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@1GamewithDave1 Do you have Microsoft Encarta for that rig?

Peak PC culture. Mid-90s, no compromises.

It seems technology can do everything in 2026 EXCEPT accurately render a spinning airplane propellor.

@CraigBaird My grandfather worked on the Arrow with him. I once visited JZ's statue in Barry's Bay.

My Substack Today: The Man Who Flew The Arrow Janusz Zurakowski was a war hero who became a Canadian aviation legend. Subscribe and receive these Canadian history stories in your e-mail each week 👇 canadaehx.substack.com/p/the-man-who-…

@danwarren6 It was a bath for washing dog shit off of running shoes

good morning and happy Thursday everybody oh yes remember my elementary school had this in the mid 60s

The Battle for Convoy HG-76 – How New Allied Tactics Took Hitler’s U-Boat Wolfpacks by Surprise “It marked a real turning point. It showed the Allies how they could successfully take the fight to Hitler’s U-boats and defeat them.” militaryhistorynow.com/2023/10/23/the…

The U.S. Civil War – A Window Into the Coming Apocalypse of World War One? militaryhistorynow.com/2017/01/23/the…

Alternate headline: Full Metal Jackoff?

The Mi-24 ‘Hind’ – 10 Amazing Facts About the Cold War’s Deadliest Helicopter “The Hind was a formidable symbol of Soviet military power, appearing in several hot spots around the globe during the 1970s and 80s.” militaryhistorynow.com/2020/09/30/the…

@MilHistNow Du lügst öffentlich! Es gab nie einen solchen Befehl! Die gesamte Logistik und Industrieproduktion des Reiches wurde durch die barbarischen und kannibalischen Flächenbombardements der RAF und USAF zerstört 😡

On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler orders all industrial, communication and transportation infrastructure in the collapsing Third Reich to be destroyed before it can fall into enemy hands. Some will refer to this scorched earth policy as the "Nero Decree."

Something from the MHN archives that's in keeping with today's age of drone warfare... 'The V-1 Flying Bomb – 13 Facts about Germany’s Infamous Cruise Missile' "Nearly 10,000 were launched from sites in Northern France over an 80-day period." militaryhistorynow.com/2015/02/06/buz…

@ron_eisele Up the Ox and Bucks!

Spot Landing Par Excellence - Horsa Gliders, Pegasus Bridge by Michael Turner

Never in history have people less qualified had more destructive power

Today in 1941, the U.S. Army establishes the 99th Pursuit Squadron, America's first all-Black flying unit. They'll go down in history as the "Tuskegee Airmen" — a reference to the group's Alabama training field. (Here's a newsreel of some of those same pilots in 1943.)

@Matt24695841 @iamyesyouareno Wellington and Nelson are NOT Hitler.

@iamyesyouareno You can preserve history without statues. It’s called books. We don’t have statues of Adolf Hitler all over the world, but everybody knows who he is.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth” — George Orwell

Newsreel footage shows a C-46 Curtiss Commando in trouble while taking off during Operation Varsity, the Allied airborne assault on the Rhine, March 1945.

‘Francs-tireurs’ – Meet the French Resistance of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War "Guerrillas mounted their own campaign against German occupiers a full 70 years before the Nazi Blitzkrieg." militaryhistorynow.com/2017/02/10/the…