Surprise holiday find in Croatia: a visible wreck of a German Siebel landing craft that was sunk in Zavratnica Bay by the RAF in August 1944!
Alex Fenn
@alexfenn.bsky.social
Historian of wartime Britain (1939–45) | DPhil Researcher at Oxford University “Generally well written with somewhat bizarre but consistent footnotes” — anonymous reviewer
As Britain melts today, spare a thought for “Sweaty Betty”. She was, apparently, “a trifle careless about personal freshness”. News Chronicle, 8 March 1940
“I landed on D-Day in water waist deep and waded ashore into the midst of the most incredible sight in history. The fleet of ships was terrific and my first sight of France was of a church steeple with a hole clean through the side of it.” — Fr Paddy Crean, 12 August 1944
Unexpected discovery in the British Newspaper Archive: On Friday 22 October 1943, an escaped lion was cornered at Clapham Junction station by the Home Guard! 🦁
