@agathachristie By The Pricking of My Thumbs. Sinister old ladies, dead children in fireplaces and a search for a house in a painting that had been seen from a train somewhere in the past. What’s not to like?
🪖 HARDY - 10th August 1944
#OTD in 1944, Sgt Bert Hardy photographed a sniper-clearing party of 1/5 Welch "in action".
The images were staged, but give a fascinating insight into counter-sniper work in #Normandy. Let's follow them on a sniper hunt...
🧵 1/16 #AFPUinNWE#WW2
@InspireZoneoff@fasc1nate I remember in the early days of recognising Sudden Infant Death Syndrome that it was remarked that SIDS was unknown here, the supposition being that the continual background noise prevented babies from sleeping deeply enough for it to happen.