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USS Texas in the Submarine Magnetic Silencing Facility at Pearl Harbor

[Jimbuna]

South African Navy submarine SAS Charlotte Maxeke cuts through the surface ahead of Type 23 frigate HMS Portland

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Kamikaze attack near Okinawa

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SAS AMATOLA

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spotted this beauty while waiting for the ferry to cross the harbor



Full Hi-res Album - https://goo.gl/photos/VB9k8LV8iDcSRC6t7

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Netherlands Super Lynx

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/12/09121312.jpg

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Chiran high school girls wave farewell with cherry blossom branches to departing kamikaze pilot in a Nakajima Ki-43-IIIa Hayabusa

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Netherlands Super Lynx

It looks like a Marineflieger (Germany) Super Sea Lynx.





Regards!

[Jimbuna]

^ Yes, you are quite correct. I picked the wrong nationality folder in error. Thanks for pointing that out.

Netherlands Lynx

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USS Ohio (BB-12)

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Kamikaze about to impact into USS Missouri

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USS Snook (SSN-592)

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A kamikaze attack on a US warship during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944

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Photo album belonged to the late Edward Stewart of Raglan, Monmouthshire, who served in the Royal Navy He is believed to have worked on Pacific Post newspaper for naval servicemen, which is how he came by the photos that are mostly unpublished

A Corsair bursts into flames landing on a British carrierhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3610318/WWII-photos-reveal-kamikaze-attacks-Allied-aircraft-carriers-Pacific.html HMS Indomitable: HMS Formidable after Kamikaze attack:

Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sank 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800. Despite radar detection and cuing, airborne interception, attrition, and massive anti-aircraft barrages, 14 percent of Kamikazes survived to score a hit on a ship; nearly 8.5 percent of all ships hit by Kamikazes sank.Australian journalists Denis and Peggy Warner, in a 1982 book with Japanese naval historian Sadao Seno (The Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide Legions), arrived at a total of 57 ships sunk by kamikazes. Bill Gordon, an American Japanologist who specialises in kamikazes, lists in a 2007 article 47 ships known to have been sunk by kamikaze aircraft. Gordon says that the Warners and Seno included ten ships that did not sink. He lists:

• three escort carriers: USS St. Lo, USS Ommaney Bay, and USS Bismarck Sea
• 14 destroyers, including the last ship to be sunk, USS Callaghan (DD-792) on 29 July 1945, off Okinawa
• three high-speed transport ships
• five Landing Ship, Tank
• four Landing Ship Medium
• three Landing Ship Medium (Rocket)
• one auxiliary tanker
• three Canadian Victory ships
• three Liberty ships
• two high-speed minesweepers
• one Auk class minesweeper
• one submarine chaser
• two PT boats
• two Landing Craft Support....In the immediate aftermath of kamikaze strikes, British carriers with their armoured flight decks recovered more quickly compared to their US counterparts. Post-war analysis showed that some British carriers such as HMS Formidable suffered structural damage that led to them being scrapped, as being beyond economic repair. Britain's post-war economic situation played a role in the decision to not repair damaged carriers, while even seriously damaged American carriers such as USS Bunker Hill were repaired, although they were then mothballed or sold off as surplus after World War II without re-entering service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze