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[m0tat @m0tat_]

SITTIN' SIDEWAYS https://t.co/Enn6Rjp7R9 via @YouTube #phonk #wakenbake #420phonk #pepperbump #SITTIN’SIDEWAYS #rap #rapphonk

[Peter Hill @petehill854]

Painting l did in 2023.
US Navy Douglas TBD Devastator in early Pacific War markings (the red & white tail stripes and the red crescent on the stars were removed prior to Midway in mid-1942).
Oil on canvas 40 x 50cm

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

🧵Who was the best British admiral of World War II?

Most have heard of Churchill or Montgomery. But few know the man who dominated the Mediterranean and crushed the Italian Navy.

Meet Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham — Britain’s unsung naval titan.👇

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

Admiral Sir John Jellicoe

- Cyrus Cuneo (c.1916)

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”

- Admiral "Bull" Halsey ⚓️

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

Japan
Tokyo Bay
Sept 2 1945

A huge formation of American aircraft fly over the Surrender ceremony ending WWII.

A little remembered fact:
Admiral Spruance was not in attendance. Admiral Halsey left him and his battlegroup outside the harbor because Halsey wanted "someone who knew what to do if they tried something."

[NZ Navy Museum @NZNavyMuseum]

#OnThisDay in 1944 LT CDR Davis-Goff was awarded a DSC for his actions in #WW2 he served in HMS Achilles, HMNZS Leander and Gambia https://t.co/mz2LdCTaMt #NZNavy #Museum #History

[NZ Navy Museum @NZNavyMuseum]

#Cats were a popular mascot on #NZNavy ships - here's Gale enjoying timeout in his/her hammock on HMNZS Achilles #mascot #history #museum

[Commander Vikram W Karve @w_karve]

#NewZealand #Travel #Memories
Visited #Achilles #Memorial St Heliers #Auckland on 23 Dec 2015
Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Achilles was launched in 1932
She was loaned to New Zealand in 1936
She distinguished herself in The Battle of the River Plate in Dec 1939 - the Allies’ first Naval Victory of the Second World War
(more than half the crew of Achilles were New Zealanders)
Achilles was transferred to the newly established Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Achilles in 1941
She was returned to Royal Navy in 1946
HMS Achilles was recommissioned in Indian Navy as INS Delhi in 1948 and decommissioned in 1978

[Lemuel Lyes @LemuelLyes]

Staying with HMS Achilles, this Xmas card is from 1941.

In September she had been recommissioned HMNZS Achilles in the newly established Royal NZ Navy. Curiously this change isn't reflected in this card, perhaps the design had already been sent to the printers.

My Collection

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

HMNZS Achilles and HMS Ajax in action with the Graf Spee, 13 December 1939.
Painting by John S Smith (°1925).
https://t.co/nRgKKSFepu

[Old Warships @yulenbilbao]

New Zealand Navy light cruiser HMNZS Achilles

[RichShips @Rich_Ships]

Vice Admiral John S. “Slew” McCain, Sr., CTF 38 and ComSecondCarTaskForPac, transferring at sea from “likely” USS Wasp (CV 18) to an unknown destroyer on November 17, 1945.

I can only find one instance of VADM McCain transferring ships while underway at sea in late 44/Jan 45. It was from his flagship USS Wasp (CV 18) to new flagship USS Hancock (CV 19) on November 17, 1944.

However numerous war diaries state McCain went Wasp —> USS Pecos (AO 65) —> Hancock. It appears some of his C2CTF staff took DDs to Hancock.

USS Cowell (DD 547), USS Conner (DD 582), USS Izard (DD 589) & USS Charrette (DD581) took members of his staff between the two carriers from 0800 to 1600.

Does anyone know if the destroyer in the video is any of the 4 mentioned?

Hopefully the camouflage experts will quickly ID the DD and point out another day I simply missed.

Cool note about McCain, he was always passionate about the little things in his action reports, and not afraid to call out those groups that he felt let his sailors, and especially pilots, down.

One example, he repeatedly lectured his superiors to get press out to the fleet and even wanted press rooms on a few carriers. He wanted the Navy to be seen especially after Germany surrendered

And God help the Navy weathermen who repeatedly caused his pilots to fly the entire trip from carriers to Japan in 100% instrument conditions, ha!

It seemed his relationships with those above allowed his reports to be seen as passionate, not out of line.
428-NPC-07125 @MeghanMcCain @McCainJack @cindymccain @McCainInstitute

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, General Douglas MacArthur, and Colonel Lloyd Labrbas aboard Brooklyn-class light cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46) during bombardment of Los Negros Island on February 28, 1944.

#History #WWII

[Old Warships @yulenbilbao]

French battleship Richelieu in September 1943

[Celestial Sentinel @Aetas_Memoria]

Herumar, Chaos Lord of Khorne, & renowned houndmaster of the northern wastes, always ready to sell Chaos Warhounds to those who are willing to pay, but thieves usually ended as fodder, & their bones as armour for pack leaders. By David Gallagher for The End Times Vol. V: Archaon.

[Jaghatai, The Great Khan @TheGreatKhanJ]

Zolgokh. Are you well and peaceful?

[old memory @old_memory]

Berserk

[Cromwell300 (Coms open) @AndrewZ24597481]

KHARN