Ernest Malley 📚🤨

Existential crisis actor.

[Ernest Malley 📚🤨 @ErnestMalley]

Whilst 'Italians' is trending, lets just take a moment to recognise the truly fantastic 1932, Stipa-Caproni...as sleek and majestic a machine of the air as we shall ever see.

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@MarkoMatvikov @barrassbear You're a grub made of spiders Marko.

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@Ausbobsmit I just assumed she'd walk around and spit on things.

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@Ryandally08 30 years into this game and she still can't string sentences together. Can't wait to see her try to participate in an election debate; they expect a bit more than, "I've had a gutfull!"

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@SenatorSeanBell Those preferred PM polls....you can sure take them to the bank!

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@karlstefanovic Little hobgoblin didn't take his Work Choices to an election...no guts, no 'ticker'.

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@OneNationAus How many donors though? Gina plus a couple of other fat reactionary twats?

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@MmarianneJoseph A mix of typical MacArthur showmanship and Morshead wanting to recapture something of his old frontline visits during the siege of Tobruk. The Battalion history certainly records it as being an unwanted annoyance.

[Chez @pilbarahearts]

#reading ‘Singapore and Beyond: The Story of the Men of the 2/20 Battalion’ by Don Wall.

[Mark Duckett @MarkRDuckett]

As I have probably said before, my grandfather was stationed at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle when the Japanese sub attacked

His version events were quite different to official defence history....and hilariously inglorious

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@lorus77 @ForgottenWarPic Doug ran his army into total debacle at the Yalu....didn't need Truman for that.

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@ParkinGraham @HistoryBowsh And yet there's more AMF personnel serving overseas in 1945 than at any point in the war. The truth was in 1942 the army had been expanded beyond the ability of the nation's population to sustain it...consequently there was a lot of LoC 'fat' available to trim.

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@HistoryBowsh @austdef That assumes that the Commonwealth Corps concept was ever anything more than MacArthur trying to kick his allies into the long grass. There's precious little there 'there' TBH. I suspect in the face of mounting casualties Mac would have blown off the CC & fed Divs in piecemeal.

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@HelpRodger Woolworths & Coles next to each other...and a sign that just says, 'Specials $2.99'. Must be real!!!

[Chez @pilbarahearts]

#reading ‘Against All Odds: The History of the 2/18 Battalion A.I.F’ by James Burfitt.

[Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer @aviationarchive]

The CAC Boomerang was Australia's first home-designed fighter, entering service in 1943. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 engine with 1200 hp, it reached 305 mph and carried two 20mm cannons plus four .303 machine guns. Some 250 were built for Pacific ground attack duties. 🫡

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@RCR_NZ @wilmsfront @Un_shackled Dan Derangement Syndrome. Some very bad cases right there. Sad.

[puyokuma🌏 @puyokuma7]

オーストラリア, シドニー郊外のパラマッタ (Parramatta) にある
NSWランサーズ記念博物館 (NSW Lancers Memorial Museum)
博物館60周年記念式典に向けて再塗装を終えた
「エース」の愛称を持つマチルダII歩兵戦車🌟
1945年ボルネオ島, バリクパパンの戦いで
日本軍と戦った経歴がある

[Military History Society of NSW @MHS_NSW]

The Owen gun was an Australian submachine gun designed by Evelyn Owen in 1938. It was the only entirely Australian-designed and constructed service submachine gun of World War II. The gun was used by the Australian Army from 1942 until 1971. The Owen went into production at the John Lysaght factories at Port Kembla and Newcastle, New South Wales. Between March 1942 and February 1943, Lysaght's produced 28,000 Owen guns.

#History #WW2

[Chez @pilbarahearts]

#reading ‘A History Of The 2/29 Battalion - 8th Australian Division AIF’ by R.W. Christie.

[Andy Saunders 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @1940Andy]

Were your ears burning today @almurray ? Your name came up in conversation with @KarlJames_1945 at @AWMemorial today. You guys @WeHaveWaysPod really need to get out here to the newly revamped AWM. It truly is absolutely bloody breathtaking. And some! Soooo many stories and angles to cover. This is the gold star standard for a national war museum. G-George is incredible. As is everything!! 👍