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h-hfamily.bsky.social @h-hfamily.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thinking of all those who remain in Normandy, especially Great Uncle Don. Heartfelt thanks to @battlefieldben.bsky.social for this photo from the D Day commemorations this year.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Have you enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Why not get further information by checking Ben’s Battlefield Tours 📖 Check it out here: www.liberationroute.... Listen to Ben’s episode : www.patreon.com/post... #History #Podcast @battlefieldben.bsky.social

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

🚨 NEXT WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨 @battlefieldben.bsky.social tears apart the myth that the Allies were “too slow” at Caen. 🇬🇧🔥 The reality? Brutal fighting, huge German armour concentrations and a strategy bigger than the city itself. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBS 🚨 @battlefieldben.bsky.social destroys the myth that British and Canadian troops were “sitting around drinking tea” around Caen. 🇬🇧🔥 The reality was sniper fire, artillery and brutal attrition. Listen : www.patreon.com/post... #WW2 #DDay #Normandy #HistoryPodcast

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Out today - listen to @battlefieldben.bsky.social and Mark’s visit to the Battlefield of Bosworth (1485) where they visit the locations and link them to our previous episode (Ep 29) on the battle… …there are also some links in the area to WW2, Trafalgar and Zepplin Raids on London

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

When you look at the ground at Bosworth like on this weeks ep, it’s clear how the Stanley’s were in much closer position to Henry rather than than Richard - thanks to @battlefieldben.bsky.social puts my talk in ep 46 with @nathenamin.bsky.social into perspective when discussing the Stanley’s role

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Back this week after a little break discussing the Coventry Blitz from Nov 1940 and Apr 1941 with @battlefieldben.bsky.social - the impact on the city was huge and the fab Ben Mayne retells some of the stories from his walking tour Out Weds

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Massive thanks to @battlefieldben.bsky.social for raging about the Battle for Caen & Operation Charnwood! 💥 We busted myths—why the delay at Caen was strategic, not slow, and why the bombing story isn’t so simple. 🪖 Coming 1st June 🎧 www.patreon.com/historyrage #Normandy #WW2 #MilitaryHistory

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HistoryFare @historyfare.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Having signed a MOU with Liberation Route Europe last year, it's an honour to team up with @battlefieldben.bsky.social to put on a Coventry Blitz walking tour to mark the 85th Anniversary of the air raid on the 8th/9th April 1941. For full details visit my website historyfare.co.uk/events/blitz...

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

#OTD 22 August 1485 - 540 years ago, the #BattleofBosworth was fought Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle? Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today Available wherever you get your podcasts

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

👋 A special week - we’ve had The Importance of the Wrist Watch to the #FWW / #WW1 but we’re also going to have a special anniversary episode for one of the most significant dates in British history! An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth! Out tomorrow!

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

👋 For your Friday, why not learn about the lessons of #OpCHARNWOOD with @battlefieldben.bsky.social on this week’s ep? 🎙️ The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy 🎧 on your platform of choice, review & subscribe 🙏 Have a fab weekend 👋

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

👋 9 Jul was the 2nd day of #OpCHARNWOOD during #SWW. An urban battle by the 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 divisions to liberate #Caen 🇫🇷 ⚔️ 💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️ #WW2 #Normandy 🔗 to 🎧 on profile page 📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war

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The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

👋 This week: Op CHARNWOOD 1944 during the #WW2 / #SWW ⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷 💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️ 🎧 and subscribe at the 🔗 on the profile page

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Great to have Mark onboard the 7 Commando Operations tour. We shared some great discussions throughout the week.

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

You can't park that there, sir! The submarine Flore at Lorient. The SWW submarine pens have to be seen. @battlefieldben.bsky.social

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I was genuinely shocked by the number of people visiting Point du Hoc last week. Most of the casemates and craters are fenced off and apparently a suspended walkway will be built soon. My first visit in 2003 seems like it was in another age @battlefieldben.bsky.social

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Its so nice to come back to Ranville to pay respects to Frank Milburn, DCM. I snapped his headstone over 20 years ago and he's been a kind of talisman ever since. His dad was killed at Loos in 1915. At the end of a superb Leger tour led by Ben Mayne.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Visiting Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp memorial site today, which was liberated by British troops in April 1945 and where tens of thousands died during #WW2 - among them Anne Frank and her sister Margot, whose memorial this is.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Visiting some of the last casualties of the British Army in Europe in 1945 at Becklingen War Cemetery including Jake Wardrop whose diaries were saved and published for posterity.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We finished in evening spring light at Sage War Cemetery where British dead from actions as early as September 1939 through to April 1945 are buried.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We’ve moved into Germany now following 21 Army Group. Looking at the Ems Canal battle at Lingen this morning and doing some 1945 Then and Nows in the town. This shows troops from 3rd Division in the town in April 1945.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ended the day with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social at Holten Canadian War Cemetery to remember Canada’s sacrifice in the Netherlands and Germany 1945.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Interesting morning with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social exploring the October 1944 battlefield at s’Hertogenbosch. This was in 1944.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Heading into the Netherlands and Germany with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social to look at some of the forgotten battles of 1945 on our new Last Days of #WW2 tour with Leger Battlefields.

