#1941

Matt Warwick

mpwarwick

The King George V class were the most modern British battleships of the Second World War. They are perhaps best known for their actions against Bismarck in 1941 and Scharnhorst

Global Financial Data

GlobalFinData

Pepsi History thread: Between 1922 and 1934, Pepsi-Cola’s financial situation was so bad that three times Pepsi-Cola approached Coca-Cola and offered to sell out to their competitor. All three times

john sturgis

sturgios

A story my sister told me that I think is worth sharing:She lives in Lewes and last week went walking on the Downs above the town where she happened upon

David Burge

iowahawkblog

Special Memorial Day #DavesCarIDService today to honor those who sacrificed all for our country, and others who served. First up: my great uncle Frank Stebner with his brother Bill on

Ravilious

Ravilious1942

Today is #VEDay when we remember the end of the war in Europe. Eric Ravilious never survived to see that Peace, & for his wife Tirzah, it left her a

createstreets

createstreets

A question for all our interesting followers if you have a few spare mins? What is your favourite #lostbuilding? Any country, any century.... Here's one of ours - the Custom

Zuriel Domingo

domingozuriel

Remembering Day of Valor and my grandfather Francisco Palma Domingo, Sr; a native of Ilocos, he read literature and pre-law for his Associate in Arts degree at Far Eastern College

Andi 🏴

andi_ailian

A thread on the consequences of Soviet and Nazi takeovers of Latvia (mainly the USSR's re-occupation of Latvia): In the early 1940s, Latvia was invaded 3 different times.- June 1940,

Séan F Scullion

sean_f_scullion

A thread over the next few days on Spaniards fighting in the British Army in WW2 with an emphasis (this time) on those who were in the Middle East Commandos

Deny Fear

dean_frey

I've always loved the set photographs from Preston Sturges's films, so here's a threadTalmadge Morrison (1892-1974) took photos for Christmas in July, 1940, & Sullivan's Travels, 1941He benefits from John

Justin Pyke

CBI_PTO_History

A difficult Q given the Japanese fought a high intensity air war from 1937-1945. So a/c critical in certain periods/areas were not present at others. IJNAS and IJAAS had almost

amid amidi

amid

THREAD: One of the problems with Twitter (& social media in general) is not only users who post false info but the thousands of others who signal boost the false

Peter Harvey

peterjharvey

THREAD - I’ll be tweeting formerly classified or ‘secret’ #WW2 #Blitz photos from #Crosby #Bootle areas of north #Liverpool made public by @SeftonLibraries with @HeritageFundNOR for #Sefton75 #VEDay75 #LestWeForget #Merseyside

Historic.ly

historic_ly

Babi Yar is a ravine in the outskirts of Kiev. In 1941, 34,000 jews were massacred in one of the many "genocide by bullets" in the Eastern Front. On 19

SOS - Save Old Sarum

SaveOldSarum

Henry Lamb’s painting, ‘An Instructor of the Royal Air Force Co-operation School’, was painted in 1941 during Lamb's short period at RAF Old Sarum as a war artist. But who

Andrew Spooner 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

andrewspoooner

I am not a royalist in any way, shape or form but think it's appropriate to point out that whilst Prince Philip was actually fighting Nazis the Communist Party of