Photographs from Imperial War Museum, London

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I have visited the Imperial War Museum during a journey in London. Here are some photos (free admission, photographing allowed).



Aircraft in the entrance hall


Foke-Wulf, Mustang and a V-2 rocket


WW1 tank


British field gun


British 9.2 inch howitzer 1916


Sherman


1 man U-boot

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WW1 trenches in which you can enter, with sound effects and pyrite smell











Authentic trench signs

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And several pictures of HMS Belfast, now a floating museum on Thames:

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Hallo dragos

Some Great Pictures.

Did you picture the two large Naval Guns taken from a Royal Naval Battleship that are in front of the doors to the Museum??

I took these a few years ago:








Please excuse the large size of my pictures, but it really emphasizes the size of these guns.

Kevin in Deva.

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on October 19, 2007 10:08 am

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And Monty

[Florin]

This log / book was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd in 1958 and presented to Richard Nixon, then "only" vice-president.
It has the names of all USAAF personnel that died while performing their duty.
I don’t know if only those that died in Europe + Africa, or also with those who died in the Pacific as well.
It is opened only at those pages, under glass, in Saint Paul Cathedral (London).

I underlined with yellow "Brazda, C.W. T/Sgt. U.S.A.A.F."
"Brazda" means "Furrow" not only in Romanian, but also in Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Slovene.
So his ancestry is quite a puzzle …

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This post has been edited by Florin on July 16, 2014 04:57 pm