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USS Grayback at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Aug 1943 | USS Grayback at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Aug 1943 | Minneapolis at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, US upon completion of overhaul and repairs, 30 Aug 1943; note SK-1 radar and gun directors on foremast and bridge, and fake windows pilothouse | US Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and wife Annie Reid Knox at the christening ceremony of USS Hornet, Newport News shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 30 Aug 1943 |
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Carrier Chitose at Sasebo, Japan, 31 Aug 1943 | SBD Dauntless scout bomber in the landing pattern preparing to come aboard USS Essex following the raid on Marcus Island, Pacific Ocean, 31 Aug 1943. | US Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander James H. Flatley's F6F-3 Hellcat fighter warming up on the deck of USS Yorktown, preparing to attack Marcus Island, 31 Aug 1943 | All hands passing 5-inch powder casings aboard USS Nicholas alongside an ammunition barge at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, Aug 1943. |
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Attack Cargo Ship USS Algorab at anchor circa 1943, location unknown. Note LCVP coming alongside. | Bow view of USS Coral Sea, Sep 1943 | Destroyer Alfredo Oriani at La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy, late 1943 | F6F Hellcat aircraft of Fighting Squadron 8 warm up on USS Intrepid's flight deck, 1943, photo 1 of 2; probably during stateside shakedown training |
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F6F Hellcat aircraft of Fighting Squadron 8 warm up on USS Intrepid's flight deck, 1943, photo 2 of 2; probably during stateside shakedown training | Guns and other topside weight being removed from the damaged cruiser USS St. Louis before removing the damaged bow section altogether, Sep 1943, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. | Stern view of USS Coral Sea, Sep 1943 | Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-359 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 2 of 2 |
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Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-391 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 1 of 2 | Tourville at Casablanca, Morocco, circa Aug-Nov 1943; note Loire 130 flying boat and wo Latécoère 298 floatplanes stowed between the stacks, USS Cossatot and other French ships in background | USS Coral Sea underway, Sep 1943 | USS Coral Sea underway, Sep 1943 |