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  1. Half Track

    Half Track Well-Known Member

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    God bless you.
     
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    "Aichi M6A1 Seiran (Clear Sky Storm) s/n 28 at the National Air and Space Museum. The Seiran was designed to be deployed by the I-400 class aircraft carrier submarines, which could carry three Seirans in a watertight hangar. The aircraft was restored from 1989 to 2000 and is the last of it's kind."
     
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    Looks like a cross between an Me262 and a Stuka...
     
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    I thought it looked like an escapee from the movie "Airplanes."
     
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    "Fieseler Fi-103 / V-1 flying bombs underground production line at Nordhausen, Germany, 1945."
     
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    The original layout, with the 8" guns so they could play cruiser if they wanted to.

    [​IMG]The stripe on the stack helped pilots know which of the twins they should land on. Easy way to remember: "S in Stripe, S in Saratoga."
     
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    Lots of low-tech "radar" on board.
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    "German dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiser, as built."
     
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    "German battlecruiser SMS Lützow as completed. She was Hipper's flagship at Jutland, and sunk HMS Invincible, but took 24 hits from heavy calibre guns and foundered a few hours later" (They don't say why.)
     
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    Never knew that one had 8”guns. Interesting
     
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    HMS Ramillies, WWII.

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    Can you name her before peaking below?
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    "The Greek flagship, Pisa-class armoured cruiser Georgios Averof, Launched 12 March 1910. Now a floating museum in Palaio Faliro, Athens."
     
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    The Washington Naval Treaty allowed carriers to mount guns up to 8", same as cruisers. The only other carriers to do so were the Japanese Akagi

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    and Kaga. These had two hangar levels and three flight decks, the lower two of which allowed aircraft to launch directly from the hangar. They had two twin 8" turrets on the middle flight deck and six more guns in casemates in the lower hull aft. The design attempted to address the problem which would limit carriers until the development of the angled flight deck, namely the inability to simultaneously launch, land, and spot aircraft on deck; but it didn't work out in practice, especially as aircraft became larger. Eventually the turrets were removed and the ships rebuilt with a single full-length flight deck.

    American and Japanese design studies in the 1930s included carriers or cruiser-carriers with heavy gun armament, but none were proceeded with. It was considered best to concentrate on aviation capabilities, with gun armament primarily for antiaircraft defense.
     
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    Greek armored cruiser Averoff, pre-WWI, preserved as a museum ship. I saw her around 1978 and was totally surprised, had had no idea she still existed. No peeking.
     
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    Hard not to know her...She is the only armored cruiser still in existence.
     
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    I didn't remember her.
     
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    This decision lead to the heavy cruisers being the largest units that were regularly teamed with the carriers pre-war.

    When Halsey took Enterprise to Wake Island to fluff up their fighter defenses he took heavy cruisers and destroyers but both he and Admiral Brown (in Lexington, bound for Midway on the same type mission) declined battleship escorts. Halsey, "the fighting admiral" put it bluntly, "Hell no, if we have to run we don't want to be slowed down by 20 knot battleships!" This decision meant that there were more than the usual quota of battleships in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th.

    Note that both Enterprise and Lexington went WEST, into "Indian country" as Halsey put it. The conspiracy nuts claim the CVs had be "hustled out of harbor the day before the attack!" Not only does that not match the actual dates they sailed but they were heading TOWARD Japan, and lightly escorted to boot.
     
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    After seeing so many POW movies and reports...this picture makes for a nice change. The speech begins with "Right you little bastards..."
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    Some more PNG pics...
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    I like this pic because of the Australian Aboriginal on the far right
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    Serious faces (an unusual picture with no Australians smiling) and an Owen clearly seen.
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    Bayonets fixed...you know the enemy is close...
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    A Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel...The name given by Australians to the New Guinea tribesmen whos job it was to escort the injured to the back lines, through enemy territory. To this day we hold a special place in our hearts for these legends...
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    Another famous picture of an Australian carrying a Marine off the battle field...This is Leslie "Bull" Allen...He would go on to save another 11 Americans that day...all under Japanese rifle, machine gun and mortar fire...what a ledge. (Reminds me of the song Camouflage...or Forrest Gump)

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    Some Bren action...you can tell by where the cameraman is that this isn't staged...
     
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    Great photos, much appreciated!
     
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    Insert dittoness here.
     
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    "The four U.S. Navy Porter-class destroyers USS Balch (DD-363), USS Moffett (DD-362), USS Winslow (DD-359) and USS McDougal (DD-358) moored together at San Diego, California (USA), in March 1939."

    Enjoy the peace and quiet, boys.
     
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