armor

Great set.

Yes, we are very lucky that all of these photos survived thanks to Donald Carson! As part of the donation, he also had a copy of Eisenhower's message to the Allied forces on the eve of D-Day. Carson even met Eisenhower a couple of days before the invasion.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Shoot To Thrill!, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mal's Best of the Best, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

I was very often thinking why I have different feeling from these very old photographs.. They usually have very low depth of field, which is understandable, but they also have amazing space.. I realized it when I was looking to the Library of Congress sets.. Almost all pictures have slightly shorter focus (closer to the camera). Notice that the focus is to the grass before tank, and not to the tank itself. Today's practice is to focus directly to the point of interest (eyes in the portrait photography, tank turret in this case..)

Just thinking of the military aspect.

How succesful was this tank on the battlefield?

Simply beautiful
MAURICIO

shipbuilders.

Wow!

The Armoured Cruiser Fürst Bismarck (per www.kbismarck.com/otherbis.html) This cruiser was laid down on 1 April 1896 at the Kaiserliche-Werft in Kiel. She was launched on 25 September 1897 and later commissioned on 1 April 1900. The Fürst Bismarck served abroad in the East-Asian Squadron until 1909. Between 1910 and 1914 she was refitted at Kiel Dockyard and used as a coastal defence ship. In March 1915, the ship was disarmed and converted to an engine training ship. In 1919 she was used as an naval office ship until she was stricken on 17th June and sold to Brand & Son, Audorf. She was scrapped in 1919-20 at Audorf-Rendsburg. Displacement: standard 10,690 mt, full load 11,460 mt. Dimensions: overall length 127 meters, water line 125.7 meters, beam 20.4 meters, draft 7.8 meters forward, 8.46 aft. Armament: 4 x 24cm/L40, 12 x 15cm/L40, 10 x 8.8cm/L30, 5 x 45cm TT. Protection: deck 30-50 mm, belt 100-200mm, main turrets 200 mm max, conning tower 200 mm max. Propulsion Plant: Three vertical 4-cylinder engines, 8 Dürr burners boilers, three screws, power 13,622ihp max. Speed: 18.7 knots. Crew: 621 men.

The photo should be titled "Fürst Bismarck" or "Fuerst Bismarck."

SMS Fürst Bismarck was Germany's first armored cruiser. You can see the more graceful lines that distinguished most German capital ships throughout the first half of the 20th century, in contrast to many ships of the UK and US which often had casements for the smaller guns which interfered with a smoother hull facade.