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[full-moon-digital-products]

Naval Warfare

A screenshot of World of Warships, showcasing intense naval warfare.

(Disclaimer: In memory of all to all veterans)

[marvinparnada777]

Conquer the Seas with World of Warships Ohio!

Welcome to the powerful world of World of Warships Ohio! In this captivating video, we embark on an epic journey to conquer the high seas and engage in thrilling naval battles. Join us as we navigate through the intricacies of this action-packed game, showcasing the might and prowess of the Ohio battleship.

Unleash your strategic genius as you maneuver through various scenarios, braving the turbulent waters and vanquishing your opponents. World of Warships Ohio offers an unparalleled gaming experience, immersing you in stunning graphics and realistic naval warfare.

In this video, we delve into the numerous features and gameplay mechanics that make World of Warships Ohio stand out from the crowd. Witness the impressive firepower, exceptional maneuverability, and unmatched strength of this formidable battleship. Prepare to dominate as you harness the full potential of Ohio's arsenal and lead your team to victory.

Discover the extensive upgrades and customization options available for your vessel, allowing you to tailor your Ohio battleship to suit your personal playstyle. From advanced weaponry to enhanced defense systems, you have the power to shape your ship into the ultimate war machine.

Embark on riveting missions, engage in heart-pounding battles, and collaborate with fellow players from around the globe to achieve naval dominance. World of Warships Ohio offers endless opportunities for excitement and strategic triumph.

Dive into this thrilling adventure today and experience the adrenaline rush of commanding the impressive Ohio battleship. Whether you're a seasoned naval commander or new to the world of warships, this video promises to captivate and inspire you.

Don't miss out on the immersive excitement of World of Warships Ohio - a game that transports you to the heart of naval warfare. Prepare to conquer the seas like never before! Watch now and embark on an unforgettable, action-packed voyage! 

[saramackenzie1982]

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[sandyhookhistory]

"A Rough Day For The Kriegsmarine" Eighty Years Ago Today - (Friday) February 12th, 1943: Luck runs out for U-442, a Type VIIC (Photos 1 & 2) when her relatively short - yet successful - career comes to an end 153 miles southwest of Lisbon, Portugal. Returning home from her second war patrol, she is jumped by an American-built twin-engined Lockheed Hudson, assigned to 48 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force. (Hudson from 48 Sqdn in Photo 3). Flying out of Gibraltar, the Squadron is on definitive search-and-destroy anti-submarine operations... and U-442 becomes meat on the table. Screaming in before the Germans can react, the Hudson strikes home with depth-charges. U-442 is torn open, and plunges to the seafloor. She takes All Hands - 48 Officers and Men - with her. There Are No Survivors. Meanwhile, in Batsfjord, Norway, at the top of the world - no, really, it's on Norway's northern coast on the Barents Sea - the Soviet Navy Submarine "K-3" (Photo 4) is on patrol when she spots the German steamer "SS Fechenheim" (Photo 5, under a previous name). The torpedoes only damage the ship... Fechenheim runs for shore and drives herself hard aground so she won't sink. However, K-3's "tin fish" have done the job - she is damaged beyond repair and will never sail again. Just Another Day... 🇺🇲🇺🇲 ** Please Like & Follow "Sandy Hook History" on Facebook & Instagram for more amazing maritime and military histories of the Garden State and New York Harbor as well as a review of the 80th Anniversary of the Battle Of The Atlantic and World War 2** 🇺🇲🇺🇲 Photos: 1, uboot-recherche.de; 2, history.navy.mil; 3, Public Domain; 4, uboat.net 5, wrecksite.eu #visitmonmouth #newjerseybuzz #thejournalnj #locallivingnj #journeythroughjersey #centraljerseyexists #discovernj #yesnj #newjerseyhistory #newjerseyforyou #sandyhookbeach #sandyhooknj #sandyhookhistory #forthancockhistory #forthancock #battleoftheatlantic #kriegsmarine #uboats #uboat #depthcharge #nosurvivors #allhands #waratsea #fechenheim #torpedoattack #barentssea #båtsfjord #submarinewarfare #beyondrepair #royalairforce (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/ColsZ2eOzTN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[antnich]

SCHARNHORST...

