David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️

🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda
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#WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

Simulating superstrucure. The Naval Strike Missile has the ability to attack specific ships based on their hull and superstrucure profiles, using its imaging IR seeker to match it with a vast database of ship profiles in its targeting computer

- Caesar, 15th March 44 BCE

“The apex of German scientific engineering on which they trusted their military OpSec on, Enigma, was broken by a group comprised of Jews, homosexuals and women” really weakens their argument.

Yes, they absolutely were. As with Japan, they found out the hard way that there's a big difference between preparing for the war you want vs. the war you get when your enemies dont act the way you want. Neither of them were at all prepared for anything longer than a short 6-12 month war

While Germany and Japan starved due to the lack of shipping, we had dedicated ships that brewed beer and churned ice cream. Wtf were they even thinking

#navalhistory

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.

Removed by scrap merchant in 1952 and sent to Germany. What became of them after that, I sadly do not know

An utterly depraved and disgusting "movie", made purely for the sake of being depraved and disgusting

Could never understand the appeal of it, other than edgelords feigning interest in order to be provocative

This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool!
#ww2 #norway #blücher

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The mystery of medical diagnosis!

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted.

von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

And the stalwart Hurricane too!

*groans*

Sink the Baltic fleet, take Kaliningrad and then claim it was an accident due to Ukrainian EW interference.

Logistics is what allowed the 9th infantry divisions artillery train to travel 800 miles in 4 days and drop 7500 rounds of high explosive on the 10th Panzer Division in 6 hours at Kasserine pass. Germans later described as “a wall of fire” and “pure hell”