Navy

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  British carrier HMS Eagle in the mid 50s. On the deck there are de Havilland Sea Venom fighters (foreground), Hawker Sea Hawk fighters (mid) and turboprop Westland Wyvern strike aircraft (background). (1211×2048)

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  USS Midway (CV-41) underway in the Indian Ocean, June 5, 1993

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  British submarine HMS Artful alongside in Faslane. The boat has not sailed for more than three years, having last left Faslane in mid-2022.

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  Stern view of Courageous-class battlecruiser HMS Furious in 1917, showing one of the ship’s two 18-inch guns.

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  Quadruple 14-inch (356 mm) turret of the battleship HMS King George V under construction. April 1940

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  US Marine contingent on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) 1945. Nine of these men survived the sinking of the cruiser in July 1945.

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  The newly completed battleship HMS Vanguard is guided by tugs in 1946.

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  A naval warrant officer and his children. Japan, 1910

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  Armorers load a Mark 10 aerial mine into the bomb bay of a Grumman Avenger onboard the carrier USS Lexington off the Palau Islands, 29-March-1944

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  Two of the eighteen Allied POWs rescued by the USS Queenfish (SS-393) from the sunken Rakuyo Maru on September 17, 1944.

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  USN escort carrier USS Gambier Bay bracketed by shells from the Japanese fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944. A Japanese cruiser is seen on the right horizon

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  Fleet Air Arm Supermarine Seafire naval fighter on board HMS Furious is on the way down to the hangar after returning from patrol during a northern Allied convoy. RN battleship HMS Duke of York can be seen in the background.

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  U – 530 (U boat 530) the nazi submarine that surrendered to argentine forces in the naval base of mar del plata, 10 of july 1945

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  A Kriegsmarine sailor constructs a model of the German battleship Tirpitz while on board the actual ship , of the cost of Norway

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  ‘Them days is gone forever’ (American poster by Alvah Posen/ U.S. Government Printing Office for Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)/ Office of War Information (OWI). United States of America, 1943).

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  Gerald Ford, jumper on left, plays basketball in the forward elevator well of the aircraft carrier USS Monterey in mid-1944.

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  Sailors from the Ottoman Navy, gathered on the Brandenburg class pre-dreadnought battleship, Barbaros Hayreddin – on the Aegean Sea, in the First Balkan War, c. 1913.

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  A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941

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  Dead USN sailor, Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

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  ‘90,000 tons of diplomacy’ (American poster for Northrop Grumman Corporation/ Newport News Shipbuilding. Featuring the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) aircraft carrier. United States of America, ca. 2008).

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