John Sheppard

Life is like a box of chocolates! Proud dad to three amazing children. SE3 & MFG.
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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Marines of the 2nd Marine Division are crawling under enemy fire to their assigned positions. The wet 'Leatherneck' took a dunking when the landing craft he came in on was hit by Japanese mortar fire.
The landings began at 07:00 on 15th June 1944. More than 300 LVTs landed 8,000 Marines on the west coast of Saipan by about 09:00. Eleven fire support ships covered the Marine landings. The naval force consisted of the battleships Tennessee and California. The cruisers were Birmingham and Indianapolis. The destroyers were Norman Scott, Monssen, Colahan, Halsey Powell, Bailey, Robinson and Albert W. Grant.
Careful Japanese artillery preparation — placing flags in the lagoon to indicate the range — allowed them to destroy about 20 amphibious tanks, and the Japanese strategically placed barbed wire, artillery, machine gun emplacements, and trenches to maximize the American casualties. However, by nightfall the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions had a beachhead about 6 mi (10 km) wide and 0.5 mi (1 km) deep.

(Source - Defense Dept. Photo - Marine Corps 83260)
Combat cameraman Sgt James M Burns

Color by Jecinci

[The Football Feed @TheFootballFeed]

Married his childhood sweetheart, has four kids, donates to the armed forces and mental health charities while running his own foundation. Doesn't drink or smoke. Zero career scandals, which is rare for anyone at his level of fame.

He's also his country's and boyhood club's all-time top scorer, with six Golden Boots including four in the Premier League and one at a World Cup.

He's easily the best striker in the world right now.

And yet Harry Kane remains one of the most disrespected and underrated players in world football. Which is bizarre because he's exactly the type of footballer kids should be looking up to. 👏

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

More than 8,000 British airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day, knowing many would never return.

Their sacrifice helped secure the first steps toward liberation. 🇬🇧

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On this day in 1942 one of the most desperate convoy battles of World War Two was reaching its bloody climax in the Mediterranean, and all of it, every sunken ship and every lost life, was to keep a single tiny island alive.

The island was Malta, a small speck of rock that happened to sit in exactly the wrong place for the Axis and exactly the right place for the Allies. From Malta, British ships, submarines, and aircraft could reach out and strangle the supply convoys carrying fuel, tanks, and ammunition to Rommel's forces in North Africa. Hitler and Mussolini understood this perfectly, and they were determined to bomb and starve the island into surrender. The Allies were just as determined not to let that happen, whatever the cost in steel and blood.

So they tried something audacious. Two convoys at once, sailing from opposite ends of the sea to confuse and divide the Axis defenders. Operation Harpoon pushed east from Gibraltar, while Operation Vigorous pushed west from Alexandria, the idea being to force the enemy to split his ships and aircraft and choose which convoy to stop. It did not unfold the way the planners hoped. The Alexandria convoy, Vigorous, was pounded relentlessly by wave after wave of Axis aircraft and then turned back entirely by the looming threat of the powerful Italian battle fleet steaming out to intercept it. The Gibraltar convoy, Harpoon, had to fight its way through a brutal gauntlet of bombers, torpedo planes, and surface warships, paying a savage price every mile of the way.

The final arithmetic was grim. Of the six precious merchant ships in the Harpoon convoy, only two actually reached Malta, and getting even those two through cost the Allies several warships and many lives. On paper, it looked close to a defeat.

But those two battered freighters mattered far more than their numbers suggest. The supplies they carried helped keep Malta breathing, and a surviving Malta kept right on choking the Axis lifeline across the sea, which in turn helped doom Rommel in the desert months later.

Sometimes the entire course of a war turns on whether two scarred and smoking freighters can limp into a single harbor. On this day in 1942, against all odds, they did.

[Walk Among Heroes @walkamongheroes]

They gave everything. The least we can do is never forget.

@WW2Facts @Normandy

#dday #normandy #heroes #neverforget #ww2

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

Harry Billinge landed on Gold Beach on D-Day at just 18 years old and never stopped honouring those who didn't return.