A steel grey Tiger Shark, slicing through the icy chop of the North Sea at flank speed. Fully intent on severing the vital supply arteries that, alone, kept Great Britain alive and fighting in the darkest days of World War Two.

Nine eleven inch guns, housed in triple turrets faced with armour plating a full, fourteen inches thick. They wrought deadly work.

Her victims included an aircraft carrier, an armed merchant cruiser, two destroyers, and twenty-two British merchant ships. But she was always on borrowed time.

In February 1942, she led the desperate, daytime breakout from Brest that came to be known as the Channel Dash. Scharnhorst, with her sister ship, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen 'succeeded where the Spanish Armada failed' in a subsequent lead page editorial in The Times.

Ultimately, the Scharnhorst died as violently as she lived, lashing out desperately at a relentless steel ring of thirteen British and Norwegian warships that finally brought her to bay.

Reduced to a slowly sinking pile of blazing, bloody scrap, she and the great bulk of her brave, fallen crew now lie forever entombed beneath a thousand feet of freezing Arctic sea water, some ninety-three miles away from the North Cape of Norway...

#battleship #kreigsmarine #navalhistory #scharnhorst #gneisenau #worldwartwo #militaryhistory #atlanticconvoys #battleofnorthcape #waratsea #penandswordbooks #mytitanicbook #titanicsuperstarsandscapegoats #Titanic #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #timetravel #schlachstiffscharnhorst #maritimehistory #thejourneymatters #tigershark #battleoftheatlantic #arcticconvoys #channeldash #hmsglorious #hmsdukeofyork #hmsbelfast #imperialwarmuseum #ssrawalpindi

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[nollaigo]

#sinkthebismarck #ww2 #warfilm #kennethmore #danawynter #waratsea #warishell

[dutchmn007]

“What Were Their Names?” October 31, 1941: sinking of the USS REUBEN JAMES; not many survived, torpedo struck forward, detonates ship’s magazine - entirely blowing off the bow - & the ship dove like a submarine. The precious few who found themselves in the icy cold Icelandic water were soon rent by another deadly predator: the ship’s depth charges - already set - that cooked off as the ship sank, blowing them out of the water: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/prelude_to_war/uss_reuben_james.html U-552 under Kapitänleutnant Erich Topp (who survived the war) launched the fateful Torpedo. #history #worldwar2 #worldwartwo #submarine #submariner #navy #waratsea #battleofatlantic #kriegsmarine #usnavy #atlantic #historic #tragedy (at Studio City, California)

[ebaytohouse]

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[bobeshobby]

Tonight at #bobeshobbyhouse #songofbladesandheroes #waratsea and more! Tomorrow #thisisnotatest #fullthrust Southern Air Craftsmen and more! Next weekend #gameauction ! http://ift.tt/2oZOuXI

[antnich]

THE SCHARNHORST...

From her first, tentative foray into the Atlantic in November of 1939 to her violent, protracted death throes off the North Cape on Boxing Day, 1943, the battleship Scharnhorst was in a state of either constant battle or harried repair.

Her finest moment was as flagship of the squadron that made the daring dash through the English Channel in February, 1942. The escape of the German squadron from Brest to German home ports was massively humiliating for British national pride at the time.

However, she did not escape unscathed. Two mines caused extensive damage to the battleship. Not for another eight, full months would she be fully combat ready again.

After a spell of working up and gun calibration exercises in the Baltic the Scharnhorst, along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, made two attempts to reach Norway in January, 1943. On both occasions, they had to turn back after being sighted by British air reconnaissance patrols.

Finally, in March of 1943, Scharnhorst succeeded in running the gauntlet on her own, under the cover of some particularly violent, late winter weather...

#waratsea #worldwartwo #kreigsmarine #arcticconvoys #channeldash #battleship #scharnhorst #gneisenau #heavycruiser #prinzeugen #battleofnorthcape #royalnavy #brest #wilhelmshaven #gotenhafen #baltic #arielreconaissance #timetravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #surfaceraider #salmonandgluckstein #hmsdukeofyork #hmsbelfast #hmsglorious #hmsardent #hmsacasta #rawalpindi #wartimephotography #atlanticconvoys

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[antnich]

MAURETANIA IN DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE...

