Thread: This date in history
View Single Post
Old 08-20-17, 05:46 PM   #2026
Aktungbby
Gefallen Engel U-666
 
Aktungbby's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy
Posts: 27,864
Downloads: 22
Uploads: 0
Icon12 Aussies love 'Great Whites' cause some are 'Minnesota Nice!'
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.
Glass plate negatives of North Shore, Sydney Harbour and general subjects Spectators viewing the US Navy's Great White Fleet in Sydney Harbour

A closeup at Sydney! The Aussies thought the stern of the USS Minnesota was particularly....Nice
__________________

"Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"
Last edited by Aktungbby; 08-20-17 at 06:17 PM.
Aktungbby is online   Reply With Quote