Photographs from the Unknown
USS Grampus (SS-207) off Groton, Connecticut, during her trials, March 26, 1941.
USS Colorado (BB-45) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, February 9, 1942, with three Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes on her catapults.
USS Maryland (BB-46) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.
USS Chicago (CA-29) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of her last overhaul, December 20, 1942.
USS Princeton (CVL-23) underway in the Delaware River, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
USS Belleau Wood (CV-24) in the Delaware River, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) underway in Puget Sound, Washington, after modernization.
USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, May 10, 1943. Note the barrage balloons in the distance.
USS Wahoo (SS-238) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 14, 1943.
USS Wahoo (SS-238) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 14, 1943.
USS Swordfish (SS-193) underway off San Francisco, California, June 13, 1943.
USS San Francisco (CA-38) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, following overhaul, October 13, 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 33, Design 13d.
USS Arkansas (BB-33) anchored in San Pedro harbor, California. A tanker and a Navy attack transport are in the background.
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 10, 1945, after her final overhaul and repair of combat damage.
HMS Ark Royal photographed soon after completion, circa late 1938 or early 1939.
Miles of Hell to Tokyo! Work Where You're Needed
Boeing B-17.
A mantle of flak from U.S. anti-aircraft fire is drawn over the Coast Guard-manned attack transport, from which this photograph was made, and other ships in the task force during a Japanese air raid off the coast of Saipan.
The situation atop Mount Suribachi is well in hand as Marines give the Stars and Stripes to the breezes that blow over the crater of Iwo Jima’s volcano. Going up with the invaders through a maze of deadly crags, hiding pillboxes that spouted death, a Coast Guard combat photographer caught Old Glory at the historic moment when she fluttered in triumph over the bitterly defended knob at the southern tip of Iwo.
Flying black flags of surrender, to Japanese submarines which bowed to American forces 200 miles off the Japanese mainland rest at anchor alongside a giant transport. This photo showing the sterns of the underseas raiders was made by a Coast Guard combat photographer aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST which was among the first cargo-bearing vessels to reach Japan.
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- World War II Photo Gallery
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