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[Njaco]

I thought that too and then hypothesized that maybe there were still snipers about..................

 

[Njaco]

A mobile tea canteen in the forward area - North Africa. 31 July 1942
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[syscom3]

Aftermath of the Port Chicago naval magazine (which is in San Francisco bay) explosion. July 17 1944. 320 dead and 390 wounded. A mutiney of the naval personell assigned to handle high explosives took place soon afterwards. All of them were african-americans and they revolted because of the complete lack of training they had.

Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Lucky13]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Long Range Desert Group .... heading out to the Libyan desert to start patrol

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Aftermath of the Port Chicago naval magazine (which is in San Francisco bay) explosion. July 17 1944. 320 dead and 390 wounded. A mutiney of the naval personell assigned to handle high explosives took place soon afterwards. All of them were african-americans and they revolted because of the complete lack of training they had.

Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I can't say that I blame them.

 

[Lucky13]

Long Range Desert Group .... heading out to the Libyan desert to start patrol

Didn't they become the famous SAS?

 

[Airframes]

No, Stirling formed the S.A.S. as an independent organisation, although some later North Africa operations were in conjunction with the LRDG.

 

[Wildcat]

October 1942. Survivors of the 2/14th infantry Battalion after being cut off in the jungle for 42 days emerge down stream on hand built rafts during the withdrawal over the Owen Stanley ranges, New Guinea.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Lucky13]

Aaah.....much obliged dear boy!

 

[evangilder]

Boeing B-50 at RAF Lakenheath, post war.

 

[Njaco]

October 1942. Thousands of North American Aviation employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 'Billy Mitchell' bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 'Mustang' fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe.

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[michaelmaltby]

On patrol by 'Marble Arch' deep in enemy territory where they 'watched' the road

 

[syscom3]

No, this isn't a scene of heavy combat during an invasion of a Pacific island. It's at Pearl Harbor, and these amtracks are being readied to be loaded onto LST's for the upcoming invasion of Saipan. This was Sunday 21 May 1944. A motar round was mishandled during loading, it exploded and started a conflaguration that quickly engulfed several LST's.

This incident and the Port Chicago incident a couple months later forced the USN to radically change training procedures for loading ammunition aboard ships.

 

[Wayne Little]

Strewth...one wrong move and.....

 

[Wildcat]

Owen gunners, Bougainville 1945.

 

[Lucky13]

That's a gun, that you don't see very often...

 

[syscom3]

 

[Wayne Little]

That's a great angle...