Brtish Conservatives denounce BBC for playing the national anthem of the UK's new ally, the Soviet Union- Communist song the Internationale: https://t.co/xdiF4Umud2
Soviets forces are evacuating the embalmed corpse of Lenin from his mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow, to a provincial town in Siberia, to save it from bombing or possible capture by Germans. https://t.co/WJFRqafqfm
German panzers are grinding to a halt, waiting for marching infantry & horse-drawn fuel transport to catch up with them; Wehrmacht living off looted Russian supplies. https://t.co/iU5XVTgUNV
Wehrmacht triumphant, in USSR, with everyone from Hitler to ordinary German soldiers celebrating; but breakneck pace of advance is over-stretching them. https://t.co/W2bv34SS0M
Hitler & Mussolini are touring the borders of newly captured territory in the USSR, visiting Soviet fortress of Brest-Litovsk, captured by Germans after two weeks of vicious siege. https://t.co/V6XTI4UVEr
"To stiffen morale" Red Army has reintroduced Commissars- "political officers" with equal authority to military commanders, infamous for shooting fearful soldiers. https://t.co/J5dGnx0U9P
"The Motherland is Calling!", new poster designed by Soviet artist Irakli Toidze. After his wife Tamara ran into his studio to announce outbreak of war, Irakli told her to freeze while he sketched her expression. https://t.co/aNUYmFBKlB
Despite desperate series of counter-attacks & some pockets of bitter resistance, Russian roads are currently slowing German advance more than Red Army. https://t.co/nyySf7SPe9
German forces now nearly 500 miles deep into USSR, with exultant Wehrmacht planning assaults on Kiev, Leningrad, & Moscow. https://t.co/vPrdawjfAf
Author P.G. Wodehouse continues his series of comic broadcasts from Berlin to USA, unaware that in UK Parliament he's being accused of aiding German propaganda efforts & "playing the Nazi game". https://t.co/6hfN5kTjuy
"Nazi philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg has been appointed German Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories, to "'pacify" the Reich's growing empire. https://t.co/Khrwchofjo
Kazimierz: "I discover that many Jews have been “transported” to the forest... An hour later the volleys began. Ten people were shot at a time. They took off their overcoats, caps, & shoes (but not their trousers!)" https://t.co/gGMWx0gCS9
11 Group Bunker
Monday 26th July saw Bunker13 on a fact finding visit to the restored 11 Group bunker at RAF Uxbridge.
See some pics of what Bunker13 could look like one day.
Bunker 13 has no connection with Uxbridge bunker and is unable to arrange visits to either Bunker at present.
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Working got the Air Ministry, my father helped design the steelwork fo many Fighter Command hangers and bunkers. I still have his official ID card dated July 1940. I have no idea though which bunkers he visited bu had di travel all over the UK including Northen Ireland. He died before bring released from the Official Secrets Act