Cool pix!

"Battleship USS New Jersey in Sydney Harbor in 1988 (2810 × 1870)."

 

"Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Avenger with half a dozen Hawker Sea Hurricane on deck. The Fleet Air Arm wanted to have Grumman Martlet (Wildcat) but they were not available in sufficient numbers."

 

""Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. c June 1966 - April 1967. Australian infantry and men of the 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron rest momentarily on a group of M113A1 APCs. (639 x 440)

 

"Led by their piper, men of the 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, 46th (Highland) Brigade, advance during the First Battle of the Odon; 26-June-1944. The Odon river is in Normandy, France and the battle was part of the British offensive to take the city of Caen, which was captured on 9-July-1944."

 

"A German soldier takes a break to eat a meal on his BMW R12 motorcycle somewhere on the Eastern Front, date unknown."

 

"Hired! Tired! Fired!" Amputee on board Canadian hospital ship Lady Nelson. Naples, Italy. January 29, 1944."

 

"The heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, after the Second World War. Visible is the 4.5" armour belt added in 1938-39 [4500 x 3299]"

 

"HMS Anson as seen during exercises off Scapa Flow, taken from the Duke of York. Note how wet she is. [1300x968]"

 

"[1964X1085] June 1950, off Toulon. Former Italian light cruiser Scipione Africano continues her active service in a new status. She is with the French Navy now, known as Guichen."

 

"Gunnery practice onboard the RN F-class destroyer HMS Foxhound, gunners are operating the forward 4.7-inch guns, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1943."

What's the pointy stuff on the structure between the guns?

 

Have you ever been inside a bass drum when they'd doing Wagner?

When I rode the Missouri she left LBNSY and went down off San Diego to test her mains. We were 27 miles off coast and the locals were reporting earthquakes.

 

We will not be stifled by rules that allow for wiggle room.