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Carrier Pilots Take Off for Saipan Raid While Ship Battles Jap Planes - Curtains for a Jap
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mariana Islands; Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944; Aircraft carriers -- United States;...
Detected by the foe as it sailed daringly into the range of land-based planes, a U.S. Navy task force grimly fought off Jap raiders for 11 hours -- then, in the teeth of the aerial storm, launched its own planes to strike a smashing blow at Saipan...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Aboard the U.S.S. Augusta Enroute to Antwerp: the Crew Rated Their Commander-in-Chief a 'Four-Oh' Sailor
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972;Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
For his trip to the Big Three meeting with Churchill and Stalin, President Truman chose an 'old salt' of many historic occasions, the U.S.S. AUGUSTA. The Commander-in-Chief wasted little time in getting 'squared away' aboard the heavy cruiser. He...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Aboard the U.S.S. Augusta Enroute to Antwerp: the Crew Rated Their Commander-in-Chief a 'Four-Oh' Sailor
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; United States. Navy -- Sea life; Augusta (Heavy cruiser : CA-31)
For his trip to the Big Three meeting with Churchill and Stalin, President Truman chose an 'old salt' of many historic occasions, the U.S.S. AUGUSTA. The Commander-in-Chief wasted little time in getting 'squared away' aboard the heavy cruiser. He...
World War II - Combat Photographs

U.S. Navy Planes Scour Rabaul Harbor
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese; Bombing, Aerial;
Smashing the Japanese base at Rabaul with devastating thoroughness, carrier-based U.S. Navy Grumman AVENGERS, Douglas DAUNTLESS dive bombers, and Grumman HELLCATS swooped into the harbor on a surprise raid on November 5, 1943, sinking one heavy...
World War II - Combat Photographs

LIFE ABOARD A U. S. LIGHT CRUISER
Target practice; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American; Cruisers (Warships) -- United States;
Swift, sleek, U. S. Navy light cruisers are playing a big role in World War II, as battle accounts of the past year show. They make up part of the screening units of a task force, they provide convoy protection for merchant ships, and their 6-inch...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Sailor assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), waves his ship's flag in front of the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen near the end of the 106th Army vs. Navy Football game
United States Naval Academy -- Football; United States Military Academy -- Football;
A Sailor assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), waves his ship's flag in front of the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen near the end of the 106th Army vs. Navy Football game, held for the third consecutive year at Lincoln...
Army-Navy Football

Fighting the Foe from Salerno to Tarawa
Antiaircraft artillery; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy; Salerno, Battle of, Salerno, Italy, 1943;
For Rotogravure section: Sunday, January 2, 1944. Combat on land, sea, and in the air by Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard during the past year is depicted in this outstanding series of Official U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine, and U.S. Coast Guard ...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Main Battery of U.S.S. COLORADO...
Artillery; Battleships -- United States; Colorado (Battleship : BB-45); Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American;
Main batter of U.S.S. COLORADO (BB-45) firing practice. Slide No. 269: U.S.S. COLORADO has its say. In Puget Sound on Pearl Harbor Day, COLORADO was there and never extensively modified. Hence the cage masts. Here BB-45 shells Betio Island, Tarawa,...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Wake Island During Attack by Air Group from U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. Alt. 10,500' to 12,000'
Devastator (Torpedo-bomber); Wake Island--History, Military--20th century.; Wake Island; Airplanes, Military -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American;
Slide #222: TBD over Wake Atoll: One of the earliest raids was a counter attack on Wake Island, taken on 23 December 1941 from its U.S. Marine garrison after an initial attempt had failed. This TBD torpedo-bomber flies over Wake Atoll on a...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Jap plane attack on U.S.S. Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) as seen from U.S.S. Gambier Bay (CVE-73)
Kitkun Bay (Escort aircraft carrier : CVE-71); Gambier Bay (Escort aircraft carrier : CVE-73); Airplanes, Military -- Japan; Antiaircraft artillery; Antiaircraft artillery; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945...
Japanese FRANCES in flames from guns of U.S.S. GAMBIER BAY. Plane climbing was also shot down.
World War II - Combat Photographs

