Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025A bit late with the re-post, but why not give a listen? 191
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025If only one could read the serial number on that Anson then we might be able to work it out! 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Only just seen this! Yes, Phyllis was one of the WAAFs I discovered incorrectly listed at Runnymede as ‘no known grave’. Having discovered where she was, I alerted CWGC who erected a stone for her. 120
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Very sad to learn that the IWM will be removing the Ashcroft VC/GC Gallery at Lambeth. 000
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Controversial view? Most of the ‘big’ historians who have written on the Battle of Britain have got the big picture about right - but nearly ALL of them fail miserably on the detail/minutiae of the battle. It really irks me. Maybe I need to get out more? 🤔🤷♂️ 000
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025A regular Yuletide ‘tradition’ is to visit this lonely grave at Battle, East Sussex, and leave flowers. At 16, she was the youngest female casualty of WW2 commemorated by CWGC. 071
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025No Northern Lights in the rain sodden SE tonight. Anyway… 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024When one realises that it is necessary to get out more. This is Queen Vic on St Leonards seafront with her usual Xmas finery - but with a German bullet hole in her skirts. Why do I need to get out more? I have a shortlist of Luftwaffe pilots who probably did it. 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024When Hastings Post Office closed few years back and moved to W H Smith I campaigned to have these memorials moved to the store. It didn’t ‘fit the corporate image’ of @WHSmith and so they are now hidden away and rarely seen by the public at the sorting office. 030
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024No 1 son (with London Fire & Rescue) was selected to receive his Coronation Medal at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Elderly relative: “How wonderful that they took him there in that carriage.” 040
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This truly is an absolutely bloody brilliant read! 200
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Out with a bang! My last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine under my editorship has landed from the printers. Handing over the editorial desk from this issue forward. On to other things for 2025! 010
Reposted by Andy SaundersSimon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I wrote some blogs a few years ago on misunderstood aspects of the Battle of Messines. This one is about how many of the mine charges laid beneath the German lines were not used, the reasons, and where they remain to this day. simonjoneshistorian.com/2017/05/01/l...simonjoneshistorian.comMyths of Messines: The ‘Lost Mines’How was it that in 1955 a massive mine charge blew up in a Belgian field? When nineteen mines were detonated along a six mile front at the opening of the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917, six more… 23210
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Another of the Osprey titles that left my desk in 2024. Maybe you didn’t know all that you thought there was to know about the Bf 109 in the Battle of Britain? 😉 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Damn! I think I may have to pull that article from the very last issue of the magazine I edited that erroneously credits the Royal Navy. 000
Reposted by Andy SaundersRosie @follywoodfae.bsky.social · 11/12/2024We have really enjoyed writing our tours and it's nice to know we're in such good company. For me, it's been like having a digital version of my dotty map. Something I have been working on for more than a decade now! 052
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This new book in the Osprey Books ‘Duel’ series is now out. A few more will leave my desk in 2025 - all being well! 000
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Interesting stuff: phys.org/news/2024-12...phys.org 010
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Lucy raises interesting points that are close to my heart. One ‘restored’ Hurricane is V7497 which purports to be built from aircraft I recovered in 1986. It isn’t. Neither was it ‘recovered from a bog’ and nor did I sell or part with the wreck to current owner. This is a murky old world, sometimes. 0233
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Have you any idea how much that colour triggers me? 😐 010
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Having just signed off my very last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine it is on to new projects once the desk is cleared. Major project next year is editing a re-worked and updated ‘Battle of Britain Then & Now’ 080
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Well, here I am. Over from the other place. Although I’m still also hanging out there! 060
