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Jamie McTrusty
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Posts on (mostly) Second World War aviation and naval history. See ALT text for picture credits and additional information!
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This week’s podcast is out!

The story of one Polish destroyer’s defence of the Isle of Wight against a brutal low level Luftwaffe strike during #ww2

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Defending Cowes
Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 26/11/2025 · 15m
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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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curatorian.bsky.social
Today in 1944, at Roermond in the Netherlands, sound recordist Lt Peter Handford points his microphone at 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, and captures their singing at an open air church service. 🔊 #history #ww2

Full recording: IWM 7697 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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armouredcarriers.bsky.social
Here's what the pilots thought about it. I think I included some of that same footage ... #NavalHistory #WW2 #RoyalNavy
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Fairey Firefly: The first multi-role naval strike fighter
YouTube video by Armoured Archivist
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Wow. The things you stumble upon when looking for something completely different. This picture, taken during Operation Pedestal, shows HMS Nelson or Rodney using 16in guns with HE shells timed to explode in front of approaching torpedo bombers! IWM A11205 #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#OTD in 1961, USS Enterprise was commissioned, becoming the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. CVN-65 was the eighth U.S. naval vessel to bear the name Enterprise. The Gerald R. Ford-class carrier CVN-80 currently under construction will continue the tradition.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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boneyabroad.com
We've done a thing! @alexchurchill.bsky.social and I chatted with @rooneyvision.bsky.social about his new book about Alcock and Brown, Harry Hawker and, of course, Harry's amazing wife Muriel.

Check us out wherever you get your pods or on YouTube.
15minutebook.club 15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 1h
We are delighted to share our launch episode with you, as @rooneyvision.bsky.social joins us to discuss the men who showed up in Newfoundland after the end of the Great War to attempt to fly the Atlantic. David, your 15 minutes begin now...

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Thumbnail image showing the 15 Minute Book Club logo and the cover of David Rooney's new book, The Big Hop, which has a stylised image of Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane bomber over the Atlantic ocean.
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Regret to announce the tech bros have accidentally reinvented the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway.
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 2h
By investing in Monocab Owl, the EU is revolutionising sustainable commuting.

A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆

Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?

📸© Monocab Owl

#WorldSustainableTransportDay
This image shows the interior of a compact, modern vehicle cabin with wooden paneling and large windows. The seating area features blue upholstered seats with a small table or surface nearby. The design is minimalistic and cozy, with natural light coming through the windows, revealing a grassy outdoor scene with a building and trees in the background. This image shows a gyro-stabilized monorail cabin. The cabin has a reflective, metallic exterior with large windows on the sides with one of them being open and revealing a cozy interior with seating and wood accents. It is situated outdoors on a patch of grass, with residential houses in the background and a clear sky overhead. This image shows a modern, gyro-stabilized monorail cabin on a narrow gauge track, traveling through a green, outdoor area near a bridge or tunnel. The carriage is white with a red logo on its back, and has a sleek, futuristic design with large windows. The setting includes trees, indicating a rural or semi-rural environment.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This is a hell of a thing. A terrifyingly low level attack on a power station near Paris in 1943 by Free French crew flying RAF Bostons (the British A-20 Havoc bomber variant). The A-20 was not the most agile aircraft ever, so this kind of flying under radar is a real feat.
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Dramatic low level flying bomber footage (1943)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Check out the latest really interesting episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social!!!
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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NEW EPISODE

When The Wind Blows, Part 15

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Atomic Hobo: When The Wind Blows, Part 15
To get ad-free access, plus bonus episodes, please visit www.patreon.com/atomichobo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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I’ve written a special post (free) for a friend on her birthday about the story of a ship with the same name.

The museum ship HMS Caroline, the past surviving vessel that saw action at Jutland and a training school through much of the 20th Century

jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-caroline

#history
The Caroline
So I found an old notebook the other day when looking for some research notes for an upcoming article and found at the front a list of “Things to do by 2025”.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.

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November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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On 25 November 1941 the Royal Navy lost another large unit, HMS Barham, further weakening its Mediterranean position after the loss of HMS Ark Royal.

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The loss of HMS Barham
Background On 25 November 1941 one of the heaviest losses of life, and the only loss of a Royal Navy battleship to a submarine at sea, occurred off Bardia, when HMS Barham was torpedoed at extremel…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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On 25 November 1941, 15. Panzerdivision was very pleased with itself for having executed a textbook envelopment attack using all arms against an attacking enemy tank force, resulting in its complete destruction.

Anyways, that's what the war diary says.

