#raf #aircraft #Lancaster #typhoon #dambusters #photography #photo #BBMF #coningsby
The old and the new in formation over my house.

Did I say I have #dived the #Bouncing #Bombs in #Lock #Striven near #Dunoon twice now? These are *not* the #Dambusters #Upkeep as deployed by #Lancaster #Bombers, but spherical #Highball bombs deployed by #Mosquito. These were the #RAF tools to sink the #Tirpitz. This was my first trip with the Seahorse #Dive Club with Tom. There are only two Highballs on the surface, #Brooklands and the de Havilland Aircraft Museum. This is a true underwater #museum!

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#WWII #WW2 #Scuba

The grave of Flying Officer Jacob Maurice Grant at the #ReichswaldForest War Cemetery in NW #Germany. What caught my attention was the star of David (there is an anti-semitic trope that Jews foment the wars that Christians have to fight), and his #DFC (a high award for gallantry).

At the time of his death, F/O Grant was flying with 617 Sqdn ("The #Dambusters"). He and his comrades were killed during Operation Garlic, a failed attempt to breach the strategic Dortmund-Ems Canal.

#7FilmsToKnowMe
Do I know 7 films?
Can I remember any?
I not so keen on films: too much visual stimulation

A lifetime of memories

#Dambusters - went with Dad, I was six (!)
#SnowWhite & the 7 dwarfs - wanted to be Dopey (interesting) but GM said I was Grumpy (not so good)
#Oklahoma - the best of the musicals
#CloseEncounters of the Third Kind - did I see this ...?
#Starwars - Took the boys when they were about six (!)
#JulieAndJulia - #NoraEphron brilliant screenplay
#Harriet - #KasiLemmons

Monday we will discuss about #Dambusters the new film about #Damremoval 🤗 at Boku in Vienna.

#DamBusters Deutschlandpremiere nächsten Montag im Neues Maxim Kino in München. Danke #Patagonia für die Werbefläche.

@wwf_deutschland is hosting the German #DamBusters #DamRemoval premiere in Munich on November 21st. at the Neues Maxim Kino. Get your ticket and meet you there - we have a lot to talk about. :)

RT @WWFEU: 🙏Thanks to all the attendees @europarl_en talking about the importance of reconnecting rivers to #RestoreNature.

Don't miss the new #DamBusters short film 🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB5X1_I4lrY&feature=youtu.be

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/DaHammerstein/status/1575484361641582595

Reading #DamBusters by James Holland and I understand that there's a segment of WWII history readers that, like, get REAL hard over maps and org charts and shit, but why is it always at the front of the book?

As much as I'm ambivalent about Neal Stephenson these days, he really nailed the experience of how boring this stuff is when a German scientist tries to explain the Wehrmacht's organization structure and he becomes so bored he gets sucked into a waking nightmare (made extra funny by the fact that Stephenson is 100% accurate about the setup.)