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[johnbr]

:USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, 7 June 1942.

Midway as you have never seen it! Exact moment of Yorktown's mortal blow captured on film, along with torpedo tracks, fighter-craft shadows and flak bursts.
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[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Cruiser Photo Index CA 33 USS PORTLAND - Navsource - Photographic History of the U.S. Navy
Overhead view of the fantail while anchored atTulagi. The damage visible was sustained on 13 November 1942. To quote DANFS - " ... Portland took a torpedo hit at 0158 on the starboard quarter, which blew off both inboard propellers, jammed the rudder five degrees right, and jammed number three turret in train and elevation..."

 

[johnbr]

USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) straddled by a Japanese salvo during the Battle off Samar - the only US Navy aircraft carrier sunk by surface naval gunfire during WWII

 

[johnbr]

U-103 (Type IXB

 

[v2]

Finnish soldier sits atop a StuG III assault gun the day after the Battle of Tienhaara.

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Outside Moscow, December, 1941

 

[Wurger]

The Leningrad siege ...

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots guys!

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Robert Porter]

Finnish soldier sits atop a StuG III assault gun the day after the Battle of Tienhaara.View attachment 379638

I have noticed that the arms of the swastika are not full length. Was there a reason for this? I have seen the same on german units as well as axis units? Just curious.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Finnish swastika is always displayed as a square, the Nazi version is set on the oblique. The Swastika is an ancient Germanic/Norse rune that also appears in Ayrian jewelry from the Indus Valley. Whenever you see the swastika set as a square it is on Finnish kit, never on German ... but often German sourced as that Stug illustrates.

Swastika - Wikipedia

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[michaelmaltby]

elite status has its advantages

 

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[johnbr]

USS Oklahoma showing damage from 6 torpedo hits