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Graham, we loved you from the start, and we love you still.
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A touching tribute to Graham Thorpe ❤️
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Duke and Kookaburra
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Duke and Kookaburra
@d_ktalkballs
✝️ Cricket tragic🏏 England🏴 H+A 🏟🚢☀️😎🥃 History 📚 film 🎥 music 🎶 travel 45*✈️ Prone to nonsense Flâneur Nil desperandum Dóminus Vobíscum
Katılım Mart 2013
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@TheVietGwent Yes, sadly. We see it as such now, but I wager Egypt/Suez was seen as *pivotal* to the war effort and it's possible loss cataclysmic in a way that the fall of Singapore - while humiliating - could not match.
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@d_ktalkballs Things would have turned out differently if Churchill had placed stronger air & land forces in Malaya. Not a single tank or Spitfire or Hurricane…?!
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We’ll never know what caused the deflagration of her rear magazines and, even if we did, one suspects it would turn out to be more complicated than weak deck armour, but an excellent 🧵 about HMS Hood 👇
Hidden History@HiddenHistoryYT
🧵HMS Hood: the largest warship in the world for 20 years, the pride of the Royal Navy, and the site of its single greatest loss of life. Here's the full story of "The Mighty Hood" from drawing board to the bottom of the Denmark Strait 👇
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@TheVietGwent Quite - with the RN badly stretched, ideal time for them.
I always think things could've looked so different had the Soviets lost at Khalkhin Gol and Japan focused their efforts in Siberia.
They'd have not needed to look south and Barbarossa would've turned out differently.
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@d_ktalkballs Smuts had warned in the 1920s that the post-Washington Treaty “Singapore Strategy” was hopelessly flawed. It was all well and good building a big naval base and sending the Home & Med fleets out, but Japan would only attack if others were already tying down those two fleets.
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@TheVietGwent Agree all round mate. I've actually visited the Box in Singapore, Percival's HQ and it's sobering indeed.
There were options, but none of them were good.
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@d_ktalkballs Any battleship arriving in Singapore in early Dec 1941 was in deep trouble. Phillips had no accurate assessment of IJN aviation capabilities in Indo-China and, even if he did, he was still not in a position to abandon Brooke-Popham, Pulford & Percival to their fates.
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@TheVietGwent The Stringbag - what a machine. And Rodney would *devastate* Bismarck from point blank.
Yes, Renown got a thorough refit but she had a *relatively* quiet war all things considered.
Poor old PoW however...born under an unlucky star.
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@d_ktalkballs Repulse had interwar work, but not the full Queen Anne’s mansions reconstruction of Renown. Yes, Ark Royal’s stringbags brought the slow Rodney into the game.
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@TheVietGwent I love Repulse, she was *gorgeous* but didn't she get a serious refit in the interwar period? Can't think.
Fairly sure she was detached for lack of fuel before the pursuit group caught the enemy.
And effectively replaced by everyone's favourite Queen Anne's mansions, Rodney.
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@d_ktalkballs Absolutely. Folk criticise the Hood & Prince of Wales pairing, but the real risk was the other squadron and having to pair King George V with Repulse for a possible big gun surface engagement. Repulse was far more of a battlecruiser than Hood ever was.
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@TheVietGwent Quite so. Terrible weather helped the enemy there.
Had Holland crossed the enemy's T, with the twins closing in to attack with torpedoes as well, we'd be talking about a different outcome.
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@d_ktalkballs Yes, HMS Suffolk losing radar contact for several hours was the key moment in that engagement and wrecked Holland’s cross the enemy’s T plan.
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@TheVietGwent The instantaneous loss of Hood did unjustly burnish Bismarck's legend imo; after 24 May, Bismarck couldn't hit a barn door.
Hood's loss was utterly flukish. Had the East Anglian twins not lost radar contact in rank weather on 23 May, Holland was set to cross the enemy's T.
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@d_ktalkballs People too easily dismiss the possibility of Hood’s belt armour being penetrated because, at that angle, there’s a clear path for a 15” shell through the machinery spaces to the bulkhead and the rear 4” magazine.
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@meaniepants_Esq @RichardGlyn99 @intothefuture45 I respectfully disagree. Certainly the Eastern Front was mostly wildly successful for them, but in the West they had no chance of outright victory. None.
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@d_ktalkballs @RichardGlyn99 @intothefuture45 Don't think so. They were winning against Britain, France and Russia combined until the US joined.
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Arguably this was the peak of the British Army in modern warfare, and maybe the world at the time (am open to robust, substantive rebuttals!). All forgotten by 1939, then learned again up to 1945 but no longer as the dominant military force it was here.
📜Echoes of Empire📜@EchoesofEmpire_
Victorious British Soldiers resting after the Battle of St Quentin Canal, Northern France 1918
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@meaniepants_Esq @intothefuture45 "If" doing so much work there it's keeled over and died on the spot.
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I regret to inform you all that I am in full agreement with *Darren Lehmann*
I'm feeling slightly unwell.
Dan Roan@danroan
England players do not play enough county cricket, says Northants head coach Darren Lehmann bbc.co.uk/sport/articles…
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@DisparateDanny @almurray You can't have too much Stringbag in your life.
What a machine.
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I know this is terribly two months ago, but look what I just found for three and a half quid @almurray
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@Empireaesth Now here's an historical
what if to ponder.
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance should have never ended. Had the alliance remained, there would have been no Pacific theatre in WW2 and both empires could well have lasted into the 21st Century.
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This is the likely path Jesus walked into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday more than 2000 years ago, and it still exists. Right here. In Jerusalem.
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@thedailyjaws This isn't and has never been a dilemma, the film makes it obvious as you say.
The big Jaws dilemma is - what did happen to
Ben Gardner's eye?
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"When Quint's being eaten, where did the machete come from?"
After an ancounter with the shark, Quint flings the machete into the side of the Orca and leaves it there... he later spots and grabs it in a final but futile effort to escape the #jaws of the shark.
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@Kriegler007 The best comedy from that side of the pond. By a distance.
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@FXMC1957 I think the SNP helped swing this vote, thus enabling over a decade of Mrs T.
I wonder if they rued that at any time.
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28 March 1979. Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan lost a parliamentary vote of confidence in the House of Commons by 1 vote, thus forcing a general election which led to a huge victory for the Conservative Party led by Mrs Margaret Thatcher.
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Boatbadge of battlecruiser HMS Repulse, launched by John Brown on the Clyde 1916, sunk by Japanese aircraft off Malaya in 1941 with heavy loss of life , Qui Tangit Frangitur .
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The battleship HMS Nelson passing through the Panama Canal, 23 February 1931.
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Zak Crawley's NZ tour of 2024 was a horror show and was disturbing to witness live.
Across the series, he was
10-6 against Matt Henry.
He must be having palpitations ahead of this summer.
It's going to be another bloodbath.
🏴 🇳🇿
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