30th April 1943. Operation MINCEMEAT was put into action. At 4:15 AM off the coast of Huelva, Spain, the British submarine HMS Seraph surfaced to deposit the body of ‘Major William Martin’, Royal Marines, in the sea. Attached to his belt was a briefcase containing entirely…

30th April 1942. The cruiser HMS Edinburgh, having just taken up station to form part of the escort for convoy QP11 from the Soviet Union to the UK, was hit by two torpedoes from U-456. Severely damaged amidships and at the stern, she was immobilised but still able to use her…

#OTD in 1945. #WW2 #HISTORY (Really. 😉)

Reminder to all: Check the oil level in your car, regularly. 😁

A Bridge Too Far. Americans take the Nijmegen Waal Bridge. Nope, the British did. Seriously. (See pre-jump.nl.) #WW2 #HISTORY

Dutch cows and a touch of Market Garden. In the background lies Oosterbeek. 😉

A documentary of this B-17 crew was made by Major William Wyler in 1943. His daughter Catherine Wyler co-produced a fictionalised version, Memphis Belle, in 1990. #WW2 #HISTORY

Can I have one, please? 😍 (A VW-Schwimmwagen Typ-166 amphibious car formerly belonging to German 12 SS Panzer Division. #WW2 #HISTORY )

Not posed.(1944, Normandy. #WW2 #HISTORY )

#OTD in 1968, Bentley airfield. In civvies: Air Vice Marshal 'Johnny' Johnson CBE DSO** DFC*, Group Captain P.W. Townsend CVO DSO DFC*, Wing Commander R.R.S. Tuck DSO DFC** DFC, Air Commodore A.C. Deere OBE DSO DFC* DFC and Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader CBE DSO* DFC*.

#OTD in 1941, North Africa. The crew from a Cruiser tank IV studying a map. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945, Germany. A Churchill tank from 6 Guards Tank Brigade crossing a pontoon bridge over the Elbe River. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945. Venice (Italy) is liberated. Sherman tanks in the Piazzale Roma. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1940. The later Field Marshal Alan Brooke, posing. An extremely influential man. He stood up to Churchill and mentored Montgomery. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945, Stalag 10-B, Germany. Brave 14 years old Polish boy named 'Lisek' (Little Fox) who knocked out two tanks during the Warsaw Uprising. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1943, Bou Arada, Tunisia. Vickers machine gun team from 10 The Rifle Brigade. #WW2 #HISTORY

(25 August 1944, Pacy-sur-Eure, France.) Loyd carriers with anti-tank guns belonging 129 Brigade 43 Infantry Division crossing 11 Field Company's Bailey bridge. #WW2 #HISTORY

The terror is over, the trauma not. ( #OTD in 1945, Dachau concentration camp, near München, was liberated. #WW2 #HISTORY )

#OTD in 1945, Westertimke, Germany. Liberated Royal Navy and merchant seaman POWs at Marlag and Milag Nord. #WW2 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1945, Stalag 7A. Germany. A former British POW cooking food on a homemade stove and Americans examining food parcels. #WW2 #HISTORY