#OnThisDay 1999 HM The Queen gave permission for Surg.Capt. Rick Jolly to wear insignia of the Argentine Orden de Mayo granted by Argentina for Jolly’s life saving care to Argentine casualties as well as British during the Falklands, he was the only person decorated by both sides
TOM LAWDAY WINS IT FOR THE QUINS!!! 😱
@Harlequins seal the win against Northampton Saints with a last minute try, scored by Tom Lawday in his final match for the Quins!
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The ring of steel around the invasion fleet, plus Allied air cover – including Fleet Air Arm – largely protected it from the German Navy, but losses among landing craft were heavy: one fifth of 47 (RM) Commando was wiped out in the initial wave at Gold Beach. #DDay#WW2
Nearly 200,000 naval personnel – more than half of them RN, plus 25,000 Merchant Navy seaman – manned an invasion force of nearly 7,000 vessels: battleships and cruisers pounding German positions, more than 4,000 landing craft and a good 1,500 supporting vessels. #DDay#WW2
#OTD in 1944 the greatest armada ever to leave our shores delivered fire, fury and thousands of troops on to the beaches of Normandy.
By the day’s end Hitler’s Atlantic Wall was punctured by the bravery, ingenuity and overwhelming firepower of Allied forces. #Dday#WW2
West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan has stepped down from his position as joint chairman and director of the club with immediate effect "having been made aware of the impending publication of serious historic allegations".
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#OnThisDay 82 yrs ago in 1944 #DDay Operation Neptune landed 156,000 Allied troops on 5 beaches in Normandy as part of the invasion of Europe. 6833 ships were used, including 5,300 warships and landing craft, 78% of which were British under @RoyalNavy & planned by Admiral Ramsay
@HRedpigs@DailyMail The same Daily Mail which had to be blocked/banned by MoDnet because of all the data harvesting that was taking place?
The same Daily Mail that reported T26 would be armed with SA80 weapons and travel at 3000 knots?
Such a bastion of journalism wouldn't stoop that low, surely😉
#OnThisDay 110 yrs ago in 1916, HMS HAMPSHIRE struck a German mine & sank off Orkney with the loss of 737 men. One of the dead was the Secretary of State for War, the man who had assembled the largest volunteer army in UK history, Field Marshall Lord Kitchener. Only 12 survived.