Chris Sams
@jerijerod14.bsky.social
World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & the Luftwaffe between 1935-45. Working on Bristol Beauforts & WW1 U-boats.
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Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
Panzerarmee Intelligence Reports
The table below gives easy access to the daily reports. The background to these reports is as set out below. The reports were made daily to the High Command of the Army’s Foreign Armies West …
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November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This week’s feature is the first part of my undergrad dissertation on the reasons for the collapse of the Luftwaffe - if you like part one let me know and I’ll write up part 2!
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#ww2 #history #luftwaffe
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#ww2 #history #luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe's collapse was caused by itself
The musings of 21 year old Chris in his Dissertation
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November 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This week’s feature is the first part of my undergrad dissertation on the reasons for the collapse of the Luftwaffe - if you like part one let me know and I’ll write up part 2!
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#ww2 #history #luftwaffe
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#ww2 #history #luftwaffe
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Today’s Substack features a guest piece from @boneyabroad.com achurchill.substack.com/p/guest-arti...
GUEST ARTICLE: The Halifax Disaster, 1917
I’ve wanted to put this story out there for a while, but sometimes, you just have to acknowledge that some people are better placed to do the job than you are.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today’s Substack features a guest piece from @boneyabroad.com achurchill.substack.com/p/guest-arti...
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All on board safely made it to shore, then taken to Peterhead where they stayed 10 days. They were then placed on the SS Hansa and transported to New York. This and many other shipwrecks led to Rattray Head Lighthouse being built in 1895.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
All on board safely made it to shore, then taken to Peterhead where they stayed 10 days. They were then placed on the SS Hansa and transported to New York. This and many other shipwrecks led to Rattray Head Lighthouse being built in 1895.
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Her rockets were fired and blue lights burned as both passengers and crew baled water and worked the pumps. With conditions worsening, life boats were launched and an orderly evacuation took place. By morning, Coastguardsmen from Rattray Head arrived to assist.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Her rockets were fired and blue lights burned as both passengers and crew baled water and worked the pumps. With conditions worsening, life boats were launched and an orderly evacuation took place. By morning, Coastguardsmen from Rattray Head arrived to assist.
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#OTD 28 Nov 1879 - The SS Union of Norddeutscher Lloyd was on voyage from Bremen to New York with 422 passengers and crew plus general cargo. That night, a storm blew the ship into the rocks at Rattray Head, Scotland just north of Peterhead.
#history #germany #scotland #maritimehistory
#history #germany #scotland #maritimehistory
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
#OTD 28 Nov 1879 - The SS Union of Norddeutscher Lloyd was on voyage from Bremen to New York with 422 passengers and crew plus general cargo. That night, a storm blew the ship into the rocks at Rattray Head, Scotland just north of Peterhead.
#history #germany #scotland #maritimehistory
#history #germany #scotland #maritimehistory
Coming out this Sunday for paid members is my article on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (out for general release on the 7th December).
The why, how and results of the raid.
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The why, how and results of the raid.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Coming out this Sunday for paid members is my article on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (out for general release on the 7th December).
The why, how and results of the raid.
open.substack.com/pub/jerijero...
The why, how and results of the raid.
open.substack.com/pub/jerijero...
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The Risui Maru was originally the 845-ton cargo ship Lipis, operated by Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Singapore, which was completed in 1927 by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. in the UK, requisitioned in 1939 as an auxiliary patrol boat,
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Risui Maru was originally the 845-ton cargo ship Lipis, operated by Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Singapore, which was completed in 1927 by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. in the UK, requisitioned in 1939 as an auxiliary patrol boat,
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30 days of memorials part 1.
Portadown, Co. Armagh.
The bronze sculpted soldier’s helmet has fallen back, revealing his head. This denotes fortitude, courage, and sacrifice for his country. Both the angel and the soldier stand on a base of sandbags and a gas mask, which represent the battlefield.
Portadown, Co. Armagh.
