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Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:40 pm
by String
Yeah, it's very easy. I really just posted it because I thought it's a rare and a cool picture. You don't see most of the Kido Butai in one picture very often. Even more so in colour.
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RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:04 pm
by Fletcher
HIJMS Akagi Flight Deck probably in the Ceylan raid. HIJMS Kaga was at sasebo in dry dock under repairs. Only 5 carriers with 4 battleships in the picture.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:03 pm
by redcoat
Yup. It is the Akagi soon after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes Island, for the raid on Ceylon. 26th March, 1942. According to the Kure Maritime Museum the warships in the background are – from left to right, Soryu, Hiryu, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, Kongô, Zuikaku and Shokaku.
Nice colour photos in your
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RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:02 pm
by Q-Ball
I've post a link to that site before. I am usually opposed to colorization, but whoever that guy is, he does a great job. I wonder what process or software he is using. I wish I could read Kanji (though it is searchable in English, crudely)
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:12 pm
by String
ORIGINAL: Q-Ball
I've post a link to that site before. I am usually opposed to colorization, but whoever that guy is, he does a great job. I wonder what process or software he is using. I wish I could read Kanji (though it is searchable in English, crudely)
I think i've posted the link here myself as well. Regardless I think that's a rather new addition to the website. It's also interesting in that it manages to show the slope of the flight deck. I didn't even realise that Akagi had it bent like this before I saw this photo and did a little bit of research
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:40 pm
by Chickenboy
I wanna know where the DD screen is? [&:]
What a juicy SS target that line is!
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:24 pm
by Houtje
Nice. Hazarding a dumb question, what is that padding around the towersupposed to do? Protect from shrapnel/bullets?
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:36 pm
by LST Express
Why does the deck slope like that?
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:22 am
by LST Express
Read that the padding was the crews hammocks used for protection against enemy fire and the canted flight deck was thought to help facilitate landings and takeoffs.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:22 am
by jomni
nice blog.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:34 pm
by Swayin
The Unyo leaves Truk:
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:56 pm
by John 3rd
NICE picture of the KB!
Just makes me WANT to yell BANZAI!
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:11 pm
by WITPPL
Because it is AKAGI.
ORIGINAL: LST Express
Why does the deck slope like that?
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:18 pm
by John 3rd
You know, I would really enjoy using that picture for my footer. What is the link for it?
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:19 pm
by Titanwarrior89
Interesting set of photos.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:54 pm
by Cerion
ORIGINAL: redcoat
Yup. It is the Akagi soon after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes Island, for the raid on Ceylon. 26th March, 1942. According to the Kure Maritime Museum the warships in the background are – from left to right, Soryu, Hiryu, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, Kongô, Zuikaku and Shokaku.
Nice colour photos in your
source String.
It is as you say, unless it is not Port Stirling but Staring Bay, just to the south of Kendari, Celebes. Haughty picture and fantastic link.
Regards
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:54 pm
by vettim89
Altered the pick a bit
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:37 am
by John 3rd
Amazing that only ONE bomb could sink this massive vessel.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:05 am
by Dili
Interesting Soryu, Hiryu had the bridge in opposite sides.
RE: Name this! - The pretty picture version (1)
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:15 am
by Puhis
ORIGINAL: redcoat
Yup. It is the Akagi soon after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes Island, for the raid on Ceylon. 26th March, 1942. According to the Kure Maritime Museum the warships in the background are – from left to right, Soryu, Hiryu, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, Kongô, Zuikaku and Shokaku.
Nice colour photos in your
source String.
There's also one ship behind Shokakus, but what is that? A cruiser maybe?