Seizure of Hollandia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New Guinea; World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations; Landing operations; Landing craft -- United States;
By-passing the Jap strongholds of Wewak and Madang, U.S. Army troops transported and aided by the planes and ships of a vast U.S. Navy task force, 'leap-frogged' 500 miles in the South Pacific to land in the Hollandia area of Dutch New Guinea on...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Take Off for Tokyo
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; Hornet (Aircraft carrier : CV-8); Mitchell (Bomber); Aircraft carriers -- United States;
In April 1942, the United States and the world at large was electrified by an announcement by President Roosevelt that American fliers had carried teh BAttle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese Empire with a surprising and daring raid on...
World War II - Combat Photographs

U.S. Carrier Planes Smash Jap Air Installations
Bombing, Aerial; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
U.S. Navy carrier-based planes wrecked this Japanese air field in the Kyushus in a strike May 13 against bases from which enemy aircraft operating against U.S. Pacific Fleet Units at Okinawa. Bombs can be seen exploding at the right near the...
World War II - Combat Photographs

The U.S.S. Ticonderoga Leaves a Blazing Trail in the Pacific
Ticonderoga (Attack aircraft carrier : CVA-14); Aircraft carriers -- United States; Airplanes, Military -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines;
The U.S.S. TICONDEROGA, new ESSEX class carrier, has left a blistering trail of incredible destruction during its first three months in the Pacific. While the crew came to know the mighty flattop as the big "T", the Japs knew her only as...
World War II - Combat Photographs

Aboard the U.S.S. HONOLULU - (CL-48). Night gunnery in the battle of Kula Gulf.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands; Kula Gulf, Battle of, 1943; Antiaircraft artillery; Honolulu (Light cruiser : CL-48);
Slide#253: Solomons Campaign: Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943. With Guadalcanal secured, Admiral Halsey moved " up the Solomon ladder" to bring Fortress Rabaul under aerial besiegement. This brought hard fighting and airfield sites in New...
World War II - Combat Photographs

U.S. Navy Plane Wins Battle of Air Giants
Airplanes, Military -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese;
Beaten in combat with a U.S. Navy Consolidated LIBERATOR (PB4Y), a Japanese "Mavis" plummets into the ocean somewhere in the Pacific. The American bomber shot down the huge four-motored flying boat last August. A U.S. Navy photographer made these...
World War II - Combat Photographs

U.S. Navy Plane Wins Battle of Air Giants
Airplanes, Military -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese;
Beaten in combat with a U.S. Navy Consolidated LIBERATOR (PB4Y), a Japanese "Mavis" plummets into the ocean somewhere in the Pacific. The American bomber shot down the huge four-motored flying boat last August. A U.S. Navy photographer made these...
World War II - Combat Photographs

U.S. Navy Plane Wins Battle of Air Giants
Airplanes, Military -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese;
Beaten in combat with a U.S. Navy Consolidated LIBERATOR (PB4Y), a Japanese "Mavis" plummets into the ocean somewhere in the Pacific. The American bomber shot down the huge four-motored flying boat last August. A U.S. Navy photographer made these...
World War II - Combat Photographs

LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF USS HORNET, NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER
Hornet (Aircraft carrier : CV-8); World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands; Yorktown Class (Aircraft carriers) -- History; Damage control (Warships); Damage control (Warships);
LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF USS HORNET, NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER--The U. S. Navy dis- closed today that the airplane carrier sunk during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands last October 26, was the USS HORNET, shown here dead in the water after Japanese...
World War II - Combat Photographs

LIFE ABOARD A U. S. LIGHT CRUISER
Target practice; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American; Cruisers (Warships) -- United States;
Swift, sleek, U. S. Navy light cruisers are playing a big role in World War II, as battle accounts of the past year show. They make up part of the screening units of a task force, they provide convoy protection for merchant ships, and their 6-inch...
World War II - Combat Photographs

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