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    "Char d'Assault Peugeot, built to address the limited anti-fortification potential of Renault FT: 75 mm gun, 40 mm of front armor, superior suspension and an electric transmission for 1.5x greater speed. Only 40 were built due to end of the war"
     
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    "HMS Dreadnought"
     
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    HMS Iron Duke (Central Battery Ironclad (?)) passing a ship of the line.
     
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    "Heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, a County class ship, c. 1930s"
     
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    "USS Saint Paul off Inchon, Korea. Late January 1951." I was less than three weeks old then.
     
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    "El-Adem Sector, Tobruk, Lybia, August 27, 1941. Men of D Company, 2/17th Infantry Battalion using a captured Italian field gun. They were known as the “Bush Artillery” because they were converted infantrymen using captured guns."
     
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    "I'm at five hundred feet."

    "I'm at Fifth and Main."
     
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    Iowa class BB.
     
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    "Boulton Paul Defiant in flight. It was designed & built as a "turret fighter", without any fixed forward-firing guns."
     
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    Tali-Ihantala 1944

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    That’s just a lovely photo. I saved it to my photo stream.
     
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    "Nakajima Kikka at the National Air and Space Museum. The museum's correspondence with Japanese propulsion specialist Kazuhiko Ishizawa suggests that this example was built for load tests rather than flight tests, which may explain the fact that the engine nacelles are too small for the Ne-20 engines"
     
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    One of the planes I loved to have as miniature. However the Germans shot them down like birds in 1940 in France. Such a pity.
     
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    "Inside the nose position of a B-18 Bolo at Barksdale, Louisiana, 1941"
     
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    No ammo
     
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    Nice illustration of the sliding hatch over the aircraft hangar. In the Brooklyn class and the original Clevelands and Baltimores this was on the centerline, and the hangar (two decks high) took up most of the space aft of the turret and could accommodate four floatplanes. In later ships the starboard side of the hangar was converted to berthing since added weapons and equipment required additional crewmen, so the hatch was offset to port.

    An OOB I saw for TF58 at the Marianas showed the Clevelands and Baltimores only carrying two OS2U/Ns anyway, so it was not a great sacrifice. Apparently floatplanes became less critical with the increasing numbers of carriers.

    The need for accommodation was particularly important in the modified Cleveland class Fargo and Huntington. Their four midships 5" mounts were a deck lower, so the handling rooms took up space within the hull.
     
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    "Pathway of a 16” shell fired by USS Massachusetts BB-59 into an unknown ship undergoing salvage at in Casablanca Harbor - January 1943 Note how each hole gets larger and more ragged with each bulkhead/deck penetrated LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer" Probably Jean Bart?
     
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    "Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Malaya, 1918."
     
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    "Battle cruiser HMS Lion in 1918, the first of the 'Splendid Cats' and flagship of the Battle Cruiser Fleet."
     
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