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#Arnhem76Day 10 - The final hours.Tuesday 26th September 1944.Operation Berlin - the evacuation across the Rhine of the remnants of 1st Airborne Division ends with daybreak on this day 76

#Arnhem76 Day 8 Sunday 24th September 1944.Today we are looking at the eastern flank of the Oosterbeek Perimeter (circled in purple) on the map. This section of the line was

#Arnhem76 Day 7. Saturday 23rd September 1944.The fighting in Oosterbeek continues but the defensive perimeter is now shrinking. The 7/KOSB still hold the line to the north but have fallen

#Arnhem76 Day 6. Friday 22nd September 1944.Today we are looking at the south sector of the defensive perimeter based (circled in the map) around the Old Church in Oosterbeek on

#Arnhem76 Day 5. Thursday 21st September 1944.The 5th day and all resistance at the northern end of the Arnhem Road Bridge had ended. 1st Airborne Division have now gone on

#Arnhem76 Day Four. Wednesday 20th September 1944.Today we are looking at the story of the 4th Parachute Brigade commanded by Brigadier Shan Hackett. The Brigade, as we saw on Friday,

#Arnhem76 Day One.Sunday 17th September 1944.A thread about 6 Platoon of B Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion. The 2nd Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Frost dropped on DZ X with

A final #Dunkirk80 related thread from me with in collaboration with @Dunkirk_1940 on the actions by Captain Harold Ervine-Andrews of 1/East Lancashire Regiment which resulted with him being awarded a

A thread in collaboration with @Dunkirk_1940 looking at the fighting on this morning 80 years ago, 1 June 1940 on the Dunkirk Perimeter involving 2/Coldstream Guards. Our focus is on

A thread with @Dunkirk_1940 on the massacre at Le Paradis. On 27 May 1940 Units of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were desperately fighting to hold open a 'corridor' so

There's quite a bit of Arnhem related activity on Twitter at the moment on the provenance of this photo. The following is a thread based on it. An alternative school

A thread looking at the Battle for Galatas and the famous counterattack by NZ 23rd Battalion at the point of the Bayonet. In the middle distance is Pink Hill, held