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""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

#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

*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)

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

#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

#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

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

#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

#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

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

“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

PQ-1, the first regular Arctic convoy, set out for the USSR #OTD in 1941. This tank brought a handful of Matilda III and Valentine II tanks that arrived just in time to take part in the finishing stages of the Battle of Moscow. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Once fascists get voted in, they never get removed by voting, nor by any peaceful or legal means.

#WW2 #Nazis #War

Calculations made #OTD in 1943 showed that while the T-43 could be modernized to meet rising requirements, its weight would surpass 35 tons. A decision was made to drop the project and focus on a new tank, which later became the T-44. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Canada had a choice of several tanks to build when they decided to form an armoured division. #OTD in 1939 they ordered blueprints for the Infantry Tank Mk.III from Vickers. This was the option they went with in the end, building 1420 tanks in Montreal. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

In Kiel, Germany in the early 1941, a sailor gets snapshot of the ice surrounding the battleship Scharnhorst. It does provided a closeup view of the top of the armor belt.

#battleship #warship #ship #kiel #germany #ww2 #worldwar2 #navalhistory #history #armor #kriegsmarine #ice #weather