Phil Loder

Enjoying the latest issue of the @TankMuseum’s Tracklink magazine, especially James Donaldson’s article on AFV recognition and Ian Hudson’s on the military training of current troops that goes on at the museum.

@MARR_Airplanes @TankMuseum 😂😂😂

@PhilLoder @TankMuseum Now there is a great place to get lost in. 🤣

A gentle pan around the @TankMuseum's Vehicle Conservation Centre. I'm not even going to try to point out any of the #tanks & other armour that come into view. I love the disembodied voices echoing around - there were about 12 guys who had disappeared off among the vehicles! 😂

USN/USMC McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II @PaxMuseum .

I proudly handed over Magar Flag to President of Magar Association Nepal which was raised on summit of Mt. Vinson & completed 7 Summits. The flag also reached to the South Pole. I also handed over Nepali Flag to PM Sushila Karki at Tundikhel. . . . #Magar #Nepal #HariBudhaMagar

Tuesday Tank: a few pics from the @TankMuseum workshop on 7 March. M3 Grant, M4A2 Sherman 'Fury', Churchill III and the hull of King Tiger V2. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling #TankTuesday

@TrooperGrey1 Agreed! 👍

@PhilLoder Burma 1942 was a narrow escape he barely escaped being captured or killed by Imperial Japanese Army as it swept all away to the gates of India. Living dangerously but when you have a charmed life!

Just read this memoir from Field Marshal Harold Alexander, published in 1962. He had a remarkable #WW2, from the BEF & Dunkirk, back to Britain, over to Burma, then N Africa & Italy. In the book, he jumps from revisiting battlefields to campaign narratives, but all fascinating!

Exciting to see this development funding going to the Royal Artillery Museum: royalartillerymuseum.com/news/national-…

Tuesday Tank: I was at the @TankMuseum last Sat and had a look at the Pz I Command Tank. The School of Tank Technology report from 1943 says that the tank has shell damage, and here it is in the side that faces the wall. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

@milmodelscene All strength, Robin!

#jffcancerresearch I apologise for not contributing and supporting everyone as usual, but I am currently in hospital and have been rather ill. Looking forward to get back to joining you all soon.

At the @TankMuseum yesterday for a Friends meeting and had the opportunity to see progress on King Tiger V2. Still being stripped down, with everything being carefully labelled. Road wheels and torsion bars will be disassembled soon. #WW2

@germanbunkers No graffiti, but I think sheep shelter in them … 😂

@PhilLoder Beautiful! And clean too! 👍🏻

After my visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton yesterday, I tracked down these three Type 24 #pillboxes around a road junction near the museum entrance. #WW2

In the small seaside town of Wimereux the Germans built Stp 211 Ibis. It was home to the Kriegsmarine M.A.A. 240. Fallen from the cliffs over recent years one of two 612 bunkers as featured here along with the Beobachtung/Observation bunker #WW2

Visited the excellent @FleetAirArmMus at RNAS Yeovilton today. Pics are a Blackburn Buccaneer, Supermarine Walrus, BAC Concorde 002 and Westland Sea King. The Buccaneer is on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier reconstruction which uses parts of the scrapped HMS Ark Royal.

Just finished reading this and can’t recommend it enough! Fascinating account of #Japan from the earliest peoples to 2024. But a spoiler: WW2 is covered in 5 pages, although there’s more on the conflict before 1941 and the occupation from 1945. #books

Tuesday Tank: at the @TankMuseum next weekend, & planning to photograph this Pz III Ausf N. Captured in Tunisia in 1943, its 75mm short-barrelled gun was for its fire-support role alongside Tiger Is in Heavy Pz Batt 501. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

@hw97karbine @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 That’s the one! 😁👍

@PhilLoder @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 I believe this is the same tank

Tuesday Tank: oops, late this week, but here are photos of the Panzer IV (Special) captured in Libya in 1942 & assessed at the School of Tank Technology at Chertsey. An Ausf (Model) G, it had the new long-barrel 75mm gun. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

For #TankTuesday, a Renault R35 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Picardie in Tergnier.