Cool pix!

"11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the Panama Canal, October Sept. 11 1945, en route to New York. Bataan received six battle stars for her World War II service and seven for her Korean War service. [1505 x 1264]"

 

"[1143x1136] Drawing of the three series of the never completed Comandanti Medaglie d'Oro-class destroyers for the Regia Marina [courtesy of ShipBucket]."

 

CVLs had anorexic islands.

 

"An M4A3(76)W HVSS tank with an impressive array of additional armour installed in a field workshop. In 1944 experts doubted the ability of the HVSS suspension to carry extra weight, but a year later crews happily loaded their tanks with several tons of extra armour."

 

"Medium Tank M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo. Aberdeen Proving Ground, 6-26-1944."

 

"The British battlecruisers HMS Tiger, HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal at sea in 1917 [3081 x 769]."

 

"[2230 x 1305]IJN Yamashiro undergoes post-reconstruction trials off Tateyama, Japan, Dec 24, 1934."

 

"[6390 x 4625]HMS Renown at Wellington during the royal visit of 1920."

 

"M4A2 Sherman "Fury" in Action."

(Again, I didn't write the stuff in quotes. Just sayin'.)

 

"[5761 x 4335]USS Portland (CA-33) at Pearl Harbor, 14 June 1942, with her crew paraded on deck. Note the external degaussing cable fitted to the hull side of this ship."

 

"Production and repairing continued until the very end , Messerschmitt Bf 109,s ready to be shipped in railcars when the surrender came. You can see how the undercarriage conveniently fit in the railcars, it was handy to ship them with the wings on their side to assembly them quickly. Germany 1945."

 

"OTD 17th Feb 1945, Sgt Jones of 5AFPU captured this classic image of 8th Armd Brigade. ‘Shaggy Dog’, a Sherman III from 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, moving up for the attack on Goch. Great view of the disruptive camouflage."

 

Source: https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=25072

 

Call it, you experts.

 

"Daddy’s home! October 1945, Tulse Hill, London- Gunner Hector Murdoch greeted by his beloved wife Rosina and his son John. Captured by Japanese forces, Hector spent more than three years in a POW camp in Singapore, where he almost died of Cholera."

 

"11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the Panama Canal, October Sept. 11 1945, en route to New York. Bataan received six battle stars for her World War II service and seven for her Korean War service. [1505 x 1264]"