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    "USS Oklahoma (BB-37), circa 1936 and most likely near Bremerton. [4440x2699]"
     
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    "B-29 week. A B-29 takes off with a 12,000 pounds Tallboy bomb, designated T-10 in the USAF. These bombs were never used operationally in WW2 but later some were converted into radio guided bombs designated Tarzon and used in Korea by B-29,s attacking railroad bridges and reservoir dams."
     
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    "[1395x854] USS Salem, CA-139, of the Des Moines-class Heavy Cruisers, sailing in the Mediterranean Sea as Flagship of the 6th Fleet, 1954. US Cruisers didn't get much better than this."
     
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    "USN submarine F-4 foundered on Hawaiian waters on March 25th 1915 and sank at 306 ft (93 m) depth. Here 3 months later in dry dock next to the pontoons used to raise her. The bow hole is the result of the hull implosion after sinking. (2975x2164)"
     
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    "USS New Jersey (Battleship #16), forward main battery, port side view, looking aft. Photographed by Enrique Muller, 1906. Location unknown. [2566 x 1986]"
     
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    "HMS Glory leaves Waitematā Harbour with aircraft and vehicles of No. 14 Squadron RNZAF bound for Japan. 8 March 1946. [2260x2182]"
     
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    What happens if they encounter rough seas?
     
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    "Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. This aircraft is a combat veteran, having flown on the battleship USS Indiana, and on July 4, 1944, Lt. j.g. Rollin M. Batten Jr. was awarded the Navy Cross for making a daring rescue in this airplane under heavy enemy fire."
     
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    "German soldiers inspect a wrecked Matilda II, Lorette Heights, Flanders, Belgium, late May 1940."
     
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    "First and last British infantry tanks Matilda I A11 and Black Prince I A43."
     
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    "Marines assigned to the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force, assemble a combat rubber raiding craft aboard the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726). [1774×1230]"
     
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    How about a two seat Mustang? Many of the surviving Mustangs have installed a jump seat where the radio equipment originally sat. Crazy Horse was modified by Cavalier Aviation into a dual cockpit/dual control "TF-51" and is used to provide flight training to Mustang owners.
     
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    Crazy Horse and one of them new fangled kerosene burners
     
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    A palendromic couple...
     
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    The name says it all...
     
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    "Range of bomb sizes used by the RAF in WWII."
     
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    "To demonstrate the plane's ruggedness for a Air Ministry propaganda photo, a Typhoon is posed with about 60 RAF ground crew members onboard. [2048x1231]"
     
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    "Swedish heavy tank Strv m/42. Armed with a 75mm gun and two 8mm MGs."
     
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