# ![@MilHistNow Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::576675214.png) @MilHistNow Military History Now

Military History Now posts on X about france, germany, war, history the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"A wartime newsreel of Royal Navy light carriers on convoy duty in the North Atlantic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2016611207126360442)  2026-01-28T20:35Z 203.5K followers, 49.9K engagements


"Today in [----] Iraqi infantry and tanks cross the border from occupied Kuwait into Saudi Arabia and capture the town of Khafji. U.S. and Saudi forces soon counter attack and wipe out the invaders. The battle offers a preview of the coming ground phase of Operation Desert Storm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2016831688966287567)  2026-01-29T11:12Z 203.5K followers, 88.4K engagements


"Today in [----] America's last battleship the USS Missouri is launched. Although already usurped by the aircraft carrier the 'Mighty Mo' will serve in WW2 Korea & the [----] Gulf War. Now a museum ship her nine 16-inch guns could throw [--] tons of ordnance in a single broadside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2016832443995869487)  2026-01-29T11:15Z 203.5K followers, 14.9K engagements


"In [----] the Canadian government sponsored a series of commemorative events to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of [----]. The campaign included this cinematic TV commercial that was broadcast nationally. Anyone remember it #ThrowbackThursday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2016860378165293323)  2026-01-29T13:06Z 203.5K followers, 92.2K engagements


"Today in [----] a Soviet sub torpedoes the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea. An estimated [----] people (mostly refugees) drown. With six times as many dead as were lost on the Titanic it remains history's deadliest ship sinking. See: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/04/16/the-gustloff-incident-historys-deadliest-and-forgotten-ship-sinking/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/04/16/the-gustloff-incident-historys-deadliest-and-forgotten-ship-sinking/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017119585997377538)  2026-01-30T06:16Z 203.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] the US Navy's first ironclad warship the USS Monitor is launched. Considered a hi-tech marvel at the time conditions aboard were dark stuffy & miserable. "Any man who would stay on an ironclad by choice is a candidate for an insane asylum" recalled one sailor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017194832192815612)  2026-01-30T11:15Z 203.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"On this day in [----] U.S. Army Rangers Alamo Scouts & Filipino guerrillas rescue [---] Allied prisoners from the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017200116705141013)  2026-01-30T11:36Z 203.4K followers, 11.2K engagements


"On this day in [----] a U.S. Army private named Eddie Slovik is shot at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines France for the crime of desertion. As many as [-----] other GIs face courts martial for similar offences during WW2 but the 24-year-old Detroit native is the only one to be executed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017561497988145594)  2026-01-31T11:32Z 203.5K followers, 16.6K engagements


"A nurse administers a vaccine to an American serviceman in [----]. You got in line took your shot and thats it. It was no big deal recalled one vet. (Image source: U.S. Army Center for Military History)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018083588747497829)  2026-02-01T22:06Z 203.5K followers, 13.8K engagements


"Today in [----] Stalingrad is back in Soviet hands as the last pockets of German resistance in the city are finally overwhelmed. The Axis suffered more than [------] casualties in five-months of fighting; Red Army losses are heavier: an est. [--] million killed wounded or missing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018207504556347422)  2026-02-02T06:19Z 203.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] a German U-boat sinks the American steamer SS Housatonic off the English coast. Washington responds by cutting diplomatic ties with Berlin. Two months later the United States will declare war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018645138290172132)  2026-02-03T11:18Z 203.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@landofthe80s Yes. It's a very long movie. I put it on over Easter in [----]. I've been sitting here watching it for [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020168127200522302)  2026-02-07T16:09Z 203.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This afternoon's movie: 'Sahara' (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020194007583019289)  2026-02-07T17:52Z 203.6K followers, 20.5K engagements


"UPDATE: Yeah it's as good as I remember it. The movie's emphasis on Allies Americans Brits French South Africans Sudanese and a turncoat Italian all working together to survive is compelling and seems particularly relevant in [----]. This afternoon's movie: 'Sahara' (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart. https://t.co/IAH1blK9UN This afternoon's movie: 'Sahara' (1943) starring Humphrey Bogart. https://t.co/IAH1blK9UN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020232435598852239)  2026-02-07T20:25Z 203.5K followers, 10.9K engagements


"@Tom_Antonov "By your command""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021038386031558941)  2026-02-10T01:47Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


""War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen and I say let us give them all they want." William Tecumseh Sherman born on this day in 1820"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020457581089599520)  2026-02-08T11:20Z 203.6K followers, 46.6K engagements


