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  1. OpanaPointer

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    "A Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Corporal handles several American Thompson ‘Tommy’ submachine guns being uncrated at the Central Ordnance Depot at Weedon in Northamptonshire following their arrival from the USA, sent under the terms of Lease-Lend, 23 March 1942. [600x591]"
     
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    "USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon in the Hudson River in New York City during the US Navy Day celebrations, October 27, 1945 [1581x1993]."
     
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    "RAAF - Current Aircraft - 100 years"

    Image showing all in service RAAF aircraft:

    C17 Globemaster

    C130 Hercules

    C27J Spartan

    KC30-A Multirole Tanker

    737 Business Jet

    KA350 King Air

    F-18 A

    F-18 F

    F-18G Growler

    F-35A Lightening II

    E7 Wedgetail

    P8 Poseidon

    P3 Orion

    PC-21 trainer

    Hawk 127 lead in fighter

    PC-9/A trainer

    Shame the Tritons aren't ready, would have been nice to have a UAV in there.



    Source: 20210317raaf8227810_0104.jpg
     
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    "[1024x1453] French aircraft carriers Clemenceau (R98) and Foch (R99)."
     
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    "Some men in their Char B1 bis."
     
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    "My Achin' Back", 41-29432, made an emergency landing on the beach near Loreta, Italy on 12 September 1944 with Mason's crew aboard. Fuel lines in left wing ruptured by flak - landing made with both the #1 and #2 engines out. Recovered by 15th AF maintenance team and returned to the 449th BG, 718th BS.
     
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    My grandfather wasn't a swabbie, but a grunt crossing the Pacific. He said he wanted a top bunk because vomit flowed downhill.
     
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    Or uphill or athwartships or stem to stern and stern to stem. Any which way but loose.
     
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    "M103 Heavy Tank."
     
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    "Amazing how the Tupolev Tu-4 looks nothing at all like a B-29."

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    I'm guessing that Lt. Ken Dahl has the lead.
     
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    "Perk the color! Pink to match my eyes!" Three Stooges.
     
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    "A battered HMS Terpsichore (D48) sails as lead destroyer in Task Group 38.3, August 1945. She is covered in her own fuel oil. They are preparing to provide air support for an early invasion of the Japanese home islands that will never come. [2048x1651]"
     
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    "British Challenger tank leading Cromwell tanks of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armored Division crossing Flers, France. August 17th, 1944."
     
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    "[1179x824] Colorized picture of the flotilla leader Hr.Ms. Tromp during speed trials in 1938."

    Largest survivor of the Netherlands Navy after WWII.
     
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    Handsome...
     
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    "A US infantryman examines a Pz.39H 735(f), a Hotchkiss H35 modified to take a SA 38 cannon, Ostheim, France. 31 January 1945."

    Note the Panzerfaust.
     
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    "Flightline photo of B-45A-5-NA Tornadoes of the 47th Bombardment Wing, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, July 1952 [1007x622]."
     
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