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  1. OpanaPointer

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    Es tut mir lied, that's all I got.
     
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    "PBY-5 of VP-23 on deck of a seaplane tender USS Chandeleur (AV-10) en route from Espiritu Santo February 1943."
     
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    "Ships assigned to the British Pacific Fleet in August 1945 [2500 x 5669]."
     
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    That’s a great photo!
     
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    I wonder why they called them “Kingfishers”?
     
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    Finnish soldiers belonging to the “Company of Death.” Summa, 20 December 1939 during the Winter War with the Soviet Union.

    The covers are Great War-era Austro-German M16/17/18 stahlhelme, some 80,000 of which were bought surplus for pfennigs on the mark in the 1920s.

    The Finns later received as military aide large quantities (estimated 40,000) of updated German M35/40 helmets as well as smaller amounts of Czech M34s, Italian M33s, and Hungarian M38s during the Continuation War against the Soviets, a period during which most of the preceding were outright martial allies.

    winter war – laststandonzombieisland
     
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    Himmler (second from left) regularly toured SS prison camps and mass murder sites. Here watching Soviet POW´s.
     
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    "Australian troops disembark from USS LST-560 at Labuan Island in Brunei Bay, June 10, 1945."
     
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    "Audrey Hepburn, circa 1942, WWII. Adriaantje at around the time the occupation of the Netherlands began. [1652x1652] images of Audrey Hepburn from Dutch Girl. (Dotti Collection)"
     
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    Just an acrobatic bird.
     
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    "[1280x1031] The French destroyer Mogador (X61)."
     
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    "Grumman TBM-3 Avenger and Vought F4U-1A Corsair [1438x917]."
     
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    While researching the service of a sailor who served on the USS Argonne, I came across some amazing pics from the USS Mt. Hood disaster. The first pic was taken seconds after the explosion:

    USS_Mount_Hood_(AE-11)_explodes_Seeadler_Harbor_10Nov44.jpg
     
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    Below is an aerial photo of the search and rescue operations shortly after the explosion. The larger ship in the center of the photo is the USS Mindanao which was just 350 yards away from the USS Mt. Hood when the explosion occurred.

    Aerial_pic_USS_Mindanao_(ARG-3)_after_Mt_Hood_explosion_10Nov44.jpg
     
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    This last photo shows the damage to the port side of the USS Mindanao caused by shrapnel from the explosion.


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    "
    The Galaxy Tree
    Image Credit & Copyright: César Vega Toledano ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt

    Explanation: First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy. The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the Milky Way Galaxy rose above the level of a majestic looking oak. From this carefully chosen perspective, dust lanes in the galaxy appear to be natural continuations to branches of the tree. Last came the light. A flashlight was used on the far side of the tree to project a silhouette. By coincidence, other trees also appeared as similar silhouettes across the relatively bright horizon. The featured image was captured as a single 30-second frame in 2015 and processed to digitally enhance the Milky Way.



    Tomorrow's picture: moon of the goats"
     
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    "USN Aircraft Carrier crewman during the Korean War, 1950s. [729×1107]"
     
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    "Observation Post, “B” Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery; Potenza, Italy, 24 Sept 1943. L/R Gunner Chuck Drickerson (rangefinder), Signalman Jim Tully (telephone), Sergeant-Major George Gilpin (plotting board), Captain G.E. Baxter (field glasses), and Signalman Hugh Graham (radio)."
     
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    "The only photo of the twin engine P-40 Warhawk."
     
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    "USS LCI(G)-746 carries Australian soldiers who crowd the decks as it approaches the beachhead at Labuan Island, British North Borneo, June 9, 1945."
     
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