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Reply #675 on: September 26, 2019, 07:17:49 AM
oops...

....left hand down a bit, Number One....................

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Reply #676 on: September 26, 2019, 12:34:10 PM

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Reply #677 on: September 26, 2019, 04:30:24 PM
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USS Iowa anchored at sunset, 3 Mar 1986.



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Reply #678 on: September 26, 2019, 11:24:19 PM
That ship's so pretty I wouldn't even mind being run-over by it.  :dreamer:

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Reply #679 on: September 29, 2019, 09:57:21 AM
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FS Latouche-Tréville (D646) in stormy sea



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Reply #680 on: September 29, 2019, 10:20:11 AM
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Battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Repulse, during the Empire World Cruise 1923-24



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Reply #681 on: September 29, 2019, 10:22:54 AM
Look, Bob! Your aircraft carriers CAN carry aircraft!



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Reply #682 on: September 29, 2019, 10:53:13 AM
USS Savannah (CL 42) Is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.

The bomb hit the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret and penetrated deep into her hull before exploding. The photograph shows the explosion venting through the top of the turret and also through Savannah's hull below the waterline.

The bomb impact was initially a huge crash, followed seconds later by a massive explosion that lifted the ship right out of the water, and knocked everyone to the deck. The bomb passed through the turret top, killed everyone inside, and exploded at the keel, blowing the bottom of the ship out and causing a huge geyser of water and debris to come out the port side a little forward of the bridge. It covered us with water, and almost immediately smoke started pouring from the hole in the turret. We all figured the magazine would explode at any second, but it didn’t. When the bomb exploded it blew out the keel directly under the magazine, and the water flooded the magazine before it had a chance to go off.

The explosion blew open both the #2 and #1 magazines forward, and killed most everyone in the bow forward of the #3 turret.

The instant flooding of the #3 magazine of the USS Savannah was providential or she likely would have been lost just like the Italian Battleship Roma was lost to a massive magazine explosion after a Fritz X bomb penetrated her turret & magazine.

A motor torpedo boat (PT) is passing by in the foreground at the instant of the explosion of the Fritz X Bomb.

Diagram detailing the damage done to Savannah



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Reply #683 on: September 29, 2019, 11:05:59 AM
Great find!

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Reply #684 on: September 29, 2019, 11:41:14 AM
Look, Bob! Your aircraft carriers CAN carry aircraft!




Photoshopped......................obviously!

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Reply #685 on: September 29, 2019, 01:16:31 PM
Look, Bob! Your aircraft carriers CAN carry aircraft!





and they've got both of the ones they can afford out there at the same time!

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Reply #686 on: September 29, 2019, 01:20:08 PM
So that helo in back must be grounded until the next fiscal quarter

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Reply #687 on: September 29, 2019, 01:24:01 PM
Look, Bob! Your aircraft carriers CAN carry aircraft!





and they've got both of the ones they can afford out there at the same time!


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Reply #688 on: September 29, 2019, 10:49:17 PM
They probably landed there by mistake. After all, I don't see a Union Jack anywhere.

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Reply #689 on: September 30, 2019, 06:06:51 AM
You're making the assumption that they could fly that far?

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