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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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What sobering and tragic words. 2nd Lt John Low MC MM. we must never forget the sacrifices that soldiers like him have made for us. #fww #fwwhist #GreatWar
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“Sacrificed on the altar of Armageddon at Passchendaele, the ridge upon which the hopes of so many of our young and promising men have been blasted.”

Stirring words in a newspaper article that announced the death of Second Lieutenant John Low MC MM.

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December 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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A Sherman "Crab" flail tank in action. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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(March 1945.) The crossing of the Rhine River. Army troops (operation Plunder) meeting airborne troops (operation Varsity). #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#OTD in 1944, Italy. "These tanks are within range of enemy guns. To protect the tracks and suspension, the tanks have been dug in and sandbagged. Trooper Trowhill of London, Ontario, does a spot of washing beside his sandbagged tank." #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Breakfast with a view. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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(22 November 1944.) Home Guard members practicing drills on a Bofors gun, overseen by a Sergeant from the Royal Artillery. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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#OTD in 1943, a devastating German air raid on Bari, Italy. "28 ships sunk, 1,000 military / merchant marine personnel and 1,000 civilians killed. The release of mustard gas from one of the wrecked cargo ships added to the loss of life." #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Tragically, #OTD in 1944. in Stalag 344, 30 imprisoned British servicemen died as a result of an Allied bomb raid. Some of them had survived the fighting around Arnhem, in September. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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#OTD in 1944, Italy. Pretty special. A 25-pounder (266 Battery 67 Field Regiment) used as a mortar. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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#OTD in 1941, Kelso area. Four brothers, volunteers from the Polish community in Argentina, who joined the Polish Army together, during a rifle practise. #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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(6 June 1944, Queen beach, Sword area.) "POWs, see that disabled Sherman Crab flail tank? Go there and wait." #WW2 #HISTORY
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Good evening Vicky.
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The modus operandi of Trump is that of Hitler. Nuremberg, a terrific movie. Stark lessons from the past.
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My new book will blow your mind. 😂 Can't elaborate because of patent.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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My new book will blow your mind. 😂 Can't elaborate because of patent.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A "friendly" Messerschmitt Bf 109. 33,984 were made and first saw action during the Spanish civil war, in 1937. "A significant portion of Bf 109 production originated in Nazi concentration camps, including Flossenbürg, Mauthausen-Gusen, and Buchenwald." #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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They tell me you can see a launched mortar bomb in the air #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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(1940.) The Few. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Spitfires at The Rock. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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A bit of tidying up. 😊 #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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#OTD in 1944, Venlo area, Holland. The crew of a Churchill AVRE warming themselves around a "Benghazi Burner". #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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#OTD in 1944, B77/Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland. Eisenhower examining a Typhoon Mark IB from 609 Squadron. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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#OTD in 1944. Gunners from the Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry playing an impromptu game of cricket in Italy, during a break from manning their self-propelled guns. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#OTD in 1944. 7 "Desert Rats" Armoured Division investiture. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#OTD in 1944, Germany. A mobile Bofors gun and crew. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 AM