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USS San Francisco passes underneath a fog-covered Golden Gate Bridge as she returns for repairs from the Battle of Guadalcanal. December 1942

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USS Louisiana (BB-19) underway, circa 1910 to 1914.

NARA: 45512745

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“Sits Down Spotted.“ Crow. Fort Keogh, Montana, 188

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Women of the Republican militia, Madrid 1936. https://www.facebook.com/GCESPCOLOR/

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“Sniper of the Warring States period! The heroic story of the evil Kojiro who has been promoted to the status of a samurai with the skill of a matchlock”. Japaan

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A model of a Japanese submarine. It’s not just a model.

It was hand carved by a USS Fletcher crewman.

It was made from deck planking found floating on the sea…

…After USS Fletcher sank a Japanese submarine.

Technically it’s a submarine model made from a submarine.

[Source: USS Fletcher Reunion Group]

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1944 Curtiss Wright P-40N-5-CU Warhawk(NL540TP) by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Up, up and away!

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German observation balloon at Equancourt, France, 1916.

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Jan 13 1919 AWM A01305

“Fire fight in the Bulow Platz, during the Spartacus Rising [Communist Uprising in Berlin]. The German Government troops used this captured British Mk IV Female tank pulling a 77mm FK 16 n/A freely throughout the proceedings, which lasted six weeks and resulted in the overthrow of the Spartacists.

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I mixed the two photographs given of my favourite unnamed lad to make a bigger, clearer image of him and I’m in love

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana of Russia in regimental uniform.

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Командир звена 1-го гвардейского минно-торпедного авиационного полка 8-й минно-торпедной авиационной дивизии Балтийского флота, гвардии лейтенант М.Ф. Шишков на фоне своего торпедоносца А-20 «Бостон». Паневежис, Литовская ССР. 19 сентября 1944.

К сентябрю 1944 года экипаж Шишкова совершил 75 боевых вылетов и потопил 6 транспортов и танкер противника общим водоизмещением 35 тысяч тонн.

Через полтора месяца после фотографирования 5 ноября 1944 года за образцовое выполнение заданий командования и проявленные мужество и героизм в боях Шишкову Михаилу Федоровичу будет присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза.

Автор: Шиманский С.Г.

1944. Michael Shishkov (1921 - 2015 ) — marine pilot, hero of the Soviet Union. Guard Lieutenant M. F. Shishkov made 75 sorties. Torpedoed and sank 6 freighters and a tanker of the enemy with a total displacement of 35 thousand tons. His plane is A-20C Boston ( international version with the DB-7/a-20 Boston), these were equipped to carry an external 2,000 lb (910 kg) torpedoes. Built in the UK and the Soviet Union a total of 948.