Very cool pix. "[962X1010] British light cruiser HMS Belfast provides cover for the passage of Russian Convoy JW54B (Loch Ewe - Archangel). Off Kola Inlet, November 1943."
Australians in the Boer war...one the US wasn't in...(for a change No Australian Army as yet...the different states of Australia sent their own. Machine gun Of course one of Breaker... Played by Edward Woodward in the movie. WE REMEBER...From the South Australian contigent.
"[766x848] Close view over the superstructure of French battleship Richelieu, August 1946, Portsmouth."
"February, 14, 1919, Battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire dock at Hoboken, N.J. Battleships Louisiana (in foreground) and New Hampshire in their slip at Pier 4, upon arrival from overseas with 59th Regiment, Coast Artillery; troops preparing to debark. [2197 x 1721]"
"The Battleship USS Alabama (BB-8) off New York City, during the October 1912 Naval Review. [2560 x 1890]"
"New Guinea Campaign. Battle of Buna–Gona. 16th December 1942. The three Chapman brothers of South Australia, who all joined the 2/27th Battalion, pause for a break just after the fall of Gona. L - R: Private's Maxwell, Desmond and Raymond Chapman.(720 x 670)" "Nice to get away from a place where everything's trying to kill us."
"USS George Washington (CVN-73) at Newport News during her four-year Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH).[1600 × 1068]"