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#OTD 9/11/1942. #WW2 Liverpool, UK. Paramedic Frank Murkin boards ship to join Operation TORCH in North Africa. 'Some trepidation at the thought of active service, but mainly a feeling of intense excitement at the thought of sailing off into the unknown.' Murkin tinyurl.com/bdfnjmrb

#OTD 9 Nov 1942 #WW2 North Africa TORCH Day 2. A chance to review and file away the coded message sent early yesterday by Eisenhower to Patton who was waiting on a ship off Casablanca ... Two words: PLAY BALL TIME tinyurl.com/58vbsb6t

November 1942. #WW2 Operation TORCH Day 2. Yesterday, Josephine Baker was lying in a clinic in Casablanca recovering from surgery when she heard the sounds of battle. She leapt from bed, 'The Americans are here at last'. Hanna Diamond, 'Josephine Baker's Secret War' [loc 1922]

#OTD 9 November 1942. #WW2 In Germany, the press downplay the news of Rommel's retreat in El Alamein. Judge Kellner responds: 'The braggart Rommel has found someone to tame him. Where are the boastful speeches ... "What we have we keep"?' ROMMEL THE WINDBAG

#OTD 9 November 1942 #WW2 North Africa, Operation TORCH was launched yesterday. Hitler received the news yesterday. According to his Luftwaffe aide, von Below, 'The Algerian affair had winded him'. p.184 tinyurl.com/hw3kpc7x

'Operation Torch' - the Allied invasion of North Africa - began #OTD in 1942. One of my children gifted me Rick Atkinson first book of his #WW2 'Liberation Trilogy' and it is one of the best books I've ever read. It won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History. www.goodreads.com/book/sh….

I did manage to pop out to visit our local war memorial this afternoon though! #RemembranceSunday #ww1 #ww2

Remember. Inspire. Unity. 🇬🇧🇵🇱 #Poland #Spitfire #Hurricane #Polska #WW2 www.platinumfighters.com/… x.com/DefenceGeek/status/… (5/5)

#OnThisDay in 1940, No. 207 Squadron, which had been reformed at RAF Waddington seven days earlier, received the first Avro Manchesters to enter RAF service when they took delivery of their first example. Read our Manchester profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk…. #WW2 #WorldWar2

Moscow's militia divisions had standard small arms, but more exotic heavy weapons. For instance, #OTD in 1941 the Polish 37 mm anti-tank guns stored in warehouses near Moscow were dusted off to equip divisions fighting on approach to the capital. #artillery #history #WW2 #WWII

Heroes of War Book 1 only £1.99 B-17 pilot John Mackenzie faces loss with every mission, edging closer to the brink. Then he meets Stella. Can love pull him through, or will war tear them apart? mybook.to/thebeautyshop histfic #HistoricalRomance #WW2

Currently working on this, weathering is next! #ww2 #tamiya