Mcr Military History

Manchester Military History Society - quality, accessible military history lectures and tweeted military, political history and other ephemera...

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

A fascinating Archives find - lots on information on SAS operations and exercises in the early 1980s...

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

An interesting Cold War snippet from early 1970s. Does anyone know what "No 1 Field Operational Research Group" was, or why, in context of total mobilisation for WW3, its plans were "need to know"?

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

We had an excellent night yesterday hearing about the #Union blockade of the #Confederacy.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

Powerful photograph of Danish International Brigaders resting and eating during the Battle of the Ebro, 1938. They look like they've been through hell, thousand yard stares there, though a couple are smiling. Some 500 Danes fought in Spain. I think about 150 died.

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

Don’t miss our next talk with @ColdWarPod.

Details here. https://t.co/aQMamR264X

[Jake Holliday @J_O_Holliday]

Thread: Around 9:30am on 8th April 1989, this East German border guard officer was photographed firing at two East German men who had just jumped over the barrier at the East-West border crossing at Chausseestraße, Berlin.

He missed.

[Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII]

German spies Vera Erickson & Karl Drücke have been arrested in a Scottish railway station. Incriminating evidence: in their luggage were pistols, £400 of banknotes, a radio & a half-eaten German sausage.

[Klaas Meijer @klaasm67]

In 2003 a part of the fuselage of a 🇬🇧Short Sterling was found near Nijmegen. A farmer used it as a pigsty. The aircraft was shot down after a resupply mission over Operation Market Garden (1944). The fuselage is on display at the Deelen Airfield museum.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

The excellent @museuexili to the Republican exile in La Jonquera near French border is only museum I know with a motto. From King Leah “Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here” which via Catalan into more modern English could be "When freedom is far from here. That is exile"

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

#Kamikaze! Japan's last-ditch effort to stave off defeat in World War 2..

TUESDAY, 8th October 2024 AT 19:30
Details here https://t.co/uFVXLyf620

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

#Kamikaze! Japan's last-ditch effort to stave off defeat in World War 2..

TUESDAY, 8th October 2024 AT 19:30
Details here https://t.co/uFVXLyf620

[The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq]

I walked into a local antique shop this morning and saw this beat up antique musket sitting in this exact spot, on that table. I knew immediately this was something special, and nobody realized it. 🧵

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

Next Tuesday 10th.

Operational Research in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Info here. https://t.co/uFVXLyf620

@WHW_NorthernIC @AC_NavalHistory @SpitfireFilly @AirPowerHistory @IWMNorth #ww2convoys #uboats #kriegsmarine #coastalcommand

[Northern IC 🇺🇦 @WHW_NorthernIC]

Just acquired an original vinyl copy of this.
Straight back to the '70s when this was the closest you could get to owning films. Endlessly played.
Don't have a record player but that is a minor issue and completely irrelevant.
#SundayAfternoonWarFilms #WeHaveWays

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Surprising Facts, Tiny Details and Clever tricks That Make Movies Unforgettable

A Thread 🧵👇

1. In Saving Private Ryan (1998), Jackson has a bruise on his thumb that was a common injury during WWII from soldiers' thumbs getting caught in the loading mechanism of M1 Garands.

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

Tonight’s talk in #manchester is “The Mules of the 14th Army in Burma”

All are welcome!

Info here. https://t.co/uFVXLyfDRy

#ww2 #burma #myanmar #14tharmy

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

We have a stall at the @mcrhistfest today at Manchester Central Library between 12-4pm.

Do come along and say hi!

[Mcr Military History @mcrmilhist]

@SpyHards @ColdWarPod @MClaudeHawkes @ColdWarFran @CWRGPrague @SHAFRhistorians @truecrimeinves Penkovsky was mentioned

[Klaas Meijer @klaasm67]

In 1940 General Franco contemplated supporting German operation Felix: the capture of Gibraltar. Since he feared a British reaction towards the Canaries, he ordered the construction of defences. Because of this Lanzarote has many bunkers. Luckily for Spain, Franco stayed neutral.

[Cold War Conversations Podcast @ColdWarPod]

Come and see @coldwarpod live at @mcrmilhist

https://t.co/S0xTiL6x4j