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Object description

Infantry and carriers in the German town of Lingen, 6 April 1945.
Object Details

Category
Photographs
Related period
Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
Creator
Palmer (Sergeant)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
Production date
1945-04-06
Materials
whole: Nitrate
Catalogue number
BU 3160

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#Forrard Major Fitzwilliams Hyde was a highly respected officer who had shaped the ERY before he returned to 4/7RDG. He then returned to 1ERY and landed with them on D-Day. He is also remembered on the 4/7RDG memorial at Lepe, Hampshire.

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Romain Bréget | French Battlefields Guide @frbguide.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE ! A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵 ⬇️

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today’s research assisted by Milo….

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

After a rough Christmas an new year which saw both of us ill, we have managed a 6 day break to Northumberland to see my parents. Some nice beach walks and undecided if these are SWW anti tank obstacles or sea defences! Possibly an old pillbox washed down as well…

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The reason why you should not use AI for research, stick to real people! spot the huge error in this.... Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944): The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…

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LRE Foundation @lrefoundation.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Excited to announce LRE UK's partnership with the University of Portsmouth! After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚 Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social

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LRE Foundation’s UK branch partners with University of Portsmouth, Hampshire – LRE Foundation

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Why do @BBCBreakfast persist with Normandy Memorial features? Why not focus on the @CWGC who have always remembered and commemorated our war dead. Men and women buried or remembered in Normandy at cemetery’s. The Normandy campaign is more than the beaches, we need to encourage people towards inland.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In the suburbs of the city at Pastorpl. 1, 52070 Aachen, during 1933-34, Anne Frank stayed here in a family home. The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Aachen train station. From here between March 1942 to September 1944, deportations would leave here to head to concentration camps. Upwards of 3,000 people. Most of the deportations went to Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A group walking tour of the city centre looking at the liberation, allied bombings, Holocaust and the Aachen Scandal. After the work, a few guests wanted to remain out so we spent another hour visiting several sites. The first was this building that linked in to the Nazi Aktion T4 program.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The benefits of staying in Aachen is that you have a huge amount of history to explore in the centre and on the edge. The cathedral and city hall were damaged from allied bombing raids and ground fighting in Sept-Oct 1944 but restored and are a must visit.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Henri Chapelle American Cemetery. Visits were made to seven men and a chance to talk about their stories. Tester brothers, Castle, Wereth 11, Malmedy massacre victims, Masters of the Air and Band of Brothers.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thursday morning was a chance to look at a small segment of the Seigfried Line. It’s always interesting to discuss the effectiveness of static defensive lines in the SWW, from the Maginot, Atlantic, Seigfried Line etc. The shaft in my opinion is drainage from the main road about 100yrds away.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

On Wednesday, I visited the dutch town of Valkenberg for the first time. Whilst the guests explored the Christmas markets in the caves, I went in search of historical related graffiti. I didn’t really find much.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Wednesdays afternoon’s visit to the Netherlands American Cemetery.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A visit Wednesday to the southern bank of the Maas and the LVT, Buffalo. A chance to take about the 33rd Armoured Brigade, 144RTR and 1ERY. Training for Operations Plunder was conducted here alongside infantry.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A great morning on Wednesday looking at 1940 and 1945. After speaking the previous day about the German invasion in May 1940, I spoke on the Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940 before that. We visited the crash site of where the German officer was detained with plans for Fall Gelb, Case Yellow.

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I Finished off Tuesday night with an hours solo walking tour of Aachen…

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Tuesday was a good day out in the Ardennes discussing 1940 and 1944-45 with the Battle of the Bulge….

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A busy week in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Yes, history was actually involved and I will post some highlights of the week shortly!

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

On our run into Hasselt, Belgium and discussing the raid conducted by No.101 Squadron. Rusty piloting a Lancaster bomber approached the town at 12,000ft. They collided with another Lancaster which went down, Rusty’s stayed! To hear more on this- ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collecti…

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Ham & Jam - The WW2 British Airborne Podcast @hamandjam6airborne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Looking forward to recording another episode of the Ham and Jam podcast this evening. Our guest is Historian, Battlefield Guide and Ambassador/Advisor for the Taxi Charity, Mr Ben Mayne... @battlefieldben.bsky.social #WW2 #ww2history #hamandjampodcast

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’ve had another good morning at MCL! Some good networking and conversations. Always good to get in the show early and spin by the @DucatiUK stand with nobody around. Loving the new Multistrada!

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Ben Mayne @battlefieldben.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am missing being around Caen and going for my walks. This IWM film reel shows just how much damage was caused from 6 June to 8 July. A very different city to one you can walk around today. I love walking and trying to match these locations!

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