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[Tieleader]

Dodged that bullet!

 

[Tieleader]

Org WWII Photo: Italian Child Posing With Captured German Remote Goliath Tanks! | eBay

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I just had Tonka toys as a kid...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) near Mare Island Naval Shipyard on June 21, 1944. She is painted in Measure 32/14D.

Note: turret No. 1 has two cannons and No. 2 has three. This is due to the narrow hull of the Pensacola class and along with heavy tripods, caused excessive rolling. Leading to her nickname "Swayback Maru" or "Old Swayback".

She received 11 battle stars for her service in World War II.

19-N-67713

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

P-47D Thunderbolt 'Torrid Tessie' of the 346th Fighter Squadron and flown by USAAF 1Lt Homer St. Onge flying over Italy. 25 Feb 1945.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

 

[syscom3]

WAAC's are awiting their daily orders. These ladies were so important for the war effort.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Snautzer01]

U.S. Navy Essex-class fleet aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) burning after being struck by special attack (kamikaze) aircraft off Taiwan, 21 January 1945; note Cleveland-class light

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1945 Press Photo Damage to Carrier USS Ticonderoga by 2 Japanese Suicide Planes | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

Man for man, it was Japan's most effect weapon of destruction, IMO ...
..... sad, most feared Japanese weapon for most American and Allied servicemen.
The lesson has been well learned since then.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, 1944. https://wrhstol.com/387DIn2

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Terry's, aka Airframes, favorite aircraft in the entire universe. The Wildcat.

 

[Shinpachi]

The lesson has been well learned since then.

Our lesson was, if I may say in a word, Don't trust Russians.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Indeed .... too trusting of them in 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Another WASP pilot. These ladies were the pioneers that led the social changes after the war.

 

[syscom3]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

"Infantrymen of the 1st Division, U.S. First Army, make final preparations and get briefed before crossing the Roer River at Schneidhausen, Germany. 25 Feb 45."
Colour by Colour by RJM

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A US Marine brings his arm back to chuck a grenade on Tarawa, Nov 1943. No photo credit available.