#Normandy

Robert Mills

Robert_Mills

Thanks to @thurstonhow and @tjc193 I realized this was a DC-3, which is pretty much the same plane as the C-47. This one was heading to a museum at @flymanchester.

Warriorscomeout

warriorscomeout

#OTD General Simonds od II Corps meets with General Maczek of 1DP at Hill 159.1DP was the isolated tip of a very porous wedge.Their situation was precarious but Simonds orders

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Each Churchill Squadron had two Churchill V armed with 95mm guns at Squadron HQ. On paper these were meant to lay smoke to support the advance, but were also armed

Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸

CAFinUS

They doubted her.They restricted her. They confronted her. But Major Charity Adams didn’t stop.Does she look like she’d stop? #BlackHistoryMonth Major Charity Adams and the Six Triple Eight were

Stephen Fisher

SeaSpitfires

I found this uncredited image in 'Looking Down on War: The Normandy Invasion' by the late Colonel Roy Stanley, USAF, the other day. It's got some great photos of D-Day

Graham Broad

ProfessorBroad

DM: "But aren't there way more than 25 war graves in that cemetery?" Let me explain. Foreground: Cpl. Frank Wilbur is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave. Background: Sapper Bernard

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Sturmpanzer IV in NormandyHow did this amazing, chonky, innovative AFV completely fail to approach to AVRE's success and lead to myths the Wehrmacht lacked a similar AFV entirely? /1#WW2 #SWW

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

1. Archives. In a recent thread a series of tweets indicated there was interest in opening a conversation. Let’s begin with museums. Most researchers started with museums and their exhibits

Mark Hertling

MarkHertling

Best to all on this 2020 Veterans’ Day!Some have suggested vets post pictures in uniform. But...I’m going to post a few w those met among the way. Here’s CSM Roger

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

[1 of 9]Back to the #BattleOfTheBulge.Maxwell Taylor is just now returning to the fight from DC as his 101st is fully encircled.Lawton Collins' VII Corps & Matthew Ridgway's XVIII ABN

Paliparan

PaliparanDotCom

Although I managed to do a few great trips in 2020, it also made me realise how lucky I was this year to live a life relatively unaffected by the

Band_of_Brothers_101st

EasyCompany506t

Robert Frederick Sink was born April, 1905, in Lexington, North Carolina. He joined the Army in 1924, graduating from West Point in 1927, and was commissioned as an infantry officer

Adam Berry

Agrbez

If you google "82nd Airborne Division Sicily" you may stumble across any one of the following images. They are pretty well known photographs, and have been published in plenty of

Chad E. Colby

TheChadColby

Wish I would have wrote this 1 of 10: Old people are easy to spot at sporting events, during the #NationalAnthem. They removed their caps and stand at attention and

גלעד בצלאל יפה, ארכיאולוגיה אונליין Gilad B. Jaffe

TheOnionGod

1/ Let's start out #thread today in the north, in Scandinavia, & talk a little bit about the archaeological finds of the Vikings. The Vikings originated in the Scandinavian countries

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

So how easy was it for British & Canadian soldiers to keep clean and healthy in Normandy?Couldn't be too hard, right? /1#WW2 #SWW #History You're an front line infantryman in

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