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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 21h

Neptune missiles compared

New article on Ukraine’s home grown land attack cruise missile at www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Ne...

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 8h

Hs129A-0, eine der Nullserien mit Argus As 410A-1-Triebwerken.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 8h

Truth be told, it appears that aviation blooming in California was inevitable. Fair weather, financing, entrepreneurship, sympathetic media, cosmopolitan atmosphere, etc, made for a very compelling case.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 8h

I blame Augustus Roy Knabenshue and Charles Willard for organising the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field and Glenn Curtiss for bringing his prestige to it. Randolph Hearst experienced his first flight there, and William Boeing was deeply impressed.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 9h

There was so much interconnection back then.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · Jun 12

Malcolm Loughead (Malcolm Lockheed), Allan Loughead (Allan Lockheed), Jack Northrop, and William Rundolf Hearst with a Loughead HS-2L flying boat. 1918

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 11h

Machine gun crew of Company B, 137th Infantry Regiment, US Army. August 1918.

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 10h

Curtiss P-36C of the US Army Air Force in flight, 1939. P-36Cs of the 27th Pursuit Squadron of the 1st Pursuit Group were camouflaged in various schemes for the US National Air Races in 1939.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 11h

Some great footage here:

"TRAINING OF COAST ARTILLERY TROOPS, 1918"
🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/24678
🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/24678?obj...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 12h

catalog.archives.gov/search?page=...

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 12h

"111-SC-2173 - United States Marines in France - Learning to pass sandbags - French alpines acting as instructors"

📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/55165699

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 12h

"111-SC-2171 - United States Marines in France - Alpine Chasseurs acting as instructors to Marines at their training camp"

📷 catalog.archives.gov/id/55165695

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 12h

It appears these are chasseurs alpines.

They "had the privilege of being designated by the command in 1917 to train the first troops sent by President Wilson to France in trench fighting techniques."

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Quand les chasseurs alpins séduisent l’Amérique

Soldats de France, il n’y a pas d’homme au monde qui, comme tout bon Américain, soit plus heureux que moi de vous accueillir, vous, les hommes de France. C’est avec...

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Sandglass Patrol, blog de aviación @sandglasspatrol.bsky.social · 13h

Boeing L-15, el último avión de pistón de Boeing (y posiblemente el más feo)
blog.sandglasspatrol.com/boeing-l-15-...

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

The US heavy cruiser Salt Lake City survived the Battle of Cape Esperance in 1942, the Battle of the Kormandorski Islands in 1943, and both of the Bikini Atoll tests in 1946 only to be sunk as a target ship off the Southern California coast in 1948.
#NavalHistory

youtu.be/zgrdaYQEKK4

US CRUISER SUNK IN TARGET PRACTICE

YouTube video by British Movietone

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Drills - Infantry - Small Arms Practice - Targets - Lieutenant Rochat and Adj. Garman firing Chauchat machine gun at Camp Meade, Maryland"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/31476369

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

That's what it looks like.

By the way, here are French officers demonstrating the usage of the Chauchat to American Army soldiers in Camp Sherman, Ohio, in 1917.

🎞️ catalog.archives.gov/id/24715?obj...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"USMC 107232: Missile Firing"
🎞️📑 digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"USMC 107987: Training, Redeye Missile. (122-0428-75; 015-003-75; R-1-1; 8-2026.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina."
🎞️📑 digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/coll...

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368647

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations."
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368640

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368642

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368641

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

"Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations."
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368643

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 13h

🧵 USMC Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS)

"A Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missile is launched during Marine Corps target operations"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/6368639

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Thanos Massias @massiasthanos.bsky.social · 14h

"111-SC-8955 - Target practice with automatic rifles"
📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/55178268

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