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⚡ Discover the plane crashes of World War II in Finland. Dig into history to learn about the causes, effects and the role of airplanes in wartime.

We like the tallest, biggest, largest, and heaviest. This time let’s look at the other side.   Seven European nations have no merchant ships at all. Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovakia and Serbia have zero registered ships. This has to do mostly with the fact that these countries do not border the sea.   If you like at the positive side, the countries with the least number of merchant ships are Austria and Hungary, which have only 1 merchant ship registered under their flag   #merchantships #flaggedship #navy #merchantnavy #europe #geography #coastal #europeantrivia #landlockednations #triviaeurope

AUKUS navies remote-control ships from 10,000 miles away in experiment | #AUKUS Exercise Maritime Big Play (hands down worst exercise name ever) shows some interesting AUKUS Pillar II progress on uncrewed capabilities 👇 ‘The navies of Britain, Australia and the U.S. were able to control uncrewed ships in Australia while sitting more than 10,000 miles away in Portugal as part of a series of military experiments, Britain's Royal Navy said on Friday’ #maritimematters https://lnkd.in/gy8mWGq3

Calling all nature lovers in Thessaloniki! 🌿🌷 Experience the joy of reviving abandoned military sites into attractive youth spaces with us. Let's create a better future together! 💪 #NatureRevival #PositiveImpact #Thessaloniki Check out my blog post https://wix.to/SHa6QBm #newblogpost

Some key reasons to choose one of my Normandy D Day Tours; A maximum of just 6 people (so perhaps a family group or group of friends) but people known to each other. Flexibility, because of the way the tours are designed, we can be felxible in what we see and how long we stay at any given point of interest, (for example the Braves Memorial at Omaha Beach). Informative & interesting, delivered by a tour guide with previous military experience. https://lnkd.in/gUcc2yF6

Interesting load paths going on on this Bolingbroke MK IV at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (I was working on fitting a door on the adjacent Anson and this caught my eye). The main undercarriage fills a 2 foot gap between the center and outer wings (the gap is interesting in an of itself!). The vertical landing loads get dumped into the front spar. Comment back with your take on how the landing drag, side and spin up loads are reacted! #engineering #aerospaceengineering

#TriviaTuesday What is this? 1. Aerial loudspeaker 2. Aerial conga drum 3. Aerial reconnaissance camera 4. Aerial leaflet dropper (There’s a helpful hint on the wall of our artefact museum) This type of equipment would change and evolve over time, enabling one of the most important tasks of military aircraft through to the present day (which should eliminate the conga drum!). #aviation #yyz #aircraftmaintenance #onted #homeschool #RCAF100

History is one of the magnets of Croatian tourism, so we highlight Vis as an important maritime base throughout many centuries. Today, it's a true gem of the Adriatic, transforming its historical, including military, significance into a Croatian tourist attraction.

The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Along with the associated airborne operations, it marked the beginning of the liberation of France and western Europe. As a mark of respect, on Thursday 6 June, at 11.00am, Marshall Motor Group colleagues have been invited to remember the sacrifices made by troops during the historic military operation and observe a two minute silence to mark the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings. Participating in the two minutes silence is a personal decision, and would ask that we respect each other’s decision in this matter. In commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we pay homage to the resilience and fortitude of the British veterans who played a crucial role in this pivotal moment of the Second World War. The invasion claimed the lives of thousands of allied soldiers. These brave men and women - many just teenagers - left their families and their futures behind to liberate Western Europe from the grip of the Nazis. We must remember the sacrifices they made. Unprecedented coordination between Allied nations, and the intensive planning of engineers, meteorologists, logisticians and countless more, led to a force from 13 countries approaching Normandy in a 5000-vessel armada. In the early hours of D-Day, 24,000 paratroopers and glider-borne troops landed behind German lines to provide tactical support. Massive naval and aerial bombardments attempted to supress the German defences and weaponry. Then a ground force of more than 130,000 troops came ashore on five beaches across a 50-mile stretch of Normandy coast, with the first waves often facing intact defences. By the end of D-Day there had been 10,000 allied casualties. Yet this was only the beginning. The ensuing Battle of Normandy was to last into August and cost tens of thousands of lives as it defeated and repulsed the occupying German forces eastwards. It was a decisive success for the Allies and paved the way for the liberation of much of north west Europe. #DDay80