A History Thread

[Welsh Exile]

Nobody would! (1st strike target though thanks to Westland/Leonardo)

A colleague went to do some work there last week I told him it was a shithole he didn't believe me. Agreed when he came back.

Yeovil is a dump to be fair but surrounding area is nice.

 

[BrokenWing]

No one had a battle over Yeovil though.

You have it!

NO, YOU HAVE IT!

 

[AlRums]

So, not much changed then.

Priorities

 

[AlRums]

The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb

When the atom bomb was dropped 80 years ago, 140,000 Koreans were in Japan's Hiroshima city, many as forced labour.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

 

[AlRums]

Jim Lovell: Astronaut who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth dies aged 97

The commander of Apollo 13 famously rescued his men from near certain death in space.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ncurd]

Jim Lovell: Astronaut who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth dies aged 97

The commander of Apollo 13 famously rescued his men from near certain death in space.

www.bbc.co.uk

97 is a good innings but it still kinda sucks Lovell is probably my biggest hero out of the astronauts of that era.

 

[AlRums]

Nasa Apollo missions: Stories of the last Moon men

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

 

[McTallshort]

If that happened today the Russians would blame it on NATO

 

[McTallshort]

Costas Georgiou - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This guy popped up on my YouTube feed and I had forgotten all about him but used to be a very talked about figure while I was serving, he was apparently one of the chief culprits in Bloody Sunday, was convicted of armed robbery while serving in the British army and was responsible for the murder of British mercenaries in Angola. A really scary individual.

 

[AlRums]

Just two Navajo Code Talkers remain alive. Here’s what they want America to know

https://us.cnn.com/2025/08/14/us/navajo-code-talkers-2-alive-cec

 

[AlRums]

VJ Day 80th anniversary: King Charles says heroes will ‘never be forgotten’

A service of remembrance on Friday will mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Aberdeen man who was last surviving WW2 Victoria Cross recipient dies aged 105

John Cruickshank suffered 72 injuries during the bombing raid on a U-boat in 1944 but refused medical treatment.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Korean war POW, 95, fails at attempt to return to North

Ahn Hak-sop failed in his attempt to cross the border, after spending most of his life in South Korea.

www.bbc.co.uk

A very interesting story, a POW essentially banged up for 42 years because he refused to renounce North Korea.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

 

[Which Tyler]

I was today years old when I discovered that, back before WWII, Australia caught in the Great Emu War - and lost

 

[BrokenWing]

The next significant event was on 4 November. Meredith had established an ambush near a local dam, and more than 1,000 emus were spotted heading towards their position. This time, the gunners waited until the birds were in close proximity before opening fire.

Emus…. Faaaasands of ‘em.
Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes lads.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

"The machine-gunners' dreams of point-blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month."