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Tracking down floating death. Keen eyes searching the sea for floating mines from the bridge of a British minisweeper at work off the East Coast.

Tekening voor het boek 'De rode draad' van Guida Joseph. Het is niet makkelijk om een vader met een concentratiekampsyndroom te hebben. Vooral als je enig kind bent. Guida Joseph, een gevierd illustrator, had die rode draad van pijn en woede al onder ogen gezien en verwerkt, maar net toen het vaderboek dicht kon ging het moederboek open. Guida nam de zorg van haar oude moeder op zich, denkend dat haar ...

Shadowof the fleet's floating aerodrome. Sliding through the choppy sea, the attendant destroyer Crusadercuts through the wake of H.M.S. Courageousas she follows the aircraft carrier like a grim grey shadow during the Home Fleet exercises in the Mediterranean off Malta.

The Normandie floats again. While the U.S.S. Lafayette, the former French liner Normandie, still lay helpless on her side, workmen swarned inside the ship sealing the hull in preperation fot reflaoting. She looked like this on May, 1942, four months after she burned and rolled on her side at her New York City pierwhile being fitted for service with the U.S. Navy. Cranes were removing her superstructure ...

Draining of flooded areas. Women of Walcheren watch the arrival of floating dredges. Pipeline in foreground is used for pumping sea water out.

The Yanks in the ETO. This was really something.... a floating dock. Ten days after D-Day, we towed in synthetic harbors from England in sections, assembled them and put them in position off the beaches at Arromunches and Vierville. Each harbor was as big as Gibraltar - built to land 12,000 tons land 2,500 vehicles a day. Chalk up another job for the Seabees.

The Normandie floats again. Flames sweep the U.S.S. Lafayette, formerly the French liner Normandie, as she lies at het New York pier Feb. 9, 1942, being refitted for war service by the U.S. Navy. the next day, the vessel, once the biggest ship afloat, slid over her side and settled half-submerged in the Hudson River, her part side resting in a bed of mud. U.S. engineers immedialtely began the task ...

The 'Maschsee' , south of Hanover which had been camoflaged with floating wood slats, strung together, to immitate earth.