"On this day in [----] the frigate USS Constellation defeats the French warship L'Insurgente off Nevis. It's the first battle of America's undeclared (and largely forgotten) "Quasi War" against its former ally France. See: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/11/12/when-friend-becomes-foe-a-young-america-slugs-it-out-with-france/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/11/12/when-friend-becomes-foe-a-young-america-slugs-it-out-with-france/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020821228085481836)  2026-02-09T11:25Z 203.6K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Today in [----] Great Britain launches the battleship HMS Dreadnought thereby upping the ante in its naval arms race with Imperial Germany. The bulk of the two countries' expanding fleets will meet [--] years later at Jutland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021105600810106895)  2026-02-10T06:15Z 203.6K followers, 14.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] France becomes the fourth country in the world to detonate a nuclear weapon. The 70-kt bomb codenamed Gerboise Bleue is set off in the North African desert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022195784222224599)  2026-02-13T06:27Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] the Allies begin firebombing Dresden. [-----] civilians perish in the inferno. A young American POW by the name of Kurt Vonnegut is forced by the Germans to help recover bodies afterwards. The experience inspires him to write his anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022269268596076917)  2026-02-13T11:19Z 203.6K followers, 28K engagements


"On this day in [----] the German cruiser SMS Emden is sunk off Direction Island after terrorizing merchant shipping in the Indian Ocean since the summer. Read all about the Emden's astounding campaign against British trade and commerce on the high seas: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/05/08/the-kaisers-pirate-ship-the-unbelievable-voyage-of-the-sms-emden/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/05/08/the-kaisers-pirate-ship-the-unbelievable-voyage-of-the-sms-emden/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1987404536546238627)  2025-11-09T06:19Z 203.6K followers, 17.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] aircraft from the carriers Yorktown and Enterprise carry out raids on Japanese forces near the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Taking place just [--] days after Pearl Harbor the action marks America's first sizeable offensive operation of WW2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017916587962257458)  2026-02-01T11:03Z 203.6K followers, 12K engagements


"On this day in [----] Texas secedes from the United States. As lawmakers vote to join the Confederacy an angry Governor Sam Houston storms out of the state house in disgust. "I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her" he reportedly remarks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017918349263708274)  2026-02-01T11:10Z 203.6K followers, 36K engagements


"Today in [----] the two-year Mexican-American war ends with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Under its terms the U.S. acquires more than [------] square miles of new territory. Arguments between pro-slavery interests and abolitionists soon erupt over the future of the region"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018283253879247318)  2026-02-02T11:20Z 203.5K followers, 33.6K engagements


"On this day in [----] Hitler announces his plans for the "ruthless Germanisation" of Eastern Europe. His long-standing goal of achieving "Lebensraum" or 'Living Space' will now be the official foreign policy of Nazi Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018572912400228377)  2026-02-03T06:31Z 203.6K followers, 21.6K engagements


"Today in [----] France officially recognizes the newly established United States with the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. The pact opens up the War of Independence to direct French (and later Spanish and Dutch) intervention saving Americas precarious rebellion against Britain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2019654539478200389)  2026-02-06T06:09Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] Federal troops capture the Confederate bastion of Fort Henry Tennessee. It's an early victory for an up-and-coming general by the name of Ulysses S. Grant. The capture of the fort opens up the Tennessee River to Union gunboats which begin targeting Rebel shipping"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2019730289086583043)  2026-02-06T11:10Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"A Douglas A-1 Skyraider of the U.S. Air Force's 602nd Air Commando Squadron over Vietnam 1965"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020463872776224807)  2026-02-08T11:45Z 203.6K followers, 39.7K engagements


"Today in [----] the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War. A defeated France cedes the vast territory of Canada to Britain in exchange for the Caribbean colonies of St Lucia Guadeloupe & Martinique. Voltaire writes that all King Louis XV has lost is "a few acres of snow.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021108369160089874)  2026-02-10T06:26Z 203.6K followers, 18.4K engagements


"Today in [----] Germany launches the battleship Bismarck. Just [---] days later she'll be sunk by the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic only a week into her first combat operation. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz are the largest fighting vessels built by any European power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022550119237984610)  2026-02-14T05:55Z 203.6K followers, 20.9K engagements


"Today in [----] the last of [---] captured German U-boats to be scuttled by the Allies is sent to the bottom [---] miles off the northwest coast of Ireland. The navies of Britain the U.S. and the Soviet Union agree to divide an additional [--] surrendered subs among themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021833899656319126)  2026-02-12T06:29Z 203.6K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Today in [----] the airship USS Macon goes down off the coast of California. Capable of launching and recovering fighter interceptors in mid-flight the loss spells the end of the U.S. Navy's brief experimental flying aircraft carrier program. More here: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/12/02/the-brief-and-bizarre-history-of-flying-aircraft-carriers/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/12/02/the-brief-and-bizarre-history-of-flying-aircraft-carriers/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021905874265206812)  2026-02-12T11:15Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] the Dover Strait becomes a war zone as the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst make a run from the port of Brest into the North Sea: the "Channel Dash." The British attack with [--] warships [--] torpedo boats and [---] planes but fail to sink the Nazi vessels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021828615219163502)  2026-02-12T06:08Z 203.6K followers, 17.6K engagements


