#OTD
1986 - Argentine Puma shot down by the Royal Marines detachment on South Georgia under the command of Lt Keith Mills. My photo taken in March 1986 at the start of my tour down there. Doubt there's much left now
Not my photo - robbed from Facebook - Chally 1 towing a PaK40 on Op Resolute, Bosnia 1996.
That piece of German hardware had been lurking around for 50+ years
@randomsasha
@jennafischer
I can’t believe teachers over there have to purchase supplies out of their own pockets full stop, no matter whether tax deductible or not. Evening ladies
You know, twitter can be an amazing place sometimes - tweet a photo of an innocuous Army 4 ton Bedford GS lorry, 13 hours ago... it's been viewed more than 14,000 times today alone! Here's another one..
Welcome to the world new human!!
Twitter - say hi to Eleanor (Ellie) Hope who made an appearance last night
Grandparent’s are doing well, parents knackered!!
The battleship
#Texas
BB-35 was refloated yesterday in Galveston, USA, after several months of extensive restoration work.
Launched in 1910, she took part in the Normandy D-Day in 1944.
📽️Third Coast Drone
Full movie in 4K :
#battleships
#USNavy
#WWII
Believe it or not... this is a flying scale model of Vulcan B2 XH558 (in original anti flash white) - it's huge (look at the office door behind to give an idea of scale)
#twitterVforce
Feel really sad today - thought the world had moved on from idiots invading other countries based on lies and sending young men to sort it out. 31 years ago I was involved in liberating one small country that suffered such a fate and seeing it happening again, I just despair
Probably my earliest photo in uniform - home visit, wearing the awful barrack dress trousers. I still have my recruit troop white flash on, so this will be circa Oct 1982
Uniform fits where it touches me etc!
#OnThisDay
1977: Blue Peter’s resident stunt man, John Noakes, scaled the death-defying heights of Nelson’s Column to clean out some pigeon poo.
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#WheelWednesday
- an old favourite I know, perched on the bonnet of my Series 3 FFR up in the Harz Mountains circa 1988. One thing I have noticed is my non-standard jungle boots, acquired from the US PX up in Bremerhaven - worn when out of sight of the regiments grown ups!
Robbed from FB to give you a good impression of the sheer size of an MBT on the main road - Chieftains on the move in Germany back in the day & civvy traffic keeping a good gap
RAF Corporal Maheshkumar Islania and his 6 month old daughter Nivruti Mahesh were pursued, shot and murdered by the IRA in Wildenwrath, Germany 26/10/1989 Remember them today
#LestweForget
#TankTuesday
- Challenger 1's, 1991, pre invasion/liberation of Kuwait (no recognition ^ painted). Note the portable bog on the back of the 2nd image 💩
#OTD
My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin & moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she witnessed a rapid increase in Hitler's popularity. 1/12
Something not seen for a while - Waterloo’s turret moving under power. Everything restored now so she will track a ‘target’ once again after a bit of a weird electrical issue