As he often said in his favourite poem, "Do not call me hero... for all the real true heroes have crosses lined upon the grass."

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Stephen Daisley nails it.

The SNP didn’t have a transition plan for Aberdeen — they had a demolition plan.

The biggest betrayal of a Scottish workforce in a generation.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I have cried so many tears over the weeks re this case. It is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever read.

Baby Preston Davey was abused to within an inch of his life, & then beyond. For the pleasure of grown men 💔

Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley are scum of the earth.

Jamie Varley said “I’m going to hell”.

Yes Jamie - yes you are and I hope that in the meantime, every day of your remaining life is made to be hell on earth.

Preston Davey, you poor innocent little boy. I hope you at least now rest in peace💔🙏🏻👼🏼

The social workers involved in this case must be investigated.

Honestly, my heart & my head hurts 😔

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Paul Gascoigne @ Italia '90 🤩

[Donald C MacLeod MBE @DonaldCMacleod]

Someone’s put a traffic cone on George Washington in Boston 🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@FIFAWorldCup @ScotlandNT

[CraiginEngland @ghost_wales]

Exclusive by Andrew Learmonth Political Editor 👇

Cash-strapped South Lanarkshire Council spent £195,154 on legal fees fighting an employment tribunal it lost on every count — pushing the total cost of the case to just under £1 million, The Herald can reveal.
The councillor, who secured the figures only after a four-year battle and the intervention of the Scottish Information Commissioner, called it "one of the biggest scandals to hit Scottish local government" — one that "could have been avoided if SNP politicians had listened" to legal advice.

https://t.co/dvNQa8tLHs

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.

[Walk Among Heroes @walkamongheroes]

One of the most important experiences in our Ambassador Program is running from the ocean’s edge at low tide all the way to the sea wall on Omaha Beach.

We can never truly understand what those brave men faced. But feeling that distance beneath your feet changes you.

@Normandy @WW2Facts @VoicesofWW2

#dday #normandy #heroes #neverforget #ww2

[80s&90sFootball ⚽ @80s90sfootball]

#OnThisDay @ #Spain82

Brazil came from behind to beat the Soviet Union 2-1 in Seville

Socrates & Eder's goals were from a different planet - Sensational

🎙from Barry Davies

🎥 @1968Tv👍

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Humza Yousaf defended the migrant man sexually harassing the young girls in Dundee

The girls were thankfully vindicated in court

He is an anti-white racist scumbag

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 When you say the word tarmac... You have just said a Scotsman's name.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Tar, laid over macadam. The macadam is the man.

John Loudon McAdam was born in Ayr in 1756. The Britain he grew up in moved at the speed of mud.

He was not an engineer and never trained as one. He was a merchant who could not stop studying roads, and he travelled Britain at his own expense to learn why they failed.

His answer was almost insultingly simple.

No grand foundations. Just small broken stones on a raised, drained bed, and let the traffic itself pack the surface tight. Cheap enough for any turnpike trust in the country.

🏛️ You were told great roads take an empire. Rome needed legions. McAdam needed broken stone and drainage.

In 1816, nearly 60, he got his chance at Bristol and remade the roads. The carts stopped sinking.

In 1823 Parliament examined his system and adopted it.

The work had cost him his own fortune. Parliament moved to repay him 5,000 pounds sterling, and rivals cut it to 2,000. He kept working anyway, and turned down a knighthood.

His method spread across Europe, then America. In 1902 a Welsh surveyor bound macadam with tar. Tarmac. 2 centuries on, the world walks and drives on his name.

An Ayrshire merchant paid his own way to fix everyone's road.

Britain moves because people like him refused to wait for permission.

Are you one of them? 👇
👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers have agreed deal to appoint Derek McInnes as new head coach. 🔵⚪️

Formal steps to follow but deal done.

[Mexico86HQ 🇲🇽🌵⚽ @Mexico86HQ]

SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1986

[ITV Football @itvfootball]

Scotland win a #FIFAWorldCup match for the first time since 1990! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