"@smitty_one_each Fair enough but we don't say Nippon Deutschland or Espaa in English; we say Japan Germany and Spain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022419278625149257)  2026-02-13T21:15Z 203.6K followers, 17.2K engagements


"Today in [----] British admiral Sir John Jervis scatters a Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent. During the clash a British officer breaks from formation and captures two larger Spanish vessels his boarding party leaping from one enemy ship to the other. His name is Horatio Nelson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022553642729886144)  2026-02-14T06:09Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] [-----] U.S. troops storm the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Japanese offer fierce resistance; of the [----] Imperial troops dug in there only [--] survive after four days of savage fighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2017555709655752902)  2026-01-31T11:09Z 203.6K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Today in [----] Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta in Crimea to plan for the end of the war in Europe. Talks focus on the partition of Germany and the future of Poland. Within weeks FDR will be dead and Moscow soon reneges on its pledge to allow free elections in Poland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2018930518654583287)  2026-02-04T06:12Z 203.6K followers, 12.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] two Greek military pilots in a French-made Farman MF.7 biplane locate the Ottoman fleet as it steams through the Dardanelles. It's history's first naval air mission"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2019290390193393849)  2026-02-05T06:02Z 203.6K followers, 14.3K engagements


"On this day in [----] France and Spain call off a failed three-and-a-half-year siege of the British territory of Gibraltar. Although a sideshow of the American War of Independence the standoff actually represents the largest battle of the conflict"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020017430689386985)  2026-02-07T06:11Z 203.6K followers, 18.9K engagements


"Today in [----] General Dwight D Eisenhower takes command of all Allied armies in Western Europe. While having never personally led troops in battle Ike's natural gifts for management organization and diplomacy make the 52-year-old West Pointer the ideal choice for the job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021467233634091468)  2026-02-11T06:12Z 203.6K followers, 13.7K engagements


"On this day in [----] the mayors of Rome and the town of El Djem a Tunisian community near the site of ancient Carthage sit down together to sign a treaty of friendship. Both claim that the meeting marks the official end of the Third Punic War of [---] BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2019293661616279676)  2026-02-05T06:15Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] the Japanese navy launches a surprise attack on the Imperial Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur on China's Liaodong Peninsula. The 575-day war that follows confirms Japan's status as a major new power while exposing the weakness of the decrepit Russian Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020381831837708325)  2026-02-08T06:19Z 203.6K followers, 24.5K engagements


"Today in [----] the United States successfully drives the Japanese from Guadalcanal after 186-days of fighting. [----] American troops have been killed in the campaign; Japan's losses are [-----]. Although costly the victory turns the tide of the Pacific War in the Allies' favour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2020816445844713964)  2026-02-09T11:06Z 203.6K followers, 36.8K engagements


"Today in [----] the Mongols capture Baghdad and end the 500-year Abbasid Caliphate. The invaders slaughter [-----] inhabitants and destroy the city's prized Grand Library. The Tigris reportedly runs both red from blood and black from the ink of the books thrown into the water"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2021102832884310113)  2026-02-10T06:04Z 203.6K followers, 20.1K engagements


"@KKriegeBlog I never understood why [--] push-ups was ever considered an achievement (or a punishment). [---] on the other hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022002312894722540)  2026-02-12T17:38Z 203.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Anyone else think the name 'Czech Republic' sounds better than 'Czechia'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022418008392757328)  2026-02-13T21:10Z 203.6K followers, 203.6K engagements


"Weekend pass revoked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022420794165596291)  2026-02-13T21:21Z 203.6K followers, 15.3K engagements


"On this day in [----] [--] American B-17s accidentally drop [---] tons of bombs on the city of Prague. More than [---] civilians are killed. The planes were supposed to have hit Dresden more than [---] miles to the north. Aircrews attribute the mishap to a navigation error"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/2022627881994850360)  2026-02-14T11:04Z 203.6K followers, 15.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Continental Army under George Washington fights off an assault by British redcoats at the Battle of Harlem Heights on Manhattan Island. The action comes just two weeks after the rebel defeat and subsequent escape from Brooklyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1967896744684830953)  2025-09-16T10:22Z 196.5K followers, 10.2K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Soviet Union invades war-torn Poland. Moscow's plan is all part of a secret deal worked out between Hitler and Stalin weeks earlier as part of the infamous MolotovRibbentrop Pact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1968178100883079445)  2025-09-17T05:00Z 196.5K followers, 17.7K engagements


