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  1. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    The bullets show why the .50 was such a bad boy.
     
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    "[1500 x 1157]USS Maddox (DD-731) in trouble as the typhoon Cobra overtakes the Third Fleet, 17/18 December 1944."
     
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    "Japanese Koryu-D midget submarines being assembled in the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki."
     
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    "Maureen Dunlop was an Anglo-Argentine pilot who flew for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferrying aircraft for the RAF and became notable as a pin-up on the cover of the Picture Post magazine 1944. She later was an instructor for the Argentine Air Force and a commercial pilot. (2400x2400)."
     
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    "Tuskegee Airman Harry T. Stewart Jr., returning from an escort mission in his P-51 Mustang. Stewart is holding up three fingers to indicate that he shot down three German Me-109s (an accomplishment that earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross). April 1, 1945."

    First recorded instance of someone throwing up gang signs. ;-)
     
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    "A 1942 aircraft worker at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California. Women on the United States home front during World War II took on many manufacturing jobs in factories, producing munitions and materiel for the battlefront. (1280x986)"
     
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    Thunderbolt was the salvaged and renamed Thetis which sank in a prewar accident with the loss of all but four of 103 men aboard.
     
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    And this !



    you can borrow this for the video thread :D
     
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    Awesome
     
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    37658811-3630-4084-852C-E966AD37FB25.jpeg
     
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    Gosh it looks like its in the middle of a field...
     
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    Wouldn't dream of it.
     
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    Off the American air museum in Britain site. (The memorial)
     
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    "US airmen of the 376th Bombardment Group and their B-24 Liberator at Berca Airfield, Libya. 10 Aug 1943. (original colour)"

    Expecting a bunch of bad dudes in sombreros to come at them.
     
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    "View of the beach of Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands, after the U.S. invasion in November 1943."
     
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    "U-60 type IIC submarine suspended from a crane at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel."
     
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    "HMS Warspite - the most decorated battleship in British history - she sailed 160,000 miles in WW2 before the US joined, she fired so many shells during Normandy that she wore out all of her guns - The Grand Old Lady for sure [1600 × 1103]."
     
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    "American P-51D Mustang and P-47D Thunderbolt fighter aircraft of the US Air Force (USAF) at Lingayen airfield, Philippines. April 19, 1945."

    The Marston Matting made a lot of instant airfields. Marston Mat - Wikipedia
     
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