Jamie McTrusty

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HMS Prince of Wales arriving at Singapore, 4 December 1941. Imperial War Museum image: A 6785.

HMS Repulse photographed from a troop convoy approaching Singapore, 3 December 1941. Imperial War Museum image: A 6794.

A Japanese aerial photograph showing HMS Prince of Wales (top) and HMS Repulse during the early stages of the attack on 10 December 1941 in which they were sunk. HMS Repulse had just been hit for the first time (12.20 hours). Imperial War Museum image: HU 2763.

Memorial to HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales, National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Photograph by Steve Bowen, 18 April 2018. Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.

10 Dec 1941 // Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea east of Kuantan, Malaya. They were operating without air cover. 840 men died, 327 from Prince of Wales and 513 from Repulse. (Images all from Imperial War Museum.) [1/2]

I agree that Phillips shouldn’t have risked his ships without air cover or recon, but I feel he was in an impossible position. Could he really have abandoned his mission and moved Force Z to safety instead, given the fallout and shame that would have resulted? Definitely not in the RN tradition!

Phillips' folly Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 10/12/2025 · 33m

This week’s podcast is a rough overview of the sinking of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales. Mainly questioning why they were there, the mission they were on and setup for Saturday’s full article on the sinking itself. (1/2)

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YouTube video by Armoured Archivist Force Z | Repulse - Lamb to the slaughter (Part 1 of 3)

From the mouths of the survivors. Force Z is often criticised through cursory analysis. But there is no doubt HMS Repulse was not up to the job. Here's how the sailors who served upon her experienced her demise. #OTD #WW2 #HISTORY #Navalhistory
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USS Corry, built by Bethlehem Steel in San Francisco, served in the Navy from her commissioning in 1921 to her disposal in 1930.

The remains of the Corry in the Napa River near Vallejo, California.

156 Clemson class destroyers were built for the US Navy between 1918 and 1922. They were the last class of "four-pipers" along with the Wickes and Clemson classes. Only one, the Corry (DD 334), which was sold for scrap in 1930 still remains as a hulk in the Napa River in California.🧵
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#OTD in 1941: Aerial shots show the hangar area at Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of Naval History and Heritage Command.

You do have to wonder if it was really worth the effort towing both halves all the way back to Portsmouth from Oran 🤔

9 Dec 1782 // 12-gun rig sloop HMS Lively was lying off Cay Sal in the Bahamas with 44 American prisoners from captured ships on board, when, at 2pm, just as the officers sat down to dinner, the prisoners rose and took over the brig, with help from sympathetic crew members. [1/5]

9 Dec 1795 // 28-gun 6th-rate HMS Nemesis was captured at Smyrna by a squadron of three French ships, despite Smyrna being a neutral Turkish port. She had entered the port to assemble a convoy of British merchant vessels and had found the French vessels already present. [1/5]

The stern portion of destroyer HMS Porcupine, heavily damaged by a torpedo off Oran, being towed into Portsmouth by the tug Swarthy, presumably in early 1943. The bow and stern portions would be recommissioned as hulks: HMS Pork (bows) and HMS Pine (stern). Imperial War Museum image: A 17603.

The stern portion of destroyer HMS Porcupine, heavily damaged by a torpedo off Oran, being towed into Portsmouth by the tug Swarthy, presumably in early 1943. The bow and stern portions would be recommissioned as hulks: HMS Pork (bows) and HMS Pine (stern). Imperial War Museum image: A 17602.

9 Dec 1942 // Destroyer HMS Porcupine was torpedoed by U-boat U.602 NE of Oran while serving as part of the escort for depot ship HMS Maidstone and two troop ships between Gibraltar and Oran. The U-boat's three torpedoes missed her target, the Maidstone, but one of them hit HMS Porcupine. [1/3]

Bloody hell James, sorry to hear that! Take your time getting back to things, speaking from personal experience it can take a while…

The flight engineer extinguished the fire and there were no casualties among the crew. The aircraft returned safely to base, but was unsurprisingly written off!

Interior of a bomber’s fuselage, pierced with hundreds of bullet holes which are letting in sunlight.

Member of RAF personnel examining the bullet-riddled fuselage of a Halifax bomber.

Damage to Halifax JP231 of 614 Sqn following a mission over Hungary on 23/24 Nov 1944. The original caption lists the cause as ‘an anti-aircraft rocket’, but other sources state two ammunition boxes were ignited by a night-fighter attack, causing the rounds to ‘cook off’.
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Halifax bomber parked on an airfield, with several groundcrew perched atop the rear fuselage pointing and waving excitedly. Just a few feet above them, another Halifax passes overhead.

