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NEVER MIND THE DAMBUSTERS @nmtdambusters.bsky.social · 8h

This episode has EVERYTHING! Churchill, the Royal Navy, armed trawlers, mines, Bomber Command Pathfinders, & hunting Kamikazes in the Pacific. Many thanks to the incomparable Will Iredale for chatting to me about his new book, Churchill's Pirates. www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And the relaunch is live! WW1TV is back with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social at the helm - Henry was in charge for this one, whilst I rattled on about Africa and the outbreak of the war… m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZ1...

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Africa on the Outbreak of War

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: I wanted to name my daughter Arya, but in the end we went with something else. As she approaches her teens, we both agree it probably would have suited her 😅

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just read up on her and… bloody hell!

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the night of 16/17 May 1943, Operation Chastise used bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis to breach the Eder and Möhne dams. 53 aircrew were killed and over 1,300 women and men on the ground – many were forced women labourers trapped in their accommodation. 1/6

A twisted water pipe with a man standing on it in front of the breached Möhne dam IBCC Digital Archive Item #62556

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6 Oct 1918 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Otranto (ex SS Otranto, Orient Steam Navigation Co), serving as a troopship, grounded and was wrecked on Islay after colliding with HMS Kashmir during a gale. About 430 died, including over 340 US soldiers. (IWM image: SP 1064) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6 Oct 2024 // Royal New Zealand Navy dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui ran aground on the evening of 5 October 2024 off Siumu, on the south coast of Upolu island, Samoa. She caught fire early in the morning of 6 October, and capsized and sank. All 75 crew were evacuated safely.

Royal New Zealand Navy dive and hydrographic ship HMNZS Manawanui (foreground) with other vessels during Exercise RIMPAC, 18 August 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Wesley Richardson, via Wikimedia Commons.)

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Read this one to the end, because it’s quite something!

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s a reason you don’t get witch cakes at Greggs… Watch the latest episode of BURIED EVIDENCE to find out. @rakshadigs.bsky.social and I explore the Salem Witch Trials. youtu.be/EJ4YFuiCky4?...

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200 People Accused of Witchcraft. Why? | Buried Evidence

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 Oct 1744 (O.S.) // 100-gun 1st-rate HMS Victory (launched 1737), flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen, was with her squadron returning to England from Gibraltar when the ships were scattered by a violent storm off Ushant. HMS Victory, driven towards the Channel Islands, was lost with all hands.

Peter Monamy, 'Loss of HMS Victory, 4 October 1744' (c1744-5). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. This is an imaginative re-creation of the last moments the Victory was seen, with lanterns in her rigging, her sails blowing loose, firing distress guns, and about to be overwhelmed by the storm. It is not an accurate depiction of the ship as she was at the time of her loss.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 Oct 1909 // Destroyer HMS Lee was wrecked in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, Ireland, during a Home Fleet exercise. A boat from the cruiser HMS Doris got into difficulties in the bay, and the commanding officer of the Lee, Lt Duncan Carmichael, attempted to bring his ship inshore to render assistance.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5 Oct 1940 // HM Trawler Kingston Sapphire was sunk by Italian submarine Giacomo Nani off Cape Trafalgar. The submarine was on the surface at about 3am when she sighted the trawler nearby. She was manoeuvring to fire from her stern tubes when the trawler saw her, and turned towards her to attack.

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 05/10/2026

So much focus on the C-53/47 is the chaps jumping out of the back of them, but the missions they flew evacuating the injured are often overlooked and one that I find fascinating. Beach City Baby is configured to honour the flying nurses. 📺 youtu.be/W4yogCnTd5w 🎧 pod.fo/e/674607 #aviation #avgeek

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD 4/10/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS CHEBOGUE torpedoed in stern by U1227 mid-Atlantic while escorting convoy ONS-33, 7 sailors are killed. She is successfully towed 800 miles to port. Considered a Total Constructive Loss CHEBOGUE is not repaired. Photo HazeGray

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sorry to hear that Lucy, it’s always a worry, especially when you’re away from home. I hope he’s feeling better soon (and you can get some rest).

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, the RN began using the name Wildcat in January 1944 and this one’s wearing invasion stripes, so I reckon that’s legit…

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At Duxford earlier attempting to tire out Kikuchis Junior the Elder and Younger, and to keep them out from under Mrs K's feet. A few pics:

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Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Only 1 minute 7 seconds of the film 'The Dam Busters' shows the damage on the ground after the dams broke. The new exhibition at the IBCC in Lincoln will show the Möhnekatastrophe and what happened next. #History #WW2

The breached dam viewed from downstream. Buoys and netting from the anti-torpedo boom are washed up in the foreground.

