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[ARTESH]

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Hans, do you wanna kill us? Throw that cigarette away, right now!!!

 

[syscom3]

1st Lt. Jeremiah O'Keefe shot down five Japanese kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa in his F4U Corsair and then brought down another two six days later, seen here on his Corsair on 28 April 1945

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

This one we can eat today, the second one for tomorrow dinner.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Greg Boeser]

This one we can eat today, the second one for tomorrow dinner.

Katzenpfeffer!

 

[VERSUCH]

I thought THE Duomo was in Florence...is this another, non-dome Duomo?

Here you go....and you are correct.....they have cornered the market on Duomos !

Duomo | Attractions - Lonely Planet

A vision in pink Candoglia marble, Milan's extravagant Gothic cathedral, 600 years in the making, aptly reflects the city's creativity and ambition. Its…

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[Snautzer01]

1945 Press Photo British Vice Adm Sir Bernard Rawlings speaks to battleship crew | eBay

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Who of you bastards cut the leggs of my pants??? Well i'm waiting....

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[manta22]

Yes, you are right! It was MacArthur's personal yacht moored in Yokohama. My sister and I are the two kids in that photo (taken by my dad, MAJ C.C. Albaugh). We went for a ride around Tokyo Bay on the yacht....but what happened to it the following week? .................the tension mounts.

OK- no winners. This was GEN Douglas MacArthur's personal yacht "Leyte" that was moored in Yokohama. The week after my sister and I took a cruise around Tokyo Bay, the yacht blew up and sank. It wasn't a plot against MacArthur, it was unventilated gasoline vapor in the bilges that exploded when the engines started. I have never found one word of this reported anywhere.

 

[nuuumannn]

Here you go....and you are correct.....they have cornered the market on Duomos !

Yup, Il Duomo refers to an Italian church built as a cathedral, and doesn't have to be a 'dome', and is specifically used to signify particular buildings, as we know, although the term Cattedrale is used for church cathedrals that are not duomi. Although located in Germany, this translates to the same thing, the German term being the same, it's the Berlinerdom.

Berlin Tour 87

 

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[michaelmaltby]

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549th BS, 385th BG B-17F 42-30251 "Piccadilly Queen" after it returned home from a raid with with wounded aboard in the late summer 1943. Shot down near Frankfurt 29/1/44.6 KIA, 4 POW

 

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[Frog]

Blitzkrieg training Part I

Personal collection.

 

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[manta22]

Just like in this 1945 movie, when I visited East Berlin in 1962 there were still bucket-brigades of girls clearing rubble just behind the show facade of Karl Marx Allee. The older women Supervisors were greatly annoyed that their girls were interested in us American GIs. West Berlin, by contrast, was a prosperous, vibrant, city that had already been almost completely restored.