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Royal Tiger
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Astonishing photos show World War II in full colour - as you've never seen it before
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General Dwight D Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London, February 1944
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Norsemans on the shop floor at Noorduyn during the war. Note the unfinished frame nearest. Once its wooden formers and stringers were added, it would be covered in fabric and moved along the line.
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HMS Stork torpedo damage 1942
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USS Arizona
he other two turrets have interesting histories.
Turret 2 was not completely salvaged like turrets 3 and 4. Only the turret roof and guns were removed, and the side armor remains just barely above the waterline. The three guns were refurbished and placed in the reserve stock. In late 1944, Nevada had just returned from fire missions off Normandy and Southern France and needed her guns relined. The standard process was to replace the guns outright, relined the old guns, and install them on the next ship, so Nevada's Turret 1 recieved Arizona's guns. She used these to great effect off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and had Operation Downfall gone forward she would have used them on the beaches of Kyushu.
Turret 1 is also rather odd. If Arizona lay intact on the bottom, Turret 1's barbette would be as high out of the water as the barbette of Turret 3 is today, the highest point on the wreck. The explosion was so powerful that today it can't be seen from the surface. When the National Park Service took over the wreck, the Navy told them all 12 guns had been removed. It was quite a shock when divers found Turret 1 and its 3 guns intact on the wreck!
he other two turrets have interesting histories.
Turret 2 was not completely salvaged like turrets 3 and 4. Only the turret roof and guns were removed, and the side armor remains just barely above the waterline. The three guns were refurbished and placed in the reserve stock. In late 1944, Nevada had just returned from fire missions off Normandy and Southern France and needed her guns relined. The standard process was to replace the guns outright, relined the old guns, and install them on the next ship, so Nevada's Turret 1 recieved Arizona's guns. She used these to great effect off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and had Operation Downfall gone forward she would have used them on the beaches of Kyushu.
Turret 1 is also rather odd. If Arizona lay intact on the bottom, Turret 1's barbette would be as high out of the water as the barbette of Turret 3 is today, the highest point on the wreck. The explosion was so powerful that today it can't be seen from the surface. When the National Park Service took over the wreck, the Navy told them all 12 guns had been removed. It was quite a shock when divers found Turret 1 and its 3 guns intact on the wreck!
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EXTRACTING THE DEAD
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Robert Porter
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With a modern combat life expectancy measured in minutes there is no way I would ever be a tanker! Hats off to those guys, but unlike infantry in WW2 which used tanks for shields during advances modern infantry keeps a healthy distance away from missile and rocket magnets!
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H.M.S. Exeter, sinking
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Crew of German submarine U-550 abandons ship
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