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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour)

@alliedarmour.bsky.social

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50ish/M/Ont/🇨🇦, he/him. Aspiring "afflicted" WW2 military historian. My book about the Archer is available from Trackpad Publishing! Also interested in art, video games, SF+fantasy novels, cats, puns

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 3h

Maneu...
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Oh damnit

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 8h

History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 9h

People might be interested in learning about the Spanish Civil War. History is never a 1:1, but the more you know the past, the more you can read the present.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Spanish Civil War share.google/ooorIljJxTEj...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Spanish Civil War

Melvyn Bragg examines the causes, events and repercussions of the Spanish Civil War.

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 22h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcB...

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 23h

Talk away! 😂

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

I agree lol

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

And some Mk 2s - more about them at a later date.

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

Nice photo of some Mk 1s on manoeuvre here.

www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

Churchill tanks of 33rd Army Tank Brigade manoeuvre en masse near Brockenhurst in the New Forest, 13 August 1942. A Churchill Mk I, with hull-mounted 3-inch gun, can be seen leading the column.

www.iwm.org.uk

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

🎶"Bases for sale..." 🎶

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

Every tank outside at that museum was painted that colour, including this Leopard bridgelayer and Sherman Crab. 😬

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

I took these photos of a Churchill Mk I at Base Borden Military Museum some years back.

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

The Mark I has a very distinctive, asymmetrical and rather ugly turret which mounted the standard 2-pounder gun.

The hull mounts a 3" howitzer primarily for firing smoke shells.

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

After Dunkirk, the development of what would be the Churchill tank was accelerated by PM Churchill requesting 500 tanks the following March. Design and production were rushed. The result was a very unreliable tank which looked like... this.

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Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 1d

William Ivor Castle's series showing Canadians "going over the top" turns 109 this month!

I love seeing variants of this image in different collections. But what does that mean?

A Canadian Battalion Go Over the Top, William Ivor Castle, October 1916, Archives of Ontario.

A Canadian Battalion Go Over the Top, William Ivor Castle, October 1916, Seaforth Highlanders Regimental Archives.

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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

I'd better leave town, if we're going to be overrun by dinosaurs!

Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 1d

I first heard about this anecdotally during the summer. Amazing!

Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 1d

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton