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USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, which served during and after World War II. She was the first ship to carry her name. She was the flagship of Task Group 22.3, a hunter-killer group which captured the German submarine U-505 in 1944.
Nashorn (German: [ˈnaːsˌhɔɐ̯n], German for "rhinoceros"), initially known as Hornisse (German "hornet"), was a German Panzerjäger ("tank hunter") of World War II.It was developed as an interim solution in 1942 by equipping a light turretless chassis based on the Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks with the 8.8 cm Pak 43 anti-tank gun.
John Alexander "J.A." Hunter (1887–1963) was a Scottish born Kenyan game control officer, big-game hunter, safari guide, author and conservationist. Moving to Kenya in 1908, Hunter initially gained employment hunting lions for the Uganda Railway and over the next 50 years made a living as a professional hunter, it is believed Hunter killed ...
Restored World War II observation tower. 12-inch (305 mm) gun at Battery 519. 16-inch (406 mm) gun at Fort Miles in 2015. 8-inch (203 mm) railway gun converted to 9.12-inch (232 mm) experimental gun. U-858 after her surrender in May 1945. Fort Miles was a United States Army World War II installation located on Cape Henlopen near Lewes, Delaware ...
The Voere VEC-91 is a rifle made by Voere and was the first commercial sporting rifle to combine caseless ammunition and electronic firing.Depending on the cartridge that was chambered for, it could fire either a 5.56 millimetres (0.219 in), 5.7 millimetres (0.22 in), or 6 millimetres (0.24 in) projectile at muzzle velocities at up to 930 metres per second (3,100 ft/s).
This model was armed with a pair of 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons and two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns, along with the ability to carry four 50 kg (110 lb) bombs along the fuselage centreline. [7] During late 1940, the A-1 was evaluated by Luftwaffe pilots, the notable conclusion of which was that the service refused to accept the aircraft in ...
The USA and Canada (both 2-0-1-0) lead Group A with seven points. ... Hagens opened the scoring in the first period and put the USA back ahead by two goals after Germany had pulled to within 3-2 ...
Type 815 was designed to be a follow-on for earlier Type 813, but the latter did not immediately retire after the former has been commissioned, and both types served together until Type 813 was finally retired from PLAN and transferred to Chinese Coast Guard and converted to PRCCGS # 3469 cutter.