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Handy guide from the 1946 Vauxhall book 'An Account of our Stewardship'. The Evolution of the #Churchill #Tank #WW2:

Occasionally I remember that Google Images used to allow you to filter by the actual size of the image and I get really mad.

@CraigFlagg1944 @BattlefieldBen @sommecourt @WW2TV @militaryhistori @AndyAitcheson @almurray @James1940 Just devastated. I pray that the piper can be located and that the bastards get exactly what they deserve. 🙏

@CraigFlagg1944 @BattlefieldBen @sommecourt @WW2TV @militaryhistori @AndyAitcheson @almurray @James1940 @Barber1944 "They will make a fire with your beautiful oak door" ... I can hope it's found, but can also assume, depressingly, that it's just gone. Anyone 51H-engaged in a position to administrate a crowdfunder or similar? Crazy that we have to, but will 100% donate. The bastards.

Unfortunately, the rumours are true. 51st Highland Div. monument Bréville ridge. Stolen! I have no words. #ww2 #Normandy @BattlefieldBen @sommecourt @WW2TV @militaryhistori @AndyAitcheson @almurray @James1940 @Barber1944

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Hello, fellow nerds. 😶 Reading an old thread & feel like book shopping. What's your WW2-related 'bible'? The book you /keep/ going back to? Mine's the blessed Vanderveen's HMVD. It's definitely seen some action...

"Salto Paracaidista de adiestramiento con oxígeno a 5.000 metros. El Cabo que salta con el arcón de material, cobra 1.300 € al mes. Y luego se preguntan por qué faltan soldados y la milicia ser una profesión de riesgo"

Reading another humbling obituary of 103 year old George Dunn who swapped working for Pickfords to flying a Halifax bomber over Germany at the age of just 19. Soon there'll be no more such obituaries and feel they should be compulsory reading at all schools. Lest we forget ...

Can anyone help.xx

Holy f***ing Shit🤯 4.4 MILES. One 8-inch orange dot. 24 seconds in flight. New World Record. 💀 Total respect ✊🏼

The US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II jump jets are no longer combat active and are scheduled to perform their farewell ceremony next week on 3 June 2026 after 40 years in service, as the Marines transition to F-35Bs @Aero_GlobalNews @USMC aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/us-marine…

