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Nuenen, The Netherlands
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Another very enjoyable day on the WWII Museum Easy Company tour around Bastogne. Quite interesting to see the events of December 1944 through a single small unit. Watching @BattlefieldDisc create and maintain his narrative and a wider historical context is interesting.
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Spent an interesting morning the Eindhoven area immersed in the 101st AB Division battles during Operation Market in September 1944. The bravery of the Division's Medal of Honour recipients was highlighted. @BattlefieldDisc told their story skilfully...
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Interesting day on Hell's Highway with super knowledgeable Easy Company expert, Edwin Popken. Refreshing to hear historical narrative from another perspective.
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Enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning in the Netherlands tracing the route of Easy Company, 506th PIR during Operation Market. All part of learning the WWII Museum Easy Company tour with the supremely knowledgeable @BattlefieldDisc. Colour by Piece of Jake.
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Nice outing today, attending a talk by my good friend @Regjans on Easy Company, 506 PIR at Bastogne. Always a treat to hear Reg share his incredible knowledge and great stories on anything Battle of the Bulge.
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A lovely day in NL. A good time for a long walk through the fields of our beautiful parish of Nuenen, Gerwen and Nederwetten, I passed this marker commemorating trooper Edward Mons Wilson, kia 21 Sept 1944. Long unidentified, I uncovered his name a few years. Still proud of this.
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It was great seeing my mate Joris @battlefieldexpl talk last Monday about the fighting in 1944 around his hometown of Veghel. Well done mate!
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A twilight trot around trenches last night with the fine folk @GreatWarHuts - I think this is the 3rd sell out year. The Christmas Truce 1914 - whatever you believe, read or hear the Hutters really do bring it to life. It’s the start of Christmas for me.
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Looking down on Foy from the Easy Company positions in the Bois Jacques. For about two weeks the men studied every detail of the village, thus Shifty Powers noticed one morning an extra tree. This turned out to be a camouflaged AA gun and was duly taken out by American artillery
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What a fantastic evening!
Thank you to everyone who came along to listen to @HorrorBiscuits telling us about Biscuits at War!
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What a wonderful evening at @GreatWarHuts. Again! @HorrorBiscuits gave a *hugely* entertaining and fascinating talk on the role of the humble biscuit in military history through the ages. You don't get this sort of thing anywhere else! Great to catch up with good chums too.
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📯📯Spectacular News!! 📯📯
The Polish Foreign Ministry has awarded AGENT ZO first prize in their prestigious awards for best history book over the last 2 years!
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I am absolutely thrilled to have helped bring Zo’s dramatic story out of the shadows!
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After a couple of wonderful days attending the Conference at the NWW2M, meeting up with museum staff, authors, guides and tour managers and former tour guests, the next phase of our US trip started. On our way to Tulsa with a long layover in Dallas.
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Robert Edsel talking about his book Remember Us - the story of Margraten and the Grave Adoption Program - at the NWW2M International Conference of WW2. A story well worth telling. Can’t help to feel proud being Dutch and a adoptant of one of the soldiers at Margraten myself.
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The International Conference on WW2 started. @claremulley gives a brilliant talk on the incredible brave women serving in British SOE during the war.
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After a great opening by Rod Stewart, the RBL Festival of Remembrance is well under way, commemorating those who fought and often fell for freedom, democracy and the UK and the Commonwealth, in past and present. Proper and beautiful British pomp & circumstance. 🥁🎵🇬🇧🇬🇧🫡
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Today’s battlefield tour was all about the battles fought around Veghel. This included a visit to Erp where an original C-47 propeller is kept as a memorial to the crew of “Sonya” which crashed on the first day of Operation Market Garden.
RT @battlefieldexpl: Today I had the please of guiding 22 school kids from The Downs Malvern on the battlefields of Arnhem. Of particular i…
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The Houffalize Panther tank, restored to perfection and now sheltered from the weather. We visited this and many other locations around Bastogne today in the fourth and last day with a group of three wonderful friend from the States.
