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a Jeep used as aircraft tug on a carrier in WWII, either all their yellow gear was broke, or war damaged, is my guess

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Navy's 75th anniversary of Naval Aviation (suck it Air Farce!)

Too bad none of the immense Navy air ships (dirigibles) survived for display https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18771587610/in/phot...
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1950's Piasecki helo

A HUP-2 Retriever of Helicopter Utility Squadron (HU) 2 pictured on the flight deck of the carrier Saratoga (CVA 60), circa 1958. I posted a...
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interesting way to hoist a plane for working on it out of the way

Found on  https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/19094727448/ I can't think what the advantage was for having it off the deck to fi...
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Yellow gear 3 wheel "Jet Starter Jeep" assisting with a Grumman Panther engine maintenance in the 1950s.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/26507546033/ Early jet aircraft didn't have on-board power units to start the engine, so the...
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experimental prototype fire fighting Jeep in the Navy demonstrating using AFFF to fight a training fire on a WW2 warbird, with an audience in the background

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Demonstration of a new fire fighting jeep, 7 October 1952. Demonstration aircraft is a Douglas B...
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Dive Bomber (1941)- Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray

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