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Handy guide from the 1946 Vauxhall book 'An Account of our Stewardship'.
The Evolution of the #Churchill #Tank
#WW2:
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No 80 Squadron RAF leader Evan Dall “Rosie” Mackie in a Hawker Tempest takes down a Luftwaffe Arado Ar 96 trainer caught in the air near Fliegerhorst Faßberg in April 1945
Mackie ended the war as the top scoring pilot to have served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Fingers crossed she's ok x
Search for Amelia Earhart's plane resumes after stormy weather bbc.in/4zInbDp
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Would you trust an unsupervised 9 year old child with your work email, intimate text messages, and credit card?
Everyone was warned long ago that AI agents are highly vulnerable to phishing emails with hidden malicious instructions. Giving an agent the ability to click links means it will click links, including dangerous ones.
AI cant stop this either, so don't listen to any AI company or cybersecurity vendor claiming otherwise. AI can't detect a malicious email that looks legitimate. It will never detect a malicious URL unless its already classified as dangerous. this means it will never detect new dangerous URLs.
Don't allow an AI agent to do anything you wouldn't trust an unsupervised 9 year old to do with your phone or computer.
In 2015, my team built the world's first security chatbots that did the opposite. Ours were installed inside business tools and messaging services like Slack and Messenger. On Slack, our bot detected phishing scams, removed dangerous messages, banned the threat actor, and sent a DM to the account owner or admin to inform them what happened.
It was my team's security bot that eradicated phishing on Slack for the entire crypto world in in 2017. Millions of people were interacting with chatbots way before they realize.
Conversational chatbots aren't new. Ours didn't have AI, so they weren't intelligent, but allowing a chatbot to act on your behalf is obviously risky. They're not as intelligent as you might think and they're prone to making more mistakes than a human.
Any security company claiming this is a new discovery is living under a rock or playing a PR game.
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M4 Sherman ARK constructed in Italy c.late 1944 for crossing the numerous rivers. This 54’ (16.5 m) trackway allowed a gap of 45’ (13.7 m) to be crossed by armour.
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🇫🇷 AMX-13 Obusier de 105 (ACL-2)
Developed in the early 1950s, the AMX-13 Obusier de 105 was a French experimental fire-support tank intended to provide capabilities comparable to the American M4 Sherman (105). The project introduced the ACL-2 turret and a new 105mm howitzer, both of which were also considered for the Panhard EBR. Despite promising performance, the turret's cramped interior and limited gun elevation restricted its indirect-fire capabilities. With existing 75mm-armed vehicles and artillery considered sufficient, the project was ultimately canceled.
Built on the AMX-13 chassis, the vehicle carried a 105mm D.1056 howitzer in a fully traversable ACL-2 turret, operated by a three-man crew, two of whom occupied the turret. Armor protection included 25mm along the turret sides and 20mm on the roof, with frontal protection intended to resist 20mm cannon fire. The gun demonstrated performance comparable to the Sherman's 105mm howitzer during trials at 200 and 1000m, while the turret offered rapid traverse for engaging targets. Although slightly heavier than the standard AMX-13 FL-10, the vehicle retained generally good mobility, with its limited reverse speed remaining a drawback.
Of all the sodding things to apply AI nonsense and made-up stories to...
JFC.
And, of course, it's followed by a Crypto advert.
Classy.
At the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Lee Davis found a prisoner so thin that he could not lift his head. The man blinked, barely alive. Davis knelt down, broke off a piece of his chocolate ration, and gently stuffed it into his mouth.
The man burst into tears, unable to chew, but holding the chocolate as if it were gold. "He hadn't spoken in weeks," another soldier said, "but he whispered 'thank you,' in English." Private Davis remained by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him "the man who brought flavor back to the world."
It's always good to be good.
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Fantastic to find these artefacts in the file of Erik Kemp. A Private in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Regiment, who was imprisoned in 1940 for aiding the enemy. Kemp drew this map of British positions on Hong Kong island and passed them on to the Japanese. #WW2 #MilitaryCrime
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Ranging markers inside one of the bunkers at Hillman. Jackboot studs in the wet concrete steps.
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.@NigelBiggar .@History_Reclaim .@robert_lyman I learned yesterday that there is a phrase in Brazilian Portuguese, "Para ingles ver". Colloquially, it means 'just for show'. Literally, however, it says, 'for the English to see'. It refers back to the 19th century, when the British were pressing Brazil to abolish slave-trading and the Brazilians were just pretending to.
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On 23 June 1951, after already landing successfully aboard the USS Midway, George Chamberlain Duncan was catapulted again alongside Edward L. Feightner, who was testing a Vought F7U Cutlass.
Duncan found he was carrying too much fuel for a safe recovery, so he jettisoned his tip tanks and loitered while Feightner completed six landings. On his final approach a downdraft aft of the stern dropped his Panther below the deck; the ramp strike split the fuselage, sent the burning rear section onto the fantail, and sent the nose section tumbling down the deck with Duncan still inside.
His helmet and canopy were torn free. Crewmen pulled him from the wreckage with scorched ears and burns; he returned to flying duties six months later. 🫡
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'World's largest photograph'
An enormous composite photograph from the Western Front is prepared for display at London's Grafton Galleries, 1918.
Film: IWM NTB 340-1
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Like quite a few on here I thought this photo op was ill judged. The soldiers are unarmed and look like they were turned out in a hurry (in what sense is this an ‘honour guard’?). Theme park Britain
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Lt. Col. Donovan personally led the assaulting wave in an attack upon a very strongly organized position, and when our troops were suffering heavy casualties, he encouraged all near him by his example; moving
among his men in exposed positions, reorganizing decimated platoons, and accompanying them forward in attacks. When he was wounded in the leg by machine gun bullets, he refused to be evacuated and continued with his unit until it withdrew to a less exposed position.
Medal of Honor Citation for Lt. Col. William J. Donovan, USA
165th Infantry Regiment, 42nd Division
Near Landres-et-Saint-Georges, France
October 14-15, 1918
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Crashed Gliders: The landing-zone at Ranville, 1944, by Albert Richards, 1944.
IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4232)
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Excited to be presenting my talk "Beyond The Grave - The War Widows of the First & Second World Wars" to the Herts at War group on Thursday 15 October 2026 at 7:30pm. The talk takes place at The Welwyn Civic Centre, Prospect Place, Old Welwyn, Hertfordshire. AL6 9ER. Doors open at 7:00pm. Why not pop along? For details of the Herts at War future events please follow the link below.
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