Luftwaffe gunner, Corporal Karl Schütte with a white ‘kill ring’ painted on the barrel of his 20mm anti-aircraft gun. He was credited with shooting down John Vere Hopgood’s Lancaster.

A sketch plan of the railway network created to transport the materials used to rebuild the dam.

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek

John Billingsley, who played Dr Phlox in Star Trek: Enterprise, in a hospital bed as a patient with memory loss in The Rookie. He turns out to be a suspected serial killer!

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘Mosquitoes With Many Stings’, Pathé, 1943. Newsreel featuring scenes from the production line of the type, which was only revealed to the public in September 1942. The first operational sortie, by a photo-reconnaissance variant, had actually taken place a year before that. youtu.be/6uPjLEj3NZw?...

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Mosquitoes With Many Stings (1943)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week on Untitled History Podcast: Dr Clarke joins me for the incredible last stand of HMS Glowworm in WW2. The only time a Victoria Cross was awarded based primarily on a nomination by the enemy captain: Captain Heye of the Hipper Below or on apps/Youtube! open.spotify.com/episode/52Ma...

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Episode 34: The last stand of HMS Glowworm and the invasion of Norway

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing a "soft launch" in Edinburgh on October 14! Get your hands on SLEUTH-HOUND before it's officially out in the city where the story took place! I'll be in conversation with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! Tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

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Lindsey Fitzharris for Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes at Edinburgh New Town Church

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Andy @andyaitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us for this weeks new episode on Portugal. Tricky wartime balancing act for Britains oldest ally. We look at how the use of the Azores became a concession by the neutral country. Listen here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 Oct 1804 // A number of Royal Navy fireships were expended in an attack on invasion barges assembled at Boulogne. Explosive casks and torpedo-catamarans (floating bombs triggered at a preset time by a clockwork mechanism, invented by American engineer Robert Fulton) were also used.

Watercolour and ink drawing of the British attack on Boulogne, October 1804. The British fleet is in the foreground and the French fleet can be seen in the shelter of the coast in the background, with the port of Boulogne in the centre. Image: National Maritime Museum via Wikimedia Commons.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 Oct 1917 // Armoured cruiser HMS Drake was torpedoed by German submarine U.79 off Rathlin Island at 9:03am, just after leaving a convoy she had escorted from the USA to Northern Ireland. A single torpedo struck her starboard side at no. 2 boiler room, where 18 men were killed.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 Oct 1942 // Cruiser HMS Curacoa was rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while she was escorting the liner north of Ireland. The Queen Mary, carrying US troops, was at full speed and cut Curacoa in half. 337 men were killed in this tragic accident. (IWM image: A 5807) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW2

Royal Navy cruiser HMS Curacoa. Image: Imperial War Museum A 5807. A two-funnelled warship at anchor with the shore visible behind and a barrage balloon overhead in the distance.

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

North East version of this is: “He’s probably forgotten his bait”

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HMS Hibernia was used as the flagship for the naval station at Malta from 1855 to her being sold for breaking up in 1902. Her timbers, covered in coats of paint from over 90 years, was used to fire the bakery ovens in Malta, leading to a severe outbreak of cases of lead poisoning. #NavalHistory

HMS Hibernia, a former 110 gun ship of the line, was used as the base flagship at Malta from 1855 to 1902. The Court-Martial for the loss of the Victoria was heard on her decks in 1893. She was broken up in 1903.

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 01/10/2026

We are so back! The trip to visit the wife's family in Ohio allowed for a spot of avgeekry, so we popped in to see the Vintage Wings Inc team and check in on how the rewinging of their C-53 Skytrooper is going. 📺 youtu.be/W4yogCnTd5w 🎧 pod.fo/e/674607 #aviation #avgeek

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ekolaali @viherdemokraatti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing I'm actually jealous of the Swedes is they got to deal with B-17's. Just learned that many flight missions ended up in the neutral country for various reasons and in 1944 nine interned Flying Fortresses were even formally transferred for courier flights between Sweden and Scotland. #B-17 🇸🇪

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So Many American Pilots Crash Landed in Sweden that the Top Brass Wondered if They Were Doing it on Purpose

During World War II, American crews found sanctuary—and fun—in the neutral Scandinavian country.

