40 years ago shortly after leaving the army drilling shot firing holes at the Mount Pleasant Airfield construction site 1984

Bridging vehicles allocated to Operation Market Garden 1944. The size of the force allowed for all the Rivers to be Bridged simultaneously if needed
Maas-878 vehicles
Maas Waal canal- 483
Waal- 380
Neder Rijn- 536
Total 2277 Bridging Vehicles

I once had to battle for nearly an hour during a Suffolk Regiment Museum trustees meeting to stop those two Baines paintings being sent to auction…
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A cool story - workers at St Nazaire's Normandie docks have found a hatch from HMS Campbeltown, a destroyer packed with explosives and detonated in the dock during the commando raid Operation Chariot in 1942.

maritime-executive.com/article/worker…

Ted enjoying himself out in the sun with his mates today 🙂

Great Escaper who was recaptured and executed by the Nazis after 1944 breakout is remembered as… mol.im/a/13396433 Daily Mail Online

And a few more heading to Vintage in July!

Vulcan air display, 8mm home movie with sound (a rarity)

Original source says Woodford but more likely Waddington, or possibly Scampton

The style of camouflage/markings suggests a date of late 1970s-early 1980s

Great to hear that unmistakable quadruple-Olympus howl again…🙉😀

Daimler Ferret production, Coventry 🇬🇧
The MS registrations signify Ministry of Supply, these were generally used for vehicles designated for export