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#986 dont know the brand but also didnt know they existed till today. Steam Tractors, or "road locomotive"
There is a Steam Tractor Show in Davis, CA, every year. Have a Church Member who attends. He loves it! He also goes to the Live Steam Train Show in Sacramento every year. Well, he did prior to Covid.
 
uss new jersey bb 62 firing a full broadside tonkin gulf

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Large Cruiser Alaska (CB-1) in Measure 32/1D camouflage pattern, on July 30th 1944 off the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
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Ironclad turret ship HMS Dreadnought, with one the Euphrates-class Troopships behind her at Malta, unknown date
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uss new jersey bb 62 firing a full broadside tonkin gulf

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If you look closely at this photograph, you will notice the middle gun of the rear turret is not firing. I remember Prof./Lt. Cmdr Carl Von den Steinen saying this was the case of all broadsides of the Iowas. What I don't remember is why?
 
Pre-dreadnought battleships Mikasa, Fiji and Shikishima, the photo taken from Kashima at Maizuru, May 10, 1918
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USS Northampton (CA-26) maneuvers to try to take the crippled aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) under tow during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942. A destroyer is standing by
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USS Barry (DD-248) Off Gonaives, Haiti, circa the 1930s. She is dressed with flags for an unspecified occasion
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The USS nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ′′ ABRAHAM LINCOLN ′′ (CVN-72) is in the dry dock at the shipyard of Newport News Shipbuilding.
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