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RG Poulussen

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Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs. Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · Mar 28

(Time again to promote my two books, something I tend to forget to do regularly. 😟) If you like to collect all available facts and form your own opinion about Market Garden please visit my website pre-jump.nl. (I have no marketing department so a repost is really appreciated.)

A Bridge Too Far is a Hollywood view of Market Garden. My two books are based on facts, primary sources.

Why and where did Market Garden fail? Purchase Lost at Nijmegen. All Market Garden facts from primary sources? Purchase Little Sense of Urgency

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

Little bike tour to Arnhem local cemetery, to visit the graves of perished air crews and to test my gimbal. Turns out the battery died. Well, I lost some calories. 😊

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

A miniature armoured train on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

Remarkable low-level oblique picture of the German battleship Tirpitz, moored in Åfjord, Norway, taken by Flight Lieutenant A.P.F. Fane, a former racing car driver, from an altitude of 100 feet. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

Just an ordinary photo-recce? You're wrong there. Picture of Plouha in France, illuminated by a 4.5-inch Photoflash bomb, taken at night. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

#OTD in 1940, Me 109E-1 of 4./JG 52, flown by Feldwebel Paul Bosche, was force-landed on Little Grange Farm, Woodham Mortimer. #WW2 #HISTORY

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

#OTD in 1943. Practise makes perfect. Men from 1/6 Queen's trying out their collapsible boats before crossing the Volturno River. #WW2 #HISTORY

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 7h

#OTD in 1944, Scorticate, Italy. A 25-pounder from 83/85 Battery 11 Field Regiment. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 1d

BATTLE OF BRITAIN 85: 7th October 1940. An improvement in the weather brought with it an inevitable increase in Luftwaffe activity. A succession of Bf 109 formations containing both Jabos and escorts made their way across Kent, with a number of aircraft making it through to London.
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Bf 109 fighter of Maj Helmut Wick, Geschwader Kommodore of JG 2, pictured in late October 1940. There are 42 victory markings on the rudder of the aircraft, which is parked on a rather muddy-looking grass airfield, its engine cowling slightly open.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

A Spitfire to brighten up the day! 😊

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

(October 1944.) Para training. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Around this day in 1944, Aachen, Germany. The punch of a M2 Browning .50 caliber heavy machine gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Before & after operation Market Garden. (#OTD in 1944, the Arnhem Rhine Bridge was bombed, to cut off German forces. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1944, Weelde area, Holland. A 25-pounder gun shelling nearby Germans counter-attacking British positions. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1940. A lone soldier at the beach. Uncertain times. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1943. The jubilant crew of minesweeper HMS J-838 after their first shot "in anger" downed a German plane. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1944, 13 Lancasters from 617 "Dambuster" Squadron disabled the lock gates at Kembs, with Tallboy bombs. Two crews did not return. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s the one that is now at the RAF Midlands Museum at Cosford.

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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 1d

BATTLE OF BRITAIN 85: 6th October 1940. With cloud and continuous rain, once again the Luftwaffe resorted to sorties by single aircraft or small formations. Among the large number of locations attacked was the small town of Framlingham in Suffolk, hit by eight bombs.
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The destroyed village school in Framlingham, where 63 year old Caroline Stannard, the headmistress, lost her life. The picture shows a small building surrounded by railings, its whitewashed interior walls exposed by the bomb blast which has left piles of broken brickwork and roof timbers.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

"Let's see how she flies." (#OTD in 1944. A captured Messerschmitt Me 410. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

(July 1918.) Some eager passengers and a German A7V tank after being detrained. #WW1 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

(1944, Eindhoven area, Holland.) Airmen from the RAF Regiment manning a captured German Spandau machine gun. (Corporal J. Wilkins of Middlesborough, Leading Aircraftmen H. Clay of Watford, and Leading Aircraftmen D. Freed of Birmingham.) #WW2 #HISTORY

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(6 June 1944, Colosseum, Rome.) An Italian woman inspecting the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

(1944.) B2/Bazenville airfield, France. Sergeant H. Stillwell unloading mail bags from a Hurricane and the pilot, Flight Lieutenant W.V. Melbourne. #WW2 #HISTORY

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

Humanity. (21 August 1918, Courcelles area, France. A Scots Guardsman giving a wounded German prisoner a drink. #WW1 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 3d

(After Market Garden, American 82 & 101 Airborne Division fought in The Island, the area between Arnhem and Nijmegen.) The easiest Then & Now, ever. Richard Winters (a cardboard cutout) in front of Schoonderlogt, command post of Second Battalion 506 PIR. #WW2 #HISTORY

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