@Jason_R_Burt Derry, Northern Ireland, throughout 1941, US "civilian contractors" were extending the Royal Navy's dockyard. They drove in on trucks every day. The morning after Pearl Harbor they drove in as usual, this time in their USN Seabee uniforms. The US was in the war way before Dec. 7.

@SirPeter64 @TheStingisBack I read somewhere that he said they did strike them. The Vietnam War saw such a rapid throughput of recruits the sergeants knew they couldn't possibly train them properly so they resorted to physical violence to emphasize the lessons. Harsh, but they wanted them not to get killed.

@DravenNoctis In Lebanon?

@d_odom59019 @travis4nh Whoooooooossshhhhh!!!!!!

@Uncommonsince76 To Hollywood all that seems to occur in WWII is the Holocaust, it's the only thing the German High Command is interested in. When you read actual history, it's clear that they barely gave the Jews a thought, so caught up were they with a thousand much more pressing problems.

@timfarmer With the greatest of respect, how much balls does it take to strafe peasant guerrillas in the jungle with three Gatling guns from 15,000 feet? Anyone who was firing back from the ground was the true big ballz to be honest.

@CcibChris I wonder why it never received the recognition that Lancs did.

@JohnOBrennan2 Ireland has the most monolithic media in the English-speaking world. About 90% of the editorial leaning of Irish media could be summarised as "Fintan O'Toole says...and I agree". There is little diversity from the RTE/Irish Times liberal/left consensus.

@irelandbattles Any more information on this guy King? The photo appears to be a bit later than 1922.

@GaelNaCoille Yeah, how did that work out 30 years after you packed it in to administer British rule in a partitioned six counties?

@Neccccy Clarkson is a lifelong Remainer.

@john_mcguirk Genuine question, if 500 Gazans expressed an interest in leaving and Israel (overtly or covertly) chartered a plane to send them to Dublin, they would be given immediate refugee status in Ireland, right? I am pretty sure Israel would get a lot of takers among ordinary Gazans.

@AnChartlann Ah Kaiser's Germany, following in the long tradition of the French and Spanish, landing too little aid at the wrong time and in the wrong place and leaving the Irish rebels to be massacred.

@DublinMilitary Pre-WWI, so presumably not still there when the DUOTC held Trinity College during the Rising. The biggest strategic failure of the Rebels was not to see the importance of seizing TCD early (and the Shelbourne too).

@yulenbilbao Although they still built a few more over the coming years, this effectively marked the death of the battleship. Pretty dinosaurs, whose age of extinction had arrived.

@itsjohncrotty The ports were useless after France fell, even Swilly wasn't necessary. It was a deepwater port for battleships. The Battle of Atlantic was won by corvettes and other small ships that could easily use the shallow channel into Derry, which became the main escort base for convoys.

@lorraineelizab6 @ThisDayIrish And it was fully supported by the Catholic middle and professional classes, what remained of the Catholic gentry, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church also supported Union. Meanwhile the ultra-protestant ascendancy class and Orange Order bitterly opposed the Union.

@swgannon The priest said he read every week in the papers court reports of poor Irish people being bankrupted by exploitative money lenders of a certain demographic. I've lived in SE Asia, I know how these things work. Do records of the courts and newspapers still exist? Was it true?

@neilojim1972 That's a great map, remarkably accurate (except the "island" of Derry is on the wrong side of the river), I wonder what year it was made.

@DublinMilitary Did he not get a 1916 medal?