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  1. OpanaPointer

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    "USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Iowa (BB-61) in their 1987 forms [1199 x 1496]."
     
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    "An F-106 Delta Dart firing an MB-1 Genie - an Unguided Air-To-Air Nuke [3000x2007]."
     
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    "Town class cruiser HMS Manchester during the late 1930s [1800 x 1084]."
     
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    "The aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. Ordered by Chile as the battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1918 for conversion. [2312 x 856]."
     
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    "Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in drydock [1563 x 1017]."
     
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    "(1901x1904) The battleship bouvet on the french riviera before 1908."
     
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    willowrun.jpg

    B-24H assembly line at Willow Run
     
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    "The T5E2, a prototype M2 medium tank fitted with a 75mm howitzer in the hull."
     
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    The worker sticking out in the front plane provides perspective.
     
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    "Japanese battleship Musashi. Crew doing calisthenics on deck gives a hint of its size. (1450 x 1142)"

    Perspective 2.
     
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    "20th July 1943? "A flight of US Navy Corsair fighters. Powered by a 2,000 hp engine it has a speed of over 400 mph" (Date may be 23 May 1943 as noted on other sources)"
     
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    "[1375X1749] British light cruiser HMS Argonaut displays heavy structural damage to her bow inflicted by an Italian torpedo on December 14, 1942 (one of the two that hit cruiser that day). The ship will be transferred from Mediterranean to Philadelphia for permanent repairs."
     
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    "USS Boston (CA-69/CAG-1), a Baltimore class heavy cruiser turned missle cruiser.[3568 × 2435]"
     
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    "[5134 x 3831]USS Hornet (CV-12) operating near Okinawa, on 27 March 1945. The planes visible on deck belonged to Carrier Air Group 17 (CVG-17). The ship is painted in dazzle pattern Camouflage Measure 33, Design 3A"
     
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    "Fiat-Ansaldo Autoblindo 40, this was the original model armed with two 8 mm machine guns and soon were deemed insufficient. Only some 25 were delivered before switching to the AB41 armed with a 20 mm autocannon."
     
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    "Yamato. Painting by Noriyoshi Ōrai."
     
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    Pretty darn cool!
     
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    Considering the size of a ship like the Midway, the gargantuan dimensions of the Iowa class BB's is staggering !
     
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    Agreed and it made me wonder for the 1000th time...does a bigger ship generally mean bigger bunks or room in general?
     

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