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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(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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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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Then & Now. (America is being transformed into a fascist state, as we speak.)
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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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#NotPosed Men from the Special Air Service (SAS). #WW2 #HISTORY
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The making of an airfield. (1944, France. #WW2 #HISTORY)
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Bristol Beaufighters from Coastal Command attacking German ships. #WW2 #HISTORY
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The Royal Armoured Car. #WW2 #HISTORY
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"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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#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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Around this day in 1944, Holland. The forgotten and ferocious battle of Overloon. #WW2 #HISTORY
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#OTD in 1940. The miniature armoured train on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent. #WW2 #HISTORY
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(Splendid picture, I think.) #OTD in 1940, Church Fenton airfield. Squadron Leader Peter Townsend from 85 Squadron (with a walking stick and bandaged foot) with his pilots. Among the pilots are two Poles, two Frenchmen, a New Zealander and a pilot from Nigeria. #WW2 #HISTORY
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#OTD in 1943, Tunisia. Sergeant M. Lewis from 2 PARA examining a memorial in honour of 1 Parachute Brigade. (Photographed by a future colleague, Lewis joined AFPU and photographed the fighting in the Oosterbeek area, during Market Garden.) #WW2 #HISTORY
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#OTD in 1940, Bessacarr. Men from 5 (Doncaster) Battalion of the Home Guard under attack from an "enemy dive-bomber". #WW2 #HISTORY
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Then & Now. (America is being transformed into a fascist state, as we speak.)
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN 85: 13th October 1940. Four Jabo raids were mounted against London in the afternoon. These came at 12:30, 1:30, 2:00 and 3:30. Despite determined efforts by the RAF, a high proportion of the Bf 109s were able to drop their bombs on the capital.
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Messerschmitt 109 fighter of JG 54, loaded with a 250kg bomb, in a dispersal on a French airfield. Two Luftwaffe groundcrew are rolling cigarettes in front of the aircraft, possibly unaware they’re being photographed!
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HM: ...what was that, soldier?
Soldier: Sir. I said we should have secured the bridges before the heights, sir.
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"It was overshadowed in the public consciousness by the Spitfire's role during Battle of Britain in 1940, but the Hurricane inflicted 60 percent of the losses". #WW2 #HISTORY
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Interesting POW. (It's *not* from a movie. 😊)
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#OTD in 1942, North Africa. Close-up of the driver of a Sherman tank. #WW2 #HISTORY