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The Battle for 1 Army Tank Brigade’s Repair Shop
Background The ‘Dash to the Wire’, with which Rommel aimed to win the battle, produced many curious incidents. One of the stranger ones was a tank battle for a repair shop, between 16 M…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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23 Nov 1939 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi encountered German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau SE of Iceland, and despite the huge disparity of force her captain chose to fight. She was sunk after an unequal 40-minute battle with 238 dead. (Image: NMM) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
P&O steamer Rawalpindi photographed off Ajaccio in the 1930s. Requisitioned by the Admiralty at the outbreak of the Second World War and taken into service as armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi, this ship was sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on 23 November 1939, with 238 dead. Image: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection (P85332).
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
jamiemctrusty.bsky.social
The Junkers 88 (1936) evolved into the most versatile aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. It served on all fronts in roles including bomber, heavy fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and night fighter. Over 14,600 were produced.
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Colour artwork depicting a splinter camouflaged Junkers 88 diving towards a Royal Navy cruiser, steaming at speed, which is surrounded by bomb splashes. A bomb is falling from underneath the port wing. On the sea below, brown smoke rises from a crashed aircraft. The Ju 88 is a twin engined aircraft with all its crew in a forward compartment with glazed nose and large cockpit canopy. There’s a ‘gondola’ underneath to accommodate both a lower rear gunner and a bombsight forward.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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1941 of course. 🙄

Apols, as Bluesky keeps crashing new posts on me I posted the thread without triple-checking to make sure I didn’t lose it.
crusaderproject.bsky.social The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 3d
OTD in 1942 the battle of Sidi Rezegh, in German die Schlacht am Totensonntag, took place. It was the largest tank battle fought in the west and North Africa since Cambrai.

It was an Axis victory, but at prohibitive cost. This was compounded by command failure after the battle.

Some vignettes 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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One of the most prolific post-war SB2C operators was the French aéronavale; here are Helldivers from the carrier Arromanches (based ashore at Bach Mai airfield), flying support missions over Diên Biên Phu in 1954.

#Aviation #WWII #WW2 #Vietnam #France #Indichina #AviationHistory #NavalHistory
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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If you miss hearing me talk about war stuff this weekend. I urge you to watch me being interviewed by Jacob Watson-Howland here www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc7f...
Everything You Know About D-Day Is Wrong: WW2 Historian Exposes What Most Experts Don’t Tell You
YouTube video by Jacob J. Watson-Howland
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November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver (1940) was the last dive bomber operated by the US Navy. Intended to replace the SBD Dauntless, numerous issues with the aircraft delayed its entry into service until November 1943. Helldivers eventually equipped 30 Navy squadrons during the war.
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Artwork from the box of a model kit, depicting two Helldivers dropping bombs as they fly through AA fire above two damaged Japanese carriers. The radial-engined aircraft have separate cockpit canopies for the pilot and rear gunner, who is manning twin machine guns. They have disproportionately large tailfins for their size. Their underfuselage bomb bay doors are open and they also have underwing racks. They are camouflaged dark blue above and white below.
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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#OTD 21/11/1942 #RememberRCN -HMCShips TIMMINS & MINAS rescue 60 sailors from MV Empire Sailor (UK), torpedoed by U-518 while in Convoy ON-145. Loaded with phosgene bombs, mustard gas & cyanide, crew abandoned freighter immediately. 20 survivors later succumbed to the phosgene gas.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#OTD in 1944, USS Sealion (SS-315) torpedoed IJN Kongō, becoming the first and only U.S. submarine to sink an enemy battleship. During the same attack, Sealion also fired a salvo that missed the battleship Nagato but hit and sank the destroyer Urakaze. usni.org/magazines/n...
To Sink a Battleship | Naval History Magazine - August 2023, Volume 37, Number 4
Commanding the Balao-class submarine Sealion, Eli Reich accomplished a singular sea-fighting exploit of World War II.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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21 Nov 1759 // 74-gun 3rd-rate HMS Resolution, which had suffered heavy damage during the Battle of Quiberon Bay, ran aground on sandbanks when attempting to leave the bay. She refloated at high water on the morning of 21 November but grounded again when the tide ebbed. [1/4]
Richard Wright, 'The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 21 November 1759: the Day After' (1760). The grounded ship in the right foreground is HMS Resolution, beyond her is HMS Essex, also aground, being burnt to prevent capture. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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In a double whammy, Lord Lovat, of woolly Aran jumper fame is the pin up after the Commandos raid on Boulogne…. Closely followed by our cartoon of the week - Hitlers moustache singed by the COMMANDOS!
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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theaviation.show
Looking through some old footage of Farnborough 1952, and there is this short clip of the majestic and out of time Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat. She could carry 102 passengers in rather more comfort than the 100-odd plus you can squeeze into an A220.

Footage: IWM COI 335

#aviation #avgeek
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM