Garford-Putilov Armoured Truck in Ukraine during WWI

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Detail of the wreck of British Mark IV tank BLARNEY CASTLE knocked out at Cambrai in November 1917

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Torn hull seam on an M4 Sherman tank knocked out near Caen on June 17th 1944

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Crusader tank wreck on a flatcar in Tobruk in August 1942

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Former Egyptian T-34/85 very sensitive to having its barrel touched

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Destroyed Sherman tanks viewed from the high ground on Monte Cassino in April 1944

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Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket interceptor prototype in flight

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Captured M41 Walker Bulldog tanks operated by PAVN forces targeted with XM26 TOW missile systems in their first combat use on May 2nd 1972

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Inertial operation of the Benelli Raffaello semi-automatic shotgun

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M712 Copperhead 155 mm caliber cannon-launched guided projectile takes out an M41 Walker Bulldog during trials

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Boeing YB-17 starboard waist gun position

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Winchester 1300 Defender

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I'm telling you officer, there's a Tiger breaking into my house!

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T-34/76 turret roof gets some great hang time after its ammunition cooks off in 1943

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Royal Navy Sopwith Camel tested with a hydro-vane on the undercarriage for emergency water landings in Summer 1918

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Piasecki HRP-1 Rescuer tandem rotor helicopters at Quantico in 1948

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Egyptian MiG attempts to take off while Israeli Air Force fighters attack its airfield in June 1967 during Operation Focus, the opening shots of the Six Day War

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British Matilda II tanks litter the Western Desert possibly following the Battle of Gazala in 1942

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14th Air Force B-25 Mitchell fails to hit a bridge aross the Yellow River in China during a 1944 low level bombing raid

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Just Seafire things

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Looking down on a M167 VADS 20mm Gatling installed on Mobile Sea Base Wimbrown 7 during Operation Prime Chance in October 1988 [1800x2730]

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M88A1 ARV of H&S Co. 3rd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division recovering a B Co. M60A1 that fell off a trailer in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield

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The 76mm is a lot of gun for the M18 Hellcat's 17 ton chassis in action near the Gothic Line in Italy in September 1944

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T-34/76 tank casualties in the Winter of 1943-44

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Linke-Hofmann R.I WWI German heavy bomber described by one of its pilots as not an aircraft but a sickness

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26th Armored Brigade Sherman tank with a penetrating hit in the side applique armor is relieved of its 75mm gun by a salvage crew in Perugia Italy on June 30th 1944

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Belgian T-13 B3 tank destroyer captured at the Citadel of Liege in May 1940

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Restored 88mm Flak 37 live fire including the target's perspective

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Three frontal 88mm Flak hits on a 35th Tank Battalion Sherman tank knocked out along with 10 other tanks near Maison Blanche in Rennes on August 1st 1944

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190s sabotaged before being abandoned at Bad Aibling-Mietraching in Bavaria by retreating German forces in 1945

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Erco 250TH streamlined waist turret on the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer

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Bitch I'm the Anzio Express

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Early production T-34/76 at the side of the road in mid 1941

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Fleet Air Arm Vought F4U Corsair in poor shape after colliding with HMS Illustrious' island [1450x990]

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Early Panzer IV Ausf F2 model with ball muzzle brake knocked out on a transporter near Benghazi in 1943

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Integrally suppressed Walther P 38 assembled post-war by the British firm Cogswell & Harrison

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Color image of an M4A1 Sherman of the Royal Scots Greys shot through the side and barrel at Nederweert in the Netherlands

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Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein towed into Danzig harbor in August 1939 [1550x1055]

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Examination of a USMC Sherman tank on Okinawa hit by multiple 47mm shells that failed to pierce the frontal armor in June 1945

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SU-152 and T-34/76s destroyed in the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket in early 1944

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B-17 drone disintegrated by a barrage of Mk 4 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets

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Thurst vectoring trials on a General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 test rig

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German battleship Scharnhorst at Wilhelmshaven on January 6th 1938 a day before she was commissioned [1700x1020]

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Messerschmitt Bf 109 forces a RAF Westland Lysander liaison aircraft to crash into the sea

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Free French B-26 Marauder cleft in twain by a direct flak hit in February 1945 during a raid over Karlsruhe

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Gloster E.28/39 first prototype W4041/G, the first British jet aircraft

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Grumman F7F-3 Tigercat 80452 taxying in 1945

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BOMARC missile launch followed by intercepts recorded from B-17 target drones

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Soviet propaganda newsreel showing a Panzer III being knocked out and a wounded T-34/76 driver being treated

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Bf 109 guns down a P-51 Mustang at point blank range

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50mm Pak 38 AT gun crew firing on T-34/76 tanks in 1941

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Sherman tank hulk serves as a M20 Super Bazooka target for men of the 49th AD at Fort Worth during training in June 1951

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Knocked out KV tanks in April 1943

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T-55 in Kuwait shot dead center through the upper front plate with APFSDS during Desert Storm

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A pair of Argentine 5th Air Brigade A-4B Skyhawks brave a barrage of anti-aircraft fire to press home their attack on frigate HMS Broadsword during the Falklands War North of Pebble Island on May 25th 1982

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SNCASO SO.8000 Narval carrier-borne strike fighter prototype

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Auto-loader on the T-72 tank

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Restored Sherman shooting through a safe while destroying a refrigerator with its muzzle blast

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Boeing Model 221A Monomail with an enclosed cabin for eight passengers while the pilot enjoyed the breeze

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B-29 Superfortress pressurized cabins on the production line in August 1944

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57mm Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot round for a 6-pounder anti-tank gun [1350x2300]

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Blackburn Sidecar 1919 two-seat ultra-light

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Vickers Wellesley long range bomber and reconnaissance aircraft with a geodetic airframe

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M4A1 Sherman Duplex Drive tank recovered from the seabed after sinking during the Normandy landings on June 6th 1944

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Two high obliquity shell impacts in the side of an M4 Sherman tank America First hit in January 1945

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Quad 20mm and single 37mm Flak guns engage Allied ground units in France in August 1944

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Sherman tank knocked out near Caen examined by German personnel in 1944

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M16A1 door gun on a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog in Vietnam [1750x1470]

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1:2 Scale Saab JAS 39 Gripen loses its vertical tail then disintegrates at a 2016 event

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USS Tennessee providing direct fire support with her 14 inch main battery as Marine LVTs head towards Okinawa on April 1st 1945 [1750x1075]

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88mm Flak gun caught in full recoil while engaging Soviet armor during the Second Battle of Kharkov in mid 1942

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B-17 Flying Fortress waist gunner all geared up in a pile of spent brass

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AEC Armoured Car Mk I fitted with a Valentine Mk II turret

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Northrop P-61 Black Widows arriving on Iwo Jima in early March 1945

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Strafing attack by US aircraft detonates the cargo of a Japanese transport vessel near the Philippines in 1944

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Fly me closer, I want to hit them with my sword! featuring the Dornier Do 18 flying boat

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One of six Farman F.224 airliners in flight in 1937

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Stacking Churchill ARKs to cross a ditch in 1952

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JASDF Type 60 self-propelled twin 106mm recoilless gun on exercise in the snow in Hokkaido in 2003

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Kel-Tec CMR-30 Titanium with PDK-23 red dot and faux suppressor

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M1A1 Abrams at Fort Knox in 1986

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Valentine tank with a hole in its turret near Tobruk in 1942

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Sherman tank knocked out in Normandy in mid 1944

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Burning T-34/85 in September 1944

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Rockwell B-1 Lancer preparing for a test flight from Edwards AFB in August 1982 [2700x1840]

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Consolidated PBY Catalina of RAF Coastal Command dropping depth charges at low level

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Cessna O-2A Skymaster armed with a minigun pod under each wing [1750x1370]

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Vickers Wellington DWI fitted with a 48 ft diameter metal hoop used for exploding enemy mines by generating a powerful magnetic field as it passed over them

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Curtiss-Wright AT-9 twin-engined advanced trainer

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Short SC.1 VTOL testbed demonstrates vertical takeoff and landing in 1960

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20mm M39A2 revolver cannon in the nose of an NF-5 Freedom Fighter received the attentions of an armorer in 1970 [3000x2380]

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GAU-17 DWS retractable minigun turret in the belly of an MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor

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Unidentified Unteroffizier on the Eastern Front in early 1943