"On this day in [----] a 21-year-old British pilot by the name of Tom Rees is shot down over France and unwittingly becomes the first confirmed victim of Germany's Red Baron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1968184893399028039)  2025-09-17T05:27Z 196.4K followers, 15.4K engagements


"A [----] newsreel shows the Consolidated Catalina doing what it did best: hunting U-boats. The PBY which was armed with bombs and depth charges had a range of nearly [----] miles. It could stay aloft for [--] hours straight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1968380640438649257)  2025-09-17T18:24Z 196.5K followers, 41.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] two of Europe's greatest cities Paris and Rome are both under siege; the former by Prussians the latter by the Italian army"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1968905391053619451)  2025-09-19T05:10Z 196.6K followers, 13.2K engagements


"A US Navy Corsair buzzes the Allied fleet off Inchon South Korea. Sept. [--] [----]. The battleship @USSMissouri is visible in the foreground"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1968979379180200185)  2025-09-19T10:04Z 196.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] British paratroopers holding Arnhem Bridge are overrun after three days and four nights of heavy fighting. Allied ground forces were supposed to have relieved them after [--] hours. Their last radio transmission simply says: "Out of ammunition. God save the King.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1969267778486947872)  2025-09-20T05:10Z 196.6K followers, 42.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] France defeats a Prussian-led invasion army at Valmy. The victory inspires the revolutionary regime in Paris to proclaim the French Republic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1969268281824399595)  2025-09-20T05:12Z 196.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] Soviet and German armies celebrate the joint conquest of Poland with a parade in Brest-Litovsk. The two powers were long considered foes until Berlin and Moscow stunned the world with a strategic pact just weeks earlier. It's short lived; Hitler invades the USSR in 1941"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1969987269529330143)  2025-09-22T04:49Z 197K followers, 19.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] Iraq invades Iran kicking off eight years of conflict in the Persian Gulf. The fighting which quickly bogs down into a trench warfare stalemate similar to WW1's Western Front leaves as many as one million dead. See: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/03/26/the-iran-iraq-war-10-essential-facts-about-the-first-persian-gulf-conflict/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/03/26/the-iran-iraq-war-10-essential-facts-about-the-first-persian-gulf-conflict/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1969990038336237767)  2025-09-22T05:00Z 197K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] President Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation marking the abolition of slavery in Rebel states as a Federal war aim. He drafted the decree months earlier but felt the North needed a victory before issuing it. Antietam provides an opportunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1970066541933703213)  2025-09-22T10:04Z 196.8K followers, 11.7K engagements


"On this day in [----] Nathan Hale is hanged by the British in New York for spying for the rebels. "He behaved with great composure and resolution" wrote one redcoat officer who witnessed the execution. Hale a graduate of Yale University was just 21"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1970070819763372321)  2025-09-22T10:21Z 196.8K followers, 17K engagements


"On this day in [----] John Paul Jones captures the British warship HMS Serapis. At the outset of the battle the enemy captain demands Jones' surrender. "I have not yet begun to fight" he famously replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1970431949710799324)  2025-09-23T10:16Z 197K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys troops from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas to enforce the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1970796098710315204)  2025-09-24T10:23Z 197.1K followers, 14.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] hundreds of German planes bomb Warsaw. The attack was as the largest air raid ever witnessed up to that point. September [--] would go on to be remembered in the city as "Black Monday.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971077956094001604)  2025-09-25T05:03Z 196.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] England's King Harold II slaughters [----] Vikings (along with his own outlaw brother) at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Days later he'll quick march his army [---] miles south to intercept William of Normandy near Hastings. Spoiler alert: It doesn't go well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971081982596575435)  2025-09-25T05:19Z 197.2K followers, 20.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] the British army launches an offensive against the German trenches at Loos France. It lasts three weeks and costs Kitchener's new volunteer army [-----] men but fails to dislodge the enemy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971082485821034837)  2025-09-25T05:21Z 197.1K followers, 19.6K engagements


"Today in [----] the Unites States and France launch the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. More than [---] million Allied troops are committed making it the largest operation ever undertaken by America's military. And with more than [-----] U.S. soldiers killed it's also the deadliest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971516093693862257)  2025-09-26T10:04Z 197.1K followers, 36.6K engagements


