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Los Angeles Class Fast Attack

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This is French sub named Surcouf. It was the largest submarine for it’s time, and was created to take advantage of a loophole which limited armament on battleships, but not subs.

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Japanese Zero, near Rabaul, Papua, New Guinea

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Russian Anti Ship

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The Naked Blister Gunner

Photo taken by Horace Bristol (1908-1997). In 1941, Bristol was recruited to the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, as one of six photographers under the command of Captain Edward J. Steichen, documenting World War II in places such as South Africa, and Japan. He ended up being on the plane the gunner was serving on, a PBY Navy “Dumbo”, which was used to rescue people from Rabaul Bay (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea), Japanese-held, when this occurred. In an article from a December 2002 issue of B&W magazine he remembers:
“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us with their coastal defense guns. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”
Original title: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944.

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On 2/17/2022 at 10:02 AM, Swampfox762 said:

This is French sub named Surcouf. It was the largest submarine for it’s time, and was created to take advantage of a loophole which limited armament on battleships, but not subs.

On the night of February 18 to 19, 1942, the famous submarine of the French Free Naval Forces vanished in the Caribbean Sea with its entire crew: 130 men, including its commander captain Louis Blaison. The Surcouf has not been found yet.

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Pilot ejects from his Tie Fighter after the engine blows. The fighter crashed beyond the air field and no one was harmed.

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Got to do what you have to do!

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The 1958 FWD Terracruzer is a largely aluminum truck originally used by the Air Force to haul MGM-13 Mace missiles. The one with the missile was powered by a Detroit Diesel 6V-71 two stroke, although there were others that ran avgas-fueled Continental flat eights as well. Four or eight wheel drive, tire pressure can be adjusted on the fly.
The Terracruzer that transported Mace missiles was officially called the MM1
Made by FWD Corp. of Clintonville, Wisconsin, each Terracruzer cost about $36,000. Top speed was 25 mph. 
(The Mace missile, which received the official designation of TM-76 (Tactical Missile) was 44 feet long, a 23 foot wingspan and weighed 18,000 pounds.)

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Variations of the T-26 Sterling 8x8 Heavy Truck. c.1945.

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Heavy Transport vehicle, the rig with tank is about 231,000 pounds.
 

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March 9th, 1974

Second Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo - Japanese Army Intelligence - Imperial Japanese Army

The story of Second Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo is one of the more fascinating ones of World War II. He was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in late December 1944 shortly before the landing by US and Philipine forces. Trained as a commando, he was tasked with the hampering of enemy attacks on the island, this included the destruction of the airstrip and the pier at the harbor. Furthermore, he was to, under no circumstances surrender or commit suicide. The Allied landings quickly reduced the Japanese presence on the island to just a few soldiers and Onoda (as the highest ranking officer in the group) found himself in charge of a party of four. He led his men to the mountains and waged a guerrilla war from there.
In October 1945 another group of Japanese holdouts had found a leaflet left behind by the islanders which stated that the war had in fact ended two months earlier. Taking into consideration that one cell had been fired on the day before Onoda's group decided that the leaflet had to be propaganda. At the end of the year another set of leaflets containing an order from General Yamashita to surrender were dropped from the air. Onoda's group did not find these to be convincing either.
Over the years the group got smaller and smaller. Private Yuichi Akatsu left the others in 1949 and surrendered to Filipino forces in 1950. Corporal Shōichi Shimada was shot in May 1954 by a search party looking for the men. Private First Class Kinshichi Kozuka was killed in a shootout with local police following guerrilla activities in 1972, leaving Onoda alone in the jungle.
The news of the 1972 shootout was widely covered in Japanese media and led to extensive searches to find Onoda. High school dropout Suzuki Norio finally found Onoda in February 1974. Despite pleas from Suzuki, Onoda refused to surrender unless ordered so by a superior officer. Suzuki returned to Japan with photographs of him and Onoda and convinced the Japanese government to locate Onoda's commanding officer Major Taniguchi. On March 9 Taniguchi relieved Onoda from duty and the holdout surrendered to the Filipino government. He turned over his Arisaka Type 99 rifle (still in working order), 500 rounds of ammunition, his sword, several hand grenades as well as a dagger given to him by his mother in 1944. Onoda was pardoned by President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and returned to Japan to receive a hero's welcome.
Onoda, aged 91, passed away Jan 16, 2014 in a Tokyo hospital.

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