Cool pix!

Pretty darn nice photos!

 

The USS Fletcher (DD-445) also DDE, the lead ship of her class. Named for Admiral Frank Fletcher. World War II, the war in the Pacific. And the Korean War. I love the lines of a Fletcher Class Destroyer. I built the model and I tried to do it well.

 

A silencer for a German M-109 155mm SP howitzer. I was in an M-109 battery for a while, never saw such a thing, but we have huge training ranges here, well separated from nearby civilians. However, they did have a mix-up with green/white bag powder once, at Ft. McClellan, Ala. and when the battery called shot out, we never saw the impacts. We called check fire, and the battery rechecked their data. At that point they sent us and some other people to determine where the rounds landed. While driving a service road along the perimeter fence further downrange we noticed the tops of the trees were clipped. Further inspection and we found the rounds had landed in a farmer's field, the shrapnel doing a good bit of damage to some buildings and equipment. Fortunately, the farmer and his family had not been home.

 

Cool photo! No idea it could tilt like that, I suppose for stabilization in heavy weather. The only ships I can think of with Sea Zenith are a class of Turkish MEKO frigates, but there may be others.

 

Nice picture, must be when she was brand new, the twin 40mm aft is in the original high position. Later it was a deck lower; they managed to squeeze it and its director between the two 5" mounts (director not installed in this photo). This was originally planned to be a quad 1.1", but it looks to me like the twin 40.

 

Those sidecar monkeys are some crazy dudes!

 

I used to watch and love the sidecars at the Bagot Park Speedway...The picture of the grass slipper is a road racer...I used to watch the dirt side cars...Little is known in the US of Australia's love for cars, bikes and racing! Its huge.

 

17 January 1940, two sailors from HMAS Yarra pictured in arms with their girlfriends walking along the promenade at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
[Photo by Ivan Ives » State Library of NSW]

 

And in the proper gender order.

 

Crop duster or crop Buster?