Treaty of Versailles eh? I'm sure there are no historical parallels, of any kind. None what's so ever.

#DDay82: When I visited Normandy for the first time in 1979 with my Dad we met Major John Howard DSO outside the Gondrée Café. By this time 81 years ago he and his men had taken the key bridges and the code words Ham & Jam signalling their capture filled the radio network.

Today is Estonia’s Flag Day 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪 Our blue-black-white flag tells the story of a nation that chose freedom and refused to give it up. Today, we celebrate that story — and the freedom it represents.

If like James you enjoyed my book please could you pop along to Amazon and leave a review. It would be much appreciated. 🙏

Some workings out for the first phase of the 1944 Battle of Flushing – 4 Commando's landing and advance through the city. 1 Troop (assault troop) in red, 2 Troop in yellow, 3 Troop in blue, 4 (Support) Troop in purple, 5 (French) Troop in green and 6 (French) Troop in orange.

Nieuwe beelden van begin oorlog in Zuid-Limburg opgedoken

We’re at the part where soldiers of the ‘second best army‘ in the world are EATING eachother and Ukrainians…

I have a small group of visitors visiting for a tour of Guernsey to look at various fortifications and learn more about the German Occupation. They are open to others joining. Dates are 7th - 9th September. Let me know if you are interested.

50 Q&As in! This latest Old Front Line episode explores personal soldier stories, Light Infantry traditions, and battlefield memory, from Ypres to Gettysburg, ending with the reality of iron harvests, reburials, and a landscape that still gives up its past today.

In this episode, we explore the history of The Bluff, near Ypres. We look at the bitter fighting of February–March 1916, when British and German forces battled for control of the high ground overlooking Ypres, and walk the battlefield visiting the battlefield cemeteries.

The last Dutch Engelandvaarder turns out to still be alive: Diederik van Overbeek is 102 and lives in Michigan. In 1943, at the age of 16, he fled via Spain to England to fight the Nazis. His story has now resurfaced. nos.nl/artikel/2600...

25 Dutch. And hoe many Afghans exactly we will never know.

Bipolar Geopolitical ADHD map: making Canada a state, then annex Greenland, slapping tariffs on penguins in the McDonald Islands, calling Zelensky a dictator, threatening to bomb Mexico but bombing Iran, praising Zelensky, pressuring Russia, threatening Venezuela and Nigeria, appeasing Russia

In this online workshop, Sütterlin specialist Carolin Sommer shines a light on the mysterious Sutterlin writing script. We uncover why it was introduced, why it was abandoned, and why it appears so hieroglyphic even when written in a neat hand. Catch up now:

Waffenamt proofmarks on the battlefield of 2025. What a world we live in.

Ukrainian reconnaissance unit “Tur” of the 225th Assault Regiment claims to have found detonators at a Russian ammo depot, marked with Nazi swastikas. They date back to Soviet-Nazi cooperation of 1939–40, when the USSR imported German military tech.

Last Wednesday i went to search for the last remaining part of the antitank ditch of the Panterstellung in the Netherlands. Well not really searching but visiting. Most parts were re-cultivated and are now filled. But in a small Forrest a short stretch was left.

Again.

Great to see my 2012 book reissued in paperback - as with all the books in this series, it’s an introductory guide. Pleased that readers found it of value

Thanks to all who joined me for an Old Front Line #Podcast Supporters Evening where we looked at the official photos of the 1st July 1916 and what they tell us about the First Day on the Somme.

Hoe is het om te weten dat je onderdeel hebt uitgemaakt van een droom van Himmler? Jakob Koolschijn maakte een podcast over Lebensborn, een geboorteproject van de nazi's om meer Arische kinderen te kweken. Luister de podcast hier: www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/het...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

On this day in 1945, the supreme commanders of the German Wehrmacht signed the unconditional surrender before representatives of the Allies in this former officer's mess hall in Berlin-Karlshorst. It marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. Today it’s a museum. youtu.be/lOnp7DhJvHI?...

@janpostma.bsky.social Vraag voor de Amerika podcast: denken jullie dat het Trump slechts gaat om de aandacht op wat voor manier ook? Of dat er een snoder plan achter zit, van Trump zelf of mensen om hem heen.

These webinars with fortifications as red line are a good source to begin your journey in the world of fortifications. Next one one is about the fortifications around Amsterdam. These webinars are in the Dutch language. On the website of "The Menno" you can find older versions.

The area of Cherbourg has it share of bunkers in all kinds of use and some are special. This is a picture of a commandbunker type 608, this one has a non standard observationpost added. It was once covered by a steel plate (probably a 7P7 -10cm thick). It is located at MKB Brommy.

Battle field tour Dordrecht (10-13 mei 1940) Villa en Koetshuis Weizlicht. De bruggen.

Bezoek aan (en krans gelegd op) 🇳🇱 ereveld Menteng Pulo, beheerd door Oorlogsgravenstichting.