This matters. An obscure London event on the history of the ancient Jewish kingdoms in Judea and Israel is cancelled because of ‘security concerns’ and it turns out this was a reaction to a campaign to fill and then undermine the event by activist disrupters. How strange! Why would a posse of aggressive activists be interested in the arcane details of bullae and steles and ostraca and inscriptions and numismatics in some small South Levantine kingdoms in the Iron Age? Well, it is a little more than that which is why it is both disturbing and important. And it matters because at its least it is a threat to history in Britain’s - but also the world’s - greatest temple of History @britishmuseum - and its scholarly integrity. The BM and its leadership are decent and well-meaning and have explained that they wished to save an event from disruption by bullying vandals but I am sure the BM realizes it is essential to announce a new event fast lest it give the impression that the permission of tiny cadres of aggressive bullies are required before it hold events. But the significance is wider than an event about the Moab and Tel Dan steles in a great museum. British cultural life is the right and exercise of civic and cultural freedom – a privilege of our liberal democracy - that does not require the permission of gangs of ideological activists nor can it cancelled or postponed nor endured at their beck and sufferance nor permitted with a bend of the knee to their permissions or veto. But that is what this appears to be. Across the cultural world in the West, though the bewildered middleaged managers of our institutions that are confronting and often submitting to a wave of self-righteous blackmail and mob threat, there is an increasingly thin – indeed ever more fragile and sometimes nigh invisible – line between ‘security concerns’ – and institutional pusillanimity. Then there is the history itself. This event concerns the study of the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel that existed between roughly 1100BC and 586BCin the Levant. It is not a coincidence that this was chosen for disruption. The history of the Judean kingdoms and the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem that stood for most of the time between 1000BC and 70ADetc is important and fascinating history in its own right, supported by complex and growing archaeological finds. These small kingdoms and the subsequent Temple priestly mini-state (restored by the Persian kings Cyrus and Darius 539BC) and then the larger Judean kingdoms of the Hasmoneans and Herodians – between 167BC and 135AD chronicle the long indigenous history of Jews in the region – which the protesters are keen to erase. This is a political project of ideological erasure and malicious incitement of course concerned with the complex, brutal Israel-Palestine conflict that has now gone on for a hundred years and is unlikely to be solved in a small lecture theatre in the British Museum. But it also attempts to deny or erase Jewish history itself – and by implication the heritage of British Jews who live here in Britain, a small community that is now under cultural and sometimes physical threat. Incidentally - but it is worth saying, this history does not deny anyone else’s history, nor the many other small realms in this region through ancient times nor the many names of the region and its entities and the historical origins of those names (Canaan, or Philistia or Peleset, Phoenicia, Aram Damascus or Moab or later Nabatea and the provinces of Palaestina Prime, Seconda and Tertia and the Ghassanid kingdoms and so on etc etc). The history of one can not be used to erase the history of the other and does not need to do so. The pursuit of knowledge which is one of the delights of human life and is the mission of the BM and indeed anyone who writes, reads or enjoys history, can celebrate and recognize all of these. Yet this protest and the many like it deployed across Britain nowadays is the opposite of that - an attack on history using the methods of intimidation and vandalism. Much of this involves distorting or dismantling actual history or often lying to replace it with a fabricated ideological structure that nourishes no one and helps no one but degrades our culture and civic life not to speak of history itself. By the way, the frequent claims that these histories or names are ‘denied’ or ‘noone knows them’ is nonsense: anyone and everyone who is interested knows this history. (Much of it appears for example in my book Jerusalem a history of the Holy Land.) And this is relevant not just to those of us who write study or enjoy the history of the region but also to those who believe that cultural life and civic society is a right that must not be submitted to the aggressions and plots of loud well-organized much-indulged ideologues who take advantage of the freedoms of our society to undermine its principles and the very freedoms they are designed to guard. Just as vital is a rule of history itself that concerrns the rise and fall of civilizations: the society that ceases to allow to free discussion of ideas and stops respecting and recognizing the value of scientific and historical sources and facts is a society that will fail.

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Troops serving with No 3 Commando's No 5 Troop are tossed into the air to grab at a rope some twenty feet high. Filmed during D-Day preparations in Britain, 1 June 1944. Film: IWM A70 24-3

In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.

Manufacture of the British "Welbike" foldable motorcycle for airborne troops at the Excelsior Motor Company of Birmingham circa 1943

@thinkdefence £1.30-something today for three at Sainsburys with the old Nectar card. Just saying. My freezer may be full of Soleros. Get your own.

Popping out to get a Solero, anyone want anything

Hope you’re enjoying the weather, I’m not, as I’m on watchman tonight, in my Watch coat. Tradition doesn’t stop for the weather, I’ll be manning the guardroom for the night as it has been since 1280, the oldest manned guardroom in the world 💪🏼 I shall partake in some sun tomorrow 🥵 Hope you’ve all had a great bank holiday weekend 🫶🏻

@TulsiGabbard @SharrellAnne2 From my UK perspective, I understand next to nothing of US politics. Who's who, etc. etc. ;Nope. Vague awareness of names. I do, however, understand very simple gestures of earnestly meant respect. Nice one. Lest we forget.

It was an honor to visit your husband’s grave today on your behalf, and to pay my respects. It was wonderful to see the beautiful flowers representing many others who did the same. Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to the loved ones they left behind. Thank you for your service and sacrifice @SharrellAnne2 🙏🏽

This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60. SSG Alan W. Shaw Section 60, Grave 8451 B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007 There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