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warspite1 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 9:00:30 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

Focke Wulf 190D-9:

warspite1

I have always had a soft spot for the Fw-190A


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Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 9:08:55 PM)

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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Well then, I give you a KV-2

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warspite1

I know little about tanks. Why was that oversised chunk of metal considered necessary in the KV-2's design?



I think it was due to the 152mm howitzer it had rather than the 76mm of the KV-1.


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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 10:47:30 PM)


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ORIGINAL: warspite1


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ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Well then, I give you a KV-2

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warspite1

I know little about tanks. Why was that oversised chunk of metal considered necessary in the KV-2's design?


A 152mm main gun and the German 88mm AT shells bounced off the armour.



RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 10:48:45 PM)


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ORIGINAL: DD696

Ah, the "ranger" joe. Uou speak with a forked tongue. The worst violator of standards in your verbose posts. Hard to imagine that you can honestly criticize another with your demonstrated abuse of what is now allowed.


Do you really want to get into it?



RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 10:51:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

A picture of a Female that is not wearing clothes - it is a historical picture . . .

You may very well call it a female. I call it a tank. [:)]


It is a Female tank!

Here is a picture of a hot bikini . . .



RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/1/2022 11:05:33 PM)


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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]


If you'd been in the 8th Army in May 1942, anything with a 75mm gun would have looked gorgeous to you. [sm=Tank-fahr09.gif]


They ruled in the desert in Afrika during that summer and they were very effective in the Burma theatre.



gekkoguy35 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 4:09:04 AM)

She may not have been the biggest nor the most famous, but the USS North Carolina will always be my favorite because she was the first warship I ever toured. The first of the new generation of USN fast battleships in WWII, she had an impecable service record in the Pacific...and she had an ice cream machine [8D]



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Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 4:56:32 AM)

If the contest is most beautiful BBs THAT STILL EXIST then the USA wins by default. USS Texas:

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sanch -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 4:58:57 AM)


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ORIGINAL: gekkoguy35
She may not have been the biggest nor the most famous, but the USS North Carolina will always be my favorite because she was the first warship I ever toured. The first of the new generation of USN fast battleships in WWII, she had an impecable service record in the Pacific...and she had an ice cream machine [8D]


Still a beauty, and it still has a Kingfisher scout plane. You can easily spend a full day touring that ship.



Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 5:01:41 AM)

One more:

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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 12:03:19 PM)

Omaha class light cruiser U.S.S. Marblehead.


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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 12:09:23 PM)

Fletcher class destroyer U.S.S. Johnson of Taffy 3 fame.


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gekkoguy35 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/2/2022 3:17:01 PM)


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ORIGINAL: sanch

Still a beauty, and it still has a Kingfisher scout plane. You can easily spend a full day touring that ship.



At the time I toured it, I had no clue that BBs could launch and recover aircraft. It was pretty mind blowing to my teenage self. As was the size of the shells her 16" guns hurled, holy cow. I knew they were big, but standing next to them in the flesh really puts it into perspective.



Ridcully70 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/3/2022 6:13:26 PM)

Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport

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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/3/2022 7:26:36 PM)


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Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport

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Unless you are attacking Disneyland a lime green vehicle would be a detriment. [:D]



Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/3/2022 8:58:49 PM)

An actual Kubelwagen

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Erik Rutins -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/3/2022 9:55:04 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Ridcully70
Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport


I'll raise you a Bob Semple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Semple_tank



Toby42 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/4/2022 3:44:21 PM)

CAC Boomerang. Made in Australia..
By Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80828838

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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/4/2022 3:46:53 PM)

Looks like a stretched Brewster Buffalo. Kind of. [;)]

Yeah I know, Buff has wing about mid fuselage but if you squint and look at it out of the corner of your eye...



Toby42 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/4/2022 4:10:47 PM)

A Brewster Buffalo!

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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/4/2022 7:25:13 PM)

A highly successful Buffalo pilot . . .

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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 2:32:52 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Lobster

Fletcher class destroyer U.S.S. Johnson of Taffy 3 fame.


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Charge the enemy without orders to attack, causing the world's largest battleship to turn away from the battle. Then turning around to give cover to another destroyer even though one of your engines is shot out.



RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 2:38:45 PM)

Pretty vehicles with a very nice paint job on one of them . . .

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timmyab -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 3:51:40 PM)

I give you the mighty Flower class.


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chris_merchant -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 8:18:43 PM)

Australian Armour & Artillery Museum, Cairns AU

This is what $7 million will get you these days.

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Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 8:44:56 PM)

Tiger 131. World's only operating Tiger, with an engine from a Tiger II.




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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/6/2022 9:37:32 PM)


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ORIGINAL: timmyab

I give you the mighty Flower class.



The destroyers and smaller ships did the dirty work with none of the glamour.



warspite1 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/8/2022 2:40:05 PM)

The Illustrious-class, the finest looking carriers of WWII = just edging out the Yorktowns.

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Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/10/2022 3:42:12 PM)


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Illustrious-class, the finest looking carriers of WWII = just edging out the Yorktowns.

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Love the armored flight deck. Not fond of the plane capacity compared to the Essex class.



warspite1 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 4:34:25 PM)

On reflection, probably in third place in my personal CV dept. USS Enterprise (I think this is actually Yorktown but....)

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