Out now! Join Jack and Rob on S3 E13 on The Forgotten War Podcast as we explore Operation Longcloth, the first Chindit expedition of 1943. Discover how Wingate’s bold vision revitalized Allied morale in the brutal Burma campaign. Listen now on all podcast platforms today #Chindits #WW2 #History
#OTD 6 April 1943. #WW2, Tunisian Campaign. Gabes.
Hawker Hurricane Mark IIDs of No 6 Squadron, Royal Air Force rolling out at Gabes airfield soon after noon on 6 April 1943 for a tank-busting raid.
Photo: Flt.Lt. G. Woodbine
RAF official photographer.
(not colorised)
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"Flight Lieutenant W H Pentland, from 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, awaiting start up in his Spitfire Mark V, BR195 'AR-T', at Goubrine, Tunisia." #WW2 #HISTORY
#OTD in 1945. A Sherman tank (1 Coldstream Guards) fitted with RP-3s (Rocket Projectile 3-inch). #WW2 #HISTORY
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#OTD in 1945, Italy. A wounded man from 1 London Irish Rifles being brought to hospital. #WW2 #HISTORY
(Not colourised.) #OTD in 1943, Gabes, Tunisia. Hurricane IIDs from 6 Squadron rolling out for a tank-busting raid. #WW2 #HISTORY
#OTD in 1942. Churchill tanks on parade on the South Downs ready to be inspected by Churchill. #WW2 #HISTORY
Operation Market Garden. (The Son Bridge, where 30 Corps had to wait for 8 1/2 hours due to the fact that the bridge had been blown by the Germans. #WW2 #HISTORY)
#OTD in 1945, POW camp Oflag XIII-B was liberated. Footage shows the actual first moments. (End March, Patton had send 300 men - Task Force Baum - 50 miles into enemy territory, to capture the camp. A failure, 32 Americans were killed, all equipment lost.) #WW2 #HISTORY
A young Dutch lady, wounded in the preliminary bombing or fighting in Nijmegen during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY
Pretty special footage. (1944, France. RAF controller Squadron Leader Maxie Sutherland in a Sherman tank directing a "cab rank" of Typhoons. #WW2 #HISTORY)
5-12 April 1945, the battle of the Dutch town Zutphen, fought between Canadian 3 Infantry Division and a lot of young soldiers in German 361 Infantry Division. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Early April '43. #WW2. Rome. Von Luck failed in his mission to meet Hitler: there is no plan to evacuate 130,000 German troops from Tunisia. Back in Rome, he finds no personnel can fly to Africa, only supplies. Still hoping to get across, he visits the liaison office.
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#OTD in 1944 Stalin was presented with a draft decree to begin production and trials of Object 701 prototypes. This tank was intended to replace the IS-2 in service but was only accepted in 1946 as the IS-4. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
