Satellite images of old warships

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Anyone had a go with the free google.earth software ? (http://earth.google.com/ )
I was absolutely fascinated by it. I spent the best part of a day hunting down existing ship museum sites around the world.

Anyway, first stop was the location of USS Texas , which was one of the locations for the second annual International Subclub meeting in October 2004.( Look closely on the bow and you can see us all lined up and being photographed by Onkel Neal )

Second stop was Pearl Harbor …. as you’d expect looking very much like those aerial photos from films like Tora Tora Tora and Pearl Harbor . …… and yep , moored alongside Ford island was USS Missouri.
More poignantly , (and I wasn’t really expecting this) you can clearly see the sunken USS Arizona … preserved as a war grave and memorial

Full post and more pics at :-
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=42524

USS Texas




USS Missouri




USS Arizona