Phil Loder @PhilLoder

Military history, esp #WW2, tanks, defences, & artillery. Researching my relatives in WW1 & WW2. Writer & interviewer. YouTube and Facebook: Cormorant Military. youtube.com/@cormorantmili… Oxford, UK Joined February 2013

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

2 days ago

This book from 1964 has been an interesting read. What a shambles the first battles of the #BoerWar in 1899 appear to have been for the British Army - Belmont, Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop. Indecisive generals, poor communications and wasted lives. #books

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John Harris @thebattleguide

3 days ago

For #TankTuesday, the Churchill at Hill 112 in Normandy.

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Daniel Scholefield @Burntime0101

3 days ago

A Chieftain in the dust for #tanktuesday from the arena at the Capel show this year.

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

4 days ago

Tuesday Tank: the 2pdr anti-tank gun & three of the tanks that mounted it - Valentine Mk II, Matilda II & A13 Cruiser Mk II. The AT gun is in the Royal Artillery Museum collection, while the tanks are at the @TankMuseum. #WW2 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

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Taff @Taff_Gillingham

a week ago

In 2007 I was at the Suffolk Regiment Museum in Bury St Edmunds when the Area Regimental Secretary, Colonel Tony Taylor, took a telephone call. He put down the receiver and said, “I have just the job for you. That was the Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service. They are…

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

2 weeks ago

Just read this fascinating history of the Royal Naval base at Scapa Flow. Found one of my great uncles as a midshipman on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1917! He’s in a group photo during the visit of King George V and Prince Albert. Louis Mountbatten is also in the pic as a midshipman.

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

3 weeks ago

Tuesday Tank: the French Saint-Chamond tank and the French 75mm field gun that armed it - two examples of the gun, one from the @museedesblindes in Saumur and the other at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum stores in Larkhill. #WW1 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

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Klaas Meijer @klaasm67

3 weeks ago

Sometimes you're not alone in a bunker … 🔊

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

3 weeks ago

Had a very interesting time at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum Stores Open Day at Larkhill, Wilts, on Weds. A fascinating 'mini museum', with cannons, field guns & howitzers from the late 15thC to the Napoleonic & Boer Wars, #WW1 & #WW2. For more dates see royalartillerymuseum.com

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admin@germanbunkers @germanbunkers

3 weeks ago

Deep in the woods on the French island of Ile-de-Re we find one of the flak batteries supporting the defence of Kora, the S 497 Fire Control tower. There are many remains in this area. Leading into the ammo rooms, camouflage hooks still present and steps leading out. #WW2

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

4 weeks ago

Tuesday Tank: great to get up close with the @wealdfoundation's Renault FT at #Tankfest recently. Here are pics of it in the arena and some of the driver's compartment. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @TankMuseum #WW1 #TankTuesday

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

4 weeks ago

Just finished Peter Bull’s excellent #WW2 memoir ‘To Sea in a Sieve’ (1956). In the RNVR from 1941 (Ord Seaman) to 1946 (Lt Cdr), he served in Landing Craft Tank and Flak in the Mediterranean - Sicily, Anzio etc and all the way to Venice. His humour balances the tough times.

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Crowland Buffalo LVT @BuffaloLvt

a month ago

All ready to head to the Yorkshire Wartime event Many thanks to Clive Fletcher and BMR Transport Ltd for transporting this LVT4 .

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

a month ago

Great to see my article about identifying a #WW1 Ox and Bucks Light Infantry officer in the latest @britainatwar. Fascinating to talk to Ingram Murray about the 10yr investigation and the surprise as to who it was. These items were found with the body. @sofomuseum /Colin Morris

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

a month ago

Tuesday Tank: a Chieftain hull mounting the Marksman anti-aircraft system: Marconi Series 400 radar and two Oerlikon 35mm autocannons. Seen at Op Market Harborough last Saturday, but is moving from Duxford to the @TankMuseum. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

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hw97karbine @hw97karbine

a month ago

Axis vehicles captured during the Second Battle of El Alamein including seven examples of the 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper(f) self-propellded gun on a French chassis representing 30% of the total number of the type that made it to North Africa

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

a month ago

In Leamington Spa today and spotted the town’s war memorial. Many names from WW1 and WW2, but I was struck by four around the back from the Korean War and the Falklands conflict. #memorials

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Phil Loder @PhilLoder

a month ago

This has been a fascinating read - I picked up @James1940 and @almurray's 'Victory '45' when I was at Tankfest at the @TankMuseum last month. A fresh way of looking at the remarkable stories around the surrenders that finally brought #WW2 to an end across the world.