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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is National Poetry Day in the UK, so for my contribution, I humbly share one of my favourite poems of all time, written by Robert Florence,

BATMAN'S AFF HIS NUT
Batman's aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
"Mate, I'm worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody's ma and da dies
And we're no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws."
And that was when Batman went
"Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?"
And that was when I was lit at:
"Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae."
And that's the Secret Origin of Robin
and everybody else.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A while back I spoke to Emily at History Extra about the Third Arakan and Kangaw, and the episode has just dropped 👇

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WW2's bloody battle for Arakan

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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 01/10/2026

Amid Typhoon Cobra, USS Tabberer survived catastrophic seas, then ignored repair orders to rescue 55 sailors, demonstrating exceptional seamanship, courage, endurance, and devotion to duty. www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/…

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In the Coils of the Cobra

Amid Typhoon Cobra, USS Tabberer survived catastrophic seas, then ignored repair orders to rescue 55 sailors, demonstrating exceptional seamanship, courage, endurance, and devotion to duty.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I forgot to say - this week’s podcast is available where ever you get them or here… open.spotify.com/episode/3PuK... It follows the sinking of HMS Hawke in October 1914.

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“The control of the sea in this area of the North Sea had passed to the submarine”

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LAST CHANCE! 🚨 Sign up for online or in person to hear me talk about Winston Churchill in some pretty special surroundings this Friday evening! www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/eve...

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Churchill’s Great War

Listen to this lively discussion about the historical importance of Churchill's experiences during the Great War.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30 Sept 1918 // HMS Seagull, built as a torpedo gunboat in 1889 and rebuilt as a minesweeper in 1909, was sunk in a collision with merchantman SS Corribb off Dunoon in the Firth of Clyde. 53 men lost their lives and 21 survivors were picked up. (Imperial War Museum Q 75435) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Seagull, originally launched in 1889 as a torpedo gunboat and rebuilt in 1909. Photograph: Imperial War Museum, Q 75435. A warship under way, viewed from low on the starboard bow, with a shoreline of buildings visible in the background.

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day in 1968, the prototype Boeing 747 jet airliner is rolled out at Everett, Washington for the press and representatives of the airlines that had ordered the plane. It made its first flight on February 9, 1969. The last 747 was delivered from Boeing on January 31, 2023.

Rollout of the first Boeing 747, September 30, 1968.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today’s favourite #warart Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919 Craig Moore on Facebook @dreadships.bsky.social #navalhistory #maritimehistory

Four dock workers cleaning the hull of a merchant ship in dry dock. The ship is wearing dazzle camouflage, and the painting has arranged the sides of the dock and other ships wearing dazzle in the back in such a way as to blend the picture creating some serious eye strain.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein

Neil McCaul as comedy Hitler, mugging for the camera

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The hulls are alive, with the sound of mu-" Oh. Oh dear.

Hungarian (I think) postcard of the sinking French Cruiser Leon Gambetta, which we're assured is the victim of a "megtorpedozot". It's certainly been dotted all right. Image via Cartorum.fr, which I highly recommend for all your dubious and saucy French postcards for the discerning gentleman (and no doubt some of the ladies)

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

F-19 on my dad’s PC (effectively mine, as he never used it!). Speedball 2 on the Amiga, though I was torn between that and Syndicate or Populous II to represent my Commodore years.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨🚨IT’S OFFICIAL! 🚨🚨 WW1TV is returning with GWG at the helm. First episode drops next week, with self and Henry Spilberg but you can visit the link below to see what’s scheduled/subscribe! www.youtube.com/@WW1TVchannel Thank you @ww2tv.bsky.social!

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Several decades worth of gaming here…

My 9 Games, featuring cover shots of:
Elite
Aces of the Deep
TIE Fighter
Forza Horizon 2
Assassins Creed Black Flag
Gran Turismo
Command & Conquer
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Speedball 2

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On this day in 1940, two Avro Anson training airplanes collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, and become stuck together leaving the lower plane's engines running. The pilot of the upper plane manages to make a successful forced landing. All four crewmen survive.

On this day in 1940, two training planes collide in mid-air over New South Wales and become stuck together. With the engines of the lower plane still running, the pilot of the upper plane makes a controlled forced landing near a farm.

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