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"Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"

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#OTD in 1943. The crew of the Halifax "B" for Beer - telling their stories to the interrogation officer on their return from Frankfurt. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1940. A13 Cruiser Mark IV tanks being loaded onto railway trucks at an Egyptian quayside after being unloaded from ships. #WW2 #HISTORY

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(November 1940, North Africa.) To be inspected. A section from 2 Armoured Car Company RAF. The short wheel-base Fordson armoured cars behind them are each equipped with a Boys anti-tank rifle, a Vickers machine gun, and a .30 light machine gun on a Scarff ring. #WW2 #HISTORY

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"Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OTD in 1944, just west of Arnhem. Band of Brothers' Captain Winters at the "Crossroads". #WW2 #HISTORY

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Early 1942 picture and the Poles in particular loved liberating weapons. This Browning probably came from an M3 Stuart tank.

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#OTD in 1944. A 25-pounder from 83/85 Battery 11 Field Regiment in a waterlogged position near Scorticate, Italy. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1943, Italy Spitfires from 232 Squadron being serviced at Serretelle landing ground, near Salerno. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Shot down off the Dutch coast #OTD in 1944, Beaufighter TF Mark X, NT950 from 236 Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Putting things into perspective. (The Island, area between Arnhem and Nijmegen. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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(1942, Tobruk area, North Africa.) Soldier from Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade, 1919 Browning machine gun and Boys anti-tank rifle. #WW2 #HISTORY

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A "Crocodile", a modified Churchill tank equipped with a flamethrower, another of Hobart's "Funnies" in 79 Armoured Division. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Barnaby Golden @barnabyg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On 3 October in 2016, Oosterbeek War Cemetery. I witnessed the burial of Harold J. Lewis and Donald S. Noble from 4 Wiltshire, who fought and died on 3 and 4 October 1944, near De Laar Farm. Found in 2013. #WW2 #HISTORY

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I have a 1:35 scale model of the Panzer II and when I place it alongside a scale model of the King Tiger the difference is almost comical.

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Paul @pbrainedoptimist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ocean liners could outpace U boats, so they didn't hang about. Imagine the losses if one of these troopships gets sunk? There weren't many fortunately, but every time I see mention of people leaving Canada or the US to head across the Atlantic, I get a shiver.

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#OTD in 1940, Scampton airfield. Just before a bombing raid, a Handley Page Hampden crew from 83 "Strike to Defend" Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1940. Mickey Mouse is being removed from a Me 109 E4 from Lehrgeschwader 2. (Where is it now? 🤔) #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1942, during zig-zag maneuvers, ocean liner Queen Mary, carrying around 10,000 American soldiers, struck HMS Curacoa amidships at full speed, cutting the cruiser in half. 101 crew survived, 337 died. (The incident was not publicly reported during the war.) #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1943, Halton airfield. Young Polish air cadets, Gulag survivors, destined to function as RAF ground crew, next to a Hurricane. #WW2 #HISTORY

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(1944, Italy.) A Universal carrier with some extra fire power. #WW2 #HISTORY

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1944, Holland (I think). The M29C Water Weasel. Pretty fast. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Rapid fire from a British 3-inch mortar. #WW2 #HISTORY

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What a country, an execution fails.

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#OTD in 1944, all resistance around Calais has ceased. Time to relax; men from Canadian The North Shore Regiment beside and in a cross-channel gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

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(1944, Holland.) Men from 49 Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment (formerly 49 Royal Tank Regiment) beside their LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked). #WW2 #HISTORY

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a country, an execution fails.

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Never verified it but James May stated that because the cockpit was so narrow, it took 60% more effort to exert the same stick force in a 109 than a Spitfoire!

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(1916.) British Mark I tank being loaded on a train platform, bound for Russia, at Forster's works in Lincoln. #WW1 #HISTORY

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*The* bridge of operation Market Garden. If you know what I mean. 😉 (#OTD in 1944. The Railway Bridge and (temporarily) the Highway Bridge at Nijmegen, out of action. So DUKWs. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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#OTD in 1941. Exercise "Bumper". Some 250,000 troops testing Britain's anti invasion plans and defences. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1940, this German Bf 109E-3 (now in IWM Duxford) belonging to Hauptmann Ebbighausen from 11/JG26 but flown by Unteroffizier Perez, belly-landed in a field at East Dean. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1943, Italy. Montgomery with one of his ADCs, Captain J.W. Poston. Set to be married, Poston was killed in an ambush on 21 April 1945. "Monty's grief at losing his faithful aide was such that he broke down during the funeral." #WW2 #HISTORY

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Incredible dimensions. (A 22,000-lb earthquake bomb. Bomber Command executive codeword "Grand Slam". #WW2 #HISTORY)

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#OTD in 1943, Italy. A 17-pounder anti-tank gun being towed through Scafati. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Around this day in 1944, Dover. Winnie and Pooh, the two 14-inch "cross-channel" guns. #WW2 #HISTORY

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(1942, North Africa.) British tank driver peering out of his Grant tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

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(Not colourised.) #OTD in 1942. Avro Lancaster B Mark Is from 44 Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1943, Italy. A camouflaged Sherman tank from the Scots Greys. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1942, North Africa. A crew member from a Panzer III, buried beside his tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

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