A figure like Hitler coming to power, is unimageable in the West.

The Grand Slam was a 22,000lb (10,000kg) earthquake bomb used by RAF. It was a scaled-up version of the Tallboy bomb and the most powerful non-atomic aerial bomb used in combat until 2017, when a US GBU-43/B MOAB was used in a 2017 attack in Afghanistan. #WW2 #HISTORY

P-47 Thunderbolts. #WW2 #HISTORY

Looks like fun! #WW2 #HISTORY

(Thread.) #OTD in 1945, operation Anger started, the second Battle of Arnhem. Assembling in Nijmegen harbour. And then upstream the Rhine River, and downstream the IJssel River. #WW2 #HISTORY

Assembling in Westervoort, before crossing the IJssel River. #WW2 #HISTORY

Across the IJssel River, entering the town of Arnhem. #WW2 #HISTORY

My favourite plane, actually.

A figure like Hitler coming to power, is unimageable in the West.

Only wish other countries would recognise Russia as it is, a military threat to the Western world. Manipulating public opinion, and all that!

12th April 1935. First flight of the Bristol Type 142, the aircraft that would become the Bristol Blenheim.

Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere had challenged the British aviation industry to produce the fastest passenger aircraft in the world and the Type 142 was the result.…

12th April 1945. Off Okinawa, the radar picket destroyer USS Mannert L Abele became the first ship to be sunk by a rocket-powered Yokosuka ‘Ohka’ piloted bomb.

At 14:45, she was hit in a conventional kamikaze attack by a Zero, which penetrated the aft engine room, killing nine…

Night of 12th/13th April 1918. The final Zeppelin raid against Britain was mounted by 5 new airships of the German Navy. Their intended target was industrial areas of the Midlands, but cloud hampered navigation and only the bombs dropped by L61 caused casualties, killing 8 people…

My favourite plane, actually.

Looks like fun! #WW2 #HISTORY

P-47 Thunderbolts. #WW2 #HISTORY

The Grand Slam was a 22,000lb (10,000kg) earthquake bomb used by RAF. It was a scaled-up version of the Tallboy bomb and the most powerful non-atomic aerial bomb used in combat until 2017, when a US GBU-43/B MOAB was used in a 2017 attack in Afghanistan. #WW2 #HISTORY