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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 1d

Building a Beaufort Fighter - Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services), by Ethel Gabain, 1941.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1536)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 1d

Workers assemble a Wellington bomber, viewed from the rear gunner's platform.

IWM (CH 5975), RAF Official Photographer

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Willie Robertson @willie862.bsky.social · 1d

This blog post is definitely worthy of your reading time.

And read part 2 when you've finished this one!

Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

I have posted Part 1 of my latest Substack article, dealing with a fight between the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and six Panther tanks during the Battle of Epsom, and examining the work of the AFPU in filming some of the aftermath.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Panthers, PIATs and 6-pounders (Part 1)

Fighting the Panthers - the DCLI on 27th June 1944

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you

Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

A good point, thank you.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, and yes, confusion reigns on the battlefield, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised!

Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Matt!

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

This is the link to Part 2 of my latest Substack article, dealing with a fight between the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and six Panther tanks during the Battle of Epsom, focussing on the work of the AFPU in filming some of the aftermath.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Panthers, PIATs and 6-pounders (Part 2)

Three Panthers in an orchard

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 2d

I have posted Part 1 of my latest Substack article, dealing with a fight between the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and six Panther tanks during the Battle of Epsom, and examining the work of the AFPU in filming some of the aftermath.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Panthers, PIATs and 6-pounders (Part 1)

Fighting the Panthers - the DCLI on 27th June 1944

open.substack.com

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 4d

I know this is supposed to be an advert for prime retail space, but I just see the guy about to drop his coffee as he says "How much ??".

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 4d

Home Guard 1940, by S. Morse Brown, 1940.

© The rights holder (Art.IWM ART LD 5948)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 4d

Ronald Giles ("Giles"), the cartoonist for the Daily Express, finishes a cartoon in Germany, 1 May 1945.

IWM (BU 4941), Sgt Bert Hardy, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 5d

Women's Land Army Dairy Training, by Evelyn Mary Dunbar, 1940.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 767)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 5d

In a command post near Geilenkirchen, Germany, December 1944.

IWM (BU 1326), Sgt Bert Hardy, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 5d

Have a great trip - sorry I can’t join this one! Looking forward to the photos.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 8d

A very short Substack post, as it's been a while.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Cornwall Caricatures

Sketches from the DCLI's leaflet to the troops

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 8d

Dust, by Edward Ardizzone, 1942.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2540)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 8d

Mud in Cully, Normandy, 3 July 1944. Then and now.

IWM (B 6324), Sgt Palmer, AFPU
Screenshot (c) Google Earth 2025

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 15d

Monday.

IWM (ADM 206)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 15d

Sub in the bag, Bay of Biscay, by Frank Norton, 1942.

Australian War Memorial ART22329

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 17d

Morning.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 17d

Testing radiosondes for use in meteorological observations (they were attached to balloons to measure atmospheric conditions). Kew observatory, picture issued 1945.

IWM (CH 15866), RAF Official Photographer

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 17d

Petty Officer F H Brown: gunner's mate, "HMS Black Swan", by William Dring.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3538)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 17d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How the war detectives solved the mystery of two missing Scottish soldiers

How a small, dedicated team identified two Scots who died more than 100 years ago in Northern France.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 19d

Sunset on the Beach, Normandy: June 1944 troops cooking their evening meal, by Thomas Barclay Hennell, 1944.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4214)

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