"🎉Congrats to @Marc_Harris3 @GHarward @RangerAmadeus You just won a copy of '1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe' by Peter Fritzsche from @BasicBooks. DM us to claim your prize Thanks to all who played. For more info see:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971631690255929701)  2025-09-26T17:43Z 197.2K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] Italy Japan and Nazi Germany sign the Tripartite Pact. The signatories cynically declare that the ultimate objective of their alliance is "world peace.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971807513436643628)  2025-09-27T05:22Z 197.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] William of Normandy's 700-ship invasion fleet sets sail for England after waiting weeks for favourable winds. Seventeen days later he'll decisively crush King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings paving the way for the Norman takeover of the British Isles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1971807513436713042)  2025-09-27T05:22Z 197.2K followers, 23.1K engagements


"On this day in [----] Warsaw falls to the German army. The city will endure [----] days of ruthless Nazi occupation that leaves hundreds of thousands of Poles dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972170404266463648)  2025-09-28T05:24Z 197.2K followers, 18.1K engagements


"On this day in [----] William of Normandy lands his army at Pevensey Bay. Just [--] days later he'll win the Battle of Hastings and the throne of England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972170404291870925)  2025-09-28T05:24Z 197.2K followers, 14.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] American and French troops under the command of George Washington surround the British at Yorktown. The redcoats will hold out for [--] days before surrendering after which the Crown will open negotiations to finally end the War of Independence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972240617326702979)  2025-09-28T10:03Z 197.2K followers, 24.3K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Allies break through Germany's 'Hindenburg Line.' The Kaiser's army is collapsing. Within [--] days the First World War will be over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972527507649032290)  2025-09-29T05:03Z 197.2K followers, 42.8K engagements


"Today in [----] two Australian air force Avro Anson trainers collide in midair over Brocklesby New South Wales. As the machines become intertwined the upper planes engines stop and the lower planes crew bails out. Amazingly the upper crew manages to land both planes safely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972534303092322449)  2025-09-29T05:30Z 197.2K followers, [----] engagements


"U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraiders possibly from the carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) strike Viet Cong positions near Can Tho South Vietnam. Sept. [--] [----]. (Footage courtesy of the U.S. National Archives)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972820171724382307)  2025-09-30T00:25Z 197.2K followers, 35.2K engagements


"On this day in [----] British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returns from a meeting with Hitler in Munich and promises "peace for our time." In less than a year the world will be at war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1972893670224416773)  2025-09-30T05:18Z 197.2K followers, 38.1K engagements


"1942 newsreel footage demonstrating how M3 Stuart tanks might be used in Allied amphibious operations. (Disclaimer: Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt in your own car)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973014862167990721)  2025-09-30T13:19Z 197.2K followers, 17.8K engagements


"You can imagine our surprise after reading the replies to this tweet to discover that we are somehow both anti-semitic AND zionist at the same time. Stay classy Twitter. 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973107365147980079)  2025-09-30T19:27Z 197.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine our surprise after reading the replies to this tweet to discover that we are somehow both anti-semitic AND zionist at the same time. Stay classy Twitter. 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973108597124112793)  2025-09-30T19:32Z 197.2K followers, 12.3K engagements


"On this day in [----] a legion of diplomats descend onto Vienna to map out post-Napoleonic Europe and (hopefully) prevent future wars. Their plans will be temporarily upended five months later after Bonaparte escapes from Elba"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973252535025803702)  2025-10-01T05:04Z 197.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] sentences are read at the Nuremberg Trials. Twelve top Third Reich officials including Jodl Keitel and von Ribbentrop are sentenced to hang. Albert Speer and Erich Raeder will served prison terms. Goering commits suicide before his date with the hangman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973257819660177906)  2025-10-01T05:25Z 197.2K followers, 21.5K engagements


"On this day in [---] BC a 25-year-old Alexander the Great defeats Darius III at Gaugamela in present-day Iraq. The Persian emperor famously flees the battlefield and will later be killed by his own lieutenants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973259833026683236)  2025-10-01T05:33Z 197.2K followers, 14K engagements


"On this day in [----] the North American F-86 Sabre makes its maiden flight. Nearly [-----] will be manufactured and widely exported. One user Bolivia won't retire its last squadron until 1994"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973328535801700860)  2025-10-01T10:06Z 197.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A scene from the classic war film 'Kelly's Heroes on the River Kwai'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973555831812792325)  2025-10-02T01:09Z 197.2K followers, 102.6K engagements


"On this day in [----] German forces wipe out the last pockets of resistance in Warsaw after a 62-day uprising. The Nazi crackdown leaves as many as [------] Poles most of them non-combatants dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973612657979605049)  2025-10-02T04:55Z 197.2K followers, 35.6K engagements


