The Lookout (Twitter)
I did know a number or RO/ROs were built in Nikolayev in the late Soviet period, but didn't know one of them ended up in Military Sealift Command.
LCPC Roy M Wheat first name was Vladimir Vaslyayev, one of 4 Kapitan Smirnov class built by the Chernomorskiy Shipyard
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@TheSubHunter1:
USNS LCPL Roy M. Wheat
She is one of the USAs MSC ships and was actually built in the Soviet Union !
She was originally built for the Black Sea shipping company in 1987 but in 1997 was purchased and converted by the United States for the pre positioning fleet
#History https://t.co/9PoGZddKGk
I did know a number or RO/ROs were built in Nikolayev in the late Soviet period, but didn't know one of them ended up in Military Sealift Command.
LCPC Roy M Wheat first name was Vladimir Vaslyayev, one of 4 Kapitan Smirnov class built by the Chernomorskiy Shipyard
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@TheSubHunter1:
USNS LCPL Roy M. Wheat
She is one of the USAs MSC ships and was actually built in the Soviet Union !
She was originally built for the Black Sea shipping company in 1987 but in 1997 was purchased and converted by the United States for the pre positioning fleet
#History https://t.co/9PoGZddKGk
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1941. The Bismarck seen in the distance from a Fairey Swordfish from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious just before the torpedo attack. #WW2 #HISTORY https://twitter.com/rgpoulussen/status/1661987942322020353/photo/1
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1941. The Bismarck seen in the distance from a Fairey Swordfish from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious just before the torpedo attack. #WW2 #HISTORY https://twitter.com/rgpoulussen/status/1661987942322020353/photo/1
The Lookout (Twitter)
On June 10th 1940, the Norwegian forces in Norway signed a capitulation agreement.
The King and the Government had by then departed for the UK to continue the war from exile, along with parts of the Navy.
Our merchant fleet would prove vital in the months and years ahead.
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@URDailyHistory:
10 June 1940: Norway surrenders to Germany. Germany invaded on April 9. After the Soviet Union, #Norway held out longer, 62 days, than any other nation that was invaded by #Germany during World War II. #WWII #WW2 #history #OTD #ad https://t.co/tk8s6Jux7n https://t.co/q1IHGeqfTC
On June 10th 1940, the Norwegian forces in Norway signed a capitulation agreement.
The King and the Government had by then departed for the UK to continue the war from exile, along with parts of the Navy.
Our merchant fleet would prove vital in the months and years ahead.
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@URDailyHistory:
10 June 1940: Norway surrenders to Germany. Germany invaded on April 9. After the Soviet Union, #Norway held out longer, 62 days, than any other nation that was invaded by #Germany during World War II. #WWII #WW2 #history #OTD #ad https://t.co/tk8s6Jux7n https://t.co/q1IHGeqfTC
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @URDailyHistory: 22 Aug 1914: At the outset of World War I and during the Battle of the Frontiers, ~ 27,000 French troops are killed. It is the single deadliest day in French military history. #RIP #history #OTD #WW1 #ad https://bit.ly/3rdxeQQ https://amzn.to/3P7a3QN
RT @URDailyHistory: 22 Aug 1914: At the outset of World War I and during the Battle of the Frontiers, ~ 27,000 French troops are killed. It is the single deadliest day in French military history. #RIP #history #OTD #WW1 #ad https://bit.ly/3rdxeQQ https://amzn.to/3P7a3QN
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1944. Battleship Tirpitz, a tough nut to crack. A Lancaster flying over smokescreens in Kaa Fjord, Norway. #WW2 #HISTORY
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1944. Battleship Tirpitz, a tough nut to crack. A Lancaster flying over smokescreens in Kaa Fjord, Norway. #WW2 #HISTORY
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1943, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor airfield. Following their briefing, Handley Page Halifax crews from 76 Squadron boarding their transports, before a raid to Kassel. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes. #WW2 #HISTORY
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1943, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor airfield. Following their briefing, Handley Page Halifax crews from 76 Squadron boarding their transports, before a raid to Kassel. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes. #WW2 #HISTORY
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1943, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor airfield. Following their briefing, Handley Page Halifax crews from 76 Squadron boarding their transports, before a raid to Kassel. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes. #WW2 #HISTORY
RT @rgpoulussen: #OTD in 1943, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor airfield. Following their briefing, Handley Page Halifax crews from 76 Squadron boarding their transports, before a raid to Kassel. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes. #WW2 #HISTORY
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: One of my favourite pictures. (#OTD in 1942, El Alamein. #WW2 #HISTORY)
RT @rgpoulussen: One of my favourite pictures. (#OTD in 1942, El Alamein. #WW2 #HISTORY)
The Lookout (Twitter)
RT @rgpoulussen: We did our bit in #WW2. (#OTD in 1941, Dutch sub O-21 torpedoed U-95 in the Mediterranean. 12 Germans survived, 35 died. #HISTORY)
RT @rgpoulussen: We did our bit in #WW2. (#OTD in 1941, Dutch sub O-21 torpedoed U-95 in the Mediterranean. 12 Germans survived, 35 died. #HISTORY)
Danvan (Twitter)
RT @SavageSage: THEFT OF MILLENNIA: how #Moscovia rebranded itself as #Russia - vids.rawbit.ninja/B6b7WQy1Y3Q #Muscovy #Moscow #history #identity #Ukraine #Rus #Ruthenia #Rossia #Marx #KievanRus #Kiev #Kyiv
@TimothyDSnyder
RT @SavageSage: THEFT OF MILLENNIA: how #Moscovia rebranded itself as #Russia - vids.rawbit.ninja/B6b7WQy1Y3Q #Muscovy #Moscow #history #identity #Ukraine #Rus #Ruthenia #Rossia #Marx #KievanRus #Kiev #Kyiv
@TimothyDSnyder