And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Sailors work on a Great Lakes TG-2 torpedo bomber of VT-2B aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3), likely early 1930s. With a large hammer.
Folding the wings
ReplyDeleteLooks more like they're driving in the pins that keep the wings unfolded.
DeleteIt sure looks like that is what they are doing. there is a sailor on the lower wing, locking a strut in place.
DeleteNope, I was wrong, he is pounding in a pin, too!
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