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Reply #60 on: September 14, 2018, 08:17:09 AM
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Eight Fairey Firefly FR.1 and seven Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 overfly the Royal Australian Navy aricraft carrier HMAS Sydney (R17) in 1949.


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Reply #61 on: September 14, 2018, 08:59:59 AM
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Undated, maneuvers by the USS Philip (DD-76), USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) and USS Greer (DD-145)


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Reply #62 on: September 14, 2018, 12:02:00 PM

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Reply #63 on: September 17, 2018, 09:20:40 AM
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HMS Queen Elizabeth photographed shortly after the completion of her last major rebuild. Just about the only thing that remained the same from the previous rebuild were the guns. Note the iconic Forth Bridge in the background.


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Reply #64 on: September 17, 2018, 09:22:46 AM
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USS South Dakota (BB-57) and USS Alabama (BB-60), 1943, with the British Home Fleet in the Atlantic


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Reply #65 on: September 17, 2018, 10:20:51 AM

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Reply #66 on: September 17, 2018, 10:28:56 AM

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Reply #67 on: September 17, 2018, 10:48:47 AM
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Stern view of Japanese carrier Akagi, deck loaded with Mitsubishi B1M & B2M biplane torpedo bombers; off Osaka, Japan, 15 October 1934


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Reply #68 on: September 17, 2018, 03:46:38 PM

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Reply #69 on: September 17, 2018, 03:50:51 PM
I bet that wasn't cheap!

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Reply #70 on: September 18, 2018, 01:24:33 PM
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Japanese light aircraft carrier Zuihō viewed from the aircraft carrier Shōkaku during operations in the South Pacific after the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, September 10-23, 1942


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Reply #71 on: September 19, 2018, 12:17:35 PM
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HMS Glorious at anchor, 1935; the doors to the lower hangar deck are open.


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Reply #72 on: September 19, 2018, 12:21:09 PM
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HMS Queen Elizabeth skirting Hurricane Florence shortly before entering naval station Norfolk. Crown copyright 2018.



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Reply #73 on: September 19, 2018, 12:22:11 PM
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Whirlwinds fly off HMS Eagle late 1950s, before her rebuild



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Reply #74 on: September 19, 2018, 12:29:21 PM
I love those old carriers  :2thumbs:

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