"On this day in [----] Nazi Germany test fires the first V-2 rocket from the Peenemnde test facility. Reaching altitudes of [--] miles the missiles are the first man-made projectiles to leave Earth's atmosphere and reach space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973614168084455459)  2025-10-02T05:01Z 197.2K followers, 57.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Crusader stronghold of Jerusalem falls to Saladin ending [--] years of Christian rule in the holy city"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973614419663077400)  2025-10-02T05:02Z 197.2K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Today in [----] two million German troops launch Operation Typhoon the offensive to take Moscow. By late November some units are just [--] miles from the Kremlin but autumn rains mud and a sudden cold snap halt the invaders. The Soviets soon counterattack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973616180981277182)  2025-10-02T05:09Z 197.2K followers, 18K engagements


"On this day in [----] Britain puts its first submarine to sea: HMS Holland [--]. "These little boats will be a terror to any ship" predicts one Royal Navy officer. He will be proven right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973619452617908714)  2025-10-02T05:22Z 197.2K followers, 10.1K engagements


"You're looking at survivors of the the U.S. Army's 77th Division aka the "Lost Battalion." More than [---] men of the unit stormed the Argonne Forest on this day in [----]. They were cut off surrounded and relentlessly attacked for a week; fewer than [---] made it out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973690420799418665)  2025-10-02T10:04Z 197.2K followers, 30.1K engagements


"The fictional Flower-class corvette HMS Compass Rose (K49) that appeared in the [----] film 'The Cruel Sea' was actually the real-life warship HMSCoreopsis. The vessel which served as a convoy escort in the Second World War was scrapped shortly after filming these scenes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973694698519687419)  2025-10-02T10:21Z 197.7K followers, 117.6K engagements


"On this day in [----] East and West Germany are reunified after more than [--] years of partition. The move comes less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973975045602005053)  2025-10-03T04:55Z 197.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters are shot down over Mogadishu Somalia. [--] Americans are killed and [--] are wounded during the fight to recover the crews. Hundreds of Somalis die in the battle. The debacle leads to a scaling back of America's mission in the region"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974052305398804866)  2025-10-03T10:02Z 197.2K followers, 87.5K engagements


"Today in [----] a 26-year-old artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte famously orders his gunners to give counter-revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot." This act of ruthlessness puts the future emperor on the path to power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974338439983346144)  2025-10-04T04:59Z 197.2K followers, 38.2K engagements


"Today in [----] the Soviets open a new front in the Cold War with the launch of history's first human-made satellite Sputnik I. For [--] days the 184-pound basket ball-sized orbiter transmits a constant radio signal back to Earth: "Beep. Beep. Beep" (Listen to end of clip)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974340705054306503)  2025-10-04T05:08Z 197.2K followers, 12.7K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Ottomans declare war on Russia over which empire will control Crimea. The resulting conflict lasts two years and draws in Britain France Bulgaria and Sardinia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974344983315710020)  2025-10-04T05:25Z 197.2K followers, 30.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] a standoff between Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Congress of People's Deputies turns deadly as army tanks roll into Moscow and open fire on the legislature. Nearly [---] are killed in hours of bloody street fighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974346996736495885)  2025-10-04T05:33Z 197.2K followers, 24.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] [---] people are killed as the Morgan Munitions Depot in Sayreville New Jersey explodes. The accidental blast which some attribute to German sabotage is equal to six kilotons of TNT nearly half the size of the Hiroshima bomb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974418719091708315)  2025-10-04T10:18Z 197.2K followers, 16K engagements


"Today in [----] an army of Parisian women march on Versailles to demand Louis XVI provide bread for the poor. After a tense 24-hour standoff the mob demands the royals accompany them back to Paris. Cowed the king agrees marking the decline of an independent monarchy in France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974702589955481833)  2025-10-05T05:06Z 197.2K followers, 19.8K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Shawnee war chief Tecumseh is killed by U.S. troops at the Battle of Moraviantown near Chatham Upper Canada. With him dies the dream of an independent Indigenous nationstate in North America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1974777080748331138)  2025-10-05T10:02Z 197.2K followers, 16K engagements


"Today in [----] Egypt & Syria launch a surprise attack on Israel during the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday. The onslaught nearly overwhelms the Israelis who soon rally for a devastating counter offensive. A ceasefire ends the three-week war amid fears of a superpower intervention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975064725961474347)  2025-10-06T05:05Z 197.6K followers, 53.8K engagements


"@DiariesEmpire Dolly's Tavern Montreal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975141370164863284)  2025-10-06T10:09Z 197.2K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] the combined navies of Spain and Venice deal a decisive defeat to the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. It marks the last major sea battle in history fought by oar-powered galleys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975429881811873932)  2025-10-07T05:16Z 197.7K followers, 19.1K engagements


"On this day in [----] U.S. warplanes carry out the opening strikes of what will become a 19-year military campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. America's 'Global War on Terror' will soon expand into Pakistan Iraq Yemen Syria and elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975501604838097075)  2025-10-07T10:01Z 197.7K followers, 13.4K engagements


