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TOUGH HOMBRE
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Should have just pelted the Huns with expired Haggis.
The horror... the horror. That is so super inhumane you deamon.
 
On this day 85 years ago. Sept 30 1937.
Crew paraded on the flight deck during the USS Yorktown commissioning ceremonies, 30 September 1937. She was then tied up at the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia. The Marine detachment is in the lower left center. Note aircraft tie-down strips laid at regular intervals among the flight deck planks.

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My kind of dog

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A U.S. Navy Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk pilot gives "thumbs-up" signal to beaching crew who are preparing to launch the plane into the water at a Pacific base, 1944-45. Note the APS-4 radar pod under the wing and the insignia of Scout-Observation Service Unit 1 (SOSU-1) on the nose.

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B-17F 42-5234 before being turned over RAF. July 26 1944. While escorting US troopship, aircraft sustained trouble in three engines. Pilot
feathered props only to be forced to ditch 70 miles east of Sao Miguel ; crew all rescued by Portuguese vessel Lourenco Marques.

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Rolling pharmacist. By the look of it he found the happy dust.

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Don't harsh my buzz dude.
 
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Two dozen members of the pursuit squadron at the U.S. Army's flying school at Kelly Field march out to their planes for their final flight before graduation exercises. October 6, 1937.

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