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They shall not grow old As we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun And in the morning, We will remember Them. 🙏 #VJDay #VJDay80 #remembrance #WW2 #Veterans #history

The Sunderland Echo - Friday 1 September 1939 Keeping the people of Sunderland up to date with the sad news #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

Calling the Tamiya 1,35 Sherman M4 finished, really nice kit no real issues. Pleased with how it turned out. #HistScaleModels #ScaleModels #WW2 #ModelBuilding #Tamiya

So, 101 Airborne Division forgot to defend the 26 kilometres long road between Veghel and Grave. It's *exactly* where the Germans counter-attacked and interrupted the supply line of Market Garden. (Not really public knowledge, but a *fact*.) #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Nijmegen. Hunnerpark, stronghold of the Germans at the Waal Bridge. Captured on 20 September, in a *combined* action of British Grenadier Guards Group and American Second Battalion 505 PIR. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. A Universal carrier crew from 4 Wiltshire's anti-tank platoon. (These men would suffer heavily during a major German counter-attack around 1 October 1944, exactly where I now live.) #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1941. Men from 4 Wiltshire. Many of them were killed, three years later, in the area where I live, repelling a German counter-attack, just after operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY

Polish warriors, who dropped #OTD in 1944 near Driel, made it to the commemoration in 2016. #WW2 #HISTORY

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

(Operation #MarketGarden.) At 1730 #OTD in 1944, the Waal Bridge at Nijmegen finally fell into Allied hands after attacking the bridge from *both* sides. 😉 Within hours, John Frost at the Rhine Bridge at Arnhem would surrender. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944, Oosterbeek area. War correspondent Alan Wood typing out a despatch. (Inspired by the bravery of the airborne troops at Arnhem, Wood wrote: "If in the years to come, you meet a man who says, I was at Arnhem, raise your hat and buy him a drink.") #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1944. Second day in operation Market Garden. British paras have captured the Arnhem Rhine Bridge. At Nijmegen, the Americans failed to take advantage of the element of surprise, the main weapon of paras: the large Waal Bridge is now firmly in German hands. #WW2 #HISTORY