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Ovrez said:
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kind of looks like a young Sigourney Weaver?
 
Mikel said:
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Loyce Edward Deen
Petty Officer Second Class, U.S. Navy​
On 5 November 1944, Petty Officer Second Class Loyce Edward Deen was serving as an Aviation Machinist's Mate in Torpedo Squadron VT-15, USS Essex(CV-9).
On that day, PO2 Deen’s Squadron was in action against Japanese forces while participating in a raid on Manila, Philippines. PO2 Deen was serving as a Torpedo Plane gunner on a TBM Avenger when his plane was hit multiple times by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a Japanese cruiser in Manila Bay. PO2 Deen was killed in action. The Avenger's pilot, LT Robert Cosgrove, managed to return to the Essex. However, both PO2 Deen and the plane had been shot up so badly that it was decided to leave his mangled remains in it.
It is the only time in U.S. Navy history (and probably U.S. military history) that an aircraft crew member was buried at sea in his aircraft after being killed in action.
Medals, Awards and Badges
Distinguished Flying Cross
Purple Heart
Air Medal
Navy & Marine Corps Combat Action Ribbon
Navy Good Conduct Medal
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Bronze Star
World War II Victory Medal
Navy Aircrew Badge
Distinguished Flying Cross Citation (Synopsis)
Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Loyce E. Deen (NSN: 6712310), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during World War II.
General Orders: American Battle Monuments Commission
Burial at Sea
Petty Officer Second Class Loyce Edward Deen was buried in the Pacific Ocean within the TBM Avenger in which he died. He is memorialized by having his name inscribed on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines
 
The track inside of track system is wild. Supposedly it is meant to better spread the load on the ground.

 
Mikel said:
The same thing that has happened to 95% of squarebodies that were built. They were recycled.
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Proportionally there's probably more square-bodies kicking around than 1930s heavy equipment but it's also been half a century less.

When the GM garbage got scrapped widespread recycling of metals was a common thing just about everywhere (around here it was the 1970s) whereas when 1930s stuff got scrapped recycling was nowhere near as widespread outside of urban areas and most of it probably would have sat where it was for another few decades if not for the massive demand of WW2 causing people to drag everything out of the treeline for a few bucks.

This is also why you see random shit that was farmer cobbled together out of 1920s Model T and A cars or 40s-60s cars but almost never out of 1930s cars
 
This is one of the oldest depictions of Stonehenge in existence, and the first to have been drawn on site. Produced by Lucas de Heere, a Flemish Protestant exile living in England between 1567 and 1576, this watercolour illustrates a page from his guidebook to Britain, entitled Corte Beschryvinghe van England, Scotland, ende Irland.

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