Historian & curator tweeting history of war, conflict and @I_W_M collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Tweets are personal views.
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Looking for something else and came across the goofiest set of portraits I think I've ever seen in the @I_W_M collection.
They were taken aboard the battleship HMS Rodney, in 1940.
© IWM (A 837) - 'A bosun's mate and 6-in gun trainer, 22, frm Manchester
iwm.org.uk/collections/item/…
David and Goliath, if David was from South Korea and Goliath was from France.
-81 Lee Joonhwan goes all out against 140kg Riner!
🇫🇷 France 4 - 1 Korea 🇰🇷
#JudoOlympics #Sport #Olympics #Paris2024 #MixedTeams
A month after the election and the big Keir Starmer poster at the station has just been replaced by an advert for wooden floors.
Today in 1944, Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers attack an oil storage facility at Bec d'Ambes in the Garonne estuary.
Photo: @I_W_M CL 650
Wondering what 'legitimate concerns' are solved by setting fire to a Citizens Advice office in Sunderland and a cheap shoe shop in Hull.
Today in 1944, Royal Air Force heavy bombers attack a quarry at Trossy St Maximin, north of Paris, which is being used as a depot for German V1 flying bombs.
Photo: @I_W_M CL 627
Today in 1944; two US Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolts in flight.
Photo: @I_W_M FRE 14156
Today in 1944, in Normandy, a Churchill tank carries infantry of the Royal Scots Fusiliers past the destroyed church of St Martin in Le Tourneur, and a knocked out German Panzer IV.
Photo: Sergeant Laing @I_W_M B 8553
TEDDY RINER wins gold in the men's 100kg+ judo. A spectacular end to a really wonderful individual judo competition.🇫🇷🥋🥇 Bring on the team event!
Today in 1944, at RAF Brenzett in Kent, Sqn Ldr Eugeniusz Horbaczewski (second left) poses at his Mustang III with comrades of No. 315 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF. His aircraft's victory marks include 13.5 confirmed kills, as well as four V1 flying bombs.
Photo: @I_W_M MH 13761
Came across this while looking for something. A section of gun camera footage of a victory by Polish ace Horbaczewski; a FW 190 which he shot down while flying a Mustang on 12 June 1944. The FW seems to hit a tree as it descends.
IWM CGA 2554~2644 / iwm.org.uk/collections/item/…
Wondering whether the heavyweight judo players achieve their physique by eating smaller judoka.🇯🇵🥋
The first massive result of the day. Saito downs defending champion Krpalek! 🇯🇵
#JudoOlympics #Sport #Olympics #Paris2024
Men, what's stopping you looking like this?
Richard was certainly an unusual shape, but our seamstress, Jayne Farnworth, did a wonderful job.
@SmithCorblimey made the Sam Browne for him. In another scene the belt was seen in all its double brace combat glory!
Today in 1944 in Normandy, a British motorcycle despatch rider accepts a glass of cider from a French civilian, as British troops advance towards Vire.
Photo: Sergeant Palmer @I_W_M B 8515
Today in 1944, near the village of La Romola near Florence in Italy, a German Tiger tank captured by the New Zealand 22nd Battalion is photographed by Sergeant Menzies.
Photo: @I_W_M NA 17525-6