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B-17F Flying Fortress broken up in mid air seen from a fellow bomber in late 1943

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T-34/76 with its insides exposed in 1943

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T-34/76 tanks destroyed in fighting between Dnieper and Donets in March 1943

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FLIR view of a 25mm M242 Bushmaster on a hybrid mount scoring a direct hit on a drone

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617 Squadron Avro Lancaster B Mark I (Special) drops a Grand Slam bomb on the Arnsberg viaduct in March 1945

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Accurate burst of cannon fire from a Fw 190 shatters a B-24 Liberator cockpit during a head on pass

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Steyr 1500A/01 of Sonderkommando Dora field modified with a 2cm KwK 30 autocannon and MG 34 from a Sd.Kfz. 222 armored car in North Africa in 1941

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French 320mm railway gun firing in support of the Saint-Mihiel Offensive in September 1918

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Wrecked tanks collected after the Battle of Berlin including two Sherman tanks supplied to the Soviet Union under lend lease

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British tanks destroyed in Normandy in June 1944, including Sherman Firefly and DD swimming tank

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1911 assemble!

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B-25 Mitchell Gunships in action at low level in the Pacific Theater

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Consolidated B-32 Dominator in flight in 1945

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76mm armed Sherman tank still smoking after being knocked out in the fighting at Oberhoffen-sur-Moder on February 3rd 1945

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Italian cruiser San Giorgio moored in Tobruk to bolster the port's anti-aircraft defense in 1940 [1850x1060]

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Potez 540 French multirole aircraft at Lille-Seclin in 1940

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Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket prototype in flight

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Churchill Gun Carrier fitted with a WWI vintage QF 3 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun of which only 50 were made and none ever saw service

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Fuck this RPG in particular

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Bristol Type 142 prototype K7557 designed as the fastest commercial aeroplane in Europe, if not the world and that would lead to the Blenheim bomber in flight in 1935

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Twin Vickers K mount in the starboard blister of a Consolidated Catalina serving No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF on Loch Ryan

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An obligingly stationary SU-85 SPG blown up by a Goliath demolition vehicle

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Dornier Do X takes to the air

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SAB AB-20 in flight in 1934

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Japanese shipping strafed by a US Navy flying boat in 1945

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Yakovlev Yak-36 Soviet VTOL technology demonstrator at its public unveiling on July 9th 1967

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Adolescent Soviet soldiers captured on the Eastern Front East of Zhytomir in 1943

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HMS Vanguard visiting Rotterdam in July 1952 [1800x1150]

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German flak damage to the cockpit of an 8th AF B-17 Flying Fortress that returned to base from a raid over Berlin in spite of injuries to the flight crew in May 1944

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US Army 40mm Bofors crews practice engaging moving ground targets

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Rolls-Royce Tyne testbed Avro Lincoln demonstrating the power of the new turboprop at the Farnborough Air Show in 1956

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Tupolev Tu-16 rear gunner smiles for the camera when intercepted by a Phantom fighter from HMS Ark Royal in September 1970 [1050x1365]

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Soviet prisoner cares for a wounded comrade under guard near a smoldering T-34/76 tank on the Eastern Front

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British Blenheims and Beauforts making near suicidal attack runs on an Axis convoy in the Mediterranean in late 1942

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Multiple small caliber hits to a British Valentine tank knocked out in North Africa in 1941

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Jetson One Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

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Stipa-Caproni with its intubed propeller trialed in 1932

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First manned zero length launch of a Republic EF-84G Thunderjet from a trailer in January 1955 [1650x970]

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Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant in flight with one propeller feathered in 1943

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Lighting, Airacobra, Warhawk and Lancer in flight in 1941

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Scharnhorst moored with her sister Gneisenau in Kiel in early 1939 [1600x1040]

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Republic YP-43 Lancer prototype

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Japanese fighters intercepting B-29 raids over the mainland as seen by the bomber crews

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DH Mosquito performs a double launch during trials of the Highball bouncing bomb on Loch Striven in May 1944

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The inverted remains of M4 Sherman tank CAT'S CLAW knocked out on Okinawa pictured in 1948

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M422 Mighty Mite USMC prototype demonstration

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress lit up at close range by a Luftwaffe fighter

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