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Handy guide from the 1946 Vauxhall book 'An Account of our Stewardship'.
The Evolution of the #Churchill #Tank
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My first tank a Chieftain Steelbrew appropriately called Dinosaur! 8 Troop C Sqn 4RTR 1989 @RoyalTankRegt - more details in my new book TANK COMMAND @headlinenf @TankMuseum
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Garden ornament of the day...
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Your regular reminder that Jimmy (himself wounded at Mt Longdon) has compiled the single best book ever written to understand what an NCOโs role is in battle. I used to recommend it to every one of my officer cadets. ๐ฉ
โ13th June 1982, Mount Longdon, still under intense mortar and artillery fireโ.
Falklands 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
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Tonight 13/14 June, it will be exactly 42 years since the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards fought bravely through the night to take Tumbledown mountain in the final battle of the Falklands war.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM ๐ซก๐ฌ๐ง
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No fan of 'AI' anyway, but using it to whistle up images like this is repulsive.
There's plenty of real images of Mauthausen's liberation, & this fakery also plays right into denialist's hands.
They love muddying these waters already.
Leave the pictorial record the F alone.
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Breaking News:-
Historians have discovered the grave of what they believe to be the UKโs oldest ever living man in Yorkshire.
He was 193 and his name was Miles from London.
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I'm looking forward to talking about the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) and HMS Birnbeck tomorrow - at the North Somerset DIG FOR VICTORY SHOW. 14:45 in the Home Front tent if you would like to to come along.
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Jun 12
USAF Lockheed C130 63-7789 stolen from RAF Mildenhall in 1969 by one of the ground crew. Disappeared from Radar over the sea near Alderney, wreckage found in 2018
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Jun 12
Peak British headline
Missing child mannequin found on train holding a can of cider trib.al/3qeV8CO
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Courseulles Beach, by Stephen Bone, 1944.
IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5792)
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Jun 11
On this day 1982, British Forces forced open the door to Port Stanley and final victory in the Falklands Campaign
Mount Longdon taken by 3 Para
Mount Harriet taken by 42 Commando
Mount Two Sisters by 45 Commando
Each Battle was hard fought in extremely tough conditions by men that had traversed many miles of difficult terrain across the Islands
To all those that did not come home or were injured and their families, God Bless ๐
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๐ช June 11โ12, 1982 | Battle of Mount Longdon ๐ฌ๐งโจOn this night, 3 PARA launched a fierce assault in the Falklands, securing a pivotal victory at heavy cost. Bravery, grit, and sacrifice defined every inch of Mount Longdon.
Ready for anything ๐
@BritishArmy
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#DDay80: how did British & Canadian soldiers take on German Armour on D-Day & during the Normandy Campaign of 1944? What weapons did they have available and how useful were they? [thread] 1/12
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One of my all-time favourite conversations was between a Corporal and a civil servant before a parade.
โCould I get through, please. I need to park.โ
โIโm afraid not, Sir.โ
โBut itโs the car park.โ
โIt isnโt a car park, Sir. It just looks like one.โ
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I was idly looking through some IWM footage the other day and came across this - slightly out of focus - footage of PoWs on one of the invasion beaches (I think Gold) taken by RAF Sgt Hicks, dated 10.6.44 (IWM ACB 10). The young PoW at the end of a sequence seemed familiar...
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Tank-interested people:
Grab Rich's book before it becomes unobtanium/stupid money.
We lauded Hunnicutt, largely because his was all there was on the truly serious/academic side.
He's blazed past it.
It WILL become silly price.
No more just German gear getting good coverage.
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My lad @DShut7946 has transformed this wasteland on our estate to something that young kids use and have a kick about with their pals.
He doesn't want college full time and is desperate for an apprenticeship, unfortunately there hard to come by๐
Anyone know any in cental lancs
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A scientist behind a three-sided mobile lead shield approaches an active 254-tonne cyclotron particle accelerator and using sphere-mounted tongs, prepares to remove an aluminium object made radioactive by 45 MeV alpha-particles bombardment at Argonne National Laboratory, 1955.
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