1 Twelve Brewster Buffalo Mark Is of No. 243 Squadron RAF fly over the Malayan jungle. Organized in March 1941, this squadron was officially a Royal Air Force unit, but its pilots were New Zealanders, one of whom was Bert Wipiti. (Imperial War Museums) Since the last of a series of wars between British colonistsContinue reading “THIS MAORI WWII ACE LIVED AND DIED AS A HERO New Zealand air ace Bert Wipiti fought both the Japanese and the Germans in World War II. By JON GUTTMAN1/25/2023”
Monthly Archives: January 2023
US pulls trigger on sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine By DOUG G. WARE STARS AND STRIPES • January 25, 2023
A M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Main Battle Tank with Berserker Company, 1st Battalion 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2 Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division engages a target at Fort Hood, Texas, on Oct. 3, 2022. (James Dunn/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The United States will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help troops in theContinue reading “US pulls trigger on sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine By DOUG G. WARE STARS AND STRIPES • January 25, 2023”
HMS ARIADNE (F72) Towing Exercise with HMS ARK ROYAL in 1977. The photo was taken in December 1977. TOWEX over the approximate position of the war grave of the previous HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar Posted by John Currin
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HMNZS Leander in Suva harbor, Fiji, in February 1942. USS Chicago (CA-29) is in the background, at right. Note Leander’s pattern camouflage, and the PBY Catalina flying boat on the water in the far right distance.
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The 11th Frigate Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Navy at sea with fleet tanker HMNZS ENDEAVOUR, 1993
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