"(1438 × 1133) Happy Birthday to USS Yorktown (CV-5)! This is her during her shakedown cruise, January 1938. Official NHHD photo 80-G-466153."
"Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy 1943. Colored by me."
"A rare Romanian used French Renault 35 tank armed with a captured Soviet 45 mm gun, photographed by Soviet forces at the railway station in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia, 1945."
Taken while the Hood was in Vancouver, this image shows one of the Hood’s sailors with Joey the wallaby on deck. He was a mascot the crew brought with them from Australia
"German Jagdpanzer 38 (t) self-propelled guns, captured by the Red Army near the Czechoslovak city of Nové Mesto. The frame also shows the Marder III self-propelled guns and in the background a large number of carts. May 1945."
"[5723 x 4249]USS Nautilus (SS-168) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 April 1942, following modernization. She was armed with 2 - 6" deck guns."
"Royal Navy warships at Malta in 1939. Including the battleships Warspite and Barham, and the cruisers Shropshire, Devonshire and Liverpool. [2560 x 1121]"
"British Battleship Design 1929 - 16A. This was the proposed successor to the Nelson class before the 1930 London Naval Treaty extended the building holiday. [1834 x 830]"
"Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces with gas masks and rubber gloves during a chemical attack, Battle of Shanghai, 1937 [1920x1528]."
"Panzergrenadiere support a Panzer III during an assault on enemy troops. Smolensk area, USSR, September 1, 1941."
That’s a nice job. I just looked up that LST 359 and it said that she was sunk on December 20,1944 by a submarine torpedo in the Eastern Atlantic. She earned five battle stars.(I didn’t get your entire quote)
It was one of several designs under consideration, with main guns ranging from 16-inch to 10-inch. And was one of 4 put forward for serious consideration in 1930.