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29-11-2007, 04:23 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Wreck of the Prnz Eugen
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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29-11-2007, 06:51 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | That would be an interesting dive! But, since the Prinz was used as part of the nuclear tests then I would have thought that both the water and the wreck itself would be radioactive?
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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29-11-2007, 09:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Morseman, diving in and around Bikini Atoll is big business particularly down to the USS Saratoga (marvellous survivor, should never have been used in the test IMHO) and her Helldivers and the Japanese battleships. I think it was only surveyed in the 70s and opened up to diving in the 80s. The original Bikinians from that time and their descendants, however, live elsewhere in the Marshalls and might return one day. I have a couple of t-shirts from Bikini Atoll Divers, not that I've been mind you, but how else do you get major WWII warships on a t-shirt?! LOL. I've got the Size Does Matter and the Nagato shirts. Welcome to Bikini Atoll
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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29-11-2007, 09:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5 | Quote:
Thanks for that! I am jealous that you have a Bikini Atoll T-shirt! I want one from father Christimas!
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13-04-2008, 06:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Some fantastic pictures: PRINZ EUGEN index page actually the whole site is great: PRINZ EUGEN.com - the Kriegsmarine Online Photo Archive
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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14-04-2008, 02:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Wow, thanks Kyt.
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