#Normandy Last week, taking the daughter of a WW2 veteran on her father's footsteps. Glen Schurr was deployed in Normandy with the Highland Light Infantry, and then with the Essex Scottish. WIA August 13th, at Tournebu. We were able to see the very field were he was wounded.

#WW2 Visiting some WW2 places today. This building is very significant in the history of the Seconde World War. Do you recognize it ?

#Normandy American Battle of Normandy Tour today: hedgerows, Saint Lo, operation Cobra, Patton breakout, Brittany American Cemetery. A beautiful day out of the beaten roads.

#WW2 Chasselay, France, June 20th, 1940. A Panzer IV is opening fire. The target: a group of POW. They are Tirailleurs Senegalais, African Colonial Infantry in the French Army. This is the most documented massacre made by the German Army during the Battle of France. A thread 🧵

#WW2 A quick drive around Lyon today: the French Military Cemetery of Chasselay for African soldiers executed by the Germans, bullets impacts from June 1940, the site of the execution of French Resistants, and the German Military Cemetery of Dagneux.

#WW2 A quick drive around Lyon today: the French Military Cemetery of Chasselay for African soldiers executed by the Germans, bullets impacts from June 1940, the site of the execution of French Resistants, and the German Military Cemetery of Dagneux.

#WW2 Lyon, France. Night of July 26-27, 1944, a bomb destroyed Le Moulin à Vent café, a lair of Collaborators and Nazis. No one was killed or injured. But the Germans rounded up 5 French Resistants from the Montluc jail, drove them in front of the café and shot them hours later.

#WW2 Lyon, France. Night of July 26-27, 1944, a bomb destroyed Le Moulin à Vent café, a lair of Collaborators and Nazis. No one was killed or injured. But the Germans rounded up 5 French Resistants from the Montluc jail, drove them in front of the café and shot them hours later.

#Normandy Got my most interesting tour of this year not confirmed last week, most probably they choose a tour company instead of me. Really frustrating, I probably got too excited by this "footsteps" tour. That's the business. I need to get better to avoid this next time !

#WW2 Italy: another Then and Now I did last November following the footsteps of the French 2nd Moroccan Division fighting in the Abruzzo mountains, before the battles for Monte Cassino.

#WW2 Italy: another Then and Now I did last November following the footsteps of the French 2nd Moroccan Division fighting in the Abruzzo mountains, before the battles for Monte Cassino.

Thanks a lot Paul 🙏 I should add it on my touring vehicle: "Proudly vouched for by Paul Woodadge" 😄

I have watched @ww2tv.bsky.social show about the Airborne myth on DDay, and I'm glad all the points Paul is talking about, I'm already addressing them on my tour 💪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohiK...

#Normandy Then/Now, Lingèvres, the aftermath of the battle, where Sgt Harris and its Sherman Firefly tank crew destroyed 5 Panther tanks using....5 shells ! What an amazing story. Learn + about the British campaign by booking a Battle of Normandy Tour: www.french-battlefields.com/battle-of-no...

#Normandy So, a new WW2 museum will be built in Normandy, another one (we have about 30ish of them). This one is going to be about the POWs, and especially Foucarville POW camp, to be built next to Marmion Farm. 10 millions € in total. I'm more than skeptical ! www.tendanceouest.com/actualite-42...

Hot take: We should stop calling German tanks Panzers! Do we call all French tanks Chars? Do we want to keep elevating the status of Nazi weaponry? I do think that using the German word marks them as special.

#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE ! A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵 ⬇️

#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE ! A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵 ⬇️

From Normandy, I wish you all an excellent year 2025. Getting reading to take you on guided tours of the DDay Beaches and the Normandy Battlefields. Info and booking: www.french-battlefields.com

#WW2 Christmas 1943 in Italy. French soldiers attending a catholic mass in the Abruzzo mountains. Three Germans POWs can be seen in the center of the group of French soldiers.

#WW2 Then/Now in Italy, in the Abruzzo mountains. French troops of the 3rd Algerian Division are getting ready to flank Monte Cassino.

#WW2 Then/Now in Italy, in the Abruzzo mountains. French troops of the 3rd Algerian Division are getting ready to flank Monte Cassino.

