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    "The KV-2 ZiS-6. Instead of the 152mm kielbasa launcher, it had a 107mm smoked sausage launcher. It still held all the late night snacks of stalin’s fridge."
     
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    ""Fifi" September 2,2018 by Frederick K. Larkin at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Mount Hope, Ontario [4697x3134]."
     
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    68BE5F80-1354-41EB-82AA-007A69E9F064.jpeg Just for me to stray once from the norm, and kinda cool pix; cannon and the Dunker church in the background, Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, Maryland U.S.A. The Civil War. I took this when I was there last year as I have visited frequently. I have volumes on the war, I have read many, but not a scholar on it...............I thoroughly enjoy the history. Gettysburg also. And, limbers at Antietam...............
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    "P-40 Warhawk looking extra badass."
     
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    @Half Track Military is military whatever the year.
     
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    "B-17 44-6147 JD-U 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron England 1944. On 10 June 1944; during assembly for Leipzig, a mid air collision with 42-102442; crashed at Withersfield, near Haverhill, Suffolk, UK. 6KIA."
     
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    "WWII. Dorset, UK. 1943. A Hawker Typhoon Mk Ib fighter/bomber of No. 257 Squadron has her 4 x 20mm Hispano Mk II cannons rearmed at RAF Warmwell. (2048 x 1333)"
     
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    "Unknown Japanese warship taken after surrender. Note the "No Visitors" painted on turret. [3282 x 2491]"
     
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    "Infantry and tanks advance towards Moscow near Wolokolamsk, December 1941 (original color Agfacolor)"
     
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    "IS-2M"
     
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    That was the theory, but the 28-knot BBs operated with carriers throughout the war. When a separate battle line was formed, such as TG58.7 at the Philippine Sea or TF34 at Leyte Gulf, it included both 28- and 33-knot BBs. When Halsey recognized the threat of Kurita's battle fleet off Samar, he initially sent all six of his battleships south to meet them. Eventually he sent Iowa and New Jersey ahead with just a squadron of destroyers in support; that seems to be the only occasion when their extra few knots came into play - although they were still too late.

    The other rationale for the Iowas was to match the Kongo class, after we learned that their speed had been increased from 26 to 30 knots. There was some concern that they might operate as independent scouts or commerce raiders and have to be hunted down by fast American battleships, but nothing like that ever happened.
     
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    "Shattered muzzle of a 300-pounder Parrott Rifle, Morris Island, South Carolina, summer of 1863."
     
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    "Battleship USS Washington and cruiser(s) USS Wichita and HMS Norfolk. At anchor in the harbor at Hvalfjord, Iceland, May-June 1942. [1976x2648]"
     
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    How did the muzzle get shattered? A bomb thrown down the spout?

     
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    F6F-5 Hellcat, Zero Killer. VF-32, USS Cabot CVL-28, September 1945.......
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    Parrot guns had a tendency to do this all on their own.
     
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    "USS Iowa Under Golden Gate Bridge in 2012 On Her Final Voyage To Become A Museum Ship [1024 x 678]."
     
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    "Crew members of a 'Tiger' tank of the 'schwere Panzerabteilung 502', somewhere in Russia in the summer of 1943. Note the non-penetrating damage to the frontal armour."

    Young faces, old eyes.
     
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    "UK. 1925. The British Army Mark II Birch Gun, considered the worlds first practical self-propelled artillery gun. They fitted a QF 18 pounder gun onto a Vickers medium tank chassis. (1600 x 1107)"
     
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    "A comparison of HMS King George V in 1941 with HMS Duke of York in 1945 [3250 x 3250]."
     
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