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Man I wouldn't want have seen that coming at me while I was driving an enemy destroyer.
Not too well known that one of them was Red for part of WWII
Royal Sovereign as Arkhangelsk in Soviet service.
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Service with the Soviet Navy[edit]
Royal Sovereign as Arkhangelsk in Soviet service
After returning to Britain, Royal Sovereign was sent to the naval base in Scapa Flow.[55] On 30 May 1944 she was transferred on loan to the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk in lieu of war reparations from Italy. The ship left Britain on 17 August 1944 as part of the escort for Convoy JW 59, which contained thirty-three merchant vessels.[56] Six days later, while still en route, the convoy was attacked by the U-boat U-711. The submarine's captain, Hans-Günther Lange, incorrectly reported hits on Arkhangelsk and a destroyer,[57] though his torpedoes had exploded prematurely.[58] Under the impression that they had crippled the battleship, the Germans launched several submarine attacks on the ship while she was moored in Kola. Anti-torpedo nets ensured that the attacks failed, however.[57] The Germans then planned to use six Biber midget submarines to attack the ship, but mechanical difficulties eventually forced the cancellation of the plan. Regardless, Arkhangelsk had already departed Kola to patrol the White Sea by the time the Bibers would have arrived.[59] A Soviet crew commissioned the ship on 29 August 1944 at Polyarny. Arkhangelsk was the largest ship in the Soviet fleet during the war.[60] While in Soviet service, she was the flagship of Admiral Gordey Levchenko and was tasked with meeting Allied convoys in the Arctic Ocean and escorting them into Kola.[61]
Arkhangelsk ran aground in the White Sea in late 1947; the extent of damage, if any, is unknown.[62] The Soviet Navy returned the ship to the Royal Navy on 4 February 1949 after the former Italian battleship Giulio Cesare was transferred to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet.[60] The Soviet Navy had initially sought to avoid sending the ship back, claiming that she was not sufficiently seaworthy to make the voyage back to Britain. After an inspection by a Royal Navy officer, however, the Soviet Navy agreed to return the vessel in January 1949. Upon returning to the Rosyth naval base, Royal Navy personnel thoroughly inspected the ship and found much of her equipment to be unserviceable. It appeared to the inspectors that the main battery turrets had not been rotated while the ship was in Soviet service, and were jammed on the centreline. As a result of her poor condition, she was sold for scrap.[63] The ship arrived at Thos W Ward Inverkeithing, Scotland on 18 May to be broken up.[62] The elevation mechanisms from her main battery gun turrets were later reused in the 250-foot (76 m) Mark I radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire built in 1955–1957.[64]
fat tony
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Opened 1935. Just in time for the next war to end all wars.
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Gal from the Budapest Uprising, no iPhones back then to post a selfie or update social media.
Looks like somebodies T34 got owned and Molotov cocktailed in a big way.
Do you notice the angle of the tracks at the rear in relation to each other? In addition, you can see the left front is not parallel with the right side & is also bent upwards. It must have indeed gone for the big one after heating up.
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Not too well known that one of them was Red for part of WWII
Royal Sovereign as Arkhangelsk in Soviet service.
http://3.bp.########.com/-83j0T0EzjAU/VEl5Q4wveBI/AAAAAAAABtY/3nIneUc6Hcc/s1600/Arkhangelsk-RoyalSovereign1944.jpg
Service with the Soviet Navy[edit]
Royal Sovereign as Arkhangelsk in Soviet service
After returning to Britain, Royal Sovereign was sent to the naval base in Scapa Flow.[55] On 30 May 1944 she was transferred on loan to the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk in lieu of war reparations from Italy. The ship left Britain on 17 August 1944 as part of the escort for Convoy JW 59, which contained thirty-three merchant vessels.[56] Six days later, while still en route, the convoy was attacked by the U-boat U-711. The submarine's captain, Hans-Günther Lange, incorrectly reported hits on Arkhangelsk and a destroyer,[57] though his torpedoes had exploded prematurely.[58] Under the impression that they had crippled the battleship, the Germans launched several submarine attacks on the ship while she was moored in Kola. Anti-torpedo nets ensured that the attacks failed, however.[57] The Germans then planned to use six Biber midget submarines to attack the ship, but mechanical difficulties eventually forced the cancellation of the plan. Regardless, Arkhangelsk had already departed Kola to patrol the White Sea by the time the Bibers would have arrived.[59] A Soviet crew commissioned the ship on 29 August 1944 at Polyarny. Arkhangelsk was the largest ship in the Soviet fleet during the war.[60] While in Soviet service, she was the flagship of Admiral Gordey Levchenko and was tasked with meeting Allied convoys in the Arctic Ocean and escorting them into Kola.[61]
Arkhangelsk ran aground in the White Sea in late 1947; the extent of damage, if any, is unknown.[62] The Soviet Navy returned the ship to the Royal Navy on 4 February 1949 after the former Italian battleship Giulio Cesare was transferred to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet.[60] The Soviet Navy had initially sought to avoid sending the ship back, claiming that she was not sufficiently seaworthy to make the voyage back to Britain. After an inspection by a Royal Navy officer, however, the Soviet Navy agreed to return the vessel in January 1949. Upon returning to the Rosyth naval base, Royal Navy personnel thoroughly inspected the ship and found much of her equipment to be unserviceable. It appeared to the inspectors that the main battery turrets had not been rotated while the ship was in Soviet service, and were jammed on the centreline. As a result of her poor condition, she was sold for scrap.[63] The ship arrived at Thos W Ward Inverkeithing, Scotland on 18 May to be broken up.[62] The elevation mechanisms from her main battery gun turrets were later reused in the 250-foot (76 m) Mark I radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire built in 1955–1957.[64]
There is a little more to the story, she was sailed into port with every gun from the main battery down to AAMGs loaded and cocked and turned over that way. Secondly the receiving crew figured the toilet system stopped working sometime in 1944. #### was found every were on rating's mess decks, much of it long hardened.
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^ Fat Tony, oh yeah that tank was blown all to hell. Hull top plate ripped clean off along welds and left hand hull side plate ripped off also.
It almost looks like the glacis plate is gone, or possibly partially melted, to say nothing of the clear daylight you can see through the axle holes!
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Light flak - now in 2 sizes:
20mm:
...and economy-sized 50mm.
That 50mm size got some widespread use.
20mm:
...and economy-sized 50mm.
That 50mm size got some widespread use.
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Arthur Macarthur was a brave teenaged officer in the Civil War. He earned the Medal of Honor at 18, and was a Lt. Col by the age of 19. Years later his son, Douglas MacArthur, would also earn the Medal of Honor - making them one of only two Father-Son recipients of the Medal of Honor.
