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[vikingBerserker]

#5465 - Its so easy to look bad a** while standing on a Tiger Royal.

Awesome pics gents!

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Marshall Petain and Hitler shake hands .... 1940

 

[michaelmaltby]

French volunteers, Russia, November, 1941

 

[Shinpachi]

Very educational pics

 

[Old Wizard]

 

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[Crimea_River]

Now there's a cure for constipation!

 

[michaelmaltby]

... or a cause.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Crimea_River]

Never knew this. From The Right Place at the Right Time > Vintage Wings of Canada

File this under "You Learn Something New Every Day." Some carriers, like the Essex Class carrier USS Yorktown (above) could land aircraft from the bow while steaming in reverse. Who knew? It makes some degree of sense however, if the aft flight deck is on fire from a bomb or crash and aircraft need to get down. Essex Class carriers could steam 20 knots in reverse and had arrestor wires on the forward flight deck. Here, a Grumman Avenger lands on over the bow, while Yorktownsteams in reverse in the summer of 1943 in the protected confines Gulf of Paria (between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) during her shakedown cruise. A rarely practised procedure.

 

[Graeme]

From a 1944 publication....

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

.... hard pounding

 

[Shinpachi]

 

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[michaelmaltby]

.... suicide before surrender

 

[michaelmaltby]