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.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Battleship USS Indiana BB-58 returns from the Pacific War, October 1945. Seen as she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco Bay, her deck is lined with sailors and marines.
The Greatest Generation. Welcome home.
ReplyDeleteQ: why are the float planes all of the way forward on the catapults? Is that the normal stowed position?
ReplyDeleteIt would open sky arcs for the 40 mm guns.
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