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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Suffolk British heavy cruiser (HMS Suffolk), County class, subclass of Kent, during patrols in the Danish Strait in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Suffolk Heavy Cruiser – Board number 55. County class heavy cruiser.
Suffolk heavy cruiser construction began on September 30, 1924, launched on February 16, 1926, accepted into the Royal Navy of Great Britain on May 31, 1928.
Suffolk heavy cruiser participated in the Norwegian campaign (spring of 1940), was damaged by German bomber bombs; renovated by February 1941.
Suffolk heavy cruiser participated in the battle of the British fleet against the Bismarck battleship Kriegsmarine in May 1941 – the first to find the German battleship using radar and direct other ships to the Bismarck.
Suffolk heavy cruiser after repair until the end of 1942 – in service in the Arctic. From April 1943 until the end of the Second World War – in the Indian Ocean.
Dismissed from the Royal Navy on March 25, 1948, cut into scrap metal in the same year.


Source: www.iwm.org.uk.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The German U-124 submarine returns to Lorient after the seventh combat campaign. On the bridge in a white captain's cap is the commander of the submarine Kptlt. Johann Mohr.
During its seventh combat campaign, which lasted 61 days, U-124 sank on 24 November 1941 the English light cruiser Dunedin (HMS Dunedin) and on 3 December 1941 an American Sagadahoc transport ship.
U-124 – German submarine type IXB. Completed 11 combat campaigns. U-124 sank 46 transport ships, 2 warships.
The U-124 submarine died on April 2, 1943, struck by the depth bombs of the British ships: the Corvette "Stoneprop" (HMS Stonecrop) and the sloop "Black Swan" (HMS Black Swan). All 53 crew members died.


Source of photo information:

1. www.hmsdunedin.co.uk

Location: Lorient, France
Photo date: December 29, 1941

 

[Snautzer01]

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[Snautzer01]

1941 USAAF Cadets in Fur Lined Flying Suits Randolph Field Original News Photo | eBay

They look like very well made figurines

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: Bundesarchiv.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

the pic source: Bundesarchiv.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome pics!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Battle of the Atlantic: The American "Pennsylvania San" tanker burns in the Gulf of Mexico after hitting one torpedo fired from a U-571 German submarine
2 people from the crew of the tanker were killed, 57 people were saved.
The tanker transported 107500 barrels of oil from Port Arthur (Texas) to Belfast.
The next day, after the fire stopped, the crew returned to the tanker and it was towed to the repair site; later the tanker was repaired and returned to service.



Location: Gulf of Mexico
Photo date: July 15, 1942

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Color photo of the Second World War: The American "Bunker Hill" aircraft carrier (USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns after the strikes of two kamikaze planes in the Battle of Okinawa.
To the left of the Bunker Hill aircraft carrier is the light cruiser Cleveland (Cleveland CL-55).


Source of photo information:

1. www.navsource.org

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Capt Winters and Capt Nixon before onwards to Bastogne. Co E, 2nd Btln. 506th PIR.

Source: ww1ww2photosfilms

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: Bundesarchiv.

 

[Milosh]

Must have been demoralizing going past the disabled Elefant.

 

[Wurger]

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

 

[Snautzer01]

indeed

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[Snautzer01]

Must have been demoralizing going past the disabled Elefant.

Notice the tow chain has been deployed.

 

[michaelmaltby]

".... Must have been demoralizing going past ...."
I think that photo is at Anzio, not Kursk .... if Google can be believed, as with these ...