Quite possiy seen in an end of conflict photo judging by the amount of bunting she is flying, the magnificent Mauretania shows off her dazzle camouflage paint scheme to quite spectacular effect.

Of course, it was impossible to hide ships of this size from the enemy. Thus, the purpose of dazzle camouflage was not so much to conceal as to confuse.

The seemingly random, abstract pastiche of colours, shapes and lines was designed with the intention of confusing any submarine captain as to the exact bearing, size and true speed of a ship. It was almost borderline hallucinogenic stuff, sans actual LSD.

This kind of trippy sleight of hand was the brainchild of the famous British marine artist, Norman Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, by then an acting lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy who was working on actual patrol duty, described the role of dazzle camouflage thus: "To distort the external shape by violent colour contrasts."

In all, more than four thousand merchant ships and four hundred warships would get the dazzle pattern treatment.

This shot of the Mauretania is laced with both pathos and poignancy. Just three years earlier her near twin sister ship, the Lusitania, had been sunk by a torpedo fired from a German submarine, the U20...

#cunardline #cunard #Mauretania #lusitania #oceangreyhounds #blueribbandoftheatlantic #troopship #U-boat #disastersatsea #dazzle #camouflage #sleightofhand #opticalillusion #artoftravel #TWA #timetravel #travelswithanthony #greatwar #worldwarone #waratsea #seawarfare #royalnavy #normanwilkinson #travelhistory #travelheritage #oceanliners #maritimehistory #U20 #waltherschweiger #unconditionalwarfare

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[antnich]

HMS BELFAST...

Incredibly, the light cruiser that sits in the shadow of nearby Tower Bridge is the only major, surviving British capital ship from Workd War Two.

The forward two of her four, triple six inch gun mounts can seen here. On Boxing Day 1943, these guns barked out a barrage of explosive steel death in the direction of the Scharnhorst, the last combat ready battleship of the German Navy.

The Battle of North Cape was the last major surface action fought between British and German warships. It ended with Scharnhorst massively outnumbered, surrounded, and reduced to a pile of burning, sinking, bloody scrap metal.

But that was by no means a foregone conclusion. At one particularly tense stage, the German ship managed to outrun almost all of her pursuers. Only the Belfast clung grimly to her tail, like some doughty little terrier.

Had Scharnhorst been aware of this, Belfast might well not have lived to enjoy her well earned retirement. Along with Scharnhorst herself and her own, twin sister- HMS Edinburgh- Belfast today might well be entombed in a thousand feet of icy, frozen Arctic darkness..

#HMSBelfast #HMSEdinburgh #scharnhorst #barentssea #battleofnorthcape #nordkapp #waratsea #worldwartwo #arcticconvoys #royalnavy #kreigsmarine #Arctic #timetravel #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #towerbridge #lightcruiser #navalgunnery #secondworldwar

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[antnich]

THE DARDANELLES, TURKEY...

One of the historic, honey stone Turkish fortifications that line the Dardanelles, the narrow body of water that leads from the Aegean directly to the fabled Turkish sea city of Istanbul, known as Constantinople back in 1915.

With Europe to the north and Asia to the south, this narrow body of water seemed like a dagger, aimed right at the heart of the ailing Ottoman Empire. No wonder it was so heavily fortified.

Winston Churchill believed that the straits could be physically forced by a combined, Anglo-French battle fleet. In his role as First Lord of The Admiralty, he was in exactly the right place to push this plan through.

The subsequent rash, pre- emptive lunge by British, French and Anzac forces at these straits was ground down by desperate Turkish resistance. Gallipoli became a kind of sub tropical version of the Somme for the Australian and New Zealand troops, thrown in one futile wave after another at these defences.

To this day, Gallipoli and the Dardanelles remains one of the most needless and emotive killing grounds of the entire Great War...

#travelhistory #worldwarone #Gallipoli #Dardanelles #sickmanofeurope #turkey #constantinople #Istanbul #anzac #anzacday #ottomanempire #timetravel #travelphotography #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #winstonchurchill #ataturk #Greatworth #navalhistory #waratsea #lonepineridge #mamara

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[antnich]

TIME TRAVEL: TIRPITZ IN NORWAY...

Like some huge, brooding spider sitting in a web, the battleship Tirpitz exerted a baleful influence on British sea power on every ocean in the world.

