Simon Duarte

Motorsport, football (NCFC) nut and a sprinkling of other stuff. Also have a YouTube channel 'SimonJerryNCF1.' Please check it out!

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

AC/DC - ‘It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll)! Australian TV show ‘Bandstand’, Feb 21st, 1976.

[Alan Partridge - Quote of the Day @APartridgeQOTD]

Lost your keys?

[Simon Duarte @SimonJDuarte]

@Jparker7398 @TalkNorwichCity Disco Dale wasn't just good but sublime at times. Proper winger who took on full backs

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day Minus 1 has begun in England. Ike is feeling the pressure like no other can. These are the most stressful hours of his life. A journalist notes he is "bowed down with worry...as though each of the four stars on either shoulder weighed a ton." He has a constant ringing in his right ear. Almost frantic with nervous exhaustion, he lights cigarette after cigarette, some 60 filterless a day. He has a palsy in his hand from signing so many orders. The fate of the free world rests with him and him alone. See more at https://t.co/91MLInspp6

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes.

He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men.

Instead he drove out and visited them.

He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant.

When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him.

There were tears running down his face.

He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Look at what he edited.

He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone."

He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5.

He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was.

He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash.

An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it.

That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest.

Right under the words "mine alone."

82 years ago tonight.

[Jane @JaneFranklin99]

Normandy veterans Henry Rice and Ken Hay - both 100 - on Sword Beach once more. @ForcesNews #D-Day

[James Glancy @jaglancy]

RIP Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher.

A tragic loss of an amazing Royal Navy Officer.

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

R.I.P. Anthony Stewart Head. Seen here in The Detectives - Acting Constables (17th February 1993)

[Race Day Replay @RaceDayReplay]

.@HillF1 overtaking Jean Alesi for the lead. Monaco 1996 . Good knowledge @philretsas #SkyF1 #F1 #MonacoGP @CroftyF1

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

Who else is ready for tweets about the 82nd anniversary of DDay for the next couple days!? 🪖

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher, 31, from Virginia Water, Surrey. Britain’s only serving female Royal Navy Commando.

Killed in training on 3 June 2026 when a Merlin Mk4 from 846 Naval Air Squadron crashed at Sourton Down, Devon.

The career arc was extraordinary. An MSc in Geology from Imperial College London in 2016. Junior international representative for England in lacrosse and pole vault. Two years as a geologist with British Petroleum before commissioning in 2019 into the Royal Navy.

During a break in flying training she completed the 16 week All Arms Commando Course, earning the green beret as one of only seven women in British military history to do so, and becoming the UK’s only serving female Royal Navy Commando.

She was killed on her final assessment of flying training. Her Pilot’s Wings were to be awarded in June 2026. She died alongside Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson, 42, and Petty Officer Owen Green, 24.

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

When a Comedy Accidentally Became the "Bloodiest" Movie Ever | Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
I honestly couldn't stop laughing. This scene gets more ridiculous with every second, and that's exactly why it's so funny.

😂

[Frank Drebin @NakedGunTweets]

I don't recall her playing an instrument, or being able to carry a tune, yet she was on the road 300 days of the year...

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Anthony Head (1954 – 2026) R.I.P

[Race Day Replay @RaceDayReplay]

Apparently this is the last overtake for the lead at Monaco #SkyF1 #F1 #MonacoGP

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Goodnight 🌙

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Anthony Head, best known for TV roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso and Little Britain, dies aged 72 https://t.co/obPVwf7MdJ

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Sarah Thomas is 74 today, Happy Birthday Sarah 🎁🎂

[Legendary F1 💎 🏁 @LegendarysF1]

Onboard Gerhard Berger / (Ferrari F93A - V12) / GP Mónaco 1993.

📸: FOM.

#F1

[Belles Italiennes @ItaliAuto]

Arnoux 🇫🇷 / Villeneuve 🇨🇦 - Dijon 1979