Legions Of The Brave

Chronicling current and past military operations, weapons and equipment and the people that make it happen. My main blog: callsign-stubborn.tumblr.com

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Today, we celebrate 84 years of the F4U #Corsair taking its #FirstFlight.

A total of 12,571 Corsairs were built across 16 different models, starting with the prototype delivered to the #USN in 1940 and concluding with the final delivery to the French in 1953.

📸 Connor Madison

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No 303 (Polish) Squadron, Royal Air Force

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CAF SoCal PBJ -1J / B-25 on a beautifully sunny day at Mojave Air & Space Port. Thanks to the incredible crew for the tour, it’s nice to see a piece of history!

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U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, advance up a street in the capital city of Baghdad, as they keep a watchful eye out for snipers in the adjacent buildings on April 6, 2003.

(Photo by Gilles Bassignac)

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Luftwaffe vs Luftstreitkräfte

West Germany’s fleet of Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and East Germany’s fleet of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 supersonic fighter-bombers.

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Stuka de la Regia Aeronautica.

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March 19th 1945. The light cruiser USS Santa Fe pulls alongside the crippled American carrier USS Franklin, after a Japanese twin engine bomber struck her with two 550 pound armor piercing bombs. After losing 800 crew members she limped back to the U.S. for repairs, missing the remainder of the war and was later decommissioned in 1947.

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Soldier and Death. By Austrian painter Hans Larwin, 1917.

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American Divisions during the Vietnam War, 1965 to 1973.

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Sinking of the Iranian ship from the submarine’s camera.

The US Army releases footage of the sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena near the shores of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, using a torpedo missile.

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U.S. Marines, Cpl. Harold "Pie" Keller (right), shakes hands with Sgt. Howard Snyder (left), as they stand on the rim of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima between the first and second flag raisings on February 23, 1945.

Keller, would later be identified in 2019, as one of the men in Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the second flag raising on top of Mt. Suribachi. Snyder would be killed in action later during the battle.

(Photo courtesy of Pfc. George Burns, George Burns Collection, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center)