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  1. Korozif

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    Yeah, because like the Canadian, the German tried to use it as a strike fighter which it wasn't designed to do. The F-104 was a high altitude interceptor, it was quite unstable at low altitude with its stubby wings.
     
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    You mean a sea plane, not an hydroplane. An hydroplane is a fast racing boat.
     
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    Or children.
     
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    Had to be BFA's. An M-1 Garand has a real kick to it.
     
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    Kent State shootings in May, 1970.
    Ohio Army National Guard troops fired upon a group of protesting students, killing 4 and wounding 8. Before the Guard arrived, a crowd of about 1,000 protesters gathered around an ROTC building on Kent State's campus and burned it to the ground.

    The Kent State event produced this iconic photo of a grief stricken coed over the body of one of the student protesters killed during the fusillade.

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    ....not to be confused with another event, and similarly iconic photo, that took place in 1967 of a Vietnam war protester placing carnations into the barrel of a rifle of a National Guardsman.

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    A very tumultuous time in America's history to say the least. It makes arguing on the internet seem quite tame in comparison., and to credit the protesters, rightly or wrongly, their actions...in combination with the Vietnamese resistance, in no small measure brought about the end of America's involvement in the Vietnam war. Surprisingly, over 65% of those who fought in that war were volunteers, a greater percentage were drafted into WW2 than Vietnam. You would think, based on the protests and draft card burnings, that Vietnam was a war fought primarily by those conscripted into service and this was not the case. Only 1/3rd were draftees.
     
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    HMS Indomitable after kamikadze attack, 4-th May, 1945.
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    Avro Lancaster
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    B-17 and some firefightimg with fourth engine
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    Japanese heavy cruiser, supposengly Nachi, under bombing
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    Battle for Königsberg, 1945
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    М4 Sherman and destroyed Type 97 Ha-Go, Lunson island
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    M4 Sherman in Athenes, supported by the British troops
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    Dora canon firing
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    Trophy S 35 on German parade in Paris
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    IS-3 frontal armor
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    Inside SU-152
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    Yak-9D in Crimea, 1944
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    Note that unlike American aircraft carriers during WW ll that usually had a wooden teak flight deck, the Brits carriers had an armor flight deck.
    Lessons learned, America would soon follow suit after the war.

    The last American warship to be built with a wooden teak deck was the nuclear cruiser, the USS Long Beach.
     
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    Armored deck has saved plenty of lives in this particular case. The accident on the photo only took the lives of 4, excluding kamikadze pilot and the ship remained combat ready.
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    Barham battleship, 892 fatalities.
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    Polish Mi-24
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    I always liked the Mi24.
     
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    It is not a secret, that during WW2 many civilian factories were building military hardware.

    SU-76, produced by GAZ, 14 292 units total
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    Panzerkampfwagen V Panther, produced by Daimler-Benz, 5976 units total
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    Light Tank M3 Stuart, produced by Cadillac, 25 000 units total
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    Light Tank M24 Chaffee, produced by Cadillac, 4 731 units total
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    Gun motor carriage M18 Hellcat, produced by Buick, 2 507 units total
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    Gun motor carriage M10 Wolverine, produced by Ford, 6 706 units total
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    Tank Mk.IV A22 Churchill, produced by Vauxhall, 7 368 units total
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    Type 95 Ha-Go, produced by Mitsubishi, 2 300 units total
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    Battle of Stalingrad
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    Loire Nieuport LN-10
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    Downed B-17 and it's crew
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    A bad day for Lancaster's rear gunner
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    Manned Fau-1 versions, oftenly reffered to as Fau-4. Germans were originally planning to use them against allied bombers. The piolot should aim the missile to the group of bombers and then jump out with a parashute. They were also planning to use them in a kamikadze role due to significanly higher accuracy of a kamikadze-guided missile to an automatically guided one. Two hundred pilots were trained for that role, however they have never recieved these missiles and were used in similar way, but piloting Bf-109 instead.
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    One of american regreements fighting in Korea.
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    Project 949A submarine
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    HR2S-1W with AN/APS-20
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    F-14, Kuwait, 1991
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    Kirov sistership under modernisation
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    PT-76 deployed from a howercraft
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    Merkava Mk.IID
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    Iranian Chieftain
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    USS POGY (SSN-647)
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    There was a version with an 8 or 10 rockets launcher in the nose also.
     
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    Vostok-2014 trials
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    Anti-tank tree
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    Stroking cats against the grain. SU-152, SU-122 and ISU-152
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    Some American WW2 armor
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    War in Yemen
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    WW2, Soviet storm group
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    ISU-122, Western Ukraine, 1944
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    ML-20 howitzer
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    18-th July, 1943, the only recorded battle in WW2 between an airship and a submarine.
    American K-74 airship attacked U-134 German submarine near Florida. As a result the airship was shot down, one of ten crew members was killed.
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    Ferdinand tank destroyer
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    Tiger tank
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    HMS Howe
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    HMS Glorious, 1936
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    USS Missouri (BB-63)
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    HMS Belfast
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    USS Idaho (BB 42)
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    USS Alabama
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