"On this day in [----] [---] Rebels defeat an army of Tory militia at the Battle of King's Mountain South Carolina. It's remembered as the largest engagement of the Revolutionary War fought entirely by American forces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975503869464703140)  2025-10-07T10:10Z 197.7K followers, 20.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] Continental troops defeat the British at the 2nd Battle of Saratoga. "The courage and obstinacy with which the Americans fought astonished everyone" wrote one redcoat officer. The victory prompts France to recognize and support the burgeoning United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975504372848058771)  2025-10-07T10:12Z 197.7K followers, 12.9K engagements


"On this day in [----] the Royal Navy defeats a fleet belonging to the Dutch Batavian Republic in the waters off Camperduin or "Camperdown" as the British call it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1976874651952308382)  2025-10-11T04:57Z 197.6K followers, [----] engagements


"On this day in [----] an impromptu rebel flotilla takes on a small fleet of British warships at the Battle of Valcour Island. Fought several hundred miles inland on Lake Champlain it's the first engagement of the nascent U.S. Navy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1976955182731657244)  2025-10-11T10:17Z 197.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Today in [----] authorities in Texas hand [--] jailed pro-Union citizens over to a mob to be hanged. More than [--] will eventually be put to death for treason many without trial. The Great Hanging of Gainesville is remembered as one of the worst acts of mob violence in U.S. history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1977316060425490525)  2025-10-12T10:11Z 197.7K followers, 26.6K engagements


"Why do today's history documentaries look so ridiculous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978253311942754730)  2025-10-15T00:15Z 197.7K followers, 12.9K engagements


"US Marines on patrol in Grenada [----]. http://t.co/OZom7OntNi http://t.co/T3uPMhGzON http://MilitaryHistoryNow.com http://MilitaryHistoryNow.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/543530133337169921)  2014-12-12T22:17Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"America lost [------] in the Civil War - more than in both World Wars Vietnam Korea Iraq & Afghanistan combined. http://t.co/WbfVfPYnPe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/551392600570085376)  2015-01-03T15:00Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"The biggest killer of soldiers during the Civil War wasn't bullets bombs or even bayonets. It was diarrhea. http://t.co/HOEYVEbj21"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/551733002217472001)  2015-01-04T13:32Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"FACT: As many as [---] million soldiers that fought in the Civil War contracted Malaria. http://t.co/Kif8UuV9Gg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/553944384874774529)  2015-01-10T16:00Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"One out of every [--] Union soldiers in the Civil War died in battle; The Confederates lost one in [--]. http://t.co/6llo6TxCDZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/556840124294893569)  2015-01-18T15:46Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"The Nazi's "Sonderverband 288" included a number of pro-Axis Arabs that Berlin hoped to use in an invasion of Iraq. http://t.co/qfNdDoTytQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/586530528293191681)  2015-04-10T14:05Z 181.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Future US prez Grover Cleveland was drafted during the Civil War. He paid a Polish immigrant $150 to take his place. http://t.co/2MjeTC6ZPI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/591240464428376064)  2015-04-23T14:01Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] Canadian ace BillyBishop raids a German aerodrome in France. The attack wins him a VC. @RCAF_ARC http://t.co/nBWcFixB5n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/605745455327121408)  2015-06-02T14:39Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Jeannette Rankin a Republican Congresswoman from Montana cast the sole vote against war on Japan after Pearl Harbor http://t.co/JMOHfSwJk0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/628719170658693120)  2015-08-05T00:08Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Today in 1849: Austria drops a bomb on Venice from an unmanned balloon. History's 1st air raid .and drone strike. http://t.co/i2niwulbex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/635074012113055746)  2015-08-22T13:00Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Project Eldest Son The Secret U.S. Scheme to Sabotage Charlies Rifles. See: http://t.co/igZchUiu5X http://t.co/yyQFhVOAAU http://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/08/28/project-eldest-son-the-secret-u-s-scheme-to-sabotage-charlies-ammo/ http://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/08/28/project-eldest-son-the-secret-u-s-scheme-to-sabotage-charlies-ammo/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/637237106008588288)  2015-08-28T12:15Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Today in [----] six carriers with [---] warplanes secretly leave Japanese waters. Their destination is Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/669878354930065408)  2015-11-26T14:00Z 181.4K followers, [--] engagements


"A Japanese-American shop keeper unfurls a banner in front of his store after the attack on Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/672784979449917440)  2015-12-04T14:30Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Watching 'Tora Tora Tora' right now -- THE best movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor ever made. Agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/672962821999738880)  2015-12-05T02:16Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] FDR sends a personal appeal for peace to Hirohito unaware of the coming attack on Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673504444332376064)  2015-12-06T14:09Z 181.4K followers, [--] engagements


