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rgpoulussen.bsky.social

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rgpoulussen.bsky.social

@rgpoulussen

🇳🇱 Used to keep the memory of #WW2 alive *here* by means of #OTDs. Now do that on B l u e S k y, same handle. 😉

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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Sep 12, 2024
Market Garden failed. Not because roads are narrow in Holland, not because British 30 Corps was slow and not because there were two German Panzer Divisions in the area. It failed because this bridge in Nijmegen was captured too late. Read/buy my two books. pre-jump.nl
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Nov 20, 2022
Concentration of castles in Europe.
rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Jan 5, 2023
Watching things go wrong, is okay, but this is superb!
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Dec 27, 2022
War. ☹ #WW2 #HISTORY
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Jun 18, 2023
(Power of Twitter!) Investigation of a B&W picture led to the *exact* position of the gun. #WW2 #HISTORY (Location: google.nl/maps/place/49%…)
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
May 29, 2023
Car batteries and salt water.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added context
There is no evidence to suggest that this is caused by car batteries at all. The original video posted on YouTube 3 years ago shows a large fire starting at the front of the ship spreading out. youtu.be/C2tFE86fQX0
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Sep 22, 2024
99 year old Market Garden veteran Geoff Roberts is present at the commemoration at Oosterbeek War Cemetery. When he's gone he wants his ashes to be buried behind his two mates, Lance Corporal Leonard Plummer and Private Robert Brown. (Footage is from 2023.) #MarketGarden
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Jun 6, 2023
For me, the most poignant photograph of D-Day. (#OTD in 1944, Utah Beach. #WW2 #HISTORY)
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Dec 5, 2022
#OTD in 1944, Norway. Mosquitos from 143, 235 and 248 Squadron attacking shipping in Nordgulen Fjord. These attacks were extremely chaotic and dangerous. #WW2 #HISTORY
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Sep 23, 2024
This year's re-enactment of 504PIR's Waal Crossing. ON THE EXACT LOCATION. #MarketGarden
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Jun 6, 2024
For me, the most poignant photograph of D-Day. (#OTD in 1944, Utah Beach. #WW2 #HISTORY)
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Sep 17, 2024
About this time, 80 years ago. 😎
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Aug 1, 2022
Who doesn't find this fascinating?
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
@rgpoulussen
Apr 3, 2023
(April 1945.) A WAAAF (Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force) member test firing a .50-inch Browning machine gun from the Liberator aircraft's waist gun position. #WW2 #HISTORY
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