Dunkirk 1940 Museum

#Gozo

#more from #Malta.

Entrance to the grand harbour in Valletta.

A small team from the museum have arrived in #Malta

Some of the team are heading to #Malta on Sunday. #recommendations?

It gets worse. #happyChristmas

#happyChristmas ##christmastree #decorations

Some #newarrivals for the #hq #christmastree .

Wishing #all our #followers a very #happyChristmas and peaceful new year.

A bearded fool showing a small child wearing a red t shirt and blue cap a bone. It's impossible to tell whether the child is delighted or terrified.

💥🚨THIS WEEK!🚨💥

For one day only (Friday 25th July, since you ask) you can drop in to the Palace and chat to any number of experts and archaeological specialists.

10:30am to 4pm
Suitable for all ages
Free of charge, (optional entry to the Palace is normal price)

Here's what we have planned 🧵👇

Italian sunken garden

The view from the office today. Supporting the open day at the Gardens of Easton Lodge.

#sorry no #imagine. #we have been #shopping. #amazing #uboat items to follow!

It has always been in our development plan to produce at least 1 example of Maginot art. Today, we started to realise this ambition. The initial section of our museum offers a 1.1 Maginot experience to our visitors, so including the artwork was obviously required

Not the #final version. But a long-standing #task #moved a step #closer to completion #museum

#maginot #art in the #making

#OpenDay!!

22 June 1940 // HM Yacht Campeador had just sailed from Portsmouth on patrol when she struck a mine and sank with the loss of 20 men from her crew of 22. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Were they big enough though?

Inside of the GFM cloche

View of the inside of the cloche. To learn more about the casemate and operation little bear, see link: dunkirk1940.org/index.php?&p...

Impacts on the GFM cloche on the roof of the Maginot casemate Marckolsheim sud. One of two CORF constructed casemates, located to the east of the village, these formed part of the third and principle line of defense along the Rhine valley. Here we see 3 impacts from 88mm rounds. The lowest remains live, although the fuse has been removed. The action was from operation little bear, with the casemate having the dubious 'honor' of being the only work of the Maginot ever visited by Hitler. The casemate nord, no longer stands, having been demolished in the immediate post war era, whereas casemate sud is now fully restored and operated as a memorial museum.

Fuse detail on the base of 88mm round embedded in the GFM cloche.

#German 88mm rounds #embedded in the #GFM #cloche of #Marckolsheim #sud #casemate. More info in alt text. #ww2 #littlebear #maginot #Alsace #France

An interwar photograph of British submarine HMS Orpheus, lost in the Mediterranean in June 1940. Image: Imperial War Museum: Q 67709.

19 June 1940 // Submarine HMS Orpheus was last heard from on this date while on patrol in the Mediterranean. She sent a signal from a position off Benghazi and disappeared, cause of loss unconfirmed. All 55 officers and men were lost. (Imperial War Museum Q 67709) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

19 June 1940 // HM Trawler Murmansk was taking part in the evacuation of British forces from Brest but ran aground in the harbour in the early hours of the morning and was abandoned as a wreck. The Germans later salvaged her and put her into service as a patrol boat. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Thank you. Cooked on the bbq, we will be adding a pizza oven to the mix in the next few weeks

One of the joys of #traveling is the food. This is our first attempt at a #homemade Tarte Flambée. #Alsace

End of the railway carriage at the armistice memorial museum. Not the original, as that was destroyed towards the end of ww2. All that remains of the original are some of the brass and some access rails (see to immediate left of the flags). The carriage presented today is one of the original batch produced for the railway from which the first carriage came from.

The #memorial of the #armistice #museum. #compiegne #France. See alt text for more information

Photos, or the roof never happened :P

Look at it this way, we have seen your roof (in all its boxes) so not much to actually burn.

#final #museum of our #tour

Choice of taxidermy crocodile, or creepy doll head statue...

Yes, this is a taxidermy crocodile

A statue only the mother would have loved.

@romanpalace.bsky.social & @merchantshallyork.org , saw these today and thought of you!

#memorial General Koenig. #stcroixauxmines #birhakeim