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    "[6312 x 4900]USS New York (BB-34) Anchored in Hampton Roads, Oct 17, 1929."
     
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    "American F4U Corsair fighter in flight. Pilot: Lieutenant Ira "Ike" Kepford. Solomon Islands, spring 1944."
     
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    I served on her sister ship Albany (CG-10). Missile storage for the fore and aft Talos launchers was in the former magazines for turrets 1 and 3. #2 magazine was converted to the Combat Information Center, an unusually well protected location, being under the armored deck and inside the armor belt. If one was going on watch as Officer of the Deck, one would first visit CIC for a briefing and then have to climb twelve decks to the bridge!

    There was an elevator for senior officers' use. I actually had a key because one of my duties at sea detail was to bring the pilot up to the bridge, but otherwise a lowly LTJG had to use the ladders.

    Chicago and Columbus were originally Baltimore class cruisers; Albany was an Oregon City, with the same hull, machinery, main and secondary armament but the superstructure more compact to improve AA fields of fire, including the two funnels trunked into one. The CG conversion made them all the same.
     
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    Wonderful photo! My favorite of World War II fighters.
     
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    "B-17 Flying Fortress being worked on at RAF Manston England. Note the sharks mouth on the chin turret. In the background are a pair of C-47's."
     
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    "[1907X1133] Armored cruiser HMS Bedford hit underwater rock south-west of Jeju Island (Korea) on 21 August, 1910, while conducting machinery trials. Photo pictures HMS Bedford in mid-October when Mitsubishi Company started dismantling her wreck."

    HMS Bedford (1901) - Wikipedia
     
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    Some cool nature pics...

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    Soviet troops into combat. I never knew until now that the tank riders were called a
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    Cool. I love watching the Zoo shows on TV.
     
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    "(771 × 578) HMCS Haida (G63), the last remaining ship of the Tribal-Class DDs, during WWII."

    HMCS Haida - Wikipedia
     
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    "A US C-46 aircraft of the 5th Air Force is conducting an aerial evacuation of wounded American troops from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, shortly after US forces retook the city after intense fighting with the Japanese. Colour by PIECEofJAKE."

    That brave smile...
     
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    "The rare Messerschmitt Bf 109-G12 , these were other variants converted into a 2 seat trainer aircraft, believed to have produced/converted less than 500."
     
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    Wet pix.

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    "SU-152s of the 2nd Baltic Front fording a river, Latvian SSR, 1944."
     
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    "Coastal defence ship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck arrives at Willemstad along with protected cruisers HNLMS Gelderland and HNLMS Friesland, 1908.[2811 x 1609]"
     
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    "The new Imperial Japanese Navy Agano-class light cruiser, Noshiro, on her sea trials at Tokyo Bay in June of 1943."
     
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    "Captured Italian tanks refitted for usage for the Australian 6th Cavalry Regiment. North African Campaign, Tobruk, 23 January 1941. Photo taken by Frank Hurley. [638 x 467]"
     
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    "Famed Tanks: M4A2 76mm HVSS Sherman "Fury" leads the Tiger 131."
     
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