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• Dec 25, 2016

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Is that the Stars and Stripes flying from the bow ?

 

• Dec 25, 2016

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This past month I've been reading Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the USA (and Allies) in Europe, WW2. [An Army At Dawn, etc]. The record of the German paras throughout is mind-blowing. Their triumph was the assault in 1940 ... Crete, later, was a pyrric victory, and thereafter they were always in losing situations where their only avenue for valor and brilliance was in "spoiling" ... and they were the masters of spoiling ... just ask the Canadians who mouse-holed through Ortona, Italy.

Master soldiers ...

 

• Dec 25, 2016

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michaelmaltby

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Christmas .... Stalingrad ..... the movies?

 

• Dec 25, 2016

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michaelmaltby

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...... and reality

 

• Dec 25, 2016

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Lethbridge AB

 

• Dec 25, 2016

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Yes, but elite soldiers can only do so much...loved reading that trilogy.

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Fw 190A 1./JG54 , the winter 1942/43

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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michaelmaltby

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.... no dog fight

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Airframes said:

Is that the Stars and Stripes flying from the bow ?

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Yes Terry. The pic was taken in Philadelphia where the ship had some equipment stripped for evaluation before being being sent out to the Pacific for A-bomb tests.

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Thanks Andy.

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Stalingrad ....

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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The another image of the same German attack ...

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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johnbr

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A Canadian Flower class Corvette, HMCS Regina in 1943.

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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johnbr

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HMCS Sudbury at sea, circa 1944-1945

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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johnbr

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• Dec 26, 2016

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U-861 at Trondheim Submarine Base

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Hans-Joachim Marseille

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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Japan 40 cm/45 (15.7") Type 94 - NavWeaps
Rare photograph showing Musashi firing her forward guns during gunnery trials in 1942. This photograph was provided to a newspaper by the family of Captain Tameshige Nagahashi who was a gunnery officer on Musashi.

 

• Dec 26, 2016

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TheArtOfFlight said:

USS IOWA (BB-61) Fires 16-inch guns. Im not entirely convinced of the authenticity of this pic. Can anyone help......?View attachment 361173

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I am not sure If that is WW2 but the Iowa served in several wars so for "authenticity" I'm not sure what you are asking for