Chris Sams

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The Hormuz issue

This week’s podcast talks about some of the historical presidents which are now going to effect the Straits of Hormuz at the moment…

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I go with bow (as in bow toe) I now some go with Bew but…

I know it is Bow-fort as in the bomber and the dukes of 😉

The German destroyer Z-33 under air attack by Beaufighters on 9 February 1945 at Førde Fjord, Norway.

The attack went badly and saw 9 of the attacking 31 attacking Beaufighters and one of the ten escorting mustangs, shot down.

The Germans lost no ships

#ww2 #history #raf #navalhistory

The Battle of Auschwitz Before I start I should say I’m not stepping on Alina’s toes and wandering into Holocaust history, although I have some experience and interest it’s not really my area of expertise and it’s a bit off-...

So I wrote this last night and I’ve posted it for the Members on my Substack - will be on general release at some point 😉

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Lawrence was chosen to go to the Hejaz partly because his name was already known to the Sherif, as the designer of his new stamps.

Oberleutnant’s zur See Dithmar & Boldt were found guilty of firing on the survivors but the judgement was overturned because it was deemed that they were following their CO, Patzig’s, orders

As the Leipzig trials were carried out in Germany by Germans they did accept the “Following Orders” position

#otd 1942 the Second battle of the Java sea saw the loss of HMS Exeter (which had served at the River Plate against the Graf Spee) though most of her crew were rescued and made P.o.Ws by the Japanese.

The destroyers HMS Encounter and USS Pope were also lost.

#navalhistory #ww2 #history

A.E. 1 is lost Australia's first naval casualty

#Otd 1914 HMAS AE1 was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as 1 of 2 of E-class submarines.

She transferred to Australia & took part in operations off German Neu Guinea in September 1914

You can read more about her career here; open.substack.com/pub/jerijero...

#history #navalhistory #ww1

Alabama's last battle In the words of her Captain

This week’s feature is on the last battle of the Confederate raider, Alabama off Cherbourg in 1864.

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#history #navalhistory #USCivilWar

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Jupiter. Image: Imperial War Museum, A 691. Description: a warship in camouflage paint moving at high speed and throwing out a high bow wave, photographed from low on the port bow.

27 Feb 1942 // Destroyer HMS Jupiter struck a mine after straying into a Dutch minefield off Toeban (now Tuban) on the north coast of Java, and sank with the loss of 99 crew. (Imperial War Museum image: A 691) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Electra. Imperial War Museum image: FL 24524. Description: a side view of a destroyer with two funnels, starboard side profile view, moving at low speed with men visible on her deck.

Front cover of 1959 book 'H.M.S. Electra' by Lieutenant Commander T. J. Cain and A. V. Sellwood, showing cover illustration of a painting of HMS Electra manoeuvring at high speed in the open sea with aircraft overhead.

27 Feb 1942 // Destroyer HMS Electra was sunk by Japanese destroyer Asagumo at the Battle of the Java Sea, ending a wartime career of gallant service in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Arctic and Far East. 119 men were lost. Fulgens ab undis. (IWM image: FL 24524) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

"That Dutchman has more guts than brains" The Java Seas night action and the end of ABDACommand's fleet

#otd 1942 the ABDACOM fleet’s surface fleet under Admiral Doorman consisting of Australian, British, Dutch and American warships engaged in a night action in the Java Sea against Japanese naval units.

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#history #ww2 #navalhistory

The Cardinal The French battleship Richelieu at War

This week’s free to read follows the life and career of the French Battleship Richelieu from construction, internment, repair and action in the Far East

#ww2 #history #navalhistory

jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-cardinal

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Monument for Austro-Hungarian pilots in the park of the Austrian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

Australia's first Naval sweep

This week’s podcast looks at Australia’s first naval sweep of the First World War and an attack on German New Guinea

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#ww1 #navalhistory #history #podcast

Think the Oxford might be pushing it 😉🤣

Maybe Kent lol

The writing is getting serious… I’m making toast.

All good essays are written with a dose of Dr Pepper and a stack of toast!

It is not my usual style and although blogs tend to be written in a conversational way I always felt that for a book I should keep it more formal.

I blame MacD’s for sending me a voucher for money off on a quarter pounder 🤣

My inspirational advice for the day…

Thanks mate, really appreciate it - esp from my favourite editor 😉

Ok so technical question. I have different styles depending on what I’m writing/presenting for and how I write my Substack/articles is usually different to how I write books.

However… Can I pose a question and then answer it in a conversational way in a book?

Sinking of HM Submarine P.38 – 23 February 1942 Background This is only indirectly related to Operation CRUSADER, but of interest nevertheless because it shows the increasing sophistication of Italian escort vessels which happened around the tim…

On 23 February 1942, RTp Circe sank HM/Sub P.38 with all hands while protecting a crucial Axis convoy into Tripoli. The submarine never really stood a chance against the highly aggressive tactics used by Capitano di Corvetta Palmas.

So both my teams lost this weekend… ah well, I’m strangely used to it 🤣
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How Do We Trust History? Dr Kathryn White reads Trust by Hernan Diaz and gets existential about it

In which I read Trust by Hernan Diaz and get existential about how we do history:

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Colour model kit artwork for a Blohm & Voss flying boat at low altitude over a coastal area, with threatening clouds behind. The aircraft has a long, slab-sided fuselage with a planing lower hull. It has 6 radial engines on its huge rectangular, shoulder-mounted wings. There are turrets in the nose and behind the cockpit. Camouflaged above, it’s light blue below with yellow cowlings and wingtips which denote Mediterranean service.

The Blohm & Voss Bv 222 (1940) was originally designed as a transatlantic passenger airliner. However, with the outbreak of war the Luftwaffe quickly saw its potential as a transport and, later, for long range maritime patrols. Never in full production, 13 were completed.
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The Kriegsmarine's lost supply ship The Alstertor and German raiders

Also out today - the Germans are back with a story of a Kriegsmarine supply ship, her career, crew and final voyage

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#ww2 #history #navalhistory

"At times it was perfect hell, shells screaming over head" Naval operations in the Dardanelles 6 March -

Out on general release today - then there is a couple of weeks hiatus from the Dardanelles…

The semi-dreadnoughts go into action!

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#history #navalhistory #ww1