You are talking rubbish @chuckles4ever.bsky.social but hey ho.
26.01.2024 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Paul. No other photos but I can probably track down which aircraft from Squadron records if you want?
26.01.2024 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I have another exciting German Occupation blog related project coming up but have to keep 🤐 other than it involves Keith Pengelley and myself in a joint project. Hopefully be able to say more soon! Don't miss out sign up for free email updates here. island-fortress.com/sign-up-for-... 🗃️
26.01.2024 15:42 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to everyone that has read this blog post today. All 105 of you at the time of typing. Great to see interest from all around the world. 🗃️
17.01.2024 21:41 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Where did you go? Also happy birthday to Mrs B!
17.01.2024 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Great meeting anointed something blog related. Can’t say more than that. All will be revealed in a few weeks. 🤐
16.01.2024 20:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Perfect thanks
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@rauchway.bsky.social any chance you could post the instructions for the What's History List again so I can pass it on to historians I know who have joined recently. Thanks.
11.01.2024 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Off to the Island Archives tomorrow to photograph some more documents related to escapes from Guernsey.
11.01.2024 19:20 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Busy week for me. Last night I had a Zoom call with a researcher from CBS 60 Minutes then back to working on the book. More writing tonight then guest on a podcast tomorrow night. Also answered a stack of emails from people who have been kind enough to come forward with info. 🗃️
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30.12.2023 17:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes. It was as a result of things not going so well for the Germans and they wanted to control news flow. Also wanted to avoid allies being able to prime local population for any attempt to retake the islands.
28.12.2023 20:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Yes. It was as a result of things not going so well for the Germans and they wanted to control news flow. Also wanted to avoid allies being able to prime local population for any attempt to retake the islands.
28.12.2023 20:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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28.12.2023 20:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The blog post about Christmas under the German occupation will be out next week. In the meantime if you want to find more about the occupation take a look at my blog island-fortress.com 🗃️
14.12.2023 23:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This micro history of the start of the German occupation of Guernsey is fascinating
26.11.2023 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
“All of this German business was getting a bit too thick.”
26.11.2023 19:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Should be out on Sunday!
21.11.2023 20:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I have stopped adding to the latest blog post as I keep tinkering with it and it is getting rather long, 30 pages if you PDF it! Suspect it might shrink a bit when @katieci.bsky.social
proofreads it at the weekend! Hopefully people want to read about a daring escape from Guernsey! 🗃️
21.11.2023 20:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Another interesting pod. Wonder how many people are wondering about that bit of furniture they inherited! 😉😆
21.11.2023 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OPERATION BASALT – 80th ANNIVERSARY AND COMMEMORATION
On the 3rd October 2022 I was lucky enough to attend the unveiling of the new plaques on the monument and walk some of the route that they took as well as listen to various speeches at a lunch held af...
If you are reading Rowland White's excellent book 'Mosquito' there is reference to Op. Basalt. I have a write up with photos and video of the 80th Anniversary and reenactment on my blog which may be of interest. This was a commando raid on Sark. 🗃️
19.11.2023 16:04 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Staffordshire Sentinel - Friday 27 September 1940
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Another advert seeking to trace family after evacuation from Guernsey in 1940. 🗃️
03.11.2023 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can read more about the occupation of the Channel Islands on my blog. island-fortress.com 🗃️
03.11.2023 13:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 04 July 1940
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Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 04 July 1940
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One of the problems with evacuating the women & children first was it was difficult for some of the men that followed on later to locate their families. As shown by this article from July 1940. A Guernseyman sought the help of a newspaper to locate his wife and daughter. 🗃️
03.11.2023 12:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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