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Spitfire over Old Buckenham. Fab ww2 fighter plane and the sound of its engine is just great!
Acrobatics and my amateur filming today at Old Buckenham Airshow - a truly superb day
With some of my most favourite people a super day at the Old Buckenham Airshow
Good afternoon from Old Buckenham Airfield. Former home of the 453rd Bomb Group, 8th USAAF. US actors Jimmy Stewart and Walther Matthau flew from here during the war. Today, the Old Buckenham Airshow! ✈️🙌
Moody skies at Thiepval this afternoon - we have been dodging rainy showers all day
Explaining the innovations used at Messines to 8 Australians and one New Zealander this morning. The ground speaks for itself.
This morning’s walk took me on a mission. To visit grave of Lt Hon Albert Edward George Arnold Keppel. Commemorated in Quidenham Church KIA gallantly leading his men at tender age of 19 on 31 July 1917. The helmet he was wearing at the time sits above the memorial in the UK
Fromelles- it’s a battlefield that is always empty. Not particularly recognised by Brits, but for Aus the blackest day. In the short space of 24 hrs 5,533 Australians would be killed wounded or missing on literally ground that is as flat as a billiard table. 109 yrs ago today
A smashing day walking the Oosterbeek perimeter with five guests from Berkshire, UK, discussing the dramatic events taking place there in Sept 1944 and the experiences of British airborne troops and Dutch civilians in what became known as the ‘Witches’ Cauldron’.
The site where elements of 1st Airborne Recce Squadron were ambushed by Germans on 17 Sept 1944. Several were killed, others were taken prisoner. Due to a mistake in identity Arthur Barlow was initially reported as one of those killed and his wife subsequently received this…
Heeswijk Castle, where 1/501 PIR mistakenly landed during Op Market. One man landing in the moat and nearly drowning, was father Sampson aka the Parachuting Padre. He also landed in water on D-Day. Sampson was captured at Bastogne in Dec 1944, survived the war, served in Korea…
Yesterday’s private tour in the Footsteps of Easy Company 506 in The Netherlands was a huge success. The client from Connecticut, US got into ww2 history through the series and wanted to visit the historical sites. Yesterday, the Netherlands was on the list. One of the great…
Glen Miller - plane disappeared over the English Channel on 15 Dec 44 after taking off from RAF Twinwood, Bedford. Glen Miller is commemorated on the wall to the missing at Madingley American Cemetery in Cambridge. He died but his music lives on.
None of us will ever be as cool as Glenn Miller.
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Thread 🧵 The first US servicemen to be killed during WW1 happened not far from this beautiful memorial. On November 2 1917 the Americans were in this position fighting with the French. Enemy troops were not far away and preparing to raid the American positions 1/