#OTD in 1940. Removal vans relocating people's belongings from bomb damaged houses. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Daimler armoured car and crews from 1 Troop "C" Squadron, 11 Hussars. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, four armoured vehicles of Captain Wrottesley's "5" Troop 2 Household Cavalry made contact with the Poles, on the south bank of the Rhine River. Sosabowski and Wrottesley, in the picture. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Helmond, Holland. Operation Market Garden. Sherman tanks, jeeps and scout cars from 29 Armoured Brigade. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Holland. A Universal carrier crew from 8 Rifle Brigade handing out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11 Armoured Division. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942. A woman from the B.T.H. factory in Neasden Lane, Willesden in London chalking a message on the barrel of a Covenanter tank from Guards Armoured Division. #WW2 #HISTORY

Not staged. (#OTD in 1943. Salerno area, Italy. Men from 2/6 Queens's carefully passing two burning Panzer IV tanks. #WW2 #HISTORY)

The Ubbergseweg in Nijmegen, the *ideal* road to follow and capture the Waal Bridge on 17 September 1944, during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD 22/9/1943. #WW2 Italy. John Barnes has finally escaped Rome and reached Florence. He notes delays to his train because two days ago a line was blown up. Everywhere scenes of destruction and chaos.
In contrast, Florence is quiet.

Baldoli & Fleming, 'A British Fascist in WW2', 2787.

#OTD 22/9/'43 #WW2 Tuscany, Iris Origo receives a visit from the occupying Germans. They have come to take her car. Before they leave, they click their heels, introduce themselves, apologise and remark
'C'est la guerre'.
'Yes, indeed' Iris replies.

'War in Val D'Orcia' p.81 tinyurl.com/3emfksc6

#OTD 22 /9/'43 #WW2 Spike Milligan leaves Tunisia behind. He has been in the war zone for 237 days and today marks the end of his active service in North Africa. In 1978, Milligan returns to Tunisia where he bumps into John Cleese.

Carpenter, 'Spike Milligan Biography' p316. tinyurl.com/5e8k95vc

#OTD 22 September 1943. #WW2 Bizerte, Tunisia. Spike Milligan is on board HMS Boxer bound for Salerno. As he leaves, he imagines drafting his will ... and then signs off. This ends Volume III of his war diaries.

'Monty: His Part in my Victory' p.125
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#OTD 22 Sept. 1943. #WW2 Bizerte Tunisia. Gunner Spike Milligan and his battalion suddenly get the news that they are due to be sent back into battle. They load their vehicles onto the HMS Boxer.
BY six pm, the ship pulls into Lac de Bizerte, and it's 'Grub up'
'Monty' p.125
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The British introduced a new system of tank designations #OTD in 1941. Names replaced indexes for tanks. For example, the cumbersomely named Infantry Tank Mk.IIA** was now simply known as Matilda IV. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

A Soviet IS-3 Heavy Tank of the WWII, abandoned on the hill Shikotan island in Kurils, part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. The USSR fortified the island of Shikotan with some old tanks that are still there.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

From very late in WW2, a pair of snapshots from the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. A likely photo of Captain Ernst Ludwig Thienemann, and the funnel with a search light & the mast.

#admiralscheer #cruiser #kriegsmarine #germany #ww2 #worldwar2 #navalhistory #history #warship #ship #war #captain

Lovely day in every respect. 15 came to dinner (Rev. Duffer). Kay and May at Mary's. Claire helped me in eve. Every one went to the movies and 5 more came (Kaplans). Bud horseback riding all PM in Merryall. He went with car at 5. #history #wwii #ww2 #wwii #otd #onthisday

"Totally unputdownable!"

B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart?

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#histfic #readers #HistoricalRomance #WW2 #audiobooks

#OTD in 1942 convoy PQ-18 reached the USSR carrying the last shipment of Churchill II tanks. After that the British only sent Churchill III and IV tanks with a new welded and cast turret respectively and a more powerful 57 mm 6-pounder gun. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

#WW2 Capa's 1943 photo of a GI eating 'C' rations led to an article on the P-38 "Opener, Can, Hand, Folding, Type I." Perfect example of the "keep it simple, stupid" school of engineering. Nickname 'John Wayne' More than a billion produced. Phased out in early 1980s.

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