So, I'm going to visit Normandy, *for the first time*!! Need some off the beaten track things to watch. Little known museums, etcetera. Input, I now need some input from you guys! A repost would be nice!!

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I shall be talking about my book, "Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea" tomorrow at the Couper Library, Cathcart, Glasgow. Come along to hear my micro-talk & the other 5 speakers too of course. I wont be allowed to actually sell the book there but you will be able to take a look at it.

4 years anniversary of the sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the cruiser Moskva

People get stuck on the potential for LOAC violation - ah, I caught you, that’s a war crime - without engaging with why it’s a matter of law. Yes, humanity and morality, but also and importantly: stopping a spiral of horrific reciprocity.

Don’t worry, I believe the White House Press Corps is going to give him some serious shade with their choice of neck cravats

The Iranians are apparently selling MQ-9 wreckage that they have made into sofas. The US are threatening to send drones to attack the factory but Iran has said if they do there will be more Reaper cushions. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Looks like Orban’s Russia-backed false flag operation could be underway to lead to the cancelling of the Hungarian elections. Predicted recently. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has informed Orban of “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. 1/2

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs A thread 🧵

Etc and so on Happy Easter everyone!

Isetta Fagnol was 13 when the enemy occupied her town in the aftermath of Caporetto, eleven months later, she tells the story of what happened when the tide turned and liberation came in 1918 🇮🇹 achurchill.substack.com/p/article-th...

This year's Simnel cake!

Kegsbreath will do fine when he's brough up on War Crimes.

A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition: "A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."

There's a lot of crap on Five Eyes, but this tops it. Five Eyes literally does protect US lives and national security, and supports US interests. No, the "Steele Dossier" wasn't "from" UK intelligence and our Home Secretary is British. Loomer is 🤯 and people in the WH listen to this nonsense.

Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy www.military.com/daily-news/h...

Thank you. Let's not create stigma when the president pushes his ignorance.

He doesn't think he needs Congress to do anything.

Meningococcal vaccine is not a new thing. I got this immunisation in 1990.

Another in the lest we forget series:

Happy Independence Restoration Day to all Lithuanians! 🇱🇹

Surely, Tankfest 1.0 😊 #WW1 #HISTORY

17 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary minesweeper HMS Jarak was scuttled off Singkep Island, Sumatra. She had been attacked by Japanese warships and a cruiser-launched aircraft two days earlier but had been able to recover from heavy damage and continue south. No lives lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

17 Feb 1942 // Auxiliary patrol vessel HMS Tandjong Pinang was sunk by Japanese warships north of Bangka Island. Having brought evacuees safely from Singapore to Tembilan, she had turned back to rescue survivors from earlier sinkings. She sank with heavy loss of life. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

17 Feb 1945 // Corvette HMS Bluebell was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.711 off Murmansk. She exploded and sank within 30 seconds of being struck. 3 men of her 90 crew were picked up but 2 died shortly after being rescued. (Imperial War Museum image: FL 2384) #RoyalNavy #WW2

Condemned as a total loss, HMS Lark was deliberately run aground in Kola Bay, stripped of stores and equipment, and abandoned. Some reports say that she was salvaged by the Russians and saw service in the Soviet Navy after the war, but these are unconfirmed.[2/2] #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

17 Feb 1945 // Sloop HMS Lark was torpedoed by German submarine U.968 off Murmansk, killing three men and wrecking her stern and propellers. Prompt damage control kept her afloat and she was taken in tow, but the damage was too severe for her to be salvageable. (Imperial War Museum: FL 9968) [1/2]

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

America has lost a titan in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. From his days at the side of Dr. King, to his moral leadership in this century, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. spent his life pushing our nation closer to its own ideal.

RIP Robert Duvall aka Colonel Radl. “A wink from a pretty girl at a party results rarely in climax, Karl. But a man is a fool not to push a suggestion as far as it will go.”

16 Feb 1807 // 4-gun schooner HMS Jackdaw was chased and captured off northern Portugal by a Spanish ship. After an exchange of fire the Spaniard took up a raking position. The schooner had suffered damage and now had only two guns capable of firing, so her captain and first mate surrendered. [1/3]

I did my bit in early 2024 btw. Over 10,000

16 Feb 1811 // 36-gun frigate HMS Amethyst was driven ashore and wrecked with eight men killed at Mount Batten, Plymouth, when the single anchor holding her dragged in a gale. Captain and Master were severely reprimanded for trusting the ship to just one anchor. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1918 // HM Tug Thames was lost, presumed foundered, off Aberdeen while under tow. The towline parted in poor weather and she was never seen again. There was no crew on board at the time and no casualties resulted. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Recepto, in use as a minesweeper, was sweeping in Tees Bay with another trawler when she detonated a mine laid by German submarine UC.30 four days earlier. She sank immediately and there were no survivors from her nine crew. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1941 // Paddle minesweeper HMS Southsea (formerly Southern Railway ferry PS Southsea, requisitioned 1940) struck a mine at the mouth of the Tyne and sank in shallow water. She was raised and beached but became a total loss. Eight of her crew lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

16 Feb 1941 // HM Trawler Ormonde was minesweeping with two other trawlers off Peterhead when a single German aircraft made a sudden attack and sank her with two bombs. Searches by the other trawlers and the Peterhead lifeboat found no survivors: all 18 crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

I thought this was an AI mock up because no man would be so monumentally idiotic, insensitive and intrusive as to punish women for not having children…but then it is Reform. Reform are not on yourside. Reform not care about women’s safety. Reform only see us as baby making machines.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

My next book? 😆

I don’t know whether I’m more offended by the lap dog obsequiousness or the misuse of “I COULDN’T care less.”

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

Thinking Cold War songs today...some absolute bangers in there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5...

bring back shame

If STIs took on human form...

Our next @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social FREE newsletter is going to drop at the beginning of next week. This month’s free article is going to be from a forgotten part of the Western Front, so make sure you sign up in time to to find out what it is!

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*.

To be fair, do they even have food in Italy?

(8 August 1944, Normandy.) Men from 51 "Highland" Infantry Division. #WW2 #HISTORY