She menaced both the Arctic and Atlantic convoys at the same time. Thus, each one had to be provided with a huge, sea and air escort.

Churchill- who nicknamed Tirpitz 'The Beast'- understood that she was equal to any two Royal Navy battleships. Thus, three of these at a time were almost always on standby, in case she ever came looming out into the icy northern wastes.

In the Far East, Japanese aircraft sank both the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. The two ships lacked air cover; the aircraft carrier that should have accompanied them was kept back in home waters, specifically to counter any move by Tirpitz.

In July of 1942, the mere news that she had put to sea caused the premature scattering of PQ17, a huge convoy bound for Russia. Deprived of an effective, close quarter escort, some twenty- two of the merchant ships were sunk by aircraft and submarines.

Tirpitz had destroyed the arms, ammunition, equipment, fuel, motorised transport, tanks and trucks of a small army, without even firing a shot...

#battleship #waratsea #secondworldwar #kreigsmarine #Tirpitz #norwegianfjords #princeofwales #repulse #arcticconvoys #atlanticconvoys #PQ17 #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #aircraftcarrier #pacifictheatre #capitalships #xcraft #barneswallis #tallboy #RAF #617squadron #avrolancaster #altenfjord #kaafjord #faettenfjord #tromso

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[antnich]

WHITE STAR'S ROARING TWENTIES...

Within two years of losing the Titanic, the White Star Line found itself mired in the maelstrom of the Great War. The company would suffer heavy losses during the course of that global conflict.

Biggest of these was the Britannic, the third of the Olympic Class liners. She went down in the Aegean, after hitting a mine whilst serving as a hospital ship.

The post war Treaty of Versailles carved up the passenger fleets of defeated Germany, and awarded the ships across the different, victorious nations.

The biggest prize of all was the still incomplete Bismarck. She was awarded to White Star as an obvious replacement for the Britannic.

The triple stacked giant was the largest ship in the world when she was finally completed as a passenger liner in the summer of 1922. Renamed as the Majestic, White Star put her into service on the prestige Southampton to New York run.

For thirteen years, she was the largest liner in the world. White Star advertised her as 'The Queen of The Western Ocean.'

In this photo, taken at Southampton the Majestic on the left is approaching her restored, post war fleet mate, the Olympic...

#treatyofversailles #greatwar #waratsea #hamburgamerikaline #bismarck #oceanliners #Olympic #Titanic #britannic #portofsouthampton #Newyork #southamptondocks #travelhistory #travelphotography #travelheritage #timetravel #thejourneymatters #whitestarline #Majestic #roaringtwenties #transatlantic #northatlantic #whitestardock #oceandock

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[antnich]

PRINZ EUGEN PROPELLER, LABOE, KIEL...

Of the ten capital ships to serve in the German Navy during World War Two, the one and only survivor was the heavy cruiser, Prinz Eugen.

The 'Prinz' was known as the 'lucky ship' of the German Navy. Acting as escort to the infamous Bismarck, she scored the first hit on HMS Hood during the Denmark Strait battle on May 24th, 1941.

In February of 1942, she accompanied the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau on their desperate, daylight dash through the English Channel. Later, she served in both Norway and the Baltic, where her heavy artillery wrought massive havoc on advancing Red Army troop and tank formations.

The Prinz Eugen was surrendered to the Royal Navy at Copenhagen in May 1945, and awarded to America as a war prize.

After numerous trials, Prinz Eugen was expended as a target ship during the infamous atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1947. She survived both tests, but her seriously weakened hull succumbed to an unstoppable ingress of water.

Ruined and radioactive, she capsized in the South Pacific. At high tide, part of her remains above water to this day.

A few years ago, one of her three propellers was raised from the wreck, and returned to her birthplace at Kiel. It forms a central part of the German Naval Memorial at Laboe to this day.

#atombomb #atomicbombtests #bikiniatoll #southpacific #timetravel #travelhistory #travelphotography #waratsea #kreigsmarine #heavycruiser #hipperclass #prinzeugen #bismarck #hmshood #scharnhorst #gneisenau #seabattles #denmarkstrait #channeldash #artoftravel #TWA #travelswithanthony #travelhistory #travelheritage #laboe #kiel #radioactive

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