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Aug 17

- The WW2 Ghost Blimp 🧵 -

At 6:03 a.m., on August 16, 1942, L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a coastal antisubmarine patrol (1/11) #svagaiature #History #Historia #USA #Mistery #Coldcase #USNavy

Inside the control car were Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody, aged 27, and his co-pilot, Ensign Charles Adams, aged 35. L-8 was armed with two depth charges and one 30-caliber machine gun. At the time of the incident, the airship had made 1,092 previous safe trips (2/11)

At 7:38 a.m., L-8's crew radioed to Treasure Island and reported observing an oil slick. A Liberty ship and a fishing boat in the area both witnessed L-8 descending to within thirty feet of the ocean surface and circling the oil slick (3/11)

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Aug 10

- Ships’ Voices 🧵-

During war the capacity to clearly identify your enemies’ equipment on the battlefield is fundamental (1/6) #svagaiature #History #Nato #Historia

For these reasons soldiers, sailors and pilots train for a long time to recognise the silhouettes of enemy equipment and see them before being seen themselves (2/6)

But the shape of the vehicles isn’t the only way to recognise an enemy, in some cases, as with animals, they have very peculiar sounds. It’s this the case of ships and submarines (3/6)

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Aug 9

- Kid soldier of WWII 🧵 -

Sergey Aleshkov, was the youngest participant in the Battle of Stalingrad and one of the youngest soldiers of the World War II (1/12) #svagaiature #Russia #WWII #History #Historia #WW2

Documents on the birth of Sergey Aleshkov were not preserved, but his estimated year of birth is 1934 or 1936 in the forest village of Gryn in the Kaluga region (2/12)

The 10-year-old older brother of Sergey, named Petya, was hanged, and his mother was shot while trying to protect her son from the nazi occupiers. Thanks to a neighbor, Sergey escaped through a window and ran into the forest (3/12)

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Aug 3

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- Agrippina the Immortal 🧵-

Agrippina is known in history to have been an incredible political strategist and for being the main reason of Nero’s rise to Emperor (1/14) #svagaiature #SPQR #History @SNicotinus @ItaliaStoria @Varangian_Tagma #Roma #Rome #Historia @ancientwarfare

She was known as a poisons expert and was believed to have assassinated her husband Claudius with a poisoned mushrooms’ soup to open the road to the throne to his son Nero (2/14)

Agrippina had planned his son’s entire life, she even find him a wife, Octavia, who came from an important family and would’ve been fundamental in the political games of power. Of course Nero wasn’t happy of his mother’s interferences (3/14)

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Jun 28

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- Warriors of History -

The French Musketeer of the Guard 🧵

Technically, all soldiers armed with muskets were musketeers. But the ones who wore the designation as a badge of honor were the personal household guards of French King Louis XIII (1/8) #svagaiature @LandsknechtPike

The musketeers of Louis XIII were soldiers who served as a combination of secret service and special forces. Their main duty was to protect the king and his family in a time of frequent plots and conspiracies (2/8)

The Musketeers fought in battle both on foot and on horseback making them an extremely fast and manoeuvrable elite unit on the battlefield, perfect for every situation even the most unexpected battle development (3/8)

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Jun 26

- The Rolling Tigers (Korea, 1950-1953) 🧵-

We already saw how the U.S. used Vietnamese superstitions and ghost stories to try to have the upper hand during the Vietnam war (1/6) #svagaiature #Korea #KoreanWar #History #Historian #UnitedStates #USA #War

But that wasn’t the first time the U.S. resorted to psychological warfare and scare tactics. During the Korean War the American discovered how 1950 was the year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar (2/6)

For these reasons American tank crews were ordered tiger faces and claws on their tanks in an effort to spread panic between the enemy lines, hoping that those superstitious among the Chinese in the Korean lines would run rather than shoot a tiger (3/6)

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