"A Neutral Power American Involvement in WW2 Before Pearl Harbor #PearlHarbor74 http://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/01/09/the-war-before-the-war-americas-pre-pearl-harbor-involvement-in-ww2/ http://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/01/09/the-war-before-the-war-americas-pre-pearl-harbor-involvement-in-ww2/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673857026661867520)  2015-12-07T13:30Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"What was Germany's role in the attack on Pearl Harbor This article from [----] explains. http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/12/11/article-reports-nazi-involvement-in-the-day-of-infamy/ http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/12/11/article-reports-nazi-involvement-in-the-day-of-infamy/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673867324164718592)  2015-12-07T14:11Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"74 yrs ago RIGHT NOW planes from six Japanese aircraft carriers begin taking off for the attack on Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673897264956375040)  2015-12-07T16:10Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"74 yrs ago RIGHT NOW Japanese planes reach Pearl Harbor. The signal to attack goes out: "Tora Tora Tora""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673921439322365952)  2015-12-07T17:46Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"74 yrs ago RIGHT NOW an uncoded dispatch goes out to U.S. forces. "AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/673923683535089665)  2015-12-07T17:55Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"74 yrs ago NOW [---] Japanese planes return to their carriers after striking Pearl Harbor. [--] were lost in the raid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/674000484672253952)  2015-12-07T23:00Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Grumman unveiled its new TBF torpedo bomber the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. It was soon renamed "Avenger""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/713720217118093313)  2016-03-26T13:32Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] Saudi Arabia declares war on Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/715893243133566977)  2016-04-01T13:27Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] Britain fights a war against the tiny African nation of Zanzibar. It lasts for [--] minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/769445356698411008)  2016-08-27T08:04Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] Britain fights a war against the tiny African nation of Zanzibar. It lasts for [--] minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/769710605875843072)  2016-08-28T01:38Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Some #HumpDayMotivation from UN Peacekeepers ride camels along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. http://MilitaryHistoryNow.com http://MilitaryHistoryNow.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/791258081258795008)  2016-10-26T12:40Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"75 yrs ago NOW warplanes from six Japanese aircraft carriers begin taking off for the attack on Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/806531217029926912)  2016-12-07T16:10Z 181.3K followers, [--] engagements


"75 yrs ago RIGHT NOW the destroyer USS Ward attacks a Japanese midget sub just outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor. #pearlharbor75"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/806539774538502144)  2016-12-07T16:44Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"At this moment in [----] [---] Japanese planes return to their carriers after striking Pearl Harbor. [--] were lost in the raid. #pearlharbor75"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/806630621321764864)  2016-12-07T22:45Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"75 yrs ago RIGHT NOW FDR addresses Congress about the Pearl Harbor attack: "A day that will live in infamy.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/806913486416740352)  2016-12-08T17:29Z 181.2K followers, [--] engagements


"Today in [----] 19-yr-old Mathias Rust of West Germany surprises Soviet air defences & lands a Cessna in Red Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/868737377694568450)  2017-05-28T07:55Z 181.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Is there a better place to be reading about Caribbean pirates than in the Bahamas with a rum and ginger beer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/887074220022394881)  2017-07-17T22:19Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"On this day in [----] [--] Nazi war criminals including Keitel Jodl & von Ribbentrop are hanged for war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/919830305229475840)  2017-10-16T07:40Z 181.5K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] a German V-2 missile slams into a London department store killing [---]. It's the single deadliest Nazi rocket attack of World War Two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/934338366543486977)  2017-11-25T08:30Z 181.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Today in [----] [--] Nazi officials meet at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to map out the "final solution to the Jewish question in Europe." "They minced no words. They spoke about methods of killing about liquidation about extermination" -- Adolf Eichmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/954632154381680640)  2018-01-20T08:30Z 181.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Today in [----] a 19-yr-old US Army lieutenant from Kingston Texas named Audie Murphy leaps aboard a burning American tank and single-handedly holds off a German assault with a .50 cal machine gun. He will later be awarded the Medal of Honor and star in his own Hollywood biopic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/956880689256910848)  2018-01-26T13:25Z 181.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Today in [----] Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. The ship's captain William Bligh and [--] crewmen are set adrift. They'll spend [--] days at sea with few supplies before making land. The mutineers settle on Pitcairn Island where their descendants still live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/990124738159742978)  2018-04-28T07:05Z 181.5K followers, [---] engagements


"On this day in [----] the Hitler and Mussolini bromance deepens with the signing the Berlin-Rome 'Pact of Steel.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/998820945207771137)  2018-05-22T07:00Z 181.2K followers, [---] engagements

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