The bronze sculpted soldier’s helmet has fallen back, revealing his head. This denotes fortitude, courage, and sacrifice for his country. Both the angel and the soldier stand on a base of sandbags and a gas mask, which represent the battlefield.
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
30 days of memorials part 1.
Portadown, Co. Armagh.
The bronze sculpted soldier’s helmet has fallen back, revealing his head. This denotes fortitude, courage, and sacrifice for his country. Both the angel and the soldier stand on a base of sandbags and a gas mask, which represent the battlefield.
Portadown, Co. Armagh.
The bronze sculpted soldier’s helmet has fallen back, revealing his head. This denotes fortitude, courage, and sacrifice for his country. Both the angel and the soldier stand on a base of sandbags and a gas mask, which represent the battlefield.
This week’s free to read is on the sinking of U-100 and the death of Schepke using surface radar for the first time
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/ace-killing
#history #navalhistory #uboat #ww2
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#history #navalhistory #uboat #ww2
Ace killing
The Royal Navy's use of Radar and sinking of Schepke
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November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This week’s free to read is on the sinking of U-100 and the death of Schepke using surface radar for the first time
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/ace-killing
#history #navalhistory #uboat #ww2
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/ace-killing
#history #navalhistory #uboat #ww2
When you’re a naval historian and doing Duolingo and a simple conversation about books turns into "what’s your favourite Kriegsmarine ship” 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
When you’re a naval historian and doing Duolingo and a simple conversation about books turns into "what’s your favourite Kriegsmarine ship” 🤣
#otd 1914 HMS Bulwark exploded at her moorings on the River Medway killing most of her crew.
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The loss of Bulwark
On the 26th November 1914 a Midshipman on HMS Agamemnon, stationed in the Medway estuary, recorded in his diary:
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November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#otd 1914 HMS Bulwark exploded at her moorings on the River Medway killing most of her crew.
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This week’s podcast is out!
The story of one Polish destroyer’s defence of the Isle of Wight against a brutal low level Luftwaffe strike during #ww2
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The story of one Polish destroyer’s defence of the Isle of Wight against a brutal low level Luftwaffe strike during #ww2
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Defending Cowes
Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 26/11/2025 · 15m
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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This week’s podcast is out!
The story of one Polish destroyer’s defence of the Isle of Wight against a brutal low level Luftwaffe strike during #ww2
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The story of one Polish destroyer’s defence of the Isle of Wight against a brutal low level Luftwaffe strike during #ww2
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HMS Caroline's 1919-1922 deck logs are available in Journey Plotter.
See where she went and learn more about daily activities and the people on board, complemented by editor's notes.
#NavalHistory #CitizenScience #Ancestry
See where she went and learn more about daily activities and the people on board, complemented by editor's notes.
#NavalHistory #CitizenScience #Ancestry
![Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1919-1922 journey of HMS Caroline, and the events recorded in her log-book for 29 September 1919.
8.15am: Hands arrived on board, employed scraping, painting & refitting
11.0am: Training classes at instruction, paid monthly money
12.45pm: Hands left ship
5.30pm: Part of ship's company proceeded to Deolali camp [Deolali was an army transit camp in India, used as a sailors' home. It is the source of the phrase "gone doolally" meaning to lose one's mind]
Number on sick list = 11](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:errz23tprkacumhb536zxtka/bafkreib3ukbpfykycxe6dacp6qegmcn2a6qb6ybp7v5ttgvljjad73fqgq@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
HMS Caroline's 1919-1922 deck logs are available in Journey Plotter.
See where she went and learn more about daily activities and the people on board, complemented by editor's notes.
#NavalHistory #CitizenScience #Ancestry
See where she went and learn more about daily activities and the people on board, complemented by editor's notes.
#NavalHistory #CitizenScience #Ancestry
I’ve written a special post (free) for a friend on her birthday about the story of a ship with the same name.
The museum ship HMS Caroline, the past surviving vessel that saw action at Jutland and a training school through much of the 20th Century
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-caroline
#history
The museum ship HMS Caroline, the past surviving vessel that saw action at Jutland and a training school through much of the 20th Century
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#history
The Caroline
So I found an old notebook the other day when looking for some research notes for an upcoming article and found at the front a list of “Things to do by 2025”.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I’ve written a special post (free) for a friend on her birthday about the story of a ship with the same name.
