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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An interesting evening presentation tonight - listening to Dermot Turing talk about Bletchley Park and codebreaking in WW2.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Made it to the rendezvous for my next tour...WWII Museum's intriguing Espionage and Intelligence tour.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today was dominated by the Battle of Britain. We took some time to honour the Poles that fought alongside RAF Fighter Command when we needed them most.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chester is always my wingman when I pop out to our local pub for a warm beer in apparently facist Suffolk.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mr Security was in place at the Red Feather Club today. Thank you to the 95th Bomb Group team for their amazing hospitality at Horham this afternoon. We had a fabulous time and learned a lot.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quite a moment at Thorpe Abbotts today. Visiting descendants of two Airmen of the Bloody Hundreth lower the flag at dusk.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is always good to receive positive feedback on your performance as a guide. Thank you to tour members for these detailed comments on my Warfare through the Ages with @bhltours and @WeAreTripsmiths tripsmiths.com/warfare-custom…

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The box that the B17 was delivered in? We had a great morning at the American Air Museum at Duxford. A great discussion about the morals of the Allied bombing offensive and a debate about the strengths and weaknesses of the B17 and the B24.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All set for the Masters of the Air tour starting tomorrow morning from London. A topical read delivered across the pond from the WWII Museum Historian, Bradley Hart. Look forward to a full week of Mighty Eighth history!

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Busy day today, preparing to lead a Masters of the Air tour for the WWII Museum. Always a rewarding experience taking American visitors around the historic airfields of East Anglia and beyond.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Preview - I really hope that this does the subject justice. Jimmy Stewart's WWII story is remarkable and should be told properly, especially to those that do not know his story... youtube.com/watch?v=KmIe...

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JIMMY – First Look

YouTube video by Burns & Co.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's been a long day today. We have spent time considering the horror and inhumanity of Dachau and the evil system of which that camp was just a part. After a long drive we are now in Austria still following the 506th PIR as they push on to reach the end of the war.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A sobering visit to the stark environs of KZ Dachau today. The visit underpins the 'Why we fight' message running through the Band of Brothers series final episodes. Reinforcing the just cause of the Allies in liberating Europe from Nazi oppression.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming soon - I was really honoured to be asked to play a very small part in this WW2 Foundation film. Looking forward to seeing the finished article crafted by the production team. wwiifoundation.org/portfolio-it...

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Gary Sinise: A World War II Legacy (COMING SOON)! - World War II Foundation

Coming Soon! In the words of Gary Sinise

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Another very enjoyable day on the WWII Museum Easy Company tour around Bastogne. Quite interesting to see the events of December 1944 through a single small unit. Watching @BattlefieldDisc create and maintain his narrative and a wider historical context is interesting.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have to say the quality of presentation and the historical content of the exhibits at the 101st Airborne Museum in Bastogne is second to none. What an outstanding Museum. Certainly, not to be missed if in town.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Always good to start the day with gliders. Today it's the simply superb 101st Airborne Division Museum in Bastogne. Operation Repulse, the parachute and glider resupply of the Belgian town is rightly highlighted.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Visited the ABMC cemetery in the Netherlands today. I had a little time to wander and found Lt Arthur Sample of the 381st Bomb Group (Heavy). A long way from Ridgewell, even further from home.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Interesting day on Hell's Highway with super knowledgeable Easy Company expert, Edwin Popken. Refreshing to hear historical narrative from another perspective.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning in the Netherlands tracing the route of Easy Company, 506th PIR during Operation Market. All part of learning the WWII Museum Easy Company tour with the supremely knowledgeable @BattlefieldDisc. Colour by Piece of Jake.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you to @historian1914 and the Road Scholars for hosting me for another Air War presentation. It was interesting to delve into the intricacies of Allied relations during Operation Pointblank. Great questions as ever!

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spending the afternoon tuning up my presentation on Operation Pointblank for the Road Scholars WWII conference in Oxford this Friday. It's always great fun speaking to such a well-informed audience.

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Matt Eaton @matteatonmedia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My talk on Friday on WW2TV looks at the experiences of Madam V - Virginia Vernon. This remarkable woman worked with the top brass in the British forces and travelled with the men from Arras in 1939 through to Rangoon on VJ Day. www.youtube.com/live/7yTXfNu...

