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RG Poulussen

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Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs. Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · Mar 28

(Time again to promote my two books, something I tend to forget to do regularly. 😟) If you like to collect all available facts and form your own opinion about Market Garden please visit my website pre-jump.nl. (I have no marketing department so a repost is really appreciated.)

A Bridge Too Far is a Hollywood view of Market Garden. My two books are based on facts, primary sources.

Why and where did Market Garden fail? Purchase Lost at Nijmegen. All Market Garden facts from primary sources? Purchase Little Sense of Urgency

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Taking point. 😊 (1944, Aachen, Germany. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

(February 1945, Nijmegen area.) Operation Veritable. A Universal carrier boarding a Landing Vehicle Tracked or "Buffalo". #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1944, Eindhoven area, Holland. A sniper demonstrating the "Hawkins" prone firing position (right) next to another in the standard position, at the 21 Army Group sniping school. #WW2 #HISTORY

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

14-15 October 1944, operation Hurricane. A Lancaster B Mark I, releasing bundles of "window" (thin pieces of aluminium) - a radar countermeasure - on its way to Duisburg. Later, followed by a 4,000-lb bomb ("cookie" or "blockbuster bomb") and 30-lb incendiary bombs. #WW2 #HISTORY

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1943, Alexandria, Egypt. Some of the "wrens" or "Jennies" from the Women's Royal Naval Service. P. Lowndes (Torquay), C.E. Robinson (Northern Ireland), M.A. Macrae (Glasgow) and M.H. Shorbrooke (Devon). #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1942, Scotland. The King inspecting a line-up from 26 Armoured Brigade Crusader tanks and crews. #WW2 #HISTORY

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1942, Tobruk, North Africa. A discarded Italian bomb is blown up. The resulting craters were used to hide tanks. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1944. American and British men at a mobile bath and laundry unit. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1943, Italy. A chicken is being plucked to be consumed in the evening. Note the deep wading kit on the Sherman. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

#OTD in 1941, Tobruk, North Africa. Two smart soldiers. #WW2 #HISTORY

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The joy of liberation. (#OTD in 1944, Athens. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2h

"Somewhere in Southern England." (#OTD in 1940. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas is again openly patrolling the streets. Cause of the trouble, in the first place.

It's all Trump's show.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Then & Now. (America is being transformed into a fascist state, as we speak.)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas is again openly patrolling the streets. Cause of the trouble, in the first place.

It's all Trump's show.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1941 the RAF struck Benghazi, killing 28 Arab civilians. The campaign against Axis logistics was no less deadly in North Africa then it was in Europe, and civilians suffered and died in the supposed 'clean desert war'

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Missing: a social history of the war in North Africa

Background The war in North Africa is often seen as having taken place on the ‘perfect battlefield’. Space for maneuver, no civilians or settlements to get in the way. Histories of the war conseque…

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#NotPosed Men from the Special Air Service (SAS). #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

The making of an airfield. (1944, France. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Bristol Beaufighters from Coastal Command attacking German ships. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Armoured Car. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

"We were in Germany." (1944, Beek, near Nijmegen. A quick visit to the German border. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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#OTD in 1944. Paratroops from 2 Independent Parachute Brigade on their way to their drop zone at Megara in Greece. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1944, France. Bofors gunners watching the hospital ship SS Lady Connaught steaming out of Dieppe harbour bound for Britain. #WW2 #HISTORY

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#OTD in 1944, Greece. Men from 2 Independent Parachute Brigade on their drop zone. Athens would be liberated. (Alas, soon a civil war would brake out.) #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Around this day in 1944, Holland. The forgotten and ferocious battle of Overloon. #WW2 #HISTORY