Where have these been hiding for the past 65 years?
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| Guam, 1944 |
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Gunner's view from P-47 Thunderbolt,
taking out some Japanese fuel supplies.
Interestingly, the P-47 was not only the heaviest, largest and most expensive piston-engined fighter ever built, but the two engineers who designed it for Republic Aviation were a Russian and a Georgian immigrant who -along with many others at the company-
came to the United States escape Stalin's purges
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Krupp K5 railway gun:
fired 562lb (280mm) shell/32 miles |
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| US Liberty Ship Robert Rowan hit by Luftwaffe off Sicily, July 1943 |
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| German V1, forerunner of today's cruise missiles |
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| Here an RAF pilot "tips" a Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) by flipping it's wingtip with his, thus knocking the flying bomb off-course. British pilots had to get far too close to shoot them down without being taken out by the explosion... thus the innovative technique evolved |
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| Junkers 88 loading a torpedo... that's a big bomber for pontoons |
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| Rheinmetall Karl-Gerät self-propelled heavy mortars at Sevastopol, USSR |
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| BOOM! |
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| Reloading the Karl's 600mm (24 in.) shell |
