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Vought O2U/O3U Corsair (1927) USN/USMC Observation plane (Circa 580 built 1927-33) The workhorse of interwar USN observation The name “corsair”…

Armada de Chile – 1897-1902 The longest-living cruiser of South America Chacabuco was a 1890s British-designed protected cruiser by Philip…

Admiralen class Destroyers The Netherlands – 1926-1942 HNLMS Evertsen, Korenaer, Piet Hein, Van Ghent (1st gp) HNLMS Banckert, Van Galen,…

Curtiss SO3C Seamew (1939) US Navy Observation Floatplane (1939), 780 built 1942-44 The Curtiss SO3C was supposed to be the…

Duncan class Battleships (1901) United Kingdom (1900-1904) HMS Albemarle, Cornwallis, Duncan, Exmouth, Montagu, Russel The last gasp of the “Russian…

Japan, 1938-45: IJN Jun’yō, Hiyō The first IJN converted liners Jun’yō (隼鷹, “Peregrine Falcon”) and Hiyō (飛鷹, “Flying Hawk”) were…

Beriev BE-2 (1936) 1937-38: 12 built. The Be-2, light observation biplane In a nutshell, the Beriev BE-2 was a two-seat…

Germany (1912-1944) – SMS Graudenz, SMS Regensburg The Graudenz class were another iteration over the now classic kight cruiser formular…

South Dakota class battleships (1939) Battleships (1938-42): USS South Dakota (BB-57), Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB 59), Alabama (BB 60) The…

Loire-Nieuport LN 40 (1938) LN 401 Aéronautique Navale; LN 411 Armée de l’Air: 152 built total The French “Stuka” France…