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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 12h

It’s good practice and looks good for the cameras. The crew will be well clear of the freighter by this point

Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 13h

They carry 150 odd shells so it’s ok. Also as part of cruiser rules once the vessel has been stopped searched and evacuated you either sink with shells or det packs. It’s good practice to use the guns

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 13h

The freighter has already been evacuated. They are following cruiser rules and sinking the empty hulk.

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 21h

IJN 1919 Great Exercise Blue Army First Fleet
Date: October 14, 1919
Location: Western Seto Inland Sea
Photo: from Yamashiro
Situation: From the front: Fuso, Ise, Hyuga, Haruna, Kongo, Hiei, Kirishima

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 15h

Mk. IX U-boat firing its deck gun on British shipping off the South Atlantic

#ww2 #history #uboat

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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 1d

The final phase of the Battle of Aachen - more questions, more conundrums. substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 1d

The Graf Spee

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 1d

Dorniers over London

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 3d

It is compulsory to love the Westland Whirlwind.

Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 3d

11th October 1938: First flight of the Westland Whirlwind. The most heavily armed single-seat fighter in the world when introduced, it was also faster than its contemporaries at low level. However, it suffered from poor performance at altitude.
📷 Airfix / Roy Cross
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Artwork from a vintage Airfix kit depicting a Westland Whirlwind. It’s a sleek twin inline-engined, single seat fighter with a distinctive ‘T’ position horizontal stabiliser at the top of its tailfin. Four 20mm cannon, belching fire, protrude beyond the propeller spinners. The aircraft is depicted flying above a layer of cloud, through which a column of brownish smoke is ascending. Another Whirlwind can be seen in the background.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 3d

People asked and I listened (eventually) so here is the first post on ABDACOM’s fleet during the spring of 1942 and their attempts to stop the Japanese Navy’s conquest of Java and Indonesia.

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Chaos in the Pacific

Early actions of ABDACOM's fleet in early 1942

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Navy Records Society @navyrecords.bsky.social · 5d

Why did the Ark Royal Sink? – The Navy Records Society Members' Blog

On 14th nov 1941, Britain’s first modern fleet carrier was sunk after a torpedo attack by the German submarine U-81. Our member Paul Harrison explores records of the sinking.

#navyrecords #navalhistory #ww2

Why did the Ark Royal Sink? – The Navy Records Society

On 14th November 1941 HMS Ark Royal, Britain’s first modern fleet carrier, sank after a torpedo attack by the German submarine U-81. The following year, acclaimed war correspondent Sir Herbert…

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