The museum ship HMS Caroline, the past surviving vessel that saw action at Jutland and a training school through much of the 20th Century
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-caroline
#history
The museum ship HMS Caroline, the past surviving vessel that saw action at Jutland and a training school through much of the 20th Century
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#history
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Why did convoys work?
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
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With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
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Why did convoys work?
The answer might surprise you (sorry)
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Why did convoys work?
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
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With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
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Over the last five years my mental state, post divorce, has gone from grief and defeat, to rebuilding, spiral of depression, rebuilding and then last month I developed a similar anger to Christopher Plummer’s Kaiser Wilhelm II.
I think that means I’m getting better
I think that means I’m getting better
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Over the last five years my mental state, post divorce, has gone from grief and defeat, to rebuilding, spiral of depression, rebuilding and then last month I developed a similar anger to Christopher Plummer’s Kaiser Wilhelm II.
I think that means I’m getting better
I think that means I’m getting better
Launching the Tirpitz on 1 April 1939.
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Launching the Tirpitz on 1 April 1939.
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Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones. "Some special individuals decided when the water was over the beach area, rather than get their little tootsies wet, they would rip down a 500-year-old wall to make a path for themselves.” Unbelievable! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones
Ardvrek Castle in Assynt is a 500-year-old former clan seat, and reputed to be haunted.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Ardvrek Castle wall 'ripped down' for use as stepping stones. "Some special individuals decided when the water was over the beach area, rather than get their little tootsies wet, they would rip down a 500-year-old wall to make a path for themselves.” Unbelievable! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Recently digitised - at Thabutkon troops of 17th Indian Division are flown in on Dakota transport aircraft, during the division's advance on Meiktila in central Burma. Shot by A Salem.
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Recently digitised - at Thabutkon troops of 17th Indian Division are flown in on Dakota transport aircraft, during the division's advance on Meiktila in central Burma. Shot by A Salem.
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
The launching of the Grom class destroyer, ORP Grom in 1937 at White’s shipyard at Cowes
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The launching of the Grom class destroyer, ORP Grom in 1937 at White’s shipyard at Cowes
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
#history #ww2 #navalhistory
If you subscribe to my Substack you can get next week’s podcast today 😉
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One Polish destroyer vs. the Luftwaffe during #ww2
#history
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One Polish destroyer vs. the Luftwaffe during #ww2
#history
Defending Cowes
One Polish destroyer vs. the Luftwaffe
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November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you subscribe to my Substack you can get next week’s podcast today 😉
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One Polish destroyer vs. the Luftwaffe during #ww2
#history
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One Polish destroyer vs. the Luftwaffe during #ww2
#history
This week’s podcast (a day early because I still don’t understand dates and scheduling)
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No ships this week as I’m on holiday - it’s the Luftwaffe’s operations on Adlertag…
#ww2 #avhistory #podcast
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No ships this week as I’m on holiday - it’s the Luftwaffe’s operations on Adlertag…
#ww2 #avhistory #podcast
Adlertag
Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 18/11/2025 · 36m
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November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This week’s podcast (a day early because I still don’t understand dates and scheduling)
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
No ships this week as I’m on holiday - it’s the Luftwaffe’s operations on Adlertag…
#ww2 #avhistory #podcast
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
No ships this week as I’m on holiday - it’s the Luftwaffe’s operations on Adlertag…
#ww2 #avhistory #podcast
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I'm going in! Been looking forward to this!
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm going in! Been looking forward to this!
Ten hours until my flight so catching up on episodes of @shipwreckspod.bsky.social and & @historyrage.bsky.social whilst snoozing at Luton airport… great way to spend the time 😊
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ten hours until my flight so catching up on episodes of @shipwreckspod.bsky.social and & @historyrage.bsky.social whilst snoozing at Luton airport… great way to spend the time 😊