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No reason for posting this other than I’m drawn to the tidiness of it, and to the railway tunnel - it has something of the ‘coffee mug stain’ about it. RAGUSA. 1943, the work of 514 Field Survey Company; nice clean little thing.

Smashing thread from Jack Bowsher - Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945: maps making sense of Quartered Safe Out Here. I have never come to terms with the literal transcription of Cumberland accents coming from the same pen that gave us the script for James Bond's Octopussy - George Macdonald Fraser. #pubtrivia101

On tour. On a map mission. 🫡

There are times with #NewsoftheWar when the rabbit holes lead to a mysterious Alice-type wonderland, wallpapered with Second World War factemundos like you would not believe. 🐇🎩👍

I admit it. I’ve done map research in worse places.

Bit of a pilgrimage today. Gran’ Mappage.

Rumours of XXX Corps making their mark in Florence are not to be underestimated.

Ponte Vecchio (view from) makes you grateful, the Nazis didn’t destroy the bit I’m standing on.

I'm no longer in control of the Editorial strategy, here.

The indomitable Bryan De Grineau sketched the newly reformed British Army on exercise in December 1940, for the Illustrated London News. 40000 troops on a Corps level scheme (5 Corps) testing the lessons learned from May/June 1940. Under the tutelage of Sir Alan Brooke.

Food Flash! We're doing more of these specials. ☺️ The newspapers give us such a brilliant look at how people were coping with the war (or not), and how Britain in particular had a fight on its hands at home, too. Rationing, this time. In two parts, obvs. #NOTW

Honoured to shine a light on my Grandpa’s time in 12 Parachute Headquarters & Support Squadron during WWII. From Palestine, the Western Deserts, to the Arakan & beyond. Covering defence, logistics, desert patrols, Chindits & of course maps. Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 Merryn Institution of Royal Engineers Think Defence RE Museum #VJDay80

Dear Adobe. How about - just for once - you retain the password you've promised to look after, for MORE than 13 nanoseconds. Thanks awfully.

I make no bones about voting for myself, here. Talking pollocks is fine, but there's a time and a plaice for everything. Help yourself to more fish puns. Chip in. NewsOfTheWar #rationing