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  1. Biak

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    Just What?! is the belly-gunner doing ?
     
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    I noticed his Wingman's brakes deployed to stay with him.
     
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    Australians flew the A-4
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    Notice the "hump" on the back two. They could be Kiwi A-4s.


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    The Royal Australian Navy Skyhawk, being an all-purpose aircraft, was the subject of a 1970s experimental sea trial of an A-4 on board a Royal Australian Navy submarine. There was no objection from the aviators to operating the Skyhawk from the somewhat limited deck space of the submarine. A problem with the Skyhawk's turbine cavitating while underway submerged was overcome. The diesel catapult worked just fine. However, the experiment was abandoned when the submarine's XO objected to the jet blast burning the paintwork off the sail.

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    "Lion-class Battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal (1911) [5340 × 2723]."
     
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    "HMS Raleigh, a proto-heavy cruiser, after running aground at L'Anse Amour, Newfoundland, 8 August 1922. She was declared a total loss and her remains were blown apart with depth charges in 1926 [5328 x 3023]."
     
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    "A stern view of battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) underway at Puget Sound, 12 may 1943. [4510 × 3603]"
     
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    "Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Barham under construction, showing the incomplete X and Y turrets. [1989 x 2193]"

    Rare to get a look at the floor of a turret. The guys working on it provide scale.
     
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    I dunno...NZ6206 on the A-4 in the foreground is kind of a giveaway to me.

    The demise of "888" in May, 1979.

    Caught the 4 wire on Melbourne. But the wire snapped after slowing 888 too far below flight speed.
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    "The battlecruiser HMS New Zealand shortly after completion [2241 x 1818]."
     
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    ""Tarawa Island", a photograph of dead Japanese soldiers at a destroyed pillbox following the Battle of Tarawa. This photograph won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. [3259x2312]"
     
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    "USS Idaho (BB-42) bombarding Okinawa, April 1, 1945. Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48) [1280x1010]."
     
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    UBER COOL!!!!!
     
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    Awesome photo, my favorite battleship. Built the model and bought the Franklin Mint Model.
     
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    "Bougainville Campaign. 1945. Australian Army Bren Gunner Sergeant Reginald Rattey VC by Harold Abbott. (454 x 654)"
     
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    "Size comparison between a anti tank 88mm Pak 43 gun and the 37mm Pak anti tank gun."
     
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    The Kiwi bird in the roundel is even more of a give away...
     
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    Sorry, I thought it was a hunchbacked kangaroo.
     
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    "I'm trying to be the boomer my dog thinks I am."
     
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    "Handley Page Halifax Mark II Series I, W1170 'U', of No. 462 Squadron RAAF, taxying out at Fayid, Egypt, for a night raid on Axis positions in North Africa."
     
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