The Crusader Project
@crusaderproject.bsky.social
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
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This Bluesky feed serves to disseminate information and new posts related to Operation CRUSADER, the #desertwar in WW2 and #ww2 in general.
If desert #armour warfare, surrendering Germans, and challenges to preconceived ideas about the Italians are your thing, you might want to give us a follow.
If desert #armour warfare, surrendering Germans, and challenges to preconceived ideas about the Italians are your thing, you might want to give us a follow.
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I don't like giving Galloway any air-time, but if you're going to do it, at least flame him like this.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sending off proofs for an essay about how oil transformed work and community in Northern Scotland through rig manufacturing in the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland. It uses oral histories with workers and members of their families and archival research.
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USS Nevada shelling Nazi shore batteries at Cherbourg
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
USS Nevada shelling Nazi shore batteries at Cherbourg
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Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
Straight from the horse’s mouth
The run up to Armistice Day is truly the season of duff military history, so on that theme, I thought I’d share some of my top equine myths of the First World War… 1. ‘The British…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
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Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
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#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happening tomorrow!
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
Join us in person at Pushkin House or online via Zoom for a double lecture by Martin Baumeister (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) und Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) on 'Rome, Berlin and the Power of Urban Images'!
Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....
#urbanhistory
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Scale Model World Telford - found these lovely builds from our friend @roybent.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Scale Model World Telford - found these lovely builds from our friend @roybent.bsky.social
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Savoia-Marchetti S.81s overfly an Italian naval unit. On June 10th, 1940, the Regia Aeronautica had only twenty-nine bombers in its Aegean bases: S.81s of 92° and 56° Groups. About 20-30 S.79 bombers arrived in June/July, but no torpedo units were available in the area. #WW2 #airwar #aviation 1/2🧵
April 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_s...
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
Havik, meaning “hawk” in Dutch, seems to have been favoured in the UK.
Havick was used only for this ship, but its variant Havock was employed across several generations.
Incidentally, the hull of the first Havik appears to have been discovered in 1987.
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10 Nov 1944 // Minesweeper HMS Hydra was damaged beyond repair when a mine exploded under her stern while she was sweeping the approaches to Ostend. Six men died in the explosion. The ship was towed to Sheerness where she was declared a total loss. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
10 Nov 1944 // Minesweeper HMS Hydra was damaged beyond repair when a mine exploded under her stern while she was sweeping the approaches to Ostend. Six men died in the explosion. The ship was towed to Sheerness where she was declared a total loss. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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The Legaye and Prince houses photographed shortly after the battle. The SS murdered 23 people in the garden, 14 of them children, the youngest 4 years old.
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Legaye and Prince houses photographed shortly after the battle. The SS murdered 23 people in the garden, 14 of them children, the youngest 4 years old.
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
#battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook #ww2 #ardennes
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This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...
Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New proposal for the Modern Pentathlon just dropped...
Based on the 3,300 hits from China this week there’s gonna be an AI with some pretty interesting insight into Operation CRUSADER I suspect.
a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says just saying in front of a map
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November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Based on the 3,300 hits from China this week there’s gonna be an AI with some pretty interesting insight into Operation CRUSADER I suspect.
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At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.
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Rather enjoy those old Remembrance Sunday photos of Callaghan and Heath with their wartime service medals which highlight how the two flag-wavers next to them, Paisley and Thatcher, while old enough to have earned some themselves, had none.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rather enjoy those old Remembrance Sunday photos of Callaghan and Heath with their wartime service medals which highlight how the two flag-wavers next to them, Paisley and Thatcher, while old enough to have earned some themselves, had none.
In the early hours of #OTD 1941, Force K ambushed the Beta (or Duisburg) convoy on its way to North Africa and destroyed it in its entirety.
Two Italian destroyers were also lost, RCt Fulmine and Libeccio. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
Two Italian destroyers were also lost, RCt Fulmine and Libeccio. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
An unlucky group – the Regia Marina’s Dardo Series II Destroyers
Background In the early 1930s the Regia Marina continued expanding and modernising its destroyer fleet. Following the reduction in the construction programme for the larger light scouts of the Navi…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In the early hours of #OTD 1941, Force K ambushed the Beta (or Duisburg) convoy on its way to North Africa and destroyed it in its entirety.
Two Italian destroyers were also lost, RCt Fulmine and Libeccio. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
Two Italian destroyers were also lost, RCt Fulmine and Libeccio. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
Today’s favourite #warart comes from Italy where propaganda postcard artists clearly didn’t have access to pictures of Royal Navy vessels.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today’s favourite #warart comes from Italy where propaganda postcard artists clearly didn’t have access to pictures of Royal Navy vessels.
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
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The 15 cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) was a way to turn an old chassis and an old gun into something useful. The short range of the gun meant that the lightly armoured vehicle had to stay close to the enemy and #OTD in 1942 the 15th Panzer Division lost its last one. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Worth remembering that the French carried out the first raids on Berlin in June 1940 using a Farman NC 223.4 that, improbably, still used pusher props.
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French Air-raid on Berlin » Dunkirk 1940 - The Before, The Reality, The Aftermath
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Worth remembering that the French carried out the first raids on Berlin in June 1940 using a Farman NC 223.4 that, improbably, still used pusher props.
dunkirk1940.org/index.php?p=...
dunkirk1940.org/index.php?p=...
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506 years ago, on the 8th of November 1519, Moctezuma welcomed Cortés in Tenochtitlán in peace after the Spaniard had parts of the Aztec Empire. Moctezuma intended to learn the weaknesses of the Spaniards but found himself taken hostage, with Cortés ruling Tenochtitlán through him. #otd #history 🗃️
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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We've spent years and years snd years litigating "wokeness" and "critical race theory" and "DEI" and "political correctness" and spilling untold gallons of ink explaining how complicated and nuanced it is, and it always seems to turn out to be exactly what you'd expect.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We've spent years and years snd years litigating "wokeness" and "critical race theory" and "DEI" and "political correctness" and spilling untold gallons of ink explaining how complicated and nuanced it is, and it always seems to turn out to be exactly what you'd expect.