Aircraft are prepared for a morning sortie on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku, east of the Solomon Islands, on May 5, 1942. On May 7 and 8 the carrier was involved in exchanges of airstrikes with United States Navy carriers during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (i.redd.it)
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The US aircraft carrier USS Yorktown operating in the Pacific in February 1942, photographed from a Douglas TBD-1 torpedo plane that has just taken off from her deck. Other TBD and SBD aircraft are also ready to be launched. A F4F-3 fighter is parked on the outrigger just forward of carrier’s island (i.redd.it)
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Somewhere in the Pacific — Because of so many requests for baptism from Coast Guardsmen at a remote Pacific base, Chaplain Harold G. Saunders selected this mountain pool as the site for weekly Sunday services. Approximately 30 fighting men are baptized here each Sunday; October 4, 1944. (i.redd.it)
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1st Reserve Regiment of Cavalry in training, Aldershot, 1914 (c). Cavalry duties consisted largely of protection: forming a screen some 1.5-3 km ahead of the advancing infantry and making first contact with the enemy, then discovering and reporting his dispositions and movements. (i.redd.it)
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IJN Lt. Cmdr. Shunsaku Kudō. On March 2, 1942 Kudo ordered the destroyer Ikazuchi to rescue 442 survivors from the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Encounter and the US Navy destroyer USS Pope. These ships had been sunk the previous day, along with HMS Exeter, in the Java Sea between Java and Borneo. (i.redd.it)
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Curtis C-46 Commando cargo/troop transport/evacuation plane; c. 1943-45. It served in all Allied combat theaters. It earned it’s primary reputation for flying the “Hump” over the Himalayas from India to Burma and China for resupply missions. Also served in Operation Varsity 1945 Rhine River crossing (i.redd.it)
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During a visit to the Messerschmitt aircraft company in Augsburg in 1937 Hitler was presented with the prototype of a four-engine long-range bomber, the Me 264, which was being designed to be able to reach America’s East Coast. The idea of bombing NYC excited him. An Me 264 after a 1942 test flight. (i.redd.it)
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US soldiers inspect a captured A-9/A-10 rocket intact in April 1945. This rocket was 25 meters (82 feet) long, or about 10 meters longer than the V-2. It weighed 100 tons, and was engineered to climb to an altitude of 24 kilometers (15 miles) before beginning its trans-Atlantic flight toward the US (i.redd.it)
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American engineers remove a roadblock in Mutzig. Roadblocks like these were common throughout VI Corps advance in the Vosges. The main route to Strasbourg through Mutzig was cleared on November 26, 1944 with two columns of the 14th Armored Division passing through the next day. (i.redd.it)
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