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If God had meant for man to go to sea, he would have made smooth water, and the biggest, most stable, **** off ship possible!
And to think, aircraft had to operate in conditions approaching those shown - and find their floating airfield later, which wouldn't be where they'd left it!!
 
And........................... someone took the "bucket", which was frustrating for the constipated trainee gunner!



***sorry
 
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And here I thought that all the Brits were Heart of Oak types.
 
22 July 1944. Japanese airmen scatter after being caught on the ground by a 31 sqn RAAF Beaufighter at Lingat. The "lilly" was destroyed in subsequent strafing runs.
 

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the USS Mount Hood exploding in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island on 10 November 1944 killing all men aboard, obliterating the ship itself, and sinking or severely damaging 22 smaller craft nearby.

The harbor is in the Admiralties (North of Rabaul) and was an excellent anchorage. It also was used as one of the staging areas for many amphib assaults in the PTO.

 
Mittelbau-Dora was a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Its prisoners were used by the SS mainly in the tunnel excavation and nearby underground stations of the Mittelwerk Ltd., in Kohnstein, situated near Nordhausen, where the V-2 rocket and the flying bomb V-1 rocket were produced. On 11 April 1945 Mittelbau-Dora was liberated by the Third Armored Division and various 104th Division attachments. Over 1,200 patients were evacuated, with 15 dying en route to the hospital area and 300 subsequently dying of malnutrition.

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