Military history, esp #WW2, tanks, defences, & artillery. Researching my relatives in WW1 & WW2. Writer & interviewer. Facebook: Phil Loder's Military Page.
Oxford, UK
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Just a month to go before the @TankMuseum's ‘The Tanks Have Done Marvels’ seminar on Saturday 21 November. Looking forward to seeing everyone and hearing from the speakers. For more information, head to tankmuseum.org/Tank110 #WW1
Tuesday Tank: Back to this year's #Tankfest at the @TankMuseum and the big reveal of Challenger 3. Here it is heading around the arena in convoy with a British Army Challenger 2 and the museum's Challenger 1. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling #TankTuesday
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This is WN 48 MKB Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy and the M262 bunker for Fire Control. I haven't been here in years & the entrance to the M262 has been fenced off for a long time, but as luck would have it the fence was under repair & I was able to have an exquisite visit inside #WW2
I left battleships, cruisers and destroyers behind with this #WW2 memoir from a wireless operator on motor gun boats in the North Sea & the Aegean, 1943-45. Very interesting to hear how the small boats operated, plus accounts of battles off East Anglia & among the Greek islands.
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Double bonus for the week with a Bergpanzer towing away a Leopard C1 as part of a recovery demo at Tiger day last month. #TankTuesday
Tuesday Tank: here's Chieftain 'Ruff 'n' Ready' pausing for a moment on one of the mounds at Operation Market Harborough - not one of my best photos there and not the shot I was aiming for, but captures the fun of the day! @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday
Tuesday Tank: This Panzer III replica was at the recent We Have Ways Fest. It's based on an FV432 APC and here's a walkaround so you can have a closer look, even a glimpse inside! @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @thebattleguide #TankTuesday @WeHaveWaysPod #WHWF6 #WHWF2026
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A couple of wild animals in the arena with the Nashorn joining Tiger 131 at Tiger day last weekend for #TankTuesday
Tuesday Tank: more tanks from the recent We Have Ways Fest - Valentine DD, Charioteer, Pz III replica (based on FV432) and Sherman. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling #WHWF6 #WHWF2026 #TankTuesday @WeHaveWaysPod
Just read Raymond Dannreuther’s history of Force H, 1940-42. He was a midshipman on the destroyer ‘Laforey’ and the battleship ‘Malaya’ in Force H. Incidents include the attack on the French fleet at Oran, sinking of the Bismarck, Malta convoys and the loss of ‘Ark Royal’. #WW2
Snap! (Well nearly) I was at the Malvern Autumn Show yesterday and came across this Ransomes MG 40 tractor, built in 1963. A couple of weeks earlier, at We Have Ways Fest, I saw an earlier model used by the military in #WW2 for towing a small trailer.
Visited Wightwick Manor nr Wolverhampton, a late-Victorian house built by the Mander family, who made their money making paints. On display were the #WW1 & #WW2 war memorials for Mander Co. employees, incl Capt H.A.N. Mander, Lincs Regt, killed in Holland in WW2. @WarMemorials
Tuesday Tank: the Panzer IV (Special) at the Deutsches Panzer Museum, Munster. My article about this tank is in the latest @CMVMAG. It was captured in Libya in 1942 and assessed at the School of Tank Technology in the UK. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday
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Merlin’s Over Malta Day 🇬🇧🇲🇹
#OTD At 6pm, 21 Years ago Hawker Hurricane G-HURI & Supermarine Spitfire BM597 arrived over the fortress islands of Malta G.C.🇲🇹
It was the culmination of a relentless fund raising effort by a small team of volunteers to create this historic moment. A Hurricane & Spitfire had not been seen or heard in Maltese skies together since the Second World War.
The trip marked 60 years since the end of the Second World War.
Members of that team went onto found the Polish Heritage Flight in 2019. 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇲🇹
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Great to see my article on HMS Dragon & my great uncle who served on her, in the latest @britainatwar. He joined the RN as a cadet in 1913, but was injured in action in the Baltic in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. He became a priest & was a chaplain in WW2. Pic: SubLt in 1919
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Today we visited @NTIghthamMote and discovered the original grave marker and Victoria Cross of Captain Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, 2nd Northamptonshire’s who was KIA at Hooge on the first day of 3rd Battle of #Ypres. #ww1 @VCGCOnline. He was 21 years old.
Tuesday Tank: several tanks in the arena at We Have Ways Fest last weekend, including this Cromwell from @TrackandWheel. Gently over the mound or knock the crew's teeth out! #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday #WHWF6 #WHWF2026 @WeHaveWaysPod