Ariel Natalo-Lifton from Temple University raising some really interesting points about the gendered language applied to female service personnel in contemporary press descriptions of Op Urgent Fury in Grenada #SMH2024

I advance into Day 1 of my first
SMH Historians conference with that most traditional of British battle cries; Let's be having you #smh2024

A Japanese Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane attempts - unsuccessfully - to crash into the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri off Okinawa, April 1945. The pilot hit only the battleship's hull.

Our video on the kamikaze campaign: bit.ly/441mfLE

© IWM (NYF 70679)

Am in Virginia for #SMH2024 and making a few visits first before Friday's proper kick off. But obviously the big ticket is Sunday's 10.30-12 session, on NATO forces in West Germany in the Cold War, featuring Adam Seipp and Ashley Vance. Oh, and me. Add it to the planner!

This time next week I'll be at the SMH Historians conference! #smh2024

My Imperial War Museums Annual Lecture on 25 April at 7 pm London time, on #War , #Genocide and Other Crimes, will stream live here: youtube.com/watch?v=eBVk7n…

Atmospheric picture of troops of the 1st (Armoured) Coldstream Guards silhoutted against burning buildings in Berge, 12 April 1945. And a reminder the final weeks of the war were no simple victory parade for the British #SWW iwm.org.uk/collections/it… (Imperial War Museums Image BU 3334)

British and Indian Engineers of 54 Workshop Company are seen inspecting and overhauling Japanese weapons captured after the fall of Rangoon, Burma - including a Dutch 6.5mm Madsen LMG, Japanese Type 11 LMG and sword.

© IWM JFU 258

Will be interested to watch this from James Wharton

forces.net/operations/ira…

What a terrific thread, and a great book to look forward to reading

Has #TopGunMaverick been removed from Paramount+?

Cargo is delivered and Harrier aircraft are maneuvered around the busy deck of HMS Hermes in this footage, filmed during the Falklands Conflict 1982.

Hermes served as the flagship during the conflict. Learn more here: bit.ly/3qPeycn

© Crown copyright. IWM (ADM 4827)

✈️🧹When the suspended aircraft at the RAF Museum Midlands need a spring clean, it calls for a specialist team of dustbusters to do the work! Suspended from the ceiling, up to 100ft in the air 😲, eight aircraft including a Vulcan bomber, are all being spruced up. Rappel