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Madam V - Virginia Vernon’s War: Battling to Bring (ENSA) Entertainment to the British Troops

YouTube video by WW2TV

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The second Horsa was flown by two volunteer pilots from the Royal Australian Air Force. The two men had assisted with the training for Op Freshman and stepped forward to fly Horsa 2. Their sacrifice is sadly little known.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sgt Peter Doig was also one of the very early candidates for glider pilot training. The GPR was very much in a fledgling state in the winter of 1942. The RAF bomber crews tasked to tow them into battle were equally inexperienced as tug pilots. A lot was being asked that night.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Staff Sergeant Strathdee and his co-pilot, Sergeant Peter Doig, were piloting one of two Horas gliders. They crashed at Flesebekken in Lyseheiene. Strathdee and several of the engineers were killed on impact. Those who survived the crash were subsequently executed by the Germans.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was exceptionally poignant to visit the CWGC plot in Stavanger today. SSgt Malcolm Strathdee GPR and Sgt Peter Doig GPR we're both volunteers to fly one of two Horsas on 20 November 1942. Neither man had the necessary flying experience to pilot a Horsa in such conditions.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On 18th October 1942, Hitler issued the Fuehrerbefehl which accused Germany's opponents of using methods that did not conform with the accepted laws of war and the Geneva Conventions. Many of the Freshman troops that were captured by the Germans were later unlawfully executed.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally, after many years I found my way to Norway and visited the graves of many of the men who died on Operation Freshman. It is especially significant for me as the ill-fated Freshman was the first glider-borne operation mounted by British Airborne forces during WW2.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Woke up this morning to this stunning scenery in the Innvikfjorden Fjord. I have been reading this fiction classic on the way here...absolutely staggered by the mountainous terrain and the size of the fjords.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Getting there! Finishing the Iraq chapters of Ops Normal Volume 2 - covering the challenges of Iraq after 2003. Some very tough tours for AAC Squadrons. Thanks to all of the veterans who have shared their stories for the Authorised Operational History of the Army Air Corps.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Timely update on Volume 1 just as the manuscript for Volume 2 nears completion and publication. Helion have very few copies of our first volume left on the shelf. If you are thinking of ordering a copy, be quick!

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Personally I believe that omitting the swastika symbol is literally airbrushing the Nazi heritage of the Luftwaffe out of our awareness. It encourages the myth of the good German/Luftwaffe. We should accept history warts and all.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The pre-tour reading list for my Drop Zone 1 tour in October is out. Really looking forward to leading the @WeAreTripsmiths group around some of the most famous Landing Zones and Drop Zones in NW Europe. Great support from @bhltours.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Working on the final chapter and maps for Ops Normal, Volume 2. Looking forward to the moment that co-author John Greenacre and I can hand the completed manuscript over to Helion for publication. Aiming for handover before the AAC birthday on 1st September.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ABC have released their report on the Archeological dig that I visited with my Anzac group last week. It really was fascinating. Take look... youtu.be/rzVETk9T4bA?...

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Archaeologists dig into one of Australia's bloodiest WWI battlefields in France | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Heading home after another epic @MatMcLachlan Anzac Tour working with the irrepressible Lambis Englezos. Ten days on the road with this lovely crew was a real pleasure. I am already looking forward to the next Anzac expedition. Thanks to everyone who helped to make it memorable.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Day 9 - Our final day on the Anzac trail with the Mat McLachlan, Fromelles and Poziere 110 tour. It was a genuine pleasure to work with Lambis Englezos again. The tour culminated at the 2nd Australian Division memorial at Mont Quentin. We are now heading off to Paris.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We were privileged to spend the morning near Contalmaison with the Archaeoligists and veterans of the Rising Sons AIF in WW1 project. Fascinating ro watch them excavate trenches and gun pits.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Not forgetting the New Zealanders we called in at Longueval to pay our respects. Quite something in the still of a summer night on the Somme battlefield.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We had a full day around the Somme Valley today. Our exploration of the 1918's Anzac chronology included a visit to the Franco - Australian museum in the Victoria School in Villers-Bretonneux.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Every headstone hides indicates a story. Private Mallyon AIF rests in Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux in France. The sentiment of his epitaph always resonates with me and never fails to move me.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Behind the German lines of 1916 we head from Fromelles Church towards Pheasant Wood. Led by Lambis Englezos the Mat McLachlan tour walks toward the locations of eight burial pits established by the Imperial German Army in the aftermath of the catastrophic battle of Fromelles.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The story of the missing of Fromelles, told by the man who knows it better than most...a first hand account from Lambis Englezos. Such a privilege to hear it on the battlefield today.

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Great to be back out in the Ypres Salient with a nice big group of enthusiastic Aussies on the Anzac Trail. Working our way toward the Fromelles 110 anniversary commemoration with the legendary Lambis Englezos.

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Matt Eaton @matteatonmedia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Here's my latest article covering great talks at Bentley Priory yesterday for Dowding System Day, including @danellin.bsky.social and @spitfirefilly.bsky.social! newsletter.mattheweaton.co.uk/p/bentley-pr...

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Bentley Priory Museum: Dowding System Day 2026

Per ardua ad astra

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just a week to go before I return to the Anzac trail on the Western Front for the Fromelles & Pozieres 110 Anniversary with Mat McLachlan Tours. So looking forward to having the remarkable, Lambis Englezos along as a special guest speaker.

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