Cool pix!

"The British experimental A9E1 tank (future Tank, Cruiser, A9, also known as the Cruiser Tank Mk.I), 1936."

 

"P-39 Aircobras of the RAF 601st Squadron on the field at Duxford 1941."

Well, they're not freezing their butts off, so early Fall? Lend-Lease birds?

 

By the end of the war Stalin had a big push on to integrate war orphans into surviving families in the USSR.

 

"Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning. Equipped with two Allison V-3420 W24 engines, this was designed as a long range heavy fighter. It was rejected for being too complicated, especially since it was a maintenance headache during flight testing. Only one was completed and it was scrapped after the war."

 

"Protected cruiser Aurora, St. Petersburg Russia."

 

"British Cruiser Tank Mk.I in North Africa. 1940 or 1941."

 

"British Tank, Medium, A7E1, on trials in Farnborough, 1931."

 

"Bf109-g2, only 2 of g2 models survived ww2. This one was in service of Yugoslavia until 1952.It was given to Yugoslavia by Bulgaria after the war. Interesting fact is that this Bf109 was used as scout aircraft after the war with installed k-24 camera."

 

The nascent Israeli Air Force flew '109s bought in Yugoslavia. The irony is tangible.

 

"Fairey Gannets of the FAA (RAN) Spotted on HMAS Melbourne's deck, sometime 1956."

 

"Monitor HMS M33 dwarfed by her neighbours, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth."

 

"The little known Seversky P-35 fighter."

 

Full derp!

Not a US carrier, I think. Island looks very ... Royal.

 

"Nazi Victory will lead us to war."

Note the spy, bottom center.

 

"This is a 75/18 m41 semovente with 2 100mm howitzers, a 75mm cannon and a 47mm anti tank cannon."

 

"Royal Navy Resolution class submarine HMS Repulse flying her paying off pennant, 1996.[2048 × 1152]"

And now Hornblower will have to go back to half-pay and playing Whist for high stakes.

 

"A spectacular shot (especially considering the tech of the era!) of USS Langley (CV-1) steaming off the Southern California coast, hidden by a smoke screen laid by her own aircraft during an exercise. circa mid-1920s. From the JMF Hasse Collection, courtesy of the San Diego Aero Space Museum."