2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

[john70t]

nota (i think) linked to sailinganarchy,which has a great random pics thread.
Here's some curves

[john70t]

[craigster59]

Zasu Pitts - 1929

[Steve Carlton]

[Por_sha911]

[craigster59]

Happy Birthday Country Dick Montana!

[Heel n Toe]

[GH85Carrera]

[john70t]

(this is a .png but it uploaded)

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

You wouldn’t think it based on their appearance, but this is the senior staff of the 7th Marines in January of 1944. Leaders who weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty….that’s real leadership. Marine Corps legend Lt. Colonel Chesty Puller is second on the left.
The Battle of Cape Gloucester was fought on the Island of New Britain from December of 1943 to January of 1944. It was the second landing for the 1st Marine Division of the war following Guadalcanal. The Marines victory on New Britain would cost them over 300 men killed in action with over 1000 casualties.

Not sure you would call Chesty Puller "senior staff" to his face

Chesty was regimental commander leading the front while generals and admirals were the commanding the Operation and battle :
William H. Rupertus
Julian N. Frisbie
William_J._Whaling

Chesty wasn't a general yet.
he isn't even mentioned in the order of battle

Keep in mind Seniors are the Senior enlisted.. Senior Staff regimental level would be NCO's ; E6 just below GunnySergeants not the Officers.


So i doubt anybody would call combat marine officers "staff" , would be very confusing.

Also... Staff Officers is those at headquarters; as such pretty insulting to Chesty and those like him, who got their hands dirty.

[GH85Carrera]

[WPOZZZ]

Ahh, Venezia!

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

What a beautiful boat. PT Boat power (Twin Packard V-12's) in a speedboat.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by dafischer

PT Boat power (Twin Packard V-12's) in a speedboat.

I think the early version of the P-51 Mustang also used that engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_V-1650_Merlin
(times two)

So much Mustang powha! Could even run over beach sunbathers.

[red 928]

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Colloquially called "The Big E", she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Launched in 1936, she was one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship. These actions included the attack on Pearl Harbor — 18 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers of her Air Group arrived over the harbor during the attack; seven were shot down with eight airmen killed and two wounded, making her the only American aircraft carrier with men at Pearl Harbor during the attack and the first to sustain casualties during the Pacific War — the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea engagements during the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first American ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. On three occasions during the war, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, inspiring her nickname "The Grey Ghost". By the end of the war, her planes and guns had downed 911 enemy planes, sunk 71 ships, and damaged or destroyed 192 more.
It is a shame she was just cut up for scrap. It should have been saved as a museum.

Seven years after it was founded in 1872, Dodge City was a booming cattle and railroad town.
The town was founded in the summer of 1872 by Col. Richard Dodge, along with several Army colleagues and post-sutler Robert Wright, on 87 acres of Ford County prairie near Fort Dodge in southwestern Kansas in hopes of capturing business traffic connected to the westward-building Santa Fe Railroad. With the arrival of the railroad the astute founders saw an opportunity to seize a portion of the lucrative Texas cattle trade.
And unlike the TV Show version of Dodge City called Gunsmoke, there are no mountains or hills in the background.




Completed 1959 Cadillacs were photographed as they made one last trip through the infrared reflow oven to produce the smoothest possible finish. Notice that the lights come on in a sequence to dry different specific areas.