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Jamie McTrusty

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Posts on (mostly) Second World War aviation and naval history. See ALT text for picture credits and additional information!

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Dan Ellin@danellin.bsky.social · 22h ago

On the night of 16/17 May 1943, Operation Chastise used bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis to breach the Eder and Möhne dams. 53 aircrew were killed and over 1,300 women and men on the ground – many were forced women labourers trapped in their accommodation. 1/6

A twisted water pipe with a man standing on it in front of the breached Möhne dam IBCC Digital Archive Item #62556
RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 23h ago

6 Oct 2024 // Royal New Zealand Navy dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui ran aground on the evening of 5 October 2024 off Siumu, on the south coast of Upolu island, Samoa. She caught fire early in the morning of 6 October, and capsized and sank. All 75 crew were evacuated safely.

Royal New Zealand Navy dive and hydrographic ship HMNZS Manawanui (foreground) with other vessels during Exercise RIMPAC, 18 August 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Wesley Richardson, via Wikimedia Commons.)
RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 2d ago

5 Oct 1744 (O.S.) // 100-gun 1st-rate HMS Victory (launched 1737), flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen, was with her squadron returning to England from Gibraltar when the ships were scattered by a violent storm off Ushant. HMS Victory, driven towards the Channel Islands, was lost with all hands.

Peter Monamy, 'Loss of HMS Victory, 4 October 1744' (c1744-5). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. This is an imaginative re-creation of the last moments the Victory was seen, with lanterns in her rigging, her sails blowing loose, firing distress guns, and about to be overwhelmed by the storm. It is not an accurate depiction of the ship as she was at the time of her loss.
RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 2d ago

5 Oct 1909 // Destroyer HMS Lee was wrecked in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, Ireland, during a Home Fleet exercise. A boat from the cruiser HMS Doris got into difficulties in the bay, and the commanding officer of the Lee, Lt Duncan Carmichael, attempted to bring his ship inshore to render assistance.

RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 2d ago

5 Oct 1940 // HM Trawler Kingston Sapphire was sunk by Italian submarine Giacomo Nani off Cape Trafalgar. The submarine was on the surface at about 3am when she sighted the trawler nearby. She was manoeuvring to fire from her stern tubes when the trawler saw her, and turned towards her to attack.

Dan Ellin@danellin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only 1 minute 7 seconds of the film 'The Dam Busters' shows the damage on the ground after the dams broke. The new exhibition at the IBCC in Lincoln will show the Möhnekatastrophe and what happened next. #History #WW2

The breached dam viewed from downstream. Buoys and netting from the anti-torpedo boom are washed up in the foreground.A damaged house in Neheim.Luftwaffe gunner, Corporal Karl Schütte with a white ‘kill ring’ painted on the barrel of his 20mm anti-aircraft gun. He was credited with shooting down John Vere Hopgood’s Lancaster.A sketch plan of the railway network created to transport the materials used to rebuild the dam.
Dan Ellin@danellin.bsky.social · 7d ago

My drawings and then the design company's mock up. The 'After me the Flood' exhibition opens at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln 6th October. #History #WW2 @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 5d ago

2 Oct 1804 // A number of Royal Navy fireships were expended in an attack on invasion barges assembled at Boulogne. Explosive casks and torpedo-catamarans (floating bombs triggered at a preset time by a clockwork mechanism, invented by American engineer Robert Fulton) were also used.

Watercolour and ink drawing of the British attack on Boulogne, October 1804. The British fleet is in the foreground and the French fleet can be seen in the shelter of the coast in the background, with the port of Boulogne in the centre. Image: National Maritime Museum via Wikimedia Commons.
RN ship losses@rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 5d ago

2 Oct 1917 // Armoured cruiser HMS Drake was torpedoed by German submarine U.79 off Rathlin Island at 9:03am, just after leaving a convoy she had escorted from the USA to Northern Ireland. A single torpedo struck her starboard side at no. 2 boiler room, where 18 men were killed.

HMS Drake photographed during a visit to the United States, anchored in the Hudson River, 1909. Public domain image, US Library of Congress. A four-funnelled cruiser, port side profile view, at anchor in a wide river with the wooded shore behind. Tugs and other boats can be seen in the background and astern of the cruiser.
ekolaali@viherdemokraatti.bsky.social · 6d ago

One thing I'm actually jealous of the Swedes is they got to deal with B-17's. Just learned that many flight missions ended up in the neutral country for various reasons and in 1944 nine interned Flying Fortresses were even formally transferred for courier flights between Sweden and Scotland. #B-17 🇸🇪

So Many American Pilots Crash Landed in Sweden that the Top Brass Wondered if They Were Doing it on Purpose

During World War II, American crews found sanctuary—and fun—in the neutral Scandinavian country.

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