DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

DAVID ISBY's latest book is THE DECISIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS. 109 at http://t.co/B5CMf3uT7F. . Joined July 2012

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

6 months ago

NAWROZ MUBARAK! happy new year to everyone!

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Calum E. Douglas @CalumDouglas1

10 months ago

@almurray I refuse to watch anything involving someone with two first names.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

a year ago

Nawroz Mubarak! Happy New Year.

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At the National Press Club in Washington, I recently received the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award, part of the annual Defence Media Awards, “celebrating the best in defence journalism”. (The award’s the thing in front of me in the photograph).

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William Huo @wmhuo168

2 years ago

@Archer83Able Murdoch-owns WSJ is openly musing about a Guns over Butter strategy when one in seven Americans is hungry. That just sounds about right in an Oligarchical America.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

2 years ago

Nawroz Mubarak! Happy New Year to everyone!

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

3 years ago

Only fast dreadnought in the UK at the end, in case the Germans had made a dash for neutral ports or a final death ride.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

3 years ago

dropbox.com/s/h4zgo445h8p8… WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONFLICT Talk for the Baltimore Round Table for Military History 21 July 2022

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

3 years ago

Enhanced Conventional Snackery (ECS)

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

Nawroz Mubarak! Wishing everyone -- despite all that has happened -- a happy new year.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

Recently received one small piece of good news. Responding to my e-mail asking if he needed help, an Afghan I worked with told me he had been living in the Gulf for 2+ years but thanked me for my concern and offered to lend me any money I might need,

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

defensemedianetwork.com/stories/army-r… The US Army's Ranger units have been deployed to conflicts worldwide for the past 20 years. This article (from 2018) describes their combat record in Korea. the the Rangers' return in the 1970s and takes thir story up to 2001.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

dropbox.com/s/mp04fhe9wxxi… It took 100 years for Harry Ottolini's account of his role in the fighting of 1918 to see print. He wrote it in the endpapers of his regimental history. I bought his copy from a used bookstore and edited what he had written long before.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

defensemedianetwork.com/stories/1917-s… 1917 saw the emergence of special operations as part of late modern warfare. My article, done for the centennial, is about 1917 special operations, operators (like T.E. Lawrence) and technologies (like the stealth blimp ).

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

key.aero/article/analys… My article on Afghanistan's Air Force was written before the current crisis, but the dependence on contractor personnel, targeted killing of personnel and limitations on air-ground cooperation have all become increasingly important.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

defensemedianetwork.com/stories/zeebru… My article on the Zeebrugge Raid of 1918 was done for the centennial. I am relinking it because it is both a story that should be remembered and one that can provide lessons for today's special operators

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

dropbox.com/s/5c46lkqahtpb… The guy in the cool fez is Sterling Loop Larrabee, West Point Class of 1912. Out after two years, joined Philippines Constabulary (hence the fez) and then the Royal Naval Division and Gallipoli in 1915. My article is A WEST POINTER ON GALLIPOLI.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

dropbox.com/s/zp7zjcir3bnq… This is a repost of my article that appeared in OVER THE FRONT in early 2020 (when there were multiple distractions). THE SLOW FALL OF AIRSHIP SS Z.51 is about the loss of a Royal Naval Air Service airship on 15 August 1918.

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DavidIsby @SpitfirevsBf109

4 years ago

dropbox.com/s/cj9mdp8axpds… David Kennedy (in the photograph) , in 1918 was in the 24th Aero Squadron in France, flying Salmson 2-seaters. I put his letters together with photographs and official records in the summer 2021 issue of CROSS and COCKADE INTERNATIONAL.