#Luftwaffe

Mike Harding #RejoinEU

HardingMike

1/ There's a kind of mental exhaustion that sets in when you know that the govt are lying yet again, that there's no way they are going to get the

The REP

BirminghamRep

80 years ago this weekend the Birmingham Blitz began. It was to continue until 1943. Overnight, on 8-9 August 1940, a German bomber dropped bombs on Enstone Road, Erdington, killing 1

john hoberg

HeidiHidyHoberg

So the death of a 103 year old person shouldn't come as a surprise, but this somehow came as a surprise. Last night my family lost our leader. Anyone who

Don Lavery

donlav

DON LAVERYEXCLUSIVEThe Department of Defence has given the thumbs down to acquiring a transport aircraft for @IrishAirCorps . The lack of a transport aircraft was highlighted by then Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar

Juffrouw Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse

JoHedwig

I've been to countless living history & re-enactment events over the last years and I've taken pictures there with my 1930s box camera.Here's a thread with a few of those

Stephen Moore

smooreBofB1940

After some recent 'discussion' on the 'merits' of the Boulton Paul Defiant, my attention was drawn to this new book, which claimed to establish the 'surprising truth' about this 'forgotten

Marc Garlasco

marcgarlasco

#ChristmasEve thread on loss during single largest mission flown by the 8th #USAAF in #WW2 on Dec 24, 1944 as the weather lifted during the #BattleoftheBulge. @militaryhistori @jaketapper @thehistoryguy @jesse_history

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

I have looked further into the matter of whether the German troops in Libya participated in rounding up Jewish citizens, given that some people continue to claim there is evidence.

Nick Budd

BuddNicholas

15th December 1944Wacht am Rhein - 1 dayThe US Twelfth Army Group still has 352VGD in Bitburg, when they have been in their jump off positions for several days.Regimental &

Jeremy Vine

theJeremyVine

Last night saw exceptional levels of traffic near my home in west London. This was caused in part by a serious car crash in Shepherds Bush. But there was also

Ian Kikuchi

curatorian

Right then - the first part of @I_W_M's Spitfire's story.11 July 1940 - #SpitfireR6915 makes its first flight at Eastleigh, near Southampton (now Southampton Airport). Test pilot George Pickering is

Uncle Patrick

favourite_uncle

I don't think the AC-130 even cracks the Top 10https://twitter.com/isaiah_bb/status/1360462832882565120 1. SR-71 BlackbirdThere's at least 1 anecdote of this plane outrunning anti-aircraft missiles over Libya 2. A-10 Thunderbolt II,

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

In the centre of Wales' second city, atop a modern shopping centre, sits a statue of Satan. The cursed figure of 'Old Nick' - The Swansea Devil - a 120

Mandar Manmohan Sawant

MandarSawant184

A new world order and alliances are taking shape. Eventually this may lead to #worldwar3 . The new Axis powers are being formed. Chinas Xitler is the new protagonist. He

Max von Side-Eye

SvenTystnad

The Siege of Leningrad killed more civilians than bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The US Military Academy evaluated that Russian casualties during the siege were bigger than

Shrutam Mukhopadhyay ࿗ ࿗ 🇮🇳

Shrutam_m

Thread: Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck and Operation Rheinübung. The Bismarck was the first of her Battleship class, the second being her sister ship Tirpitz. It was commissioned into the

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