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RG Poulussen

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Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs.

Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · Mar 28

(Time again to promote my two books, something I tend to forget to do regularly. 😟) If you like to collect all available facts and form your own opinion about Market Garden please visit my website pre-jump.nl. (I have no marketing department so a repost is really appreciated.)

A Bridge Too Far is a Hollywood view of Market Garden. My two books are based on facts, primary sources.

Why and where did Market Garden fail? Purchase Lost at Nijmegen. All Market Garden facts from primary sources? Purchase Little Sense of Urgency

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"Zero Hour" by James Prinsep Beadle, 1918, #IWM. Surrounded by his soldiers, a British platoon commander counts down on his watch. The seconds tick by until the fateful moment when they will go over the top. #westernfront #ww1 #GreatWar #BritishArmy #BEF #pbi

November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM

RG Poulussen

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A genuine test track *on top* of a Fiat factory in Turin, Italy. 😊

November 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM

RG Poulussen

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Roles Reversed. (April 1945, Arnhem. Municipal Museum area, where paratroopers were blocked by Germans during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY)

November 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1942, Tobruk, North Africa. Footage shot, during aerial mine sweeping, one day after the town was captured. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM

RG Poulussen

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(Two miles from where I live.) Elst, Holland. On patrol. 😊 (Area inundated, by Germans.) #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM

RG Poulussen

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A German Panzer IV with the improved 75mm KwK 40 gun. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM

RG Poulussen

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(#NotColourised) Pretty warm welcome. 😊 (#OTD in 1944. A Beaufighter arriving in Greece. #WW2 #HISTORY)

November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1941, Littlehampton in Sussex. 25-pounder field guns from 408 Battery 146 Field Regiment. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1918, Tournai, Belgium. Time of pure joy. The first liberated British prisoners of war. #WW1 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1943, Port of Brindisi, Italy. A captured German Infanterielandungsboot (or "I-Lighter"). #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM

RG Poulussen

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(1945.) Near Giessen, Germany. Three 14 year-old German Flakhelfer. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1940, Coventry. 515 German bombers attack the city, resulting in 568 people killed with another 863 badly injured and 393 with lesser injuries (estimates). #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM

RG Poulussen

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#OTD in 1940. British and Greek troops in Crete. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM

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RG Poulussen

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(2020.) Sand art on Omaha Beach. #WW2 #HISTORY

November 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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Steve Hunnisett

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Interesting public service announcement on a 335 London bus.

Sign on a London bus which has been doctored to read “KEEP HANDS CLEAR, MOVING FARTS!”

November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM

RG Poulussen

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"Come to mummy."

November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM

RG Poulussen

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(1944.) Soviet paratroops (and one paradog). #WW2 #HISTORY

November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM

RG Poulussen

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Vortices.

November 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM

RG Poulussen

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Needed: A big stapler gun. 😊 (The damaged port-side fuselage of Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, P5005 DY-N from 102 Squadron, after returning from a bombing raid to the Ruhr on the night of 12/13 November 1940. #WW2 #HISTORY)