Merry Christmas all on Blue Sky. 🎁

Just completed Operation Character on wiki. Amazing set of events.. March to September 1945. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

Fab afternoon doing #hiddenlondontours of Clapham South tunnels built during the war to protect Londoners during the Blitzes from 41-44. Cheers @ltmuseum

Very happy the conpany I work for is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth. Especially with an armed forces segment.

Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the IWM Podcast Live Festival on Saturday 1 November. Jack and guest host Lucy Betteridge Dyson will be doing a live episode of the Forgotten War Podcast. Tickets available now in the link 👇 www.iwm.org.uk/events/podca...

This is such a good story!!

@jmcn.bsky.social @normagraham.bsky.social @badsocialism.bsky.social @marybrazier.bsky.social @danellin.bsky.social fab talks! Thank you. The Arsenal delivers.

So great & happy to see @normagraham.bsky.social talking 1st Canadian Para 🇨🇦 at #WeHaveWaysfest fünf.

We are delighted to announce we will be doing our first ever LIVE episode at the Imperial War Museum podcast festival on Sat 1 Nov - get your tickets here 👇 www.iwm.org.uk/events/podca... Rob is in the Far East in November, so Jack will be joined by guest host @lmbd1418.bsky.social

Good morning! Ep 48 is now live. We share our top 10 bomber command books - fiction, popular history, academic, biography & a wild card! Links to all titles in the show notes. Which are your favourites? www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Good morning ! Episode 47 is now available. Listen to the fabulous Paul Woodadge of WW2 TV debate the memory of the bombing war in Normandy. A really thought-provoking discussion. www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Amazing tour of the Houses of Parliament today by @blackredcoats.bsky.social 👏 🤯House of Commons was obliterated in & House of Lords was used instead. HoCs wasn't rebuilt until the 1950. @marybrazier.bsky.social @hicksy.bsky.social @robertlock.bsky.social @historybowsh.bsky.social

Just reading 'Steaming to Victory' by Michael Williams & nice bit on London Transport'as contribution to the HP Halfiax. @lydiajane13.bsky.social

So looking forward to this. Loved Forgotten Armour!

🌩️🏃RELEASE DAY! Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 is out now! Get your copy today wherever you get your books - Amazon, Waterstones, WHSmith and many more! #ww2 #history #author #writer #tanks #india #burma #myanmar #historian #greatest #thunder #run #army #battle #forgotten #war #artillery #guns

Thank you @missiontoofar.bsky.social 😊

Jack & Rob have loaded up, sharpened their Kukris, pulled on their slouch hats & are ready to go - tomorrow is Series 2 is on, The Forgotten War Pod is back! 16 episodes charting the retreat of 1942 in detail - more narratives telling the story, but also interviews & books reviews. Not to be missed!

My thoughts on Facebook earlier

On This Day 13/05/1943. 🧵 Steve departs Scampton on what will be his final trip to Duisburg. His first trip as a commissioned officer. Having been reposted to the squadron on commission 11/05/1943. Steve, pilot Paul, friend & Navigator Mac have all been away on commissioning courses….

Great to see the @tankmuseum.bsky.social 's Churchill tank in Luton, where 5,600+ were built at the Vauxhall motor works.

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park & the volunteers that run them are superb! It's so wonderful to see working (replicas) of Alan Turing's Bombe, Bill Tutte's Tunny machine & Heath Robinson.. and of course Tommy Flower's COLOSSUS.

Stunning Bluebell wood on way to work this morning.

I’m in Liverpool for work and popped up a day early (despite the football) to go to the Western Approaches museum. My Great Grandfather George Philip Grieve was sunk in December 1940 by U101 in the Atlantic….

Ep 12: Q&A - the Finale of Series 1 of The Forgotten War Pod is out now! Rob and Jack dive into all sorts of nooks and crannies of the Burma Campaign, for example the impact of the 18th British Division if it had gone to Rangoon instead of Singapore in 1942?

NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY! Today sees the release of our last episode for series 2 before we take a short break. Our guest is the head of the Norwegian War Graves Service, Haakon Vinje, discussing Norwegian airmen in RAF Bomber Command during WW2 nevermindthedambusters.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Finally sorting my dads MAC pc; factory restore, backing it up for data storage so I can sell. Seeing the old holiday pics & then the last email he ever sent has been an unexpected, and very emotional journey.

Couldn't resist

#OTD 1945 - The 2nd Battle of Arnhem ends. The town is liberated by I Canadian Corps in Operation 'Anger' - 49th Polar Bear Div, with support from 79th Armoured & 5th Canadian Arm'd divs.

Chartwell House to top off a perfect day out.

Highly recommend Quebec House in Westerham. Birth place of General James Wolfe

Today I'm a redcoat.

Visit to RAF Biggin Hill Memorial Museum. Wonderfull place and lovely chapel.

Fancy going to a pub with a hardended defence in the garden? Look no further than the Shephards Hut pub near RAF Benson.

This is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK. Clearly didn't read it. Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.

Friday at 7pm I’m on @ww2tv.bsky.social for Thunder Run Meiktila 1945 - 80 years ago the campaign in and around Meiktila raged from 21 Feb to 28(ish) of March. One thing I’ll argue was that it was the greatest all-arms manoeuvre battle of the Second World War! www.youtube.com/live/fZPmZLX...

Thoroughly enjoyed this!

Need a rumedy

Cracking day out on the 'Santa Maria de Colombo'. Amazing feeling of the power of wind!

This week we'll be talking with @lydiajane13.bsky.social about her new book, Invisible Campaigns: Assessing Bomber Command's Minelaying Operations 1940-1945! Join our membership for more! buymeacoffee.com/homebrewhistory/invisible-campaigns-jane-gulliford-lowes

📣 I’m very pleased to give you all a sneak peak of my new book, Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945. Follow me for more info over the coming weeks!

Staying at a beautiful hotel in Funchal, Madeira. Famed General William Carr Beresford used this place as his headquarters during Britain's 'friendly' occupation of Madeira during the Napoleonic wars. His huge sideboard is still here in the aptly name Beresford Restaurant.

A pleasant morning in Madeira.

Helen Fry. Thank you so much! 💓

OTD 80 years ago at Meiktila-a number of all-arms sweeps went out to find the Japanese 18 Div. One moved northeast towards Mandalay, at the village of Wundwin, 1/7 Gurkhas had a running battle in a dried up river filled with scrubby bushes, fighting Japanese troops hand to hand.

Every time I see something in the air. @hicksy.bsky.social

Fabulous - just an incredible feat - Ops Manna & Exodus.

Thread🧵 1 Finished #SASRogueHeroes after a bit of a shaky start, I loved it!

Thrilled that my debut book, 'Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain', will be published by @headofzeus.bsky.social in May! You can now pre-order here: geni.us/EagleDays Thank you SO much Dan Jones, my agent Georgina Capel & @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social ♥️ 1/4

Great to see an article I created is on Wikipedias' main page today. as #OTD 1671 - Panama is sacked by notorious buccaneer Henry Morgan. Here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M...

Bliss.