridge at Nijmegen, out of action. So DUKWs. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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@rgpoulussen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:07 AM

#OTD in 1941. Exercise "Bumper". Some 250,000 troops testing Britain's anti invasion plans and defences. #WW2 #HISTORY

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@rgpoulussen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:06 AM

#OTD in 1940, this German Bf 109E-3 (now in IWM Duxford) belonging to Hauptmann Ebbighausen from 11/JG26 but flown by Unteroffizier Perez, belly-landed in a field at East Dean. #WW2 #HISTORY

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@rgpoulussen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:06 AM

#OTD in 1943, Italy. Montgomery with one of his ADCs, Captain J.W. Poston. Set to be married, Poston was killed in an ambush on 21 April 1945. "Monty's grief at losing his faithful aide was such that he broke down during the funeral." #WW2 #HISTORY

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@rgpoulussen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:06 AM

Incredible dimensions. (A 22,000-lb earthquake bomb. Bomber Command executive codeword "Grand Slam". #WW2 #HISTORY)

@palacestories.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:56 AM

#OTD 30/9/'43. #WW2 Tuscany, Italy. The valley where Iris Origo and her husband Antonio live is now under control of the Germans. They receive troubling news about the treatment of Jews forced to pay an indemnity or face imprisonment.

'War in Val D'Orcia' p.87,
tinyurl.com/2pbw5ap9

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@palacestories.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:38 AM

#OTD 30 Sept.'43 #WW2 Ouled Rahmoun Camp, Algiers. The 191 British soldiers accused of mutiny have given their word they will not try escape. The three sergeants take charge and run the camp on strict military lines. Self-discipline and high standards.

'Mutiny at Salerno' p.6p tinyurl.com/ehkyrx68

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@tankarchives.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 4:11 AM

Operation Typhoon began #OTD in 1941, marking the start of the Battle of Moscow. The plan called for massive pincers to grip the city from the north and south, but only a tiny German force even made it close to Moscow before the tide of war turned. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

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@dmdash71.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:47 AM

“By the spring of 1942 it took just two months to build one ship and the average evened out at forty-two days. In 1943 three ships a day were rolling out of the eighteen shipyards producing Liberty ships around the United States.”

Lizzie Collingham, “The Taste of War” #WW2

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