Cool pix!

"Ann Morell, Shipmate of the Month, aboard the USS New Jersey (BB-62) Iowa-class battleship at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Long Beach, CA 8/30/1968 photo by Neil Leifer. [1325x890]"

 

"Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC, JK815, 'DB-R', of No. 2 Squadron SAAF based at Palata, Italy, carrying a 250-lb bomb beneath the fuselage, in flight along the Adriatic Coast while on a bombing mission to the Sangro River battlefront."

 

"An m4a3e8 Sherman(easy 8) nick named "thunderbolt" of the U.S 11th armored leading a column across the Muhl river in Austria on may 4th, 1945."

 

"Pre-Dreadnought battleship USS New Jersey (1450 x 1029)."

 

"[3570X2219] Late July 1957, Leningrad, USSR. Soviet light cruiser Alexander Nevsky is towed up the Neva river to the city center for the Navy Day celebrations."

All hail Eisenstein!

 

"Medium Tank M3 Grant tank with a later model of the M2 gun, IWM Duxford. The counterweight means that the gun is equipped with a stabilizer. This tank has late type T54E1 tracks."

 

"Medium Tank M3 Grant with an early 75 mm M2 gun, Bovington Tank Museum. This tank is equipped with WE210 tracks, usually used only on Lee, Grant, and Ram tanks."

 

"Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148). [5296 × 3633]."

 

"Archer-class torpedo cruiser HMS Porpoise. [5228 × 3536]"

 

"P-47D Thunderbolt"

 

"Captured Cruiser Tank Mk IV fitted with tracks from the PzKw III."

 

"Raptors with Mt. Fuji [3000x2000]."

 

"HMS Conway and RMS Mauretania in Liverpool. Date unknown, but definitely between the wars. A Queen Elizabeth-class battleship is at left. Painting by Kenneth Denton Shoesmith."

 

"The New Jersey (BB-62) passing through Pearl Harbor channel escorted by large harbor tugs, 9 September 1968. [1388x1086]"

Ah, a great picture to dispel an old myth. When Nevada made her dash for the sea during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor the IJN hoped to sink her in the channel and "block up the harbor entrance." Big J is 108" wide, Nevada was Beam:95 ft 2.5[7] – 3 in[6] (29 m) . Her Length:583 ft (178 m)[6]. AND the channel was ~1000 ft wide. So there was going to be a gap of over 200 ft on either side of 200 minimum for sorties.

 

Most likely the ambient light washed out the colors and the camera didn't cope with that.