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Twilight of the Wehrmacht, by Colin Colahan, c.1944. AWM ART25709

Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 3h

Covenanters playing the part of the enemy by the side of a road during Exercise Spartan, 6 March 1943. IWM H 27765, either Sgt Wooldridge or Hardy, AFPU.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Australian infantryman (Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson), by William Dargie, 1942. AWM ART22223

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seaplane, Sikorsky Kingfisher, and RAN cruisers, by Dennis Adams, 1942. AWM ART26928

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Churchill tank raises the dust as it passes through a heavily damaged Normandy village in the Odon valley, 20 July 1944. IWM (A70 90-10), Sgt Carpenter, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

West Country Manoeuvres: Camouflaged Bren Gun Carriers in a Lane, by Edward Ardizzone, 1941. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1494)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jumping Tower for the Training of Polish Parachute Troops at Largo, Fife, by Edward Bawden, 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3147)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Troops of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade photographed during a break in field manoeuvres in Scotland, 27 July 1942. The cigarette holder brings an elegant incongruence to the picture. IWM (HU 128212), Polish Official Photographer

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday. IWM (H 17162), Lt Bainbridge, WO Official Photographer

$Original Caption: Photographs taken for Dental Officer of an interesting case of a fractured jaw. 24th (London) General Hospital, Belfast. Taken by Lt Bainbridge. 10.2.42.$

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Scots Guardsmen and Kit Drying Out after Tumbledown, 17 June 1982, by Linda Kitson. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 15530 53)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sopwith Camel Patrol Attacking an Austrian Aerodrome near Sacile, Italy, by Sydney William Carline, 1918. IWM (Art.IWM ART 4543)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Different styles of architecture, Victoria, London.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Machines in an Underground Factory, by Frank Dobson, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4096)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Troop Deck, by Edward Ardizzone, 1942. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2713)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite a striking composition by Beaton of a scene in a forward Headquarters of the 2nd New Zealand Division in North Africa. IWM (CBM 1424), Cecil Beaton

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Splendid panels on the outside of the London Fire Brigade building on Albert Embankment, London.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Alert, by Alex Macpherson. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1515)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in action in Tunisia, 31 January 1943. IWM (NA 576) Sgt Bowman, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning. Bit of a thousand bomber raid one this morning.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brigadier (subsequently Major General) Francis ('Freddie') de Guingand, Chief of Staff to Monty outside Monty's caravan, Tripoli. IWM (E 22000) Capt Keating, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, by Bernard Hailstone, 1945. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5856)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A 17-pdr anti-tank gun of the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, Guards Armoured Division, in position on the approaches to Nijmegen Bridge, 21 September 1944. A Bren and Hotchkiss in the foreground. IWM (B 10171), Sgt Midgley, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice, by C.R.W. Nevinson, 1934. IWM (Art.IWM ART 16717)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Challenger Tank Manufacture, R.O.F. Leeds, July 1986. Challenger Ready, by Michael Heindorff, 1986. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 16138)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Engine-room of HMS St Modwen with the Chief Engineer: Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Gordon, RNR, by Stephen Bone, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4150)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Training of Barge Girls, Cardiff, by Evan Charlton, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4531

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Those more cynical than I might suggest that the need to mark an almost imperceptible kindness being done by one person to another, in this specific place, by means of a plaque, might suggest that otherwise this is not the friendliest of places.