Chris Kolonko-Weet

YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology 80 years on - New perspectives on Second World War anti-invasion defences

And one more. I'll have a look for other stuff but I think I've bombarded your account enough for now 😂

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Medium Machine Gun Defences of North Yorkshire Chris Kolonko-Weet

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Chris Kolonko-Weet Archaeologist and Second World War Defence Specialist

Website- chriskolonko.wordpress.com

Chris KOLONKO | Reports and Publications Supervisor | Bachelor of Science | Museum of London Archaeology, London | Research and Engagement | Research profile I am a qualified and practising archaeologist with a specialisation in Second World War defensive landscapes in the UK, community archaeology and all aspects of field excavation and recording. I am fa...

No books, yet, but plenty of published work in journals etc. Will find some links. Field records and some articles can be found on my Researchgate- www.researchgate.net/profile/Chri...

Thanks :D

Brilliant talk 🗣 by @ckolonko.bsky.social at March #Museum last night on pillboxes 🪖
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage

If you're out in Dereham today, be sure to pop in. We're out with Allied Star Reenactment Group and the Royal British Legion for the town's heritage open day.

On Saturday the 13th I'll be at the Dereham memorial garden pillbox, near the station, for the town's Heritage Open Day from 10am to 4pm. I'll be joined by reenactors from the Allied Star Reenactment Group and we'll be doing guided tours of the pillbox.

Yeah, I don't like jam either.

YouTube video by Remember the Regulars Remember The Regulars Random Ramblings 7

Here's 16 minutes of me talking about books and websites-

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Think I've found an easter egg in HE's chronology guidance...
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‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful past

This is what happened to my Great-Grandad. Would very much like to see this exhibition.

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I remember seeing these in ASDA as a kid. I thought it would be fibreglass and got a surprise when I hit it with my hand!

Yep, I know that footage well.

YouTube video by Remember the Regulars Molotoff Cocktail Madness

New Remember The Regulars YouTube video.

Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.

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#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.

Given today is VJ Day, my offering for #histbookchat is this Army Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation. It came with a letter announcing VJ Day by the Captain of the Empress of Australia, a troop transport ship actually on the way to Okinawa with airfield construction companies when Japan surrendered.

True :)

Only funny bits would have been covering the soldiers on leave going into the local towns and inadvertently getting caught blabbing about the sensitive stuff they were up to. The War Diary of one of the units deployed to Thetford records the many instances of how soldiers were caught out in the pubs

And that's without the RAF defence teams, the Royal Navy's shore defence units, and the other arms of Home Defence, such as Coastal Command, the Royal Navy and RAF.

But compare that to the sheer size of the Home Forces. 1.8 million soldiers in September 1940 (not including the 1.6m of the Home Guard) comprising the Regs, TA, Commonwealth and Free Forces, yet they have fallen into obscurity.

Yep! Definitely! I'm not sure how much they would have been able to get out of the Regs/TA though. Only so many times you can show stand-to every morning and evening, and scenes of the soldier's digging trenches, doing recces, sticking up barbed wire etc etc.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

There's always a mention of the Home Guard... even though the bombs were RAF practice bombs. But nice to see the regulars get a mention.

I've bought some old and cheap acoustic guitars recently to do up. This is a Hondo H117 from 1981. It had barely been played, probably because the action too high. After properly setting up the bridge and putting on my favourite string gauge, it doesn't sound too bad. The singing is another matter..

ANECDOTE TIME

I was given the role of Adolf at the Duxford Sealion war-game in the late 200s, umpired by the late Paddy Griffith.

Knowing how this would end I overruled my generals and commanded a landing at the Norfolk coast which surprised everyone including Paddy. 🧵

The key evolutions of the .303 bullet during the 20th century.

I've got a theory for that entrance style. I'm thinking it may have been to reduce flanking fire into the entrance. Haven't seen such a design anywhere else and it has to have a specific function :D