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  1. OpanaPointer

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    "USS Pittsburgh painted in dazzle camouflage. [750x582]"
     
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    "USS Guam coming out of a turn, 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 dazzle camouflage. [4379x3042]."
     
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    I have often wondered what determined the camouflage pattern that was painted on ships.
     
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    history.navy.mil may have a book online about that. I had a copy but it was lost in transit.
     
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    "Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight line and a test flight before delivery to the Army, October 1942. [3000x2401]"
     
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    "Starboard view of USS LCI(L)-772 underway, Astoria, Oregon, July 30, 1944. [3000x2451]"
     
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    "Waffentrager 8.8cm PaK 43 L / 71 on tests in Kubinka 1946."
     
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    "[2916 x 2320]USS Hornet (CV-12) gliding into Berth F-9 on the northwest corner of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, 4 Mar 1944. Note SB2C Helldivers on the flight deck and Measure 33, Design 3a paint."
     
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    Kingfisher on the USS Missouri (BB-63)
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    The British Expeditionary Force......
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    Cool pix, Mr Smiley.
     
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    Would anyone have any pictures of any Soviet piston engine fighters?
     
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    You can start a Google search with "WW2 Soviet military aircraft".
     
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    "[5750 x 4450]USS Pamansett (AO-85) struggles through an East China sea storm to refuel task force 38, 13 January 1945. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) is in the distance."

    ♫For those in peril on the sea♫
     
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    "The US Navy obtained 2 surplus P-63 Kingcobras and had Bell installing on them swept wings for research on low-speed and stall characteristics of high-speed wing designs. The USN designated them L-39. Circa 1946."
     
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    "A captured early production M4A1 "War Daddy II" and an M3 Lee tank during field tests by 1./Komp. Panzer Abt. 501 at the Kummersdorf proving ground 1943."
     
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    Interesting, never heard of this one. It appears to be a 38t chassis, but lengthened, more separation between the road wheels and drive sprocket and idler.
     
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    "The battlecruiser HMAS Australia passes through the Suez Canal, 29th April 1919 [1450 x 1221]."
     
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    "U.S. Navy Convair built XF2Y-1 Sea Dart (BuNo 135762) taking off during an early test flight, 4 November 1954 [1977x1516]."
     
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