Cool pix!

"RAF Bomber Command aircrew and ground-crew line up in front of a Short Stirling bomber to demonstrate the personnel and equipment required to operate each aircraft, England, 1942."

 

"16-inch shells are removed from their shell bins on the battleship HMS Nelson, 1940 [1703 x 1289]"

 

"The French battleship Lorraine, at Alexandria, April 1942 [1702 x 1297]."

 

"Armourers fitting 500-lb MC bombs to Hawker Typhoon Mark IB, JP802 'MR-M', of No. 245 Squadron RAF at Westhampnett, Sussex, for an attack on a flying-bomb launching site in northern France ('Noball')."

 

"Armourers load a 250-lb GP bomb into the outboard port wing-cell of a Fairey Battle of No. 103 Squadron RAF at Betheniville (France, 1939-1940)."

 

"Vietnam War. November 1967. Major Graham Chapman (middle) waits with his troops from 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), for a helicopter lift during Operation Santa Fe, a search and destroy mission in Phuoc Tuy Province. (640 x 442)"

 

"German battleship SMS Kaiser passing in review for Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1915 [5408x3445]."

 

"Askari soldier armed with a spear guarding aircraft at the No. 23 training school at Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa; 1943. Askari was a term meaning soldier or military unit of African tribesmen serving in the armies of colonial European powers. Used today to informally describe police personnel."

 

Hopefully a better copy.

 

"'The Warship Yakumo of the Empire of Great Japan' (1909) [4301x3317]."

 

"Different proposed dispositions for the Soviet KV-13 medium tank with 76.2 mm and 122 mm guns. The KV-13 was an experimental Soviet medium tank developed on the KV-1 chassis in late 1941 as a "universal" tank, intended to replace both the T-34 & KV-1."

 

"Sailors loading 5.25-inch shells onto the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, April 1941 [1665 x 1227]."

 

I chortled.

 

"The German battleship Gneisenau silhouetted at sea [1508 x 963]."

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

 

"RN B-class destroyer HMS Bulldog in April 1945. In May 1941 together with HMS Broadway attacked U-110 forcing it to surface and obtained an intact Enigma machine. (1466x937)"