World War II Photographs

19-N-23818 USS Grampus (SS-207) off Groton, Connecticut, during her trials, March 26, 1941.

19-N-28260 USS Colorado (BB-45) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, February 9, 1942, with three Vought OS2U ""Kingfisher"" floatplanes on her catapults.

19-N-28341 USS Maryland (BB-46) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.

19-N-39212 USS Chicago (CA-29) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of her last overhaul, December 20, 1942.

19-N-42904 USS Princeton (CVL-23) underway in the Delaware River, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

19-N-43702 USS Belleau Wood (CV-24) in the Delaware River, off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

19-N-45068 USS Tennessee (BB-43) underway in Puget Sound, Washington, after modernization.

19-N-47574 USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, May 10, 1943. Note the barrage balloons in the distance.

19-N-48937 USS Wahoo (SS-238) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 14, 1943.

19-N-48940 USS Wahoo (SS-238) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 14, 1943.

19-N-51811 USS Swordfish (SS-193) underway off San Francisco, California, June 13, 1943.

19-N-73588 USS San Francisco (CA-38) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, following overhaul, October 13, 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 33, Design 13d.

19-N-77075 USS Arkansas (BB-33) anchored in San Pedro harbor, California. A tanker and a Navy attack transport are in the background.

19-N-86911 USS Indianapolis (CA-35) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, July 10, 1945, after her final overhaul and repair of combat damage.

19-SB-2J-1 HMS Ark Royal photographed soon after completion, circa late 1938 or early 1939.

208-PMP-45 Miles of Hell to Tokyo! Work Where You're Needed

23-0278 Boeing B-17.

26-G-03284511 A weary Marine is snapped by a Coast Guard combat photographer sprawled in slumber on Iwo Jima’s ashy sands and gripping his sheath knife against enemy intrusion upon his rest. It is during a lull in the fighting to secure the Iwo beachhead, when Marines and Coast Guardsmen caught what sleep they could in foxholes and shell craters.

26-G-0328455 Marines and Coast Guard beach parties set up for business on Iwo Jima only a few yards from the water’s edge and under the thickly placed guns of the volcanic fortress, Mount Suribachi. using shell craters for foxholes, they have set up communications and command posts for the landing of reinforcements and the assaults against Iwo’s airfields and the cave-pitted volcano.

26-G-0328459 Exhausted from fighting to establish the Iwo Jima beachhead, two Navy Seabees and a Marine from a Coast Guard-manned LST relax in the grey volcanic ash of the battle-scarred beach for a nap. Empty shell cases testify to the fury of the battle.

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