Wasp (Wasp-class) Photographs | World War II Database

36 items in this album on 2 pages.


Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Captain Henry Fancourt and US Navy Captain John Reeves aboard USS Wasp, Apr-May 1942, side 1 of photograph	Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Captain Henry Fancourt and US Navy Captain John Reeves aboard USS Wasp, Apr-May 1942, side 2 of photograph; note mistaken RAF designation	The flight deck crew of USS Wasp holding down British Spitfire fighters as they prepared for launch for Malta, Apr-May 1942	RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 1 side 1

RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 1 side 2	RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 2 side 1	RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 2 side 2	Wasp in Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, 26 May 1942

Captain Forrest P. Sherman inspecting the US Marine Corps detachment aboard carrier Wasp, San Diego, United States, Jun 1942	Carrier Wasp in San Diego Harbor, Jun 1942; note SB2U Vindicator scout bombers and F4F-4 Wildcat fighters onboard	Spitfire Mk. VC aircraft aboard USS Wasp, en route to Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, mid-1942; note HMS Eagle in background	Equator crossing ceremony aboard Wasp, Jul 1942

Sherman and Noyes on Wasp's port bridge wing off Guadalcanal, 7 Aug 1942	Destroyer O'Brien torpedoed by submarine while Wasp burned in background, 15 Sep 1942	Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2.	Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2.