Australian Beauties II

[Lobster]

Omaha class light cruiser U.S.S. Marblehead.

[Lobster]

Fletcher class destroyer U.S.S. Johnson of Taffy 3 fame.

[gekkoguy35]

ORIGINAL: sanch

Still a beauty, and it still has a Kingfisher scout plane. You can easily spend a full day touring that ship.

At the time I toured it, I had no clue that BBs could launch and recover aircraft. It was pretty mind blowing to my teenage self. As was the size of the shells her 16" guns hurled, holy cow. I knew they were big, but standing next to them in the flesh really puts it into perspective.

[Ridcully70]

Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Ridcully70

Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport

Unless you are attacking Disneyland a lime green vehicle would be a detriment. [:D]

[Aurelian]

An actual Kubelwagen

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: Ridcully70
Experimental wartime tracked Volkswagen for all terrain officer transport

I'll raise you a Bob Semple:

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

[Toby42]

CAC Boomerang. Made in Australia..
By Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p ... d=80828838

[Lobster]

Looks like a stretched Brewster Buffalo. Kind of. [;)]

Yeah I know, Buff has wing about mid fuselage but if you squint and look at it out of the corner of your eye...

[Toby42]

A Brewster Buffalo!

[RangerJoe]

A highly successful Buffalo pilot . . .

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Fletcher class destroyer U.S.S. Johnson of Taffy 3 fame.

Charge the enemy without orders to attack, causing the world's largest battleship to turn away from the battle. Then turning around to give cover to another destroyer even though one of your engines is shot out.

[RangerJoe]

Pretty vehicles with a very nice paint job on one of them . . .

[timmyab]

I give you the mighty Flower class.

[chris_merchant]

Australian Armour & Artillery Museum, Cairns AU

This is what $7 million will get you these days.

[Aurelian]

Tiger 131. World's only operating Tiger, with an engine from a Tiger II.

[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: timmyab

I give you the mighty Flower class.

The destroyers and smaller ships did the dirty work with none of the glamour.

[warspite1]

The Illustrious-class, the finest looking carriers of WWII = just edging out the Yorktowns.

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Illustrious-class, the finest looking carriers of WWII = just edging out the Yorktowns.

Love the armored flight deck. Not fond of the plane capacity compared to the Essex class.

[warspite1]

On reflection, probably in third place in my personal CV dept. USS Enterprise (I think this is actually Yorktown but....)