Andrew Holmes 💙

I'm not a chocoholic. I can give it up anytime. Just not right now.

@Garywittering Are the sprouts simmering?

Bit early this year: making the gravy tomorrow and starting the search for my festive bow tie.

@project4_4 This is an iconic picture showing the use of the Churchill Ark to form a rudimentary bridge across shallow rivers. They were designed to bridge ditches and shell holes and to form a ramp over a sea wall or other obstacle. In the field they were pressed into other useful roles.

British M10 crossing the Savio River with a blown up Panther tank in the water

@BladimirAn40585 @project4_4 The Achilles was called M10 17pdr at the time. The nickname apparently came later.

@project4_4 Look more like the Achilles because the muzzle break in the Cannon

@Dunkirk_1940 If you hit a camel,the owner always claims: It's a racing camel that won many prizes. It's female. It's pregnant.

Any tips for driving in North Africa? Hire car arrives tomorrow😬

@DyerbolicalDB The Magnet.

@Niels_1944 @Dunkirk_1940 will see you right.

Any 47 Commando specialists here? Or people with records from their period in Normandy? I'm currently looking into their actions at Port-en-Bessin, and could use some original records. 47commando.org.uk is great, but I'd like to go back to the original records.

@project4_4 @threadreaderapp unroll

Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near Salerno, Italy, on 9 September 1943. Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa and the successful invasion of Sicily, Allied planners turned their attention to mainland Italy. Churchill in particular saw Italy as the “underbelly of Europe,” believing its capture would knock Italy out of the war, secure the Mediterranean, and force Germany to divert troops away from northern France ahead of the planned invasion of Normandy. The Italian government capitulated on 8 September, but German forces quickly moved to take over the defence of the peninsula, ensuring that the invasion would be anything but easy. The main objective of Avalanche was to seize Naples and advance eastward to cut off retreating Axis forces in southern Italy.

@AdamDavidWarne2 My pickup at Warbases, also for What A Cowboy. I'm hoping these pre coloured buildings will work as my own painting skills are decidedly lacking.

#Colours25 purchase no.2. Both destined for #WhatACowboy. Bank civilian set for a specific scenario idea I have on mind. Butch and Sundance... because they're cool af

#Colours25 purchase! Both books have been on my wishlist for a while, so when I saw them for £12 each, I didn't think twice!

@nntsn @andyweirauthor Not if you've read the book already.

@andyweirauthor Can’t wait to watch it, but damn this trailer is full of spoilers!

And so it begins! youtube.com/watch?v=m08TxI…

@Garywittering I remember when guests on TV shows had a claim to fame other than having been on a TV show.

Remember when ‘guests’ on TV shows were just interesting/notorious/accomplished or otherwise compelling people? Who talked about themselves or the world in general? Now it is just people selling things. Even the cooking shows!

@HarmsworthAG Split screen or picture-in-picture could do this. Surely it's possible with today's tech.

Sky Tennis - stop the fuck trying to show two matches, just means you can't see anything on either. #sky #skytennis #skysports o

@Dunkirk_1940 Walking the Andes.

The Sri Lanka adventure will soon be over and it got me thinking….I’ll be 60 (ffs) in 2028 ….. where should we go for a once in a lifetime adventure? Answers below please 😁 #Adventure2028 #MakingMemories #HereForAGoodTimeNotALongTime

@AnnalisaB @ObsMagazine I hope Waitrose will have the chocolate chicklets with chilli caramel filling. Again.

@BritishArmyWDs If 1940 it might be an 18/25. 25 pdr on the 18 pdr chassis.

On this very day in 1940 a 25-pdr (happy to be corrected, I can never tell the difference) of 361 Battery, 91st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Oppy near Vimy, 7 January 1940. The Regimental war diary has them at Lomme.

@TankMuseum Also 2 inch mortar. 3 inch mortar. Hand grenades. Rifle grenades. PIAT at a pinch.

Unlike other infantry weapons, the Vickers Machine Gun could use indirect fire barrages to target enemies outside of visual range. These operations required specialist training, large quantities of MGs, ammo & water (for barrel-cooling) to be fully effective.

@SpencrGreenberg Doing maths in my head.

A question for you: what's something that you assumed was true of just about everyone (because it's true of you) that you later realized was actually an unusual or rare attribute?

@battlegames Reminds me of a scene from Enterprise.

@DickDelingpole Standard drill.

Just retro-fitting this plain scone with raisins. Before adding clotted cream and then jam.

@SeaSpitfires This is from my copy of Nafziger.

Does anyone have any information about German 110 Infantrie Regiment, part off 33 Infanterie-Division during the invasion of France? Hoping to find an order of battle and some details about their route of advance. 📷 Feldgrau

@PhilLoder Yeah but, Cagny 88s?

Ended 2024 with Hans von Luck’s #WW2 memoir from 1989 - his travels in Europe before the war, then his role in the invasions of Poland, France & Russia, plus time in N Africa, Normandy & NE France. Then 5yrs in a Soviet labour camp & life after. The foreword is by his wife.