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So yeah, bollocks to ‘History is written by the victors’ because sometimes it was written by a Nazi foreign ministry official specialising in propaganda who was a Captain in the Waffen-SS.

#WW2 While in Italy, visiting the battlefields of the French Expeditionary Force in 1943/44, I had fun doing some Then/Now videos. Here is one. Finding a location like this one is like a Treasure Hunt. I love it when I finally match the place !

Photo and map from 1945 of Aunay-sur-Odon, with a remarkably intact church steeple. Courtesy IGN and Calvados archives respectfully. The neat little squares in the photo are piles of stacked rubble ready for recycling. Almost 1/10 of the population died during the bombardments. #WW2 #Normandy44

#WW2 While in Italy, visiting the battlefields of the French Expeditionary Force in 1943/44, I had fun doing some Then/Now videos. Here is one. Finding a location like this one is like a Treasure Hunt. I love it when I finally match the place !

#WW2 We went to visit a WW2 temporary exhibite at the Army museum in Paris. Very disappointing. But hopefully, Paris by night is amazing.

Staying in Paris for a couple of days. A small break from WW2 history.

#WW2 My trip to Italy is coming to a close, I visited this morning the French Cemetery of Monte Mario. Beautiful place (better mainted than Venafro), but seriousely lacking historical context and a proper list of names.

#WW2 Italy. What a difference it makes between visiting the German and Italian Cemeteries this morning on the mountains, and the American Sicily-Rome Cemetery this afternoon on the coast !

#WW2 In the Abruzzo, on the footsteps of the 2nd Moroccan Division in the Winterline campaign today. Beautiful landscapes, terrible battlefields.

#WW2 A busy day today around Monte Cassino. Abbey, cemeteries, museum.... Tomorrow on to the Winterline.

#WW2 Rare image: French General Noguès at Port-Lyautey, Morocco, paying respect to the graves of American servicemen who were killed by the French-Moroccan troops under his command during the landing of Operation Torch.

#Normandy Closer look at the Arromanches artificial Harbor during the filming of a documentary last Spring.

#WW2 I'm thinking of taking a short trip in Italy to see the Winterline battlefields from the perspective of the French 2nd Moroccan Division. Any memorial/remains of battle that you guys could advise ?

#Normandy ⚠️Live alert ⚠️ It's snowing ! Well, just a bit, but school bus are not driving and the Normandy American Cemetery is closed.

And it is still there today apparently ! Pic from Wikipedia.

#Normandy More and more people are joining here, so I guess I will post more often Normandy and WW2 stuff in the future. Maybe reposting my old threads ! Here is a rainbow from Juno Beach from last year :-)

Bonjour, #WW2 enthouiasts. Guess I'll come on Bluesky more often now. How is everyone doing here ?

#WW2 Then and Now of the American Cemetery of Port Lyautey. On November 8th 1942, 9.000 men of the 9th US Infantry Division landed in Port Lyautey during Operation Torch. The French garrison reacted. The fighting lasted 3 full days. 76 Americans were killed, and were buried there until the 1950s.

Currently working on a presentation of the castles of Normandy during WW2. A nice small break from WW2 history.

#WW2 November 8th, 1942, Operation Torch, the Allies are landing in North Africa. In Fedala, near Casablanca, the Americans captured a few Germans from an Armistice Commission. They became the very first Germans captured by US ground force in WW2 ! Then/Now taken by me earlier this month.

#WW2 Standing where Patton landed in November 1942, on the beach of Fedala (today Mohammedia) in Morocco !

Today at 2pm eastern time, I'll be joined by @frbguide.bsky.social to discuss his experiences as a battlefield guide in Normandy. Subscribe to the OTD channel and turn on notifications so you don't miss it youtube.com/live/ZWGRU0W...

Sorry for the delay folks, had some electricity and internet issue. Back online, the live should be re-schedule for tomorrow. Follow @otdmilhistory.bsky.social for the video link !

Just started a blog on my tour guide website. First simple post about #Normandy and Juno Beach www.french-battlefields.com/post/juno-be...