Having signed a MOU with Liberation Route Europe last year, it's an honour to team up with @battlefieldben.bsky.social
to put on a Coventry Blitz walking tour to mark the 85th Anniversary of the air raid on the 8th/9th April 1941.
For full details visit my website historyfare.co.uk/events/blitz...
#OTD 22 August 1485 - 540 years ago, the #BattleofBosworth was fought
Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle?
Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today
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👋 A special week - we’ve had The Importance of the Wrist Watch to the #FWW / #WW1 but we’re also going to have a special anniversary episode for one of the most significant dates in British history!
An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth!
Out tomorrow!
👋 For your Friday, why not learn about the lessons of #OpCHARNWOOD with @battlefieldben.bsky.social on this week’s ep? 🎙️
The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy
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Have a fab weekend 👋
👋 9 Jul was the 2nd day of #OpCHARNWOOD during #SWW. An urban battle by the 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 divisions to liberate #Caen 🇫🇷 ⚔️
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️
#WW2 #Normandy
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📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war
👋 This week: Op CHARNWOOD 1944 during the #WW2 / #SWW
⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️
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Great to have Mark onboard the 7 Commando Operations tour. We shared some great discussions throughout the week.
You can't park that there, sir! The submarine Flore at Lorient. The SWW submarine pens have to be seen. @battlefieldben.bsky.social
I was genuinely shocked by the number of people visiting Point du Hoc last week. Most of the casemates and craters are fenced off and apparently a suspended walkway will be built soon. My first visit in 2003 seems like it was in another age @battlefieldben.bsky.social
Its so nice to come back to Ranville to pay respects to Frank Milburn, DCM. I snapped his headstone over 20 years ago and he's been a kind of talisman ever since. His dad was killed at Loos in 1915. At the end of a superb Leger tour led by Ben Mayne.
Visiting Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp memorial site today, which was liberated by British troops in April 1945 and where tens of thousands died during #WW2 - among them Anne Frank and her sister Margot, whose memorial this is.
Visiting some of the last casualties of the British Army in Europe in 1945 at Becklingen War Cemetery including Jake Wardrop whose diaries were saved and published for posterity.
We finished in evening spring light at Sage War Cemetery where British dead from actions as early as September 1939 through to April 1945 are buried.
We’ve moved into Germany now following 21 Army Group. Looking at the Ems Canal battle at Lingen this morning and doing some 1945 Then and Nows in the town. This shows troops from 3rd Division in the town in April 1945.
Ended the day with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social at Holten Canadian War Cemetery to remember Canada’s sacrifice in the Netherlands and Germany 1945.
Interesting morning with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social exploring the October 1944 battlefield at s’Hertogenbosch. This was in 1944.
Heading into the Netherlands and Germany with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social to look at some of the forgotten battles of 1945 on our new Last Days of #WW2 tour with Leger Battlefields.
#Forrard Major Fitzwilliams Hyde was a highly respected officer who had shaped the ERY before he returned to 4/7RDG. He then returned to 1ERY and landed with them on D-Day. He is also remembered on the 4/7RDG memorial at Lepe, Hampshire.
#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE !
A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵
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Today’s research assisted by Milo….
After a rough Christmas an new year which saw both of us ill, we have managed a 6 day break to Northumberland to see my parents. Some nice beach walks and undecided if these are SWW anti tank obstacles or sea defences! Possibly an old pillbox washed down as well…
🚨NEW EPISODE NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY!! 🚨
We are joined by historian and battlefield tour guide Ben Mayne....
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#hamandjampodcast #britishairborne #breville
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Tested it a fair amount this year trying to see if it has knowledge of war diary level. Good news, it doesn’t.
The reason why you should not use AI for research, stick to real people! spot the huge error in this....
Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944):
The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…
Excited to announce LRE UK's partnership with the University of Portsmouth!
After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚
Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social
Are they at rest at CWGC Banneville-la-champagne war cemetery?
Why do @BBCBreakfast persist with Normandy Memorial features? Why not focus on the @CWGC who have always remembered and commemorated our war dead. Men and women buried or remembered in Normandy at cemetery’s. The Normandy campaign is more than the beaches, we need to encourage people towards inland.
In the suburbs of the city at Pastorpl. 1, 52070 Aachen, during 1933-34, Anne Frank stayed here in a family home.
The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.
Aachen train station. From here between March 1942 to September 1944, deportations would leave here to head to concentration camps. Upwards of 3,000 people. Most of the deportations went to Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto.
A group walking tour of the city centre looking at the liberation, allied bombings, Holocaust and the Aachen Scandal. After the work, a few guests wanted to remain out so we spent another hour visiting several sites. The first was this building that linked in to the Nazi Aktion T4 program.
