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This guy who lives in this block of flats cuts a structural column on the 6th floor of his 20-story building to improve the view

@SeaSpitfires 112th LAA Battery RCA was re-roled to rockets from anti-aircraft duties on 9 October, just 23 days before firing these salvos for Infatuate I. They fired the launchers for the first time on 29 Oct near Gheel.

On 1 Nov '44 the Allies deployed the Land Mattress operationally for the first time, bombarding a German Flak battery at Zwanenburg during the assault on Flushing. German PoWs reported it "provoked an immediate tendency to assume the horizontal position". 🎥 IWM A70 237-2 & 3

@BowersWrites Done

Competition has gotten considerably stiffer! Please consider voting for my Vimy Ridge memorial article to be the next cover feature of Legion Magazine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@Kormin_ It looks like even the statues are cowering from the wind!

People: Oh you are a battlefield guide in #Normandy. So cool, you can spend your days at the beach 🏖️ ! Meanwhile, the beach....

@SeaSpitfires I am considering skipping the cemetery on future tours I run due to the restrictions. I used to visit the 5 Cdns there, but have not been able to in recent years. Still go to the beach, just not the cemetery. The @ABMC seems to want to restrict access to families of the fallen.

Taps ceremony at the American Omaha Beach Cemetery on Saturday. All the graves were roped off and inaccessible when I was there, part of the ever normalised standard now. All but a handful of the 9,389 men and women buried there are now anonymous. I’m not a fan.

Can I rent one of those machines for my Airfix 1:72 Bristol Beaufort model, it would be done in a flash!

@MilHistNow Alfred Munnings

What's your favourite painting or work of art from military history? (Post a pic of yours in the replies)

@SeaSpitfires Trolling by the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Regimental plaques do tend to plus up their contribution. I was there for its unveiling in 1997, star of the event was Charlie Martin author of "Battle Diary", his wartime memoir and a great read.

An early morning visit to Bernieres-sur-Mer and Juno Beach. Top trolling by Canada here…

@DivebumChef A friend who was serving in the 50s told me that it was not until 1959 that the changed crown was fully distributed with the St Edward's crown of QEII replacing the Tudor crown of KGVI.

New Army DEU and rank.. absolutely weird they did not use the Canadian Crown

@britishmemorial My understanding is that CANLOAN officers are on the memorial. I looked few up to check, perhaps not all.

The 99 'Lost' Names of Normandy: for the first time since its official opening, more names of servicemen who sacrificed their lives on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy are engraved onto the Memorial. The 99 men are aged 17 to 48 and represent all military services and include a number of nationalities who served under British command. britishnormandymemorial.org/news-story/the…

April 21 marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her late Majesty devoted more than seven decades to public service, including 70 years as Canada’s Monarch; the longest reign in Canadian history.

Preparing for the Grumman Avenger's first flight soon with one final test of the landing gear.

@ReiverHall @ThomasWatsonCD I had a C2 mag carrier that the QM told me did not exist, no NSN, and would not take back. They told me that they were locally produced by Mat Techs (?) over the years, so I gave mine to a museum.

@ThomasWatsonCD I know the feeling - I had kit to turn in that some of the supply techs had never seen before… but hey, I got to keep my C5!

One interesting thing I am finding as I gather up my uniforms for my release appointment is how long it’s been since I wore some items. For reference- I haven’t been a SLt in over a decade…and this one even predates the return of the Executive Curl.

@globalwinnipeg On a walking tour of Winnipeg a few years ago our guide took us by this statue. He noted that the sculptor was American and so depicted an American soldier, rather than a Canadian soldier. When it was delivered it was decided to put it up anyway. Move it back to the bank!

A First World War Memorial statue once located downtown was unveiled in a new location at Brookside Cemetery today, which is also Vimy Ridge Day.

@DivebumChef @thestinkeye @DeptofWar @USW_PR_HONTata Chaplain Hickey of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment wearing the rank of Captain 1944.

@DivebumChef @thestinkeye @DeptofWar @USW_PR_HONTata Chaplain of 1 Can Para wearing the rank of Captain 1944. Perhaps the non-rank insignia was a Navy thing?

How’s that accountability for widespread moral and administrative cowardice throughout the @DeptofWar officer corps - even the chaplains - coming @USW_PR_HONTata?

@Len54Len @MilHistNow With Grant are (left to right) Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, Colonel Orville E. Babcock, Lieutenant-General Horace Potter, Major-General Edward O.C. Ord, Major-General Seth Williams, Colonel Theodore S. Bowers, Colonel Ely S. Parker and Major-General George A. Custer.

@MilHistNow name the union soldiers

Today in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox effectively ending the U.S. Civil War. Grant orders his jubilant men not to cheer. "[They] were now our countrymen," he recalls. "We did not want to exult over their downfall."

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With the Junkers Ju87 R-2/B-2 Stuka release on the horizon, we need your help picking the box art! Vote for your favourite in the comments with the corresponding emoji: ❤️ = Option 1 😮 = Option 2 Pre-order this kit: ow.ly/Miw150YGrgS 👈 #Airfix #ScaleModelling

@001PalmerA @BowersWrites @SweetieCanuck This ship is commissioned in the Royal Navy as its ceremonial flagship. It is a historical symbol not a fighting ship.

@BowersWrites @SweetieCanuck Can that ship even be rearmed... She is sea worthy. I seen him in the Halifax Harbour. But she is so old. And such a old design, that there is no way and hell we can use it in a combat situation. Hell she cant even maintain speed with any of our DDs and FFs. Even our PTs...

HMCS Sackville, the last-surviving Flower-class corvette of the Second World War, will soon be formally recommissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Read more in my new Legion Magazine article. 📸 Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society. legionmagazine.com/ww-iis-hmcs-sa…

Knowlton Nash and the CBC's National reporting on the 75th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1992. The battle at Vimy Ridge happened 109 years ago today.