I love the National Archives, truly, and mostly the staff are brilliant, but I do get school prefect, hi-viz clipboard vibes from some of the staff who it seems cannot wait to tell you off for some minor infringement of a rule rather than using a bit of common sense.

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Going down a little rabbit hole of black and white images of contrails, which are oddly beautiful (hello chemtrail nutters of the internet 👋). But this one of 8th AF escorts above B-24s in July 1944 makes me wonder about the wingman out of position desperately trying to catch up with his leader.

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Our Gracie eclipsed many of the better known wartime performers in terms of popularity, but she's often forgotten these days. I've started a short series of articles highlighting her work entertaining the troops during the war beginning with the BEF in Nov 1939: mattheweaton.co.uk/p/the-trailb...

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Great excitement chez moi (hat tip to Tim Daw). LIDAR. Walking to Weybourne, our WW2 tank ditch has to sit in the imagination - it was largely filled in by 1952. But lo! The invsibilitymagickthing reveals works and wotnots everywhere. Thank me later. Example: shorturl.at/NlF6X

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Been going down a polka dot rabbit hole and found this image in the NARA collection. A polka dotted B-24 assembly ship is great. But... The two streaks in the sky – what do you think those are? 🤔 V2s? Escorts high above what I would guess is the Norfolk coast? There wasn't a date on the image.

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