Heavy Metal

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USS Roanoke (CL-145) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, circa in early 1949. Note that the hull number has not been painted on the ship. Roanoke was commissioned on 4 April 1949

 

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Designed and built in the era of the forward look, and people thought Exner was ahead of his time.

And the government wants to take away our rifles from the same era.....

They have to have teleporters by now, and the taxpayers can't even get a jet pack. They should be advetising them in the back of magazines like those $44 Jeeps....

 

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Crew of the USS Bennington honouring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958

 

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The "Great White Fleet" steaming in column, probably while departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of their cruise around the World, December 1907. Kansas (BB-21) is at left, followed by Vermont (BB-20

 

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The 14 inch guns of USS California, August 1945

 

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'Castles of Steel' - HMS Duke of York with her guns trained to starboard

 

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USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) and USS Langley (CVL-27) entering Ulithi achorage, Caroline Islands, December 1944

 

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SMS Seydlitz after the battle of Jutland (1916

 

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Lusitania, 1907, arriving in NYC on maiden voyage.

 

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Bow turrets of the Italian heavy cruiser Trieste shortly after commissioning

 

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USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Iowa (BB-61) in their 1987 forms

 

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Japanese battleship Musashi. Crew doing calisthenics on deck gives a hint of its size.

 

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USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Iowa (BB-61) in their 1987 forms
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The USS Midway museum in San Diego is an excellent one. Just the static aircraft on display on and below deck are awesome.
Interestingly, the USS Iowa is a few hundred miles north in the port of Los Angeles.

 

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SMS Seydlitz after the battle of Jutland (1916
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That hole in the side was made by a torpedo! That demonstrates how low in the water Seydlitz was sailing at the time it was hit. That ship took a beating at Jutland (Skaggerak), but did much better that many British ships that ceased to exist on that day! What was that Admiral Beattie said, "We have a serious problem with our ships today."

 

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Boeing B-47 utilizing rocket assisted takeoff April 15, 1954

 

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Battleship row after the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941

 

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Japanese battleship Fuso in dry dock

 

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Japanese destroyers Nenohi (left) and Hatsuharu touching tips, 1933