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    "The 29cm Petard spigot mortar on a Churchill AVRE of 79th Squadron, 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, under command of 3rd Infantry Division, 29 April 1944."
     
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    "USN cruiser USS Minneapolis underway on 9 November 1943. Note her unique camouflage scheme, with the cruiser painted to resemble a destroyer. (5604x4204)"
     
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    "An incredibly interesting German field modification performed on a captured KV-1. The vehicle seems to have been short-tracked with Panzer III/IV tracks. Potentially used as a semi-mobile bunker."
     
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    Wrong sub.
     
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    "[5741 x 4302]Four-Piper Friday! USS Overton (DD-239) running builder's trials, circa May-June 1920"
     
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    Years ago I read an article in the Naval Institute Proceedings about WWII camouflage which included this scheme. It was abandoned because it was too confusing to our own ships in formation!
     
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    Since the track doesn't go around the drive sprocket, I would have to agree with "semi-mobile";)
     
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    Note that the aft 4" gun is on the main deck and the 3"/23 antiaircraft gun on the aft deckhouse. This was an early arrangement in the flush-deckers; the two guns were later interchanged. The deckhouse position has better arcs of fire and less chance of being washed out at high speed or in heavy seas; apparently the Navy at the time gave preference to the low-angle armament.
     
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    This was the age of "torpedoboat destroyers", so surface action was their primary mission.
     
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    "Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. February 1968. A digger of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), shows special interest in the folding bayonet fitted to a Russian/Chicom made assault rifle captured from the VC during a successful ambush on Operation Coburg. (585 x 576)"
     
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    "British Matilda, Australian Sentinel and American Lee tanks."
     
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    "I'd be smiling too if I got my Hurricane back with that much damage!"
     
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    "Australian Cruiser tank AC I Sentinel turret and hull components. This tank was the first in the world to have a fully cast hull."
     
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    "Australian cruiser AC I Sentinel tank with experimental turret which armed two 25-pounders guns."
     
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    "B-17F Flying Fortress 'Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile' of the 91st Bomb Group on a mission to attack the U-boat pens at Lorient, May 1943. The Eighth Air Force flew a total of 264,618 individual bomber sorties out of England during World War II. The 91st Bomb Group (Heavy), alone, flew 340 missions."
     
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    "HMS M2 (Submarine Aircraft Carrier) launches her Parnall Peto Seaplane [3059 x 1001]."
     
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    "Illustration of Battleship Dunkerque Profile Showing the Gorgeous Lines of the Ship [2674 x 1130]."
     
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    "F6F-3 Hellcat flown by Butch O'Hare with over 200 bullet holes from combat was brought to the production plant to show the workers what they are building. Butch was awarded the medal of Honor in 1942 for shooting down five bombers attacking his carrier."
     
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    "A French Commando takes a German Heer infantryman prisoner (who's hiding in a ditch behind a shot up Citroen Traction 11CV) after a firefight in Belfort, France. 20th November, 1944."

    Détendez-vous, cette fois l'année prochaine, vous serez un homme libre.
     
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