Category: Military
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Nose Art Page 4
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Nose Art Page 4 Tiger Girl Boeing B-17F-75-DL s/n 42-3555 Tiger Girl of the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group, 560th BS, England, 1944 Toots Boeing B-17F s/n 42-29606 Toots Two Beauts Two Beauts Boeing B-17F-60-BO 42-29573 was delivered at Denver on 6/1/43. It was assigned to the 358 Bomber Squadron… Read more
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US Navy Escort Carrier USS Block Island CVE-21
US Navy Escort Carrier USS Block Island CVE-21 USS Block Island (CVE-21) was a Bogue-class escort carrier, commissioned into the U.S. Navy in March 1943 during a period of accelerated naval construction driven by anti-submarine warfare (ASW) requirements in the Atlantic. Escort carriers—converted from merchant or support hulls—were optimized for convoy defence and hunter-killer operations… Read more
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USS Illinois BB-7 US Navy Battleship
USS Illinois BB-7 USS Illinois (BB-7) was the lead ship of the Illinois-class pre-dreadnought battleships, authorized under the naval expansion program of the late 1890s. The class—Illinois, Alabama (BB-8), and Wisconsin (BB-9)—represented a transitional phase in U.S. capital ship architecture between the lighter Indiana-class and the more advanced pre-dreadnought types that directly preceded HMS Dreadnought… Read more