De bunker van nazi-Rijkscommissaris Seyss-Inquart in Wassenaar staat vanaf volgende maand te koop. Na veel discussie, en de koper mag er niet zomaar alles mee doen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Almost 20 years ago i had a very bad experience when on vacation to France, tents flew through the air in the night and it was raining for most of the week but luckily there also was a day of sun, so here is a sunny 621 crewshelter at the airfield north of Calais (Stp Brück - Wn d).

Vijf jaar geleden trad het VK uit de EU. Goede of slechte zaak? Kwestie van opinie. *Hoe* de beslissing werd genomen was echter een schoolvoorbeeld van hoe je dat *niet* doet. ICYMI, mijn @apache.be stukje, De valstrik van alles behalve dit: https://buff.ly/414atA6

Somme: Albert-Bapaume Road. In this latest Old Front Line #podcast we take a major pathway across the Western Front battlefields - the Albert-Bapaume Road on the Somme, and we discuss what the 'culture' of The Old Front Line might be. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/01/25/s...

This gigantic hangar in Écausseville was for airships of the French navy (1919). Aviation made these buildings obsolete and the hangar was decommissioned in 1927. After DDay in 1944, the Americans used it as a storage and maintenance center for vehicles and tanks. #urbex youtu.be/CdM4tFmAhtk?...

glasnegatieven en celluloidnegatieven van de amateurfotograaf Collectie van Leonard Baruch te Haarlem, 235 - strand Scheveningen Baruch, L. 1905-1978 Licentie: InC 1.0 Auteursrechtelijk beschermd NHArchief

In the Mastenbos near Kapellen (Belgium) there is a nice piece of the Antwerpenstellung that was made in WW1 by the Germans, it was built far form the real battlegrounds in France and Flanders. It was to prevent a Allied attack over the river Scheld to capture Antwerp and its harbours.

I know many of you haven't even gotten your copy of #defendingnormandy Vol.1B yet, but since plenty of people are already asking about Vol.2, here's a preview of what will probably be in it 😎

One of the more known Army coastalbatteries in Normandy is the Heeres Küsten Battery Crisbecq at St. Marcouf. Hereunder you find what was needed to built the new big (3.5m thick) gun-casemates (type 683 for the 21cm K39/41). Document comes from the BAMA Archive -R 50-I/292- www.bunkersite.com

Дроны и свинки, часть 1 t.me/Airborne1126... #RussianUkrainianWar

Now this is more like it. Today's Bundesarchiv update added +3258 files from 10-12.12.24 - 3005 of which come from NS 19 Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS. Due to repeat links, there are 4632 hits to the 4317 files of the Bestand. Complete? Hopefully!

One hour from now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xD...

Kerstcadeau of nog een verlate Sinterklaas? Koop dan dit bijzondere nieuwe fotoboek met Duitse oorlogskiekjes. Combineer het met ‘Atlantikwall in kaart’ dat tot 1 januari met 10% korting beschikbaar is. Verzendkosten zijn gratis! www.bezettinginbeeld.nl

Gisteren presentatie van het prachtige nieuwe fotoboek “Gewapend met Karabijn en Camera - Duitse Soldatenkiekjes Zuid-Holland 1940-1945” door Jeroen Rijpsma & Nick Warmerdam. Nederland in bezettingstijd door de ogen van de bezetter. Bestellen op www.bezettinginbeeld.nl

Aachen recently discussed on YouTube with World War 2 TV - part one. @ww2tv.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/FHNorlG...

Al these holes are not supposed to be here, but here they are. From a distance these are small targets, imagen all the rounds that did not hit these turrets. So many hits but not many rounds (just one or two) that penetrated the 25cm armour. Must have been a hell of a noise when hit.

Wil je het complete en diepgravende verhaal over de Atlantikwall lezen? Je vindt het in ons boek 'Atlantikwall in kaart. Bunkers en bezetting in Zuid-Holland'. De eerste vier hoofdstukken behandelen bovendien het idee van de Atlantikwall in zijn totaliteit. www.atlantikwallinkaart.nl

The German Festung Saint Malo got to have the most type 504 (AT Gungarage with crewroom) most of them are still there, and some of them are beauties in the way how they are situated in the surrounding landscape.

Van sloop tot voordracht rijksmonument binnen een maand. Dat zou 10 jaar geleden nooit gebeurd zijn. De waardering voor modern militair erfgoed wordt gelukkig steeds groter. Maar eerst zien of de bunker daadwerkelijk rijksmonument wordt. nos.nl/artikel/2544...

We Will Remember Them. #RemembranceSunday

Gemeente Velsen laat sloop van unieke bunker toe. Gezichtsbepalend voor IJmuiden en bovendien geschikt voor veelzijdig hergebruik. Kijk hoe het Franse Lorient van de voormalige U-bootbasis een bruisend nieuw stadsgebied heeft gemaakt. www.haarlemsdagblad.nl/regio/ijmond...

Although the group of people I follow on Twitter is scaringly small here I'll force myself to visit this place more to get away from Elon's shitty network. Let's share some content instead. Self-promotion first of course! ;) About our book: Atlantikwall in kaart.