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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very excited that the first volume in my 'French Resistance and the SOE' book series is now ready for interested readers to register interest. The first book is 'Normandy 1940-1944'. Please use the link for further details and pre-order #ww2 #SOE ☨ www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

French Resistance and the SOE Normandy 1940-1944 book by Gary Weight Helion Publishing

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Our February Talk EVENT has SOLD OUT so an extra date has been added on Saturday 13 June 2026 - 10:30-12:30. Please contact the museum for tickets ☨ @cmsmuseum.bsky.social #SOE #SAS #WW2

Gary Weight SOE and French Resistance Talks

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A short video trailer for my Museum Guide/Introduction to SOE that's just been published ☨ All proceeds to the @CMSMuseum #SOE #WW2 Gary Weight: SOE: Special Operations Executive: Book Trailer youtu.be/eytTVbKdSUE?... via @YouTube

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Gary Weight: SOE: Special Operations Executive: Book Trailer

YouTube video by Gary Weight & Pegasus Battlefield Tours

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The second of a series of books I'm writing for the Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex. It's an introduction to #SOE and the collection of SOE artefacts displayed at the museum.Agents stories and how it all worked-I hope it's of interest to people☨Available Amazon worldwide #WW2 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Gary Weight SOE: Special Operations Executive book Out Now

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A short video talking about my book 10 years on. A battalion history of the 2 Lincolnshire Regiment during #ww2 I was lucky to have been able to write this in 2009 whilst some of the men were still alive.All sadly departed now #RIP Gary Weight: Mettle & Pasture youtu.be/ood0JoOsdKg?... via @YouTube

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Gary Weight: Mettle & Pasture 10 years on

YouTube video by Gary Weight & Pegasus Battlefield Tours

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

During early #WW2 my grandfather commanded the fire fighters at White Waltham airfield. He is pictured sitting in the firetruck in 1941. He was ATA. As kids we played on the airfield as we lived nearby and I knew every inch of it like the back of my hand. Thankfully I have his memorabilia #ATA

My Grandfather sitting on his fire truck at White Waltham Airfield 1941

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I recently acquired this old aluminium mug which was used by a member of the French Resistance whilst serving with a maquis in SW France.If you look closely you can see some engravings he did whilst spending time hidden in the hills, he was 19 at the time. Coffee soup & wine most likely! ☨ #WW2 #SOE

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The Combined Military Services Museum commemorates World Holocaust Day the weekend of 25/26 January with a Temporary Exhibition - artefacts include a rare camp uniform with information panels and audio. Opening times 10:30-16:30 each day #WW2 #Holocaust #SOE #resistance

World Holocaust Day Exhibition at Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon Essex

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If you’re an #SOE or Resistant saboteur during #WW2 and you’re wanting to set an ambush or roadblock you'll need some of these. Caltrops now aka tyrebursters date as far back as #Roman times. These two I recently acquired were made in a clandestine forge in the Dordogne ☨💥

Caltrops or Tyrebursters used for sabotage during World War Two Pegasus Battlefield Tours

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If you’re an SOE or Resistant saboteur during WW2 and you’re wanting to trigger your explosives manually you’ll need one of these. The Exploder Dynamo Condenser Mk3 would be wound up with a handle to create the correct voltage and then press the FIRE button and BAMM ⚡️💥 #SOE #WW2 #Resistance

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

#OPERATIONFRANKTON is the operational name of the famous #ww2 ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ raid, carried out by ten Royal Marines that paddled the length of the Gironde Estuary in tiny canoes to place explosive limpet mines on German merchant ships harboured in the French port of Bordeaux. Published 2024.

OPERATION FRANKTON is the operational name of the famous ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ raid during WWII, carried out by ten Royal Marines that paddled the length of the Gironde Estuary in tiny canoes to place explosive limpet mines on German merchant ships harboured in the French port of Bordeaux.

Although the raid was partially successful, only two of the ten men would survive to tell the story; Major Blondie Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks.

We proceeded in the direction of the roar. As we got nearer I could see the white foaming surf; against a black sky it looked awesome. The tide was carrying us along at a fair old pace, so before I had time to worry any more we were in swirling waters and being thrown around like a cork. I dug deep, using every ounce of strength conscious of the need to keep the canoe balanced and struck ahead. - Marine Bill Sparks.

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Published by Helion in 2015 - #MettleAndPasture - the story of the part played during the Second World War in Europe by the 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. This is the story of the war the way it really was for an infantryman - told by the men who were there. Written by Gary Weight #ww2

Mettle and Pasture - the story of the part played during the Second World War in Europe by the 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. Entering France in September 1939 as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) they witnessed from the front line the blistering attack on Belgium at Louvain and first hand the German Blitzkrieg beginning on 10 May 1940. Fighting a fierce rearguard action as part of the British 3rd Infantry Division under command of General Montgomery, the Battalion covered the frenzied withdrawal of the British Army through the carnage of Dunkirk arriving back to the shores of England with less than 25% of their original force.

On 6 June 1944, almost four years to the day after the demoralizing evacuation at Dunkirk the Battalion landed on the coast of Normandy on D-Day.

Told in their own words, eyewitness accounts and memoirs are expertly weaved together with official diaries to recall the experiences of the infantrymen at the front - from the days in France and Belgium in 1939 to the assault on Normandy, spear-heading such a great invasion, to resisting and attacking the enemy at Caen and blunting the formidable Panzer counter-attacks in the dangerous Bocage. From ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’, come the bitter battles in Belgium and Holland, the attrition of holding the Maas River during the coldest winter in living memory, and finally on into Germany fighting the SS around Bremen just hours before hostilities ended on the 8 May 1945. Vivid accounts tell tales of courage, fear and individual sacrifice and how soldiers faced up to the enemy under fire, sharing danger and surviving the savage conditions but also of the pride and honour of belonging to such a famous and historic regiment - The Lincolnshire Regiment.

With an abundance of previously unpublished photographs and clear, concise maps of the battlefields, this is the story of the war the way it really was for an infantryman - told by the men who were there.

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Gary Weight @garyweight.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Hi...this is my first post on Blue Sky and I'm so looking to becoming part of this community. I hope you will enjoy what I post and I look forward to learning more and communicating with everyone here. In recent times I have been writing this book - still a good way to go but I'm getting there ☨

SOE and the French Resistance in Normandy 1940-44 by Gary Weight

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