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    "M8 light tank, M55A1 Sheridan replacement that never happened."
     
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    Nice design…I would have the front plate angled a little more…
     
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    Well now I wouldn't say that....

    The current version is undergoing trials as we speak.
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    under the moniker, Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program.

    What is old is new again.
     
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    "Do we have any original shit that's actually new?"

    "Wasn't in the specs, sir. Little late now, don't you think?"
     
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    "HMAS Australia in all her glory, October 1937. (5153x2965)"

    Heavily armed with the feared Vegemite projectors. I still think that's a war crime.
     
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    "Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Tachikawa Ki-9 trainer (Allied codename: SPRUCE). Produced until 1942 and would eventually take part in kamikaze missions by 1945. This is a surviving unit still in service with South Korea in 1951."

    The Marston matting got me for a second...
     
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    "Rear admiral Carleton F. Bryant (left) and Captain Charles A. Baker, Commanding Officer of USS Texas pose with a German 240mm dud shell that hit the ship during the bombardment of Battery Hamburg, east of Cherbourg, France. June 25th 1944."
     
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    "Reproduction of a Fiat CR.42 Falco in the Italian Air Force Museum (located at a former seaplane base on Lake Bracciano). This example was built with 60% original parts from aircraft recovered from Italy, France, and Sweden."
     
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    "USS Wyoming (BB-32/AG-17) with her final 12” main guns removed, replaced by 5/38 twin gun mounts. 18 April 1944 [1280x1003]."

    She was one of the OBBs that were converted to school ships, teaching AAA use and maintenance.
     
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    "USS Bordelon (DD-881), a Gearing-class DD sporting her FRAM I conversion. She’s moored alongside another destroyer in Trieste, Italy. March 14, 1969. [7415 x 2771]"

    I was, according to my service jacket, on board this one for three months.
     
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    "The heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland at sunset, during the bombardment of the Japanese held island of Car Nicobar, October 1944. [1843 x 1289]"
     
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    "Doolittle Raid, USS Hornet, B-25 1942 WWII [2700x2100]."

    That's Jimmy's plane. "If I don't make it into the air you guys should keep trying."
     
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    An interesting feature of the Canadian Tribals was that the quad pom-pom aft was placed a deck higher, giving it an outstanding field of fire. The small mainmast of the original Tribal design was deleted.
     
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    A rare scene. The originally planned ACV/CVE air group was essentially a miniature CV group including all three principal types, 9 SBDs, 9 TBFs, 12 F4Fs. As we see here, the SBDs with non-folding wings were difficult to accommodate on a small carrier. On the Sangamon class (including Santee) the SBDs were removed and the fighter complement increased to 24 F4Fs or F6Fs; other CVE classes had 12 TBF/TBMs and 16-20 F4Fs or, more commonly, FM-2s.

    Besides the wing issue, it was easier to manage just two types in a small air group; this was also true of CVLs and the smaller Japanese carriers.
     
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    As long as you're sure it was a WASP in there before you ;)
     
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    "Cobi Yamato, Graf Zeppelin, Tirpitz and USS Missouri (also Fokker Dr1 and A-10 and a little Tiger) [2438x2268]."
     
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    "Underground manufacturing facility of German jet fighters Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger, 1945."
     
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    "WASP pilot Florene Watson in a P-51D Mustang, mid-1940s."

    Ms. Earhart would approve, I think, but she'd be campaigning for combat duties for them.

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    "Murial Stanhope waving to her husband, 1st Lt. Aubrey C. Stanhope, Jr. , as he takes off for a mission in his P-47 along with his wingman, 1943."
     
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    "M18 Hellcat American Tank Destroyer."

    Total lack of trigger discipline!
     
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