“Low-level 'beat-up'. A Halifax II, JB911/KN-X of 77 Squadron roars low over an audience of appreciative 'erks' during air tests at Elvington, Yorkshire, July 1943.” JB911 remained with 77 Sqn until transferred to a HCU in June 1944, then storage in November. It was scrapped in 1946.
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Atomic Hobo: Harold Macmillan, Part 1 A new series on former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a man born in the Victorian era who led Britain into her thermonuclear age and through the Cuban Missile Crisis.This episode starts with his ...

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YouTube video by Armoured Archivist Seafire Slapdown | Salerno - Where Supermarine Lost Its Shine (Documentary)

It took a while, but here's my Memories of War cut of historic film footage and veteran accounts for the controversial performance of the Supermarine Seafire over the Salerno beachhead. Pretty niche, but fascinating for naval aviation officianados. #ww2 #navalhistory #history
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The tragedy of the POWs killed at sea Introduction Operation CRUSADER saw about 8,500 Commonwealth soldiers become prisoners of the Axis forces, in the fighting around Tobruk and during the counter offensive in January. See this older …

On 8 Dec 1941, the modern fast Italian merchant MV Sebastiano Venier left Benghazi with over 2,000 POWs crammed into her holds. These were mostly New Zealanders and South Africans, bagged at Sidi Rezegh and on Zaafran.

About 500 of them would not live another 24 hours. #navalhistory

8 Dec 1812 // At 5.30am, a few hours after hoving-to for the night off Cadiz and leaving the Master in charge while he turned in, Lt Henry Richards, commander of the 12-gun brig HMS Fearless, was awakened by a loud grinding sound and seawater pouring into his cabin through the skylight. [1/3]

Model of Royal Navy gunboat HMS Peterel. Image copyright Imperial War Museum: MOD 577.

8 Dec 1941 // Gunboat HMS Peterel was sunk by Japanese gunfire at Shanghai after Japanese officers had boarded and demanded her surrender, which demand was firmly rejected. Three Japanese ships led by cruiser Izumo then opened fire on the gunboat, and Peterel fought back until overwhelmed. [1/4]

YouTube video by LincsPod RAF Bomber Command Stories: What the IBCC Digital Archive Reveals

A new video about some of a couple of stories in the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social and a bit about the work we do. #History #WW2

Atomic Hobo A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to the pod here. A new series starts tomorrow on Harold Macmillan, our PM during the Cuba Crisis and our first test of the H-Bomb. A Victorian gentleman guiding us through all that nuclear tension.

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Fox studio workers ready model ships for filming, Tora! Tora! Tora! at the Fox studio tank in Calabasas, California

The model ship replicating the USS West Virginia is torpedoed.

For the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970), model makers from Fox Studios created models nearly 40 feet long. Here are several of them in the Fox tank at Calabasas, California.

The photo of the explosion of USS Shaw's forward magazine is one of the most iconic images from the attack on Pearl Harbor that occurred #OTD in 1941. Despite heavy damage, the Shaw was repaired by 1942 and served in the Pacific for the rest of the war, earning 11 battle stars. #PearlHarbor #WWII

7 Dec 1940 // HM Trawler Capricornus, sweeping with other trawlers east of the Nore Light Vessel, detonated a magnetic mine and was violently shaken. One man was lost, blown overboard. Her engine room began to flood causing some men, acting without orders, to launch a raft and abandon ship. [1/4]

YouTube video by LincsPod WWII POW’s Heartbreaking Artwork for His Little Boy #WW2 #RAF

I just about managed to tell this story... www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZpZs...

#OTD in 1941, USS Ward fired the first American shots of the war in the Pacific when the destroyer sank a midget sub trying to enter Pearl Harbor. The 14th Naval District HQ believed the action was a false report, not recognizing that the sub was part of an incoming Japanese attack. #PearlHarbor

Climb Mount Niitaka The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

#otd 1941 the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, but why?

This week’s feature (free) looks at the Japanese attack with the reasons why it was necessary, the planning and the attack.

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6 Dec 1668 (O.S.) // 64-gun HMS Defiance, in ordinary at Chatham, was accidentally set on fire and extensively damaged. Repair was impossible, and her remains were hulked. The Gunner, Robert Waymouth, who was living on the ship with his wife, was found to have been responsible for the blaze. [1/2]