Monday. IWM (ADM 206)

Sub in the bag, Bay of Biscay, by Frank Norton, 1942. Australian War Memorial ART22329

Morning.

Testing radiosondes for use in meteorological observations (they were attached to balloons to measure atmospheric conditions). Kew observatory, picture issued 1945. IWM (CH 15866), RAF Official Photographer

Petty Officer F H Brown: gunner's mate, "HMS Black Swan", by William Dring. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3538)

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Sunset on the Beach, Normandy: June 1944 troops cooking their evening meal, by Thomas Barclay Hennell, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4214)

HMS Belfast firing on German positions around Ver-sur-Mer in Normandy on the night of 27 June 1944. IWM (A 24325). Lt Parnall, RN Official Photographer

Spang on Tate Britain, London.

The quality of street drinking seems to have improved since my day.

Camouflaged vehicles of the 1st Polish Armoured Division during the Battle of Falaise Gap, August 1944. © IWM (MH 18332), Józef Węglański

Carrier bow, by R Emerson Curtis (1898-1996), 1945. Australian War Memorial ART21476

A few more photos from #WHWF25, just over a week ago now.

Burnt-out Focke-Wulfe and Typhoon Aircraft at Antwerp, 1944, by Walter Thomas Monnington. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5515)

A Hawker Tempest Mark V, of No. 80 Squadron RAF, sits on a dispersal at an airfield in the Netherlands, late 1944. IWM (MH 6860), photographer unknown.

With the 8th Army: LST (Landing Ship, Tank) at the Dockside, Castellamare, 1944, by Edward Ardizzone. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3870)

Might be by favourite thing at We Have Ways fest this weekend. Terrence Cuneo painting of the surrender at Lüneburg Another fantastic festival, I shall be there for WHWF6

Morning. Last few hours at #WHWF25 and then home.

A few more faces from #WHWF25.

Getting ready for Maps with Merryn. #WHWF25

The German Surrender at Luneberg Heath, May 1945 by Terence Cuneo. Spot the mouse. #WHWF25

Sherman. #WHWF25

James gets into his relaxed stride discussing Best US Generals with Al, Tami Davis Biddle and John McManus. #WHWF25

Morning. #WHWF25

A few more from the day. #WHWF25

Fascinating talk by John Clough on ‘WW2 in Alaska’. #WHWF25

Great to see the Army Film and Photographic Unit in attendance! #WHWF25

Here we are again! #WHWF

Lance-Bombardier Davis and Gunner Carey, of the 319th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, shelter from the rain and sleet in the Netherlands, 10 December 1944. IWM (B 12683), Sgt Laing, AFPU WHWF25

A Field-gun Position in the Rain, Normandy: June 1944, by Thomas Barclay Hennell, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4265)

Match fit for the long weekend. #WHWF25

One way to beat the tube strike, I suppose…

With the 300th: Lunch in the Nieppe Forest, by Edward Ardizzone. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 125)

Churchill, Monty and Brooke take lunch next to the Rhine, 26 March 1945. A tablecloth covers the whicker basket. Standards. IWM (BU 2636), Sgt Midgley, AFPU

Lt-Gen Barker, GOC 8 Corps, with snow-suit wearing Lt-Col Fairbanks, CO 2nd Bn Lincolns, who is "bent on finding out if the game are as easy to shoot as the Germans on the other side of the Maas". The man on the right just wants to get out of the cold. Blitterswijck, 28.1.45. IWM B14182 Sgt Palmer

Battle of Arakan, 1943: The Lincolns take up Positions in the Jungle, by Anthony Gross, 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3174)

Grant tank crossing a ditch near Mersa Matruh, Egypt, 11 November 1942. IWM E 19316, Capt. Keating, AFPU www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Casualty clearing station, Mersa Matruh, by Ivor Hele, May 1941. Australian War Memorial, ART28473

Friday. IWM (NA 2096), Capt. Keating, AFPU

Portrait of Pte. Francis Miller from Leeds, of the 5th Btn, East Yorkshire Regiment. Miller was a sniper, with the original caption noting "He has 17 Germans to his credit, which have been verified. With possibles the total is 23". IWM (B 11099), Sgt Carpenter, AFPU

Got treated to an unexpected mini-air show yesterday evening as we are our food by the lake. Today ended the Poland trip with a visit to Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair, on which I’ll post in a day or two. Really interesting week.

Masurian Lakes Day 2, covering the February 1915 events. The tree line marks the road where the Russians (from left) and Germans (from right) clashed at the village of Makarce, 16 February.

Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Day 1 (yesterday). Starting in Snopki and Pisz. Pics show causeway line of advance of German Grenadier Regt 4 towards Snopki and square in Pisz.

Friday. IWM (CH 1139), Stanley Devon, RAF official photographer www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

ATS at Work, by Rodrigo Moynihan (1910-90), 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3630) www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Battle of Tannenberg Day 2. Cemeteries of German and Russian dead, killed on 28/29 August in clashes around the area of the old brick works in Ameryka.

Second Lieutenant Jerzy Januszajtis, of the Polish Army Film Unit, films with a De Vry camera from the top of a Sherman tank of the 1st Polish Armoured Division at the beginning of the Operation Totalise,, 8 August 1944. IWM (B 8827), Sgt Willkes, AFPU www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Warsaw: One of the graves of Polish soldiers amongst the ruins, by Julius Stafford-Baker, 21 November 1945. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5722) www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Battle of Tannenberg, Day 1. Details in alt text. Now back in Olsztyn, Alan still going over evening beer. Day 2 tomorrow, then on to the Masurian Lakes.

A Polish Sailor on the Sea Front at Plymouth, by Feliks Topolski, September 1940. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 721) www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...