Confiscated. 😎 #GoodMorning

Interesting Soviet anti-aircraft gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942, operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa, began. #WW2 #HISTORY

(1942.) Britain. Off to Africa, operation Torch. #WW2 #HISTORY

Rommel was short-sighted, obviously. #WW2 #HISTORY

(May 1945.) Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The destruction of the last hut, thus combating the spreading of disease. #WW2 #HISTORY

Princess Elizabeth, a Second Subaltern in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). #WW2 #HISTORY

Contemplating. "During the advance from Sollum through the Halfaya Pass, Montgomery sitting on a hillside to have a picnic lunch; behind him is his aide-de-camp Captain John Poston." #WW2 #HISTORY

(1945.) Hamburg. For the technical guys and girls among my followers. A cross section of a U-Boot. #WW2 #HISTORY

North Africa. "British troops, sitting on captured Italian motorcycles, reading copies of the congratulatory telegram sent to all units after the victory over the Italians, by the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Anthony Eden." #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD 1942, operation Torch started. Near Algiers, British 11 Infantry Brigade landed. Maison Blanche airfield, with Spitfire Mark Vs from Gibraltar. #WW2 #HISTORY

Anstruther, Scotland. A brave member of a navy mine disposal unit, after defusing yet another mine. #WW2 #HISTORY

Shoulder straps taken from German prisoners. #WW1 #HISTORY

Grumman Avenger three seater torpedo bombers during exercises from "HMS Sparrowhawk", the Royal Naval Air Station at Hatston. (The torpedo is fully enclosed so as to improve the aerodynamics.) #WW2 #HISTORY

Yup, the Sky News in depth report yesterday showed just the same on Musk’s hellhole. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

TikTok, in a nutshell! (And, we all let it happen!)

RGB colour and all that. It's complicated.

Proportions.

Proportions.

😂

#OTD in 1941 A Squadron 42 R.T.R. finally began equipping with tanks. It had 11 days before operations would commence.

It happens. 😉

It happens. 😉

A man in his team collapses, and Trump poses like this. Despicable.

A man in his team collapses, and Trump poses like this. Despicable.

6th Nov 1935. First flight of the prototype Hawker Hurricane at Brooklands. The fighter became a key part of the RAF and Dominion/Empire air forces, serving on all fronts, in some cases until the end of the war. 14,500 aircraft were built. 📷 Airfix / Roy Cross 🧵1/10

US-A, EK183. That would be Squadron Leader THV Pheloung of 56 Squadron, KIA in an antishipping raid off the Netherlands in June ‘43. Aircraft is an early Typhoon IA; three-bladed propeller, car-door style cockpit

Once they stopped the tails falling off… 😬

Incredible Beaufighter firepower. 😮 #WW2 #HISTORY

A bit of an unsung hero, the Hawker Typhoon, used by British 2 Tactical Air Force. 3,317 were made. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Nieuwkuijk, Holland. A Bren gunner from 1 Gordon Highlanders (51 "Highland" Infantry Division). #WW2 #HISTORY

A view of the coffin of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey, showing the inscription on the beaten iron plate. #WW1 #HISTORY

(#NotColourised July 1944, Italy.) Rest and maintenance of the Churchill tank. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1941, Manston airfield. Something special. A Hurricane Mark IIb "Hurribomber" from 402 Squadron being re-armed. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943. 48-year-old Staff Sergeant David Cole, who served with the artillery in #WW1, now a tail gunner in a B-17. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942. These Poles have been relocated, twice. First by Soviets to Gulags, and now via Persia to the West. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Belgian children handing bouquets to Montgomery after an open-air investiture of medals for men of the Canadian Infantry Division who have played a leading role in the liberation of Belgium. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942, North Africa. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1942. Montgomery enjoying a cup of coffee with the Tank Protection Troop of his Grant tank. (Left to right: Trooper Keenan, Sergeant Stephen Kennedy, Corporal James Fraser and Lieutenant Malden.) #WW2 #HISTORY

Not posed. (1943, Tunisia. #WW2 #HISTORY)

This was the factory after the explosion on 1 July 1918. 134 deaths, 250 injuries.

Superb!

Superb!

Being endorsed by Trump is not really an advantage. 😂 I see some light at the end of the tunnel.

5th November 1940: Victoria Cross action of Edward Fegen, Captain of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. The ship was the sole escort of convoy HX84 of 37 ships bound for Britain from Canada, two RCN destroyers having turned back in mid-Atlantic. 📷memorialsinportsmouth.co.uk 🧵1/13

Being endorsed by Trump is not really an advantage. 😂 I see some light at the end of the tunnel.

Either British 8 or 12 Corps (flanking the main thrust by 30 Corps) troops crossing the Meuse-Escaut Canal, during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1939. Two soldiers paying their respects at a British #WW1 cemetery. #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Vlissingen (Flushing), Holland. One grumpy German (Colonel Reinhardt, German Garrison Commander). #WW2 #HISTORY