my son has a whole series of Taschen books about different decades showing all the ads - great stuff!
The first full flat-top carrier, HMS Argus circa 1918, pretending to be a large, strangely-painted block of wood.
Marines fire a nonexplosive illumination round from an 81 mm mortar to deter enemy activity at Camp Shorserack, Afghanistan, July 15, 2017.
Probably told this one before: Prewar, Dad worked at Wrights, manufacturing airplane engines. Post-war, after flying fighters for the duration, he decided to switch to B-29s to learn multi-engine. As a B-29 pilot, he was doing the walk-around inspection on a plane he was about to fly, and found his own initials stamped on an engine!
Come to think of it, I bet Dad used the overlapped "JP" that his grandfather used when stamping something. This is one of Great-Grandpop's wooden drafting triangles: I've seen Dad do that with metal stamps on his stuff. In fact... *runs downstairs to get Dad's stamp set*... Yup. Dad being Dad, he ground down a J and P stamp, wired them together to make a JP stamp:
Those cheek antennas are for our system! https://www.harris.com/solution/analq-172-b-52-and-c-130-self-protection-system
A few years ago, the SOF guys dropped in at a local airport with a Shithook and invited everybody who worked on its electronics to drop in and have a look at the beast. I hadn't realized how insanely huge this thing was. That refueling probe is the size of a telephone pole!
That turret should be salvaged, and put in Louisville. Take that business